Descendants of Thomas
Anderson, Sr.
Generation No. 1
1. Thomas2 Anderson, Sr. (Richard1) (Source: Patrick J. Anderson,
"Suspected but unproven," Working Papers 2004.) was born October 06,
1616 in Stallingborough, Lincolnshire, England, and died Aft. 1651 in
Gloucester County, Virginia. He married
?.
Notes for Thomas
Anderson, Sr.:
Thomas Anderson arrived on the ship
"Merchant Bonaventure" having embarked in January 1634/5 for
Virginia, his age is listed as 18. He
lived at Gloucester Point on York River according to tradition and was a shipwright. Gloucester Point is on the North Bank of the
York River across from current Yorktown.
King Charles the I, of England, about
the year 1635 became disenchanted with the mismanagement of the Virginia Colony
by the London Company and revoked their charter and took control of the
activities of the colony. In addition
to sending lawyers to set up the government offices in Jamestown, including
creating 6 county governments and a land office in Jamestown and organizing the
militia, King Charles also solicited volunteers among the shipyards of England
to go to Virginia and establish repair yards for ships engaged in the Virginia
trade. There was a great need for those
yards to take advantage of the plentiful Virginia timber which was becoming
scarce in England and to provide repair facilities for ships engaged in the
Virginia trade. Thomas Anderson apparently responded to this call.
There are Andersons of the colonial
period of the Gloucester County area and it is possible that some of them
descend from this man. It is possible that he had several sons and it is
important to remember that at this early time his sons may have resettled
almost anywhere on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. The following record indicates that Thomas Anderson survived
along the York River until after 1651.
Virginia Patents Book
2, pge 310
William Guinsey 300
acres York County, 3 April 1651 upon southward side of Mattapony River, which
tract is about 10 miles up the River. Transport of 6 persons: Wm Guinsey, Geo.
Talker, Thomas Anderson, Ben. Dudley. (sic only 4 listed)
The area of William Guinsey's patent is
in the same vicinity that Robert Anderson, Sr. established himself by 1666 and
is possibly the reasoning behind the claims that Thomas was the founder of the
New Kent County Anderson family in the following 1881 newspaper article. This leaves us with competing claims that
the Reverend Richard, John or Thomas may have been the father of the Andersons
of New Kent.
From the Richmond
Virginia Standard, March 12, 1881 by B. A. Brock
Thomas Anderson was
the traditional founder of the Anderson family near Gloucester Point where he
founded a shipyard in the 17th century. Another representative of the family
settled in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is claimed that an emblasoning of Thomas
Andersons arms is extant as follows: Vert, three bucks lodged or. Crest--A buck
lodged, holding in the mouth an acord leaved, and wounded in the breast by an
arrow. Motto--Nit desperaudum, ausplee Dec.
From: [email protected]
See newspaper article
in The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va. 02/26/1984. Merchant Hope, ship
that brought Richard Anderson to Va. in 1635. His sons John and Thomas were in
the shipbuilding business in Gloucester Pt., Va.
I have found no supporting evidence that
this Thomas Anderson had any family at all, however there remain unattributed
Andersons of Colonial Virginia born in the 1637-1660 period who may well be
his. Because early Colonial Gloucester
County records were destroyed in an 1820 fire the records to connect them may
be lost.
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Reynard Anderson born ca1640 is
identified as imported in the patent of Martin Coale for 300 acres on the South
side of the Great Wicomoco River in Northumberland County on 07/01/1654.
However I can find no evidence that he actually resided in the northern neck of
Virginia, rather he was an early resident of the southside of the James River
in Charles City County where he married Elizabeth Skiffen in 1662. He lived near Bailey's Creek just northeast
of Petersburg from the 1662 time until his death in 1690 leaving sons James,
William, Henry, Matthew, and John and daughter Frances married to John Herbert.
He lived some 7 miles west of our Thomas Anderson [d.1711]. I have prepared documentation of Reynard's
descendants in order to allow me to distinguish them from Thomas'.
Child of Thomas
Anderson and ? is:
+ 2 i. Thomas3 Anderson, Jr., born Abt.
1637 in Possibly York County, Virginia; died Bet. 1673 - 1683 in Charles City
County, Virginia.
Generation No. 2
2. Thomas3 Anderson, Jr. (Thomas2,
Richard1) (Source: Patrick J. Anderson, "Suspected but
unproven," Working Papers 2004.) was born Abt. 1637 in Possibly York
County, Virginia, and died Bet. 1673 - 1683 in Charles City County,
Virginia. He married ?.
Notes for Thomas
Anderson, Jr.:
The parents of Mr. Thomas Anderson of
Charles City County deceased in 1711 have not been proven. I include the following records to indicate
one possibility and my current hypothesis.
In 1607 when the colonists arrived in
the James River the lands which now make up the eastern portion of Prince
George County, Virginia were occupied by the Weyanoke Indian tribe. These Indians were a derivative of an
Algonquin culture. The primary village of
these people was located at a point on Powell's Creek at the head of navigation
of that creek by Indian dugout canoe and was referred to by the English as
"Old Towne". This is about
two miles from the mouth of the Creek on the James River. Much of the land from the village northward
to the James River was partially cleared and cultivated. Just to the east of this region between
Powell's Creek and Chippokes Creek was a large primeval forest. Archeological investigations at the
"Old Towne" site were being conducted in the 1980's. This site was occupied by Indians for
thousands of years. The culture was
similar to that described by Sir Francis Drake on his 1588 visits to Virginia
and the Carolinas and published in his book.
Current evidence indicates that this site was co-occupied by the English
and Indians between 1620's and 1640's.
There were warehouses built for the storage of tobacco before
shipment. During this period the
"Old Towne" still served as a trading point between the English and
the Indians. It was sometimes referred
to as "the great market" in land patents. The Indian occupation of the site ended shortly after the 1644
Indian War.
One of the early Colonial governor's of
Virginia was Sir George Yeardley who was married to Temperance Flowerdieu. In 1617 the Governor received from the
Weyanoke Indian King a grant of land called "Tanks Weyanoke" located
on the point east of Powell's Creek. He
added 1000 acres by patent in 1618 and called the plantation and the nearby
Creek "Flowerdieu Hundred".
Temperance's brother managed the plantation for him. In 1624 Governor
Yeardley sold the plantation to Captain Abraham Piersey. Piersey died in 1627 and left the estate to
his daughter Elizabeth who as Elizabeth Stephens re-patented the lands on
10/15/1636. In 1639 she had transferred
a portion of this to William Barker.
