A Monograph of the Anderson, Clark, Marshall and Mcarthur Connection
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'Stctemus Louii^-m /t Thotna^ M^A-m~Eli7,ab«Ch VaniVinklC- RJI TftomaaM'AJr. tVmftttten Arliitt:, Beeiie , Mmme-m Allen, Van^''nkf«,kyne, gord-m A^ ^ ^ 'eiirobath Andenon *^ Toy/oT fktU&n . Ir/nd Hatton. -* r. tVilliam Marshall -m'J^-Ellei fft > ^lliam,Micj>stl Boyce . Lar^rn- -Catherine Londtn/orth /^ /v<r.o'*i m-t/uat>ati' Kii/gore William Cidward Lrm Mary Fore, Frtdk Pm~-M<i Pop9-i,>Juliah\irlhington. * ^ r N m- tyooda Larj Sr^-J^9Mb*lPtrliina . tiamm M'Miltan Pryor, C^thei-ma- ^^achrl^fAaryChami/i'u.Lar^ W m CiactFerguaon, Calherine-rr>-f^cJ(ham,Williai.-i,U.urjW. Ur^, Aleck. OijabtthL ,Edwardi •^J, ^i • F The RobtMAndtrson Facit I&08, ;ky and Ohio Johathon CfarH-m-Eli^o be th Wilson. Ann John Clark-m- Rogers yAnnClark-m-TbrcjuilMfLeot/.. ^ Jonathan , Geji G«>.f}o^ra,&en.VVm,Edmund,Mn.CroChen,MrsOwenCw(>(/\mty,Mn.Ofialhn. (Ann Clerk.) lew is William rs on I i'-ElJT^^beth Chrk^ , , Jeffe OianaButit1,Ter>f>le,Somjtl,MarjrBoolhe,Bi^abethAndtr»>n.UKfPrit3t,Gw>,Fr-af>(XsJor^ Diana EJoia* dt 1 Hearr)y,Mn.GtnAtkiroon,tiaryStemafi, Kmt^ow Catherine Vtholfalk, John. George, William, Nicholas .Mrs.Gtn Jesjup 3 Sarah Linden beraer. ThomasManhall-m-Martha Pendle.ton Westmortland /<j . v: _> "N Thomas \iiarshall'm-Heath kVilliam Mdraholl- ^tCol. , m-Eli^abtthWillietrM -^ Q"**^ ^o >> Justic»John Marshall- m- Amble?. y^^'^g ''Chief Polly ^ William Marsh»ll-m-Ann MS Leod. Cerohnt Co. ¥a yHtnry Co Kv. -y y McDonald rah Marshall, MrS.Webb,Mrs.PrYOra, Mrs. Samuels, Mr\S.FranceaThompkins, MrS.Roy, John /Marshall. ' ' ^ / ^ Mn.Ell^abeth Thompson Joh n llen yr. Gov. Chorlea-m-tliza Brown mj^-E Roy . Sanah-zn-ArtdrenlKcydrKk. 6ll€n-m-JudlKinS, Roy rrer, Harrison-m-Philip3,Mana-m-Wriaht , Kate ^ 'edith, alien, Williarn- ckenscnP.EIi^aJiarrison Belle-m-SkinnT. i. Lat!ram-m-Rencher, Catherine, •eta-mAf<inAnthr¥erp,Charlotte. Ricliard, Harrison, Mary Mary Charlme Cli^a-mFergucan, m-JeiSup, Bartht, Manon-m-Satycr , frrdritk, Thoma* CJr ^ m- Flomnce Allison , (Hate Ida, ) Minnie-m-Joseph Olds Charles- mOawson. ^ A. Davis, Ruth Wm. Marshall. Jr Eleanor ncan, /^fieia, Mary, Joieph Eli^a, E-ffie, Gray^ M3ry a Ryan shall -N - Uirz m-Emma Mendenhall , ChaHes m- UHerren , Hinhia , , ' JostphLm-Eliiaktth Da^isCm-Arntvaltin^ard* Ctorge / ^— ^ /— V I \ . , Geo/Ve . Robertm-eilla 1 Frances Rttacca. gh Ethel, , Elizabeth Bucknerlf., , — ; ^ Jane , Katharine,Harriet. :, Mary a, Fred'Hr, Wlnifra^. Infroducfion TN writing this family history I do not assume that it will *- interest the general public. At best it will only be a compilation of fragmentary records and family traditions. Few of its members have attained notable distinction, although a number have been honorably connected with important episodes in our national history. In submitting the results of my genealogical investigations, I do so in the belief that some of the name and connection may wish to know who first of their kin came to America; what induced them to come; where the}^ settled, and through what difficulties and dangers they struggled in the pioneer period of our first colony; and, finally, what part and lot their descendants have had in the subsequent development of our country. It may be asked. What is the good of knowing all this? Certainly it will not put a penny in any man's purse. This monograph is not intended to stimulate vanity and pride. No one has a right to be proud of ancestry unless they give proof that they are worthy of it. But something is due to those from whom we have received an honorable heritage; and as we would not be forgotten, so let us not forget. THOMAS McARTHUR ANDERSON. LL.D., fSc^^ - /^*7 _____ ^«g8^*er'-General, U. S. A., Late Major-General of Volunteers, A