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•Anderson Family Records ■v i> v N ) a x SON Gc 929.2 An23a 1129684 p O LLECT l O N GENEALCof ALLEN COUNTY PU8L C LIBRARY CL GENEALOGY 929.2 833 0 200 1902 AN23A 4f7 Copyright, 1936 (v6745) W. P. Anderson Press of W. F. Schaefer & Co. CINCINNATI, OHIO PRINTED IN UNITED STATUS 01' AMERICA PREFACE 1129G84 In January, 1934, I became interested in gen¬ scendants of the other lines, only giving enough ealogy. Since then, through correspondence and to show intermarriages. visits with relatives, I have obtained the old When sending me such information kindly records and letters reproduced herein. include, where possible, the following: Names I am attempting to obtain more of such of parents, list of their children, references records with the intention of publishing fac¬ where further information can be found; place similes of those that will throw light on our and date of birth, school or college attended, also date of graduation; date and place of death, early ancestry. This seems a possible way to name and location of cemetery; war record, overcome the difficulties in tracing early rela¬ business, etc. If exact dates are not known give tionships caused by the destruction, during the approximations, where possible, with "about” Civil War, of many records in Hanover County, before the date. Virginia. In listing children, where dates are lacking, This record is not to be considered as a fin¬ state whether or not the correct order of birth ished work, but as a preliminary one, sent out is given. for correction, and to obtain additional infor¬ mation. Where a person, marrying into the family, is a descendant of any line shown in this record, Please send me photostat copies of similar trace back his descent to an ancestor given in records of the early Virginia Andersons and the record. Where one is not so related give kindred families, or the addresses of those own¬ references (book, volume, and page) where his ing such records. ancestry can be found. If no such reference is known, give the name of the parents and grand¬ I am including in this record Anderson fami¬ parents, and where they were from. lies of Colonial Virginia which may or may not be related to ours, as there is no way of know¬ It is not necessary to use my system of sym¬ ing who are related or who may have records. bols, but you may find my abbreviations useful. The more descendants I reach the more apt I In this record symbols are used to designate am to obtain records, so I shall greatly appre¬ individuals. Should you have occasion to write ciate receiving, where lacking, full addresses of me regarding an individual with such a sym¬ all living persons listed herein, and of those bol, please give the symbol as well as the name. who may be descendants of those listed. These symbols consist of digits and letters. I shall greatly appreciate receiving the fol¬ The last character of a symbol represents, where lowing information which I hope to publish at known, the position of the individual among a later date. the children of the parent whose line is given. 1 represents the oldest child, 2 the second born, Kindly send me corrections and additions to etc., 0 being considered as 10, a as 11, b as 12, this record covering the descendants, or those etc. One character is used for each generation. thought to be descendants, of Robert Ander¬ Where the order of birth is unknown the last son I. I am not attempting to list all the de¬ letters of the alphabet are used. Capital letters t-Anderson Family Records are used where I believe the order of birth is of Robert III in the accounts of Gen. T. M. correct; 1, 2, 3, etc., a, b, c, etc., indicate cer¬ Anderson and Dr. Charles Anderson, appear to tainty; Z, Y, X, and z, y, x, etc., indicate doubt. me conjectures arrived at without the careful Where the symbols show this doubt and you investigation made by E. L. Anderson. I am can positively give correct order of birth, kindly reproducing herein the family chart of Edward do so. L. Anderson, and articles appearing in the Richmond, Va., Standard of 1881, mostly by The characters preceding the last in any sym¬ B. A. Brock. bol is the parent’s symbol. I have used s to z as the symbols of the children of Robt. Ander¬ I give below the account of our early ances¬ son II, as given by E. L. Anderson on his chart, try given by Edward L. Anderson in (A5 p. 3- and in A5. So any individual having a symbol 10) 'The Andersons of Gold Mine”: starting with s, t, u, v, w, x, y, or z will pre¬ In the first half of the seventeenth century sumably be a descendant of Robt. Anderson II. there were several families