Powell's Creek drains from the highlands
south of "Old Towne" Indian village northward to the James
River. This creek was named after
Nathaniel Powell. Captain Nathaniel
Powell and his wife, a daughter of Mr. Tracey were killed in the 1622 Indian
massacre at Powell's plantation called "Powlebrooke" located near the
mouth of what is now Powell's Creek.
Captain Nathaniel Powell's brother Thomas Powell of Howlton, Yoeman in
the County of Suffolk, inherited these lands and sold them to John Taylor,
Citizen and Girdler of London. John
Taylor assigned them to "William Barker" and "his Associates
& Co.", who re-patented these lands on 02/12/1638 as "Merchants
Hope." The name "Merchant's
Hope" derives from the name of a ship owned by William Barker and engaged
in the Virginia trade. An examination
of additional records identifies some of William Barker's associates as John
Sadler, Richard Quiney , and Symon Sturges; all London Merchants. These gentleman were among the major
developers of both the north and the south side James River area. Richard Quiney was married to Shakespeare's
granddaughter.
William Barker was married to Frances
Ward daughter of James Ward for whom Ward's Creek (east of Flowerdieu) was
named. William Barker died before
1655. William's widow Frances then
married Robert Netherland and later still Thomas Drew. William's daughter Sarah Barker married
Richard Taylor of Flowerdieu Hundred, then Robert Lucy and lastly James Bisse. She would inherit a large portion of William
Barker's interests South of the James upon the death of her brother John Barker
without issue, in 1677.
Howell Pryse is granted a patent for
4800 acres of land in Charles City County 10/27/1655 for the transport of many
individuals, including a Thomas Anderson.
This is not filed in the Virginia State Land Patents rather it is filed
in Charles City Court Orders 1655-58 on page 82. Howell Pryse was the Charles
County sheriff and a resident south of the James River at Flowerdieu Hundred. Howell Pryse later returned to Great Britain
at the end of the Cromwellian period.
I have found no further records for this
Thomas Anderson in Charles City County, which may not be significant because
all the will and deed books were destroyed in the US Civil War and only
fragments of the court orders survive for some years. I include this Thomas Anderson here because it is reasonable to
speculate that he may have been the father of Mr. Thomas Anderson (d.1711). There is no mention of his estate in the
surviving Charles City Court orders after 1683, therefore it is likely that he
died before then. Bacon's Rebelion took
place in Virginia in 1676 and the entire colony was embroiled in turmoil at the
time.
It is unknown whether this Thomas
Anderson was an immigrant from Great Britain or whether he had originated
within the Virginia Anderson family of the York River. It was not unusual at
this time for a member of any family of the James and York rivers to have a son
settle anywhere along those rivers. It is worth evaluating whether this Thomas
Anderson was a son or nephew of the Thomas Anderson, Sr. (b.1616) who is
alleged to have been a shipwright at Gloucester Point, York County, Virginia
and arrived in 1634 aboard the Merchant Bonaventure, and was allegedly the son
of Richard Anderson (b.1585) who arrived aboard the Merchant's Hope owned by
William Barker in 1635. Richard and his sons John and Thomas were reputed to be
shipwrights that were sponsored in early Virginia by the wealthy shipowner
William Barker. Richard Anderson, Jr.
was the minister at Gloucester Point. Since our Mr. Thomas Anderson's (d.1711)
family was associated with carpentry and Mr. Thomas Anderson (d.1711) marries
the granddaughter of William Barker as his second wife these relationships are
my current avenue of interest in exploring the ancestors of Mr. Thomas Anderson
(d.1711). Regretably I have located no
records to prove these relationships.
It is of interest that William Barker
founded the "Merchant's Hope" plantation at the mouth of Powell Creek
along the south side of the James River and just 10 miles north of the location
of Mr. Thomas Anderson (d.1711) 1683 patent. In 1654 the Merchant's Hope Church
was built near the Indian "Old Town" lands and a mile or so south of
Merchant's Hope plantation. The date is
derived from the year 1654 carved into one of the roof beams. The church was remarkable, before
restoration work in the nineteenth century, for an acoustic arched wooden roof
and suspended walkway from the sacristy to the pulpit which had been built by ships
carpenters. Before 1694 Thomas Anderson (d.1711) lived on 100 acres just south
of Merchant's Hope Church on the east side of the "Old Towne Run" and
the Rev. Charles Anderson had a 505 acre plantation on the west side. Could it
be possible that Charles Anderson and Thomas Anderson were brothers and Charles
Anderson, a later minister of this chapel, was a son of the chapel's builder?
David Piebels (Peebles) was a Royalist
refugee from Fife County, Scotland. He
patented land along Powell's Creek south of the James River in 1650 and again,
later, on Birchen Swamp with Charles Sparrow.
He was an early Court Judge of Charles City County in the 1650's. His son William Peebles was born in Scotland
in 1635, (mother Elspeth Mackie) came to Virginia before the time of his
father's death in 1659 and again patented lands at the head of Birchen Swamp in
1673. Birchen Swamp was the name given to the small feeder creeks at the head
of Powell's Creek.
The 3 November 1673 land grant to
William Peebles is recorded on page 182 of Virginia Land Patent Book Number
6. The grant is for 862 acres in
Charles City County, located on the south side of the James River. Of this 473 acres is located adjacent to
Thomas Newhouse and on Birchen Swamp.
388 acres is near the "old towne" land. The first tract is granted by patent dated
30 July 1670 and the residue is for the transport of seven persons including
Hen. Makeley, Roger Cooke, Mary Bennet, Jno. Traharne, Eliz. Jettly, Mary Gibbons,
Tho. Anderson. William Peebles's patent was between the head of the Otter dam
Creek and the headwaters of Powell's Creek.
This patent includes other surnames of well established Virginia
families, (i.e. Cooke, Bennett, and Gibbons) and it would appear therefore as a
purchase of head rights by Mr. Peebles. William Peebles married Judeth and had
a son William, he married again and had a son David, and a third time to
Elizabeth and had a son Henry. His
estate was named "Burleigh".
Both Mr. Thomas Anderson's (d.1711)
residence and Charles Anderson's plantation in the 1690's were adjacent the
"Burleigh" estate. It is
possible to interpret the William Peeble's record two ways: 1st, that it is a
reference to Thomas Anderson, Jr. late in life or 2nd, that it is the earliest
mention of Mr. Thomas Anderson (d.1711).