Monograph of the Anderson, Clark, Marshall and McArthur Connection The Virginia Andersons As shown by Hotten's "Book of Immigrants," three families of Andersons settled in Virginia in the 17th century. The first came over in the reign of Charles the First, and settled origi- nally in Tidewater, Virginia. These, as Hotten's records show, took the oath of allegiance and supremacy; from which it may be inferred that they belonged to the Established Church. The members of this sect moved successively to New Kent and Hanover Counties and became known generally as the Han- over Andersons. Another family of the name, and probably a branch of the same stock, came over after the Restoration, and were, so far as known, Scotch Presbyterians. The third set were trans- Dorted to Bermuda for participation in the Monmouth Rebel- lion. A number of these expatriated Andersons settled on the Eastern Shore of Virginia and in Maryland. It is quite probable that there were exceptions in all these classes, as it is not assumed that the Hotten records are complete, and the loss and destruction of many public and private records make it impossible to supply omissions or to attain absolute accuracy. The head of this branch of the family, as known to us by records, was one Robert Anderson, of New Kent County, Va. He is recorded in Bishop Meade's book as a vestryman of St. Peter's Parish of New Kent County, and who in 1683 took up a land grant which he allowed to lapse, but which was subsequently taken up by his son Robert, of Gold Mine, Han- over County. The first Robert married Cecilia, a daughter of Massey and Lucelia Poindexter. They left two sons, Robert, of Gold Mine, and David. A full account of David's descendants is given in Mr. Brock's monograph of the Virginia Andersons. Robert, of New Kent, died in 1718. He was bom about 1644, Ten years before this date Thomas and John Anderson, two young Englishmen, came to Jamestown in the ship Bonaven- tura. The next year there came Richard Anderson, aged fifty, in the ship Merchant Hope. He was probably the father of Thomas and John, as Richard has been a family name in this branch ever since. By a process of exclusion I have arrived at the opinion that Robert, of New Kent, was the son of one of these three men: First, because he is not mentioned in any list of emigrants; secondly, because no other Andersons are mentioned as emi- grating to Virginia before the time that we have record of him in New Kent. By tradition we have it that Thomas a ship- wright, of Gloucester Point, was the father of Robert, and a probable propositus of the Hanover Anderson family in Amer- ica. Mr. Brock in his history of the Virginia Andersons, pub- lished in the Richmond Standard of March 12th, 1881, gives the tradition that the founder of the family was Thomas Anderson, of Northumberland, England, who settled as a shipwright at Gloucester Point. He states that a member of the family had gone, about the same time, to St. Petersburg, Russia. He gives the crest of this St. Petersburg Anderson as a "buck, wounded, and holding in his mouth an acorn, leaved." This heraldric device was issued after the time we believe our family came to America, but the motto "Nil desperandum, auspice Deo" is the traditional family motto. Crests and escutcheons are only important as cattle brands to show to what herd one belongs. When men covered their faces with pot metal visors, it was necessary to have some device to distinguish them. Where families have no hereditary titles or landed estates held from generation to generation, their genealogical records are apt to become ob.scured; but we have in this country the compensating advantage that any man can become, as Napoleon said, "the Rudolph of Hapsburg of his family." Where Mr. Brock got his traditions I do not know.