of the name of An¬ My symbol is v6745 being the fifth child of derson in eastern Virginia. my father whose symbol is v674; he was the fourth child of my grandfather whose symbol "Owing to the destruction or loss of most of is v67; my great grandfather’s symbol is v6, he the records, it is impossible in these days to being the sixth child; and the symbol of my state the relationship existing between these great great grandfather is v, the dates of birth families, but from the few remaining registers of his brothers (and sisters, if he had any) be¬ it appears that many of them held such official ing unknown. positions as to warrant that they were persons of means, influence and social distinction, and Symbols are given before the individual’s it is probable that most of the early Andersons name. were of kinship. (Charles City, York, 1642.) Abbreviations, in brackets, immediately after "On the 4th of July, 1635, Richard Anderson, a name refer to publications listed at the end of aged 17, left England for the colonies, and was this Record. followed July 31st of the same year by Richard Roman numerals or letters after these abbre¬ Anderson, aged 50 years. These were probably viations indicate the volume, and the numbers father and son, who for prudential reasons took after p. indicate page. A star * after the abbre¬ a dangerous crossing in different vessels. Both viated reference to a publication shows that the had subscribed to the oath of allegiance and individual’s portrait is given in the publication. supremacy and to that conformable to the dis¬ cipline of the Church of England, and it is cer¬ These abbreviations, as well as initials of tain that the safe arrival of either might estab¬ individuals which follow the list of publications lish a family of wealth and worth, a great addi¬ are also used to show where I obtained my in¬ tion to a struggling colony. There can be little formation. A star * after an individual’s name doubt that these Richards were the progenitors indicates he furnished information regarding of the Hanover Andersons. The dates corre¬ his immediate family. spond with those whose ancestry we seek; the (v675) Edward L. Anderson, (v691) Gen. repetition of the name Richard for many gen¬ T. M. Anderson, and (v697) Dr. Charles An¬ erations, and the early appearance of their de¬ derson have written of our early ancestors and scendants in the magistracy, councils and parish do not agree. Edward L. Anderson gives rea¬ vestries, as well as the marriages of the nearest sons for his conclusions, while the ancestry back descendants with such families as the Massies, Page jour c Anderson Family Records the Cloughs, the Poindexters, the Overtons, the the formation of St. Paul’s, New Kent County Garlands, the Dabneys and the Sheltons, are (after 1720 of Hanover County), he appears as strong evidences that the two Richards were Captain Robert Anderson, his father as Robert men who were the predecessors of a distin¬ Anderson senior. At this time there were but guished family. the two Robert Andersons in the vestries of St. "The earliest Anderson to whom the Gold Peter’s and of St. Paul’s and in the deeds. This Mine family may be positively traced is: captaincy appears to be of a parish militia, which had its origin about 1612 when the "ROBERT ANDERSON I, d. 1712, aged whole colony was an armed camp. (See Meade.) about 72 years, who in the deed April 16, 1683, Land Office, book 7, p. 272, was grantee of 727 At this time and long afterwards, we find the acres in New Kent for the importation of fifteen Overtons, Garlands, Massies and others regular persons; and in November, 1686, from the members of St. Paul’s vestry. Robert Anderson Parish Book of New Kent he is shown to have II, married Mary Overton (sister of Capt. Jas. been a vestryman of St. Peter’s until the parish Overton) (1688-1749), of St. Paul’s vestry, of St. Paul was cut off in 1704, in which latter daughter of William Overton, who was born parish he remained a vestryman until his death in England, 3rd of December, 1628, and Eliza¬ in 1712. This Robert Anderson I, married Ce¬ beth Waters, daughter of Ann Waters of St. cilia Massie of a well-known family which ap¬ Sepulchre, London (1697). peared in Virginia about the time of the arrival "Robert Anderson II (d. 1716) and Mary of the two Richards. It appears they had issue: Overton (d. about 1734) had issue as the deeds Richard, David, Matthew, John, Thomas, Nel¬ and parish records show, Richard, James, Gar¬ son, one of whom married a Garland, and two land, Matthew, David of Albemarle, Robert of daughters, Mary and Cecilia.

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