Firstly, if it is a mention of Thomas
Anderson, Jr. then it is evidence that he survived after 1670 and indeed could
be the father of Charles Anderson as well as Mr. Thomas Anderson (d.1711). It seems likely then that he died between
1673 and 1683. I am curious if he may have distinguished himself or have been a
casualty in Bacon's Rebellion in 1676.
I have made one attempt at finding an estate record in the surviving
fragments of Charles City County Court Orders for 1673-1683 but wish to examine
them again before losing hope. This
record set has never been abstracted and the hand writing in these fragments is
difficult and will require patient interpretation.
Secondly, if it is a mention of Mr.
Thomas Anderson (d.1711) then the implication is that he was born earlier than
the 1662 approximation, by 5 or 10 years, which would mean that perhaps Charles
Anderson was not his brother as a 20 year gap in their birthdates is excessive. Also this interpretation would mean that
Thomas Anderson's (d.1711) first children were born when he was 27, rather late
for the time, and would make him in his sixties on his death in 1711 with a
young second wife and minor children.
This interpretation seems to time shift Mr. Thomas Anderson (d.1711)
late by a decade. This is why I have
placed this 1673 record here with Thomas Anderson, Jr. I have doubted this
second hypothesis; although it is still possible if the 1673 record is a
mention of him as a 10 year old, the youngest age at which one qualified for a
headright.
Virginia Colonial
Abstracts, Volume 10, Charles City County Court Orders 1655- 1658, compiled by
Beverly Fleet, Richmond Virginia, 1941.
Cavaliers and
Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1666- 1695, Nell
Marion Nugent. Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, 1977.
Children of Thomas
Anderson and ? are:
+ 3 i. Mister Thomas4 Anderson, born
Abt. 1662 in Charles City County, Virgnia; died Bef. June 1711 in on "Old
Towne Run", Prince George County, Virginia.
+ 4 ii. Sarah Anderson, born Abt. 1665 in Charles
City County, Virginia.
5 iii. William Anderson (Source: Benjamin B.
Weisiger, II, Charles City County, Virginia, Court Orders, 1687-1695, (1980).), born Abt. 1667 in Charles City
County, Virgnia; died 1690 in Charles City County, Virgnia. He married Anne ?; born Abt. 1670.
Notes for William
Anderson:
Charles City County
Court Orders, 10/3/1689 page 251
Col. Bacon vs Wm
Anderson referred to the next court
Charles City County
Court Orders, 4/3/1690 page 281
Anne, widow of Wm
Anderson, showng by petition her husband was deceasd much indebted to Hon. Wm.
Byrd, Esq., beyond value of dec's's estate, prays administration may be granted
to his Hono. Administration granted to Hon. Wm. Byrd, Esq., Capt. Fr. Perry,
security, Capt Batte to name and swear Appraisers.
Charles City County
Court Orders, 8/12/1690 page 286
Ordered that the
Sherriff summon Anne, widow of Wm.
Anderson, to next Court, to swear to inventory of her deceased husband's
estate.
Charles City County
Court Orders, 8/12/1690 page 292
judgt. granted Hon. Wm
Byrd, Esq., agst estate of Wm Anderson, dec'd for £ 40/3/3 on 2 bills, James
Cocke, storekeeper for sd. Byrd making oath it is due.
Source: Charles City
County, Virginia, Court Orders, 1687-1695, Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin
B. Weisiger, III, 1980.
6 iv. Charles Anderson (Source: Patrick J.
Anderson, "Suspected but unproven," Working Papers 2004.), born 1669
in Unconfirmed; died April 07, 1718 in Charles City County, Virginia. He married Frances ?; died 1739 in Charles
City County, Virginia.
Notes for Charles
Anderson:
The Reverend Charles Anderson, was born about 1669 calculated
from his tombstone at Westopher plantation. I suspect he was one of the sons of Thomas Anderson of southside
Charles City County. This is something to be further investigated. No
contemporary record of the Rev. Charles Anderson confirms directly the identity
of his father. No contemporary record of
his birth is known by the preparer other than the epitaph upon his tombstone.
In Charles City County Court Orders of 6/4/1694 mention is
made of Mr. Charles Anderson performing the marriage of John Moore and
Elizabeth Perkins in July 1692. This is
the earliest record I have found of him in Virginia. Mr. Charles Anderson is mentioned as buyer in the estate sale of
John Burge on 05/09/1693.
The book "Scottish Ancestors" says that the magazine
"Aberdeen Notes and Queeries" states that he was born in Scotland and
that he graduated from King's College in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1693. An
individual is to be found in school records of graduates in 1693 as Carolus
Anderson (all graduates names were latinized). I have not yet found a way to
track down the article in "Aberdeen Notes and Queeries", but have
discovered that the series is on file at the Edinburgh City Library, George IV
Bridge, Edinburgh EH1.1EG. However his
presence in Virginia in July of 1692 as an acting minister makes suspect the
graduation date above and claims that he is the same as Carolus Anderson.
The family of Reverand Charles Anderson resided in the Parish
Glebe at Westopher Plantation, North of the James upriver from Westopher. His widow may have resided at or near the
ferry crossing owned by her. This ferry
operated from Jordan Point (Old Jordan's Journey) to the "point" on
the north bank of the James. The
Benjamin Harrison bridge now spans this gap.
No land patents are recorded in the name of Charles Anderson for this
time period. It is likely that his
lands were acquired by deed. The 1704
rent roll indicates that he held 505 acres south of the James River in What was
then Prince George County. His plantation lands did border west of the old town
run near Richard Pace and opposite the homesite on the east side of old towne
run of Thomas Anderson of the southside of the James River.
Charles was the Minister of Westopher Parish from 1692 to his
death in 1718. Throughout this period
he served as minister of both the north bank and south bank chapels of this
parish and since his dates of service co-incide with the period that the north
and south side churches were combined into one parish it is likely that this
arrangement was as he desired it. This
is one of the reasons that I suspect his origins were on the southside of the
river, as the prior and subsequent parish ministers of Westover wanted nothing
to do with the southside or the boat ride across the river each Sunday.
During this period, he was a staunch supporter of James Blair
in his conlicts with then Governor of Virginia Andros and Nicholson. It is likely that he owed his appointment as
Westopher Parish Minister to his possible marital relationship to Edward Hill
and the sponsorship of James Blair, also a "Scotsman". James Blair had come to Virginia with the
mission of organizing the church in Virginia.
Upon James Blair's return from his 1698 trip to England he
called a conference of ministers at Bruton Church in Williamsburg. During his trip to England he had sabotaged
the governorship of Andros, (with the help of warring Spanish ships which had
intercepted Governor Andros replies) with charges of mismanagement and
misconduct. Charles is recorded as
being one of the six Virginia ministers which remained in Bruton Church when 23
others walked out in protest of James Blair's conduct.
The Rev. Charles Anderson, his wife and children feature
prominently in the secret diaries of William Byrd,II. Both men had an interest in and practiced the medical cures of
the early eighteenth century, often consulting each other. William Byrd once comments in his diary on
how the Rev. had "fixed" his watch using the full weight of
sarcasm. Charles was a frequent dinner
partner of William Byrd,II. William
Byrd commonly stopped at Charles Anderson's home whenever traveling west along
the north bank of the James River and mentions making his boat available for
the Rev Charles to cross the river for services.
Charles Anderson, was an occasional guest preacher at other
Virginia churches and is recorded in William Byrd's diary as preaching at
Bruton Church in Williamsburg, Virginia on one occasion before Governor
Spotswood, who according to Byrd, was favorably impressed. When the Virginia
Council heard the dispute between the French Huguenot settlers of Henrico
petitioning for the removal of their church minister, Charles Anderson was
present before the council and is recorded as having preached a sermon of
reconciliation. The Fountaine family
were members of this congregation. James Robertson followed Charles Anderson as
minister at Westopher, but was removed for slurs against the governor in
1720. Peter Fountaine followed as
Westopher Minister until 1757 and is noted for having accompanied William Byrd,II
on his survey of the North Carolina border.
Despite the occasional acerbic comments reserved for others in
William Byrd's diaries, Charles apparently escapes any unfavorable
mention. This may be because of Byrd's
religious bent, i.e. a "fear of God" or alternatively because of
strict laws of the times prohibiting slandering ministers. More likely, however, it was because of
heartfelt respect for Charles by William.
Byrd's diary contains numerous and impressive details of Charles
Anderson's attentions to the duties of a Parish Minister. William Byrd comments frequently upon
attending church and "Mr. Anderson preached a good sermon."
An example serves best to make this point. On the occasion of
the burial of WIlliam Byrd's infant son, William makes note in his diary that
an extremely heavy downpour forced William and his wife to take shelter on the
Church porch during the services. The
Rev. Charles Anderson, remained at the grave side and completed the service
uninterrupted. This attention to duty
could not but impress William Byrd.
The Rev. Charles Anderson died on April 17, 1718. At this time William Byrd was in England,
and regrettably therefore we do not have his diary to give us details. It should be noted that Frances Anderson,
Charles' widow and William Byrd lived near each other for more than a decade
after the death of their spouses and that Byrd's subsequent diaries reflect
that well after that period the daughters of Charles Anderson were still
frequent guests at Westover. Regretably
Byrd's diaries from 1722-1738 have not been found, or perhaps not
published. On December 25, 1739 all of
the daughters of the Rev. Charles Anderson were present at the Westover
Plantation Manor House for Christmas dinner with William Byrd,II.
The list of children is believed to be complete, however as
Charles did not list all of his children in his will it is possible that some
have escaped notice. Charles had one
son who died as an infant. This is
recorded in the secret diary of William Byrd,II. His son Charles Anderson, also
mentioned in the later diaries of Byrd, had died before 1737 and was not
involved in the settlement of his mothers estate from which he was due his
father's lands.
Charles' will is filed on both sides of the James, in Prince
George County, Book 1713-1728, Part II, page 289. It is dated 06/26/1712, witnessed by Edw. Hill, H. Maria Platt,
Sarah Baxter, and proved Prince George Court at Merchants Hope 03/13/1718 by
Frances Anderson and at Charles City Court on 09/1718 by Edward Hill. Of interest is the presence of the mullattos
mentioned by Charles. At this time the number of such persons would have been
fewer and therefore we can assume that some slaveowners assuaged their
conscience regarding the mixed offspring of their slaves by arranging for them
to serve the Parish Minister. It should
be noted that Charles' choice in his identification of these persons reflected
that he was aware of the issue of race and the consequences of slavery, a man
of conscious and unwilling to simply identify them as negro as was done in so
many wills of the time. As a prominent
Parish Minister serving at the time when the very definitions of slavery were
being formed by the Virginia Colonial Council it would be of extreme interest
if we could hear from him of the discussion of slavery that he must have had
over the billiard table at Westover with William Byrd, II a member of that
council.
In the Name of God, Amen. I Charles Anderson of Westopher
Parish in the County of Charles City, Clerk, being sick in body but of good and
perfect memory (thanks to Almighty God) and calling to mind the uncertain
estate of this transitory Life, and that all life must yield unto Death, when
it shall please God to call, do make constitute ordain and declare this my Last
Will and Testament in manner and form following, revoking and annulling by
these presents all and every Testament and Testaments, Will and Wills
heretofore by me made and declared either by word or writing. And first being penitant and sorry for my
sins past most humbly desiring forgiveness for the same, I give and commit my
soul unto almighty God my Saviour and redeemer in whom and by the merrits of
Jesus Christ I trust and believe assured to be saved, and to have full
remission of all my sins, and that my soul within my body at the General Day of
Resurrection shall rise again with joy, and through the merits of Christs Death
and passion possess & inherit the kingdom of Heaven prepared for his elect
and chosen. And my body to be buried in
such place where it shall please my Executirx hereafter named to appoint. And for the setling of my Temporal Estate
which it hath pleased God to bestow upon me, I do order give and dispose in
manner and form following (that is to say) first I will that all my just debts
whatsoever be well & truly contented and paid.
Item. I give and
bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth Anderson these Negroes and Slaves following
Viz: Frank a Mullato Woman, Dick a Mullatto man, and Nanny a negro girl, to her
and her heirs forever.
Item. I give and
bequeath unto my son Charles Anderson after the Death of my Dear and Loving
Wife, All my Lands I now have or herafter may or shall belong unto me in this
country or elsewhere, to him my said son and to his heirs forever. And also I give and bequeath unto my said
son Charles Anderson these Negroes following Viz: Scipio a Negro man, Betty and Negro Woman, Jack a Negro boy, to
him and his heirs.
Item. I give and
bequeath unto my daughter Frances Anderson these Negros following Viz: Billy and
Negro boy, Hannah a Negro girl and George a Mullato boy, to her and her heirs
for ever.
Item. I will that what
Tobacco's I now have in the country after necessarys for my familys use are
bought, be shipped for England, and the produce of that and what else I have in
England after debts paid, be equally divided amongst my wife and children.
Item. I will that my
dear and loving wife have and enjoy all and singular the profits of my whole
estate during the minority of my children or marriage for their better
maintenance and more Liberal Education.
Item. I give and
bequeath unto my dear and loving wife all the residue of my said estate not
before mentioned to be given whether real or personal in this country or
elsewhere, to her and her heirs for ever.
And lastly I do ordain constitute and appoint my dear and
loving wife my sole and whole executrix of this my Last Will and
Testament. In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this 26th Day of June Anno Domini 1712
Sealed and Delivered before: Ch:
Anderson
Edw: Hill seald
wth red wax
H: Maria Platt
Sarah Baxter
The Rev. Charles Anderson is buried in the old Westopher
church on Westopher plantation on the north bank of the James River. The grave
is located about 30 yards from the water about .1 mile west of the current
manor house. The burial originally took
place in the apse of the church. The
marker is a ground level full length stone slab, The epitaph on his gravestone
reads, " Here Lyes interred the Body of Rev. Charles Anderson, who was
minister of this Parish 26 yeares and dyed the 7th of April 1718 in the 49th
year of his Age."
The current site is enclosed with an iron fence and includes
tombs for Elizabeth Horsmundsen Byrd, Evelyn Byrd, William Byrd,I and Capt.
Nathaniel Perry. Not far away are the
tombs of Benjamin Harrison,I and his wife.
Disappointingly the condition of Charles' stone has deteriorated very
rapidly since I first observed it in 1983 and is nearly illegible today. There
is an archeological survey of this site recorded in the Virginia Historical
Library, Battle Abbey, Richmond, Virginia. It is likely that the original
Westopher Church was a wooden frame with brick underlining and was built about
1646. Numerous references are made to
the church at Westopher throughout Charles City County Court records from 1640
to 1700, refering to levies for repairs.
The Westopher Parish church was located at this site until
Mrs. Byrd in 1736 began the building of the current manor house and reorganized
the neighborhood. Mrs. Byrd, tired of "dinner guests" after church
services, arranged for the construction of a new church some miles away. The councils of WIlliam Byrd and his
Minister had occurred in the original wooden home built where the manor house
garden is today. William Byrd, II is
buried at the center of this garden on the site of his original home. She also tore down the brewry that used to
be next to the church and court house.
Richard Pace
Francis Poythress to Thomas
Goodwyn
Prince George County Surry County
11/11/1718 400 acres Westopher Parish
Pr. George County Book 1713-1728 Page 269
This Indenture made this eleventh Day of November in the year
of Our Lord God One thousand seven hundred and eighteen. Between Richard Pace and Francis Poythress of
the County of Prince George of the one part and Thomas Goodwynne of the County
of Surry of the other part, Witnesseth
that the said Richard Pace and Francis Poythress for divers good causes and
considerations then thereunto moving, but more expecially for and in
consideration of the sum of One hundred pounds Sterl: to them in hand paid by
the said Thoams Goodwynne at and before the ensealing and delivery of these
presents the rect whereof the said Richard Pace and Francis Poythress doth
hereby acknowledge they themselves to be therewith fullly satisfied contented
and paid and thereof doth acquire release and discharge the said Thomas
Goodwynne his Ex Hath given granted
bargained sold remised, released, and for ever quitted claim, and by these
presents the said Richard Pace and Francis Poythress doth for themselves their
heirs Exrs and Admts forever give grant bargain sell remise release and for
ever quit claim unto the said Thomas Goodwynne and to his heirs forever to all
that seat tract parcell or dividend of Land situate lying and being in the Pssh
of Westopher in the County of Prince George contain by estimation four hundred
acres of Land, be it more or less and bounded Viz: beginning at the Path on the
Old Town run, where it crosses the same, leading from old Michael Rossers
plantation to Edward Goodriches plantation, and running thence Westwardly as
the path leads along the said Rossers cornfiled fence to the upper end of the
same and from thence west ninteen degreed north along a line of mark trees to a
corner oak in the head of a bottom thence down that bottom by a line of mark
trees to the runn between Richard Paces plantation where he now lives, and the
plantation whereon John Whittmore more lately lived, and so down that runn to
the Path at the beginning. together with Two hundred acres of Land at the head
of the said Richard Paces dividend, beginning at his southern corner tree and
running east fifty chains to a red oake, thence No. One hundred and sixty
chains to the line dividing this land from lands which did belong to Mr. Cha.
Anderson Decsd: thence West fifty chains, thence So. one hundred and sixty
chains to the beginning. To have and to hold the said land sand premises hereby
granted unto the said Thomas Goodwynne and to his heirs forever, together with
all houses Orchards, Gardens, Woods, underwoods, wayes, Pastures etc. and all
other the appurtenances thereon or thereunto belonging or in any wise
appurtaining, so that neither the said Richard Pace nor Francis Poythress nor
their heirs nor any other person or persons whatever claiming or to claim by
from or under them or either of them shall no at any time hereafter have any
right title interest claims or demand of in or too the sd. lands and premises,
but that the same with every part and parcell thereof shall be and forver
hereafter enure to the only sole proper use and behoof of him the said Thomas
Goodwynne and to his heirs forever. In
Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and affixed our seals the day
and year first above written.
Testes. Peter Wynne F.
Poythress sealed w/ red wax
John {B} Bonner Richd:
Pace sealed w/ red wax
Data form the 1704 Rent Rolls would indicate that Charles held
a comparable amount of land in comparison to other Anderson families of
Virginia.
Anderson, Charles Mr. Prince George County 505 acres
Anderson, Tho. Prince
George County 450 acres
Anderson, Henry Prince George County 250 acres
Anderson, John Prince George County 228 acres
Anderson, Matthew Prince George County 349 acres
Anderson, Wm. Prince George County 235 acres
Anderson, David New Kent County 300 acres
Anderson, John New Kent County 100 acres
Anderson, John New Kent County 100 acres
Anderson, Richard New Kent County 200 acres
Anderson, Robert New Kent County 700 acres
Anderson, Robert New Kent County 900 acres
Anderson, George Isle of Wight County 150 acres
Anderson, John York County 50 acres
Anderson, Richard King and Queen County 650 acres
Anderson, William Cpt King William County 150 acres
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The Quit Rents of
Virginia, 1704, by Annie Laurie Wright Smith, Virginia State Archives, 1957.
Charles City County,
Virginia, Records, 1737-1774, Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger,
III, 1986.
Charles City County,
Virginia, Court Orders, 1687-1695, Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B.
Weisiger, III, 1980.
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Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, Abstracted and Indexed by Benjamin B. Weisiger,
III, 1973.
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Lost Virginia Records, by DesCognets, Princeton, New Jersey, 1958; page 242,
267.
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Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Editor Lyon G. Tyler, Volume VI,
Richmond, Virginia, 1925; page 262.
William and Mary
Quarterly, Ist Series, Volume IV, Editor Lyon G. Tyler, Richmond, Virginia,
1895; Kraus Reprint Company 1977, page 127,143.
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page 212; Volume VIII, page 367; Volume XLV, pages 395, 396.
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Environs, by Kirkland Ruffin Saunders,
W. M. Brown & Sons, Richmond Va., 1937; pages 52, 53.
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William Byrd, 1709-1712, Edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling, Dietz
Press, Richmond Virginia, 1941.
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Universtiy Press, New York, 1958.
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Collated by Marion Tinling, The Dietz Press, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, 1942;
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William and Mary
Quarterly, Ist Series, Volume IV, page 127,143.
Notes for Frances ?:
Frances Anderson
Edward Hill to Robert
Bolling
12/13/1720 Bond £ 50
Pr. G. Co. 1713-1728 Part II Page 429
Condition of indemnifying Robert Bolling for making payment to
Fances of £ 24 owed Frances by Henry Offley of London, Merchant.
Charles Anderson's will
names widow Frances, surname unknown.
Her close association with Mrs. Harrison of Berkley Plantation after the
death of her husband suggests a possible relationship. Alternatively, her husband was a close
friend of Edward Hill and their lands south of the James bordered upon each
other. The family of Charles Anderson
is recorded as having dined enmass with Edward Hill in William Byrd's
diary. This authors guess is that she
was related to one of Edward Hill's wives.
Charles City County
Court Orders
09/1739
page 115
Will of Mrs. Frances Anderson presented by Frances Anderson,
her executrix, and by John Stith, in right of his wife. Jane Anderson and Charllotte Anderson, the
other executors, did not move for any right to execute will.
(Chas City Co Wills & Deeds 1725-1731:54) 1722 Accounts Current of Col. Edward Hill,
dec'd.
Credits: Mr. Archabald Blair, William Byrd, Esq., Mr.
Hall, Mr. Micajah Perry, Mr. Hide & Co., Littlebury Epes, Legacy to Mrs.
Anderson and her daughter Stith, Mrs. Anderson's three youngest daughters, Mrs.
Susanna Hunt, Susanna Epes, Mr. John Giffard, Executors of Charles Goodrich,
Mr. Lyonal Loyde of Bristol, Wm Randolph, Mr. Cary, Col. John Carter for Thomas
Bates's 2nd year wages, Capt. Hudson, Maj. John Bolling, Estate of Maj. John
Epes, Capt. John Stith, Mr. William Royal, Estate of Maj. John Epes, Capt. John
Stith, Mr. William Royall, Mrs. Frances Anderson, John Peterson, Mrs.
Greenhill.
Debits: William Randolph, Estate of Maj. John Epes,
Mr. John Stith, Mrs. Anderson, Littlebury Epes.
November 29, 1725. Examined and reported by Fran's Hardyman,
Bowler Cocke, and John Bannister.
Recorded December 1, 1725.
7 v. Andrew Anderson (Source: Benjamin B.
Weisiger, II, Charles City County, Virginia, Court Orders, 1687-1695, (1980).), born Abt. 1671.
Notes for Andrew
Anderson:
October Court 1694
Charles City County Virginia
Joseph Beale brings action of slander agst Andrew Anderson,
for saying to plt. "Thou art a rogue and hast stole my money, being 4
pieces of 8/8, which I have lost", begging damages for these false and
malicious words 5000 lbs tobacco. Deft., pleads not guilty and puts self on
county, and plt. likewise. Jury is impanelled, same as in Down's case, only
Stephen Samson in stead of Thomas Harnison, Jury finds for plt.. 200 lbs tobacco
damages, Price and Burnby sworn in this case, William Harrison and Bartholomew
Fowler, attorneys for plt. Joseph Beale awarded 20 shillings agst Andrew
Anderson.
April Court 1695
Charles City County Virginia
Abell Morgan agst Andrew Anderson, debt, 1000 lbs tobacco,
sherriff returns deft non est inventus, judgement granted agst deft.
June Court 1695 Charles
City County Virginia
Abel Morgan agst Andrew Anderson dismissed.
Generation No. 3
3. Mister Thomas4 Anderson (Thomas3,
Thomas2, Richard1) (Source: Thomas Anderson, 1711 Will
of Thomas Anderson, (1710-1713 Will
Book, Page 36, Prince George County, Virginia).) was born Abt. 1662 in Charles
City County, Virgnia, and died Bef. June 1711 in on "Old Towne Run",
Prince George County, Virginia. He
married (1) ? Abt. 1683 in Charles City County, Virginia. She was born Abt. 1665, and died Bef. 1695
in Charles City County, Virginia. He
married (2) Mary Lucy Abt. 1695 in Charles City County, Virginia,
daughter of Robert Lucy and Sarah Barker.
She was born Abt. 1677 in Charles City County, Virginia, and died 1719
in Prince George County, Virginia.
Notes for Mister
Thomas Anderson:
There were people by the name of
Anderson in Charles City County, between 1650 and 1700 but examination of those
individuals has not yet assisted me in confirming the identity of Thomas'
father. No birth record, contemporary
or otherwise, is known for Thomas Anderson. As it was common practice at the
time to obtain a patent upon reaching the age of 21 Thomas was born before 1662
but not likely much before that. The Westover Minister, Reverend Charles
Anderson, born in 1670, owned land adjacent on the west of Thomas in the period
1692 to 1711. I am investigating him as a possible brother. There is mention of a Thomas Anderson as
early as 1655 in Charles City County and in addition, Thomas, John and Rev.
Richard Anderson sons were born at this time in York County. Any of these Virginia men could be his
father or he may have arrived in 1673 from Great Britain as named in WIlliam
Peebles patent.
On September 20, 1683 Thomas Anderson,
identified as "Mr.", obtained his own patent of 400 acres along
Cattail Creek, which drained southward from the head lands of Powell's Creek
into the Blackwater River. These lands are near the triangular boundary of
Prince George, Surry and Sussex Counties just north of current Disputania,
Virginia. At the time titles still
retained social significance. A member of the colonial council would be
referred to as "Esquire", a member of the County Court would be
called "Gentleman", a member of the county militia would be addressed
by his rank "Colonel", "Captain", or Lieutenant". The title Mister was reserved for civilian
men who had significant merchant or propertied standing. The remainder of acceptable society were
made up of men of assets greater than 50 pounds who were eligible to serve on
juries and vote. Beyond that were the residue of servants and slaves. That he was titled "Mr." on a
document prepared for signature by the governor indicates that he was a
propertied man. As he was young it is likely that this property had come from
his father's estate.
Mr. Thomas Anderson
09/20/1683 400 acres Westover
Parish, Charles City Co.
Virginia Patent Book 7
1679-1689 page 303
To all [insert]
whereas [i] now know ye that I the said Nicholas Andros, Esqr. President [i]
and with the consent of ye Council of State accordingly give and grant unto Mr.
Thomas Anderson an irregular tract of land containing four hundred acres lying
and being in the County of Charles Citty, and in ye P.ish of Westopher, and on
the South side of James River, Viz. beginning At a corner white oake, standing
on the Line of Capt Robert Lucy, & running thense along ye said Lucies Line
South South East four hundred seventy four poles, crossing the Cattaile Maine
Branch, to a corner black oake, thense East North East sixty four poles to a
corner white oak, thense North thirty six poles to a corner gum, thense East
North East seventy poles, crossing a branch to ye corner bockibery, thense
North and by West, six degrees westerly eighty poles to a corner black oake,
thense North ward forty five crossing ye Cattaile Maine Branch to a corner oake
saplin, thense North North East eighty five poles to a corner black oake,
thense North North West one hundred sixty eight poles, crossing Mr. Wallises
path to a corner line, thense west two hundred & one poles to a corner
black oake, thense west and by North two degrees northerly twenty six poles to
ye place we began, including ye aforesd four hundred acres of Land. The said Land being due by [i] for ye
transportation of eight persons into this colony whose names are mentioned in
ye records with this Patent. To have
and to hold [i] hold [i] yielding & paying [i] proved and dated this
twentieth day of September 1683.
[head rights] Eliz: Kish, Valen: Taylor,
Tho. Barrow, Wm Shofforld, Tho: Barret, Wm Stock, Jon Stewart, Joseph Fells
The [insert][i] were points in the
record where text from the patent form, recorded at the begining of book 7 were
to be inserted. An original full text
version of this patent would have been given to Thomas Anderson but only the
abstract above was recorded in book 7.
Captian Robert Lucy was married to Sarah
Barker, the daughter of William Barker who founded Merchant's Hope
plantation, James Wallice owned a
plantation at the mouth of Powells Creek and one south of Thomas Anderson on
the Blackwater River; and his path connected the two passing through Thomas' land.
The Charles City County Court Orders for
10/03/1688 indicate that Thomas Anderson was to be summoned before the next
Grand Jury for "planting tobacco on the Sabbath." No mention of the charge is given at the
next court.
Thomas Anderson, along with James
Anderson, recorded his livestock earmarks on 04/13/1693. Thomas Anderson, "Cropp and upper hole
in ye right, and upper Hole in ye left"; and James Anderson, "The
same only an under hool on the left".
This James Anderson was apparently the eldest son of Reynard Anderson
and appears actively in County records of 1693. He was of the same age as Thomas and the wording of their
livestock earmarks may imply an unknown relationship.
Thomas witnessed a deed of Ralph
Jackson, Joseph Maddox and John Douglas on 02/10/1692/3. He served to appraise
the estate of Charles Williams on 08/03/1692, of William Taylor (John Jane
Executor) on 10/03/1693, of Morris Calagham on 11/08/1694, and posted bond for
Sarah (remarried to Robert Reives) the widow of Morris Calagham on
08/05/1695. Roger Rees the father of
his daughter Mary's husband served as an appraiser with him. He served as
foreman of a grand jury on 08/03/1692; and as member on 10/03/1692,
01/03/1692/3, 08/03/1693, and 06/04/1694.
In 1701, Thomas Anderson, with other
gentlemen of Charles City Court, signed a petition to the Crown
Government. This was a loyalty Oath
taken in consideration of the recent war with Spain. This can be found detailed in "Autographs, 1701/2", By
Elizabeth Lawrence Dow, Richmond Virginia, 1976. Therein, can be found his signature, in a small neat hand, using
the script s as "Tho: Ander§on".
Data from the 1704 Rent Rolls would
indicate that Thomas held a comparable amount of land in comparison to other
Anderson families of Virginia. Source "The Quit Rents of Virginia,
1704"; by Smith, Annie Laurie Wright; Virginia State Archives; 1957.
Anderson, Tho. Prince
George County 450 acres
Anderson, Charles Mr. Prince George County 505 acres
Anderson, Henry Prince George County 250 acres
Anderson, John Prince George County 228 acres
Anderson, Matthew Prince George County 349 acres
Anderson, Wm. Prince George County 235 acres
Anderson, David New Kent County 300 acres
Anderson, John New Kent County 100 acres
Anderson, John New Kent County 100 acres
Anderson, Richard New Kent County 200 acres
Anderson, Robert New Kent County 700 acres
Anderson, Robert New Kent County 900 acres
Anderson, George Isle of Wight County 150 acres
Anderson, John York County 50 acres
Anderson, Richard King and Queen County 650 acres
Anderson, William Cpt King William County 150 acres
No deeds of Thomas Anderson have been
found, although he reputedly purchased 100a. from John Janes and lived on it.
This purchase likely occurred before 1692 and would have been filed with the
lost county records of Charles City County. The description of this land is as
follows in the next deed. Notice that
being on the Old Town Run and belonging to Edward Goodrich this land is
adjacent the Rev Charles Anderson who died in 1718.
Margaret Goodrich to Abraham Odium
02/09/1721 100 acres
Prince George County
Book 1713-1728 page 516
This Indenture made
the Ninth Day of February in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand Seven
hundred twenty one, Between Margaret Goodrich Executrix of the Last Will and
Testament of Edward Goodrich late of Prince George County Dcscd: of the one
part, and Abraham Odium of the County aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Margaret Goodrich
for divers good causes and considerations her thereunto moving and for the
rents and covenants hereafter mentioned, hath let lease and to Term let, and by
these presents doth let lease and to Term Let, unto the said Abraham Odium his
Executors and Administrators, one certain Tract or parcel of Land Lying and
Being in the Parrish of Martin Brandon and County of Prince George, bounded
Westerly on the old Town Run, Northerly on the Lands of Phillip Jane and
Easterly on the Lands of Edward Hill dcsd. and Southerly on the main woods and
the Lands of Richard Pace, containing by Estimation One hundred acres, be the
same more or less, which tract and parcel of Land was formerly purchased of and
conveyed by John Jane to Thomas Anderson as by a Deed for the same acknowledged
and recorded in the records of Charles City County Court will appear, and by
the said Anderson in his Last Will and Testament given and devised to Mary his
relict during her natural life, and thereafter to come and decend to his eldest
son James Anderson and his heirs forever as by the said Will proved and
recorded in the records of the County Court of Prince George will appear, and
by Cornelius Cargill and Mary his wife the aforesaid relict of the said Thomas
Anderson, and also by the said James Anderson sold and conveyed to the
aforesaid Edward Goodrich, as by Deeds for the same acknowledged and recorded
in the records of the said County Court of Prince George the Fourth Day of
January 1720 given to and vested in the aforesaid Margaret his Executrix to be
sold for payment of his debts as by the said Will it more plainly appears. To have, use, occupy, and enjoy the said
tract and parcel of Land, with all and singular the appertenances thereunto
belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said Abraham Odium and his Executors
Vz: for & during the Term of one whole year to commence from the day of the
date hereof, and fully to be completed and ended, yielding and paying for the
same at the expiration of the Term aforesaid the Fee Rent of One Shilling
Current money if the same shall be lawfully demanded unto the said Margaret
Goodrich her Executors Vz: to the Intent and purpose that by Virtue of these
presents and of the Statute made in the Seven and Twentyeth year of the Reign
of King Henry the Eight for Transferring of uses unto possession the said
Abraham Odium may be in actual and peaceable possession of the said Land and
Premises and thereby the better enabled to take and [?] of a grant or
conveyance of the Reversion and Inheritance thereof to him and by his heirs, to
the Use of him his heirs and assigns for ever In Witness whereof the said
Margaret Goodrich hath hereunto set her hand and seal the day and year first
above written
Signed Sealed and
Delivered
in the presence of Margaret Goodrich sealed
with
Richard Cureton a
wafer
John Chues
Charles Ryall
At a Court held at Merchants
Hope for Prince George County on the second Tuesday in February being the
thirteenth day of the said month Anno Dom: 1721
The above written Deed of Lease of Land (Indented
and Sealed) was in Open Court acknowledged by Margaret Goodrich the subscriber
thereto to be her act and Deed to Abraham Odium named therein on whose motion
the same by order of the Court is truly recorded.
A Deed of Sale of the
identical property follows in the County records. This process reflects the practice at the time of initially
granting a let lease, until after occupation of a property at which time final
payment and execution of a Deed was performed.
Alternatively, an endorsement of the deed reflecting peaceable
possession was made.
Cornelius Cargill to Robert Hunnicutt
of Prince Georges
county of Prince Georges County
02/01/1726 150 acres
Prince George County
Book 1713-1728 page 957
THIS INDENTURE made
the First Day of February, in the Year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand, Seven
hundred and Twenty Six, Between Cornelius Cargill of the Parrish of Martin
Brandon in the County of Prince George of the one part, and Robert Hunnicutt of
the Parrish and County aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Cornelius Cargill for and in
consideration of the sum of Eighteen pounds current money to him in hand paid
by the said Robert Hunnicutt, at and before the en sealing and delivery hereof,
the receits whereof he the said Cornelius Cargill doth hereby acknowledge, and
thereof and therefrom doth clearly acquit and discharge the said Robert
Hunnicutt, his heirs, executors, and Administrators and every of them forever
by these presents, Hath given, granted, bargained, sold, aliened, released, en
scoffed [?] and confirmed, and doth by these presents give, grant, bargain,
sell, alien, release, enscoffe and confirm unto the said Robert Hunnicutt, and
to his heirs and assigns forever, one tract or parcell of Land containing by
estimation one hundred and fifty acres, be the same more or less, together with
all houses, orchards and appurtenances to the said one hundred and fifty acres
of Land belonging, or in any way wise appertaining, and the reversion and
reversions, remainder and remainders of all and singular the premises, and
every part and parcell thereof, which said bargained and sold lands and
premises are situate, lying and being on the south side of the Cattail Swamp,
on the north side of the Blackwater Swamp, and on both sides of the Reedy
Branch of the said Cattail Swamp, in the Parrish and County aforesaid, and
formerly were in the tenure, holding, and occupation of one Thomas Anderson now
deceased, and by James Anderson and Charles Anderson two of the sons of the
said Thomas Anderson after his decease sold and conveyed to the said Cornelius
Cargill and to his heirs forever that is to say, One hundred and five acres of
the aforesaid Land was sold and conveyed to the said Cornelius Cargill, by the
aforesaid James Anderson, by Deed dated the fourteenth Day of April, One
thousand seven hundred and nineteen, and the same day acknowledged and recorded
in the records of the said County Court.
And the residue of the aforesaid tract of land was sold and conveyed to
the said Cargill by the aforesaid Charles Anderson by Deed dated the Tenth Day
of March, One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighteen and the same Day
acknowledged, and recorded in the records of the County Court aforesaid, as by
the said Deeds relation being thereunto had, will appear. Which said one hundred and fifty acres of
land are bounded according to the ancients and known bounds thereof, and as in
the aforesaid Deeds is mentioned. To
Have and to hold the said hereby granted bargained and sold houses lands and
premises and to his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit, &
behoof of him the said Robert Hunnicutt, his heirs and assigns for
evermore. And the said Cornelius Cargill
doth for himself covenant and grant to and with the said Robert Hunnicutt, his
heirs and assigns, by these presents, that he the said Cornelius Cargill is at
the time of the ensealing and delivery hereof lawfully seized of a good,
perfect, and Indefeasible estate in Fee Simple, to him and his heirs and
assigns forever, in his own right and to his own use, without any manner of
condition, and that he hath good right full power and authority to grant,
convey, and assure the said lands and premises & every part thereof, unto
the said Robert Hunnicutt, and to his heirs and assigns in manner aforesaid,
and according to the true intents and meaning hereof. And the said Cornelius Cargill doth further covenant and grant to
and with the said Robert Hunnicutt his heirs and assigns that the said lands
and premises and ever part thereof, now are and be, and so from henceforth for
ever hereafter shall remain and continue unto the said Robert Hunnicutt his
heirs & assigns free and clear and defended of, from and against all manner
of former and other bargains, sales, gifts, grants, leases, judgements, dowers,
and of and from all other titles, troubles, charges, Incumbrances, and demands
whatsoever levied suffered or executed by him the said Cornelius Cargill his
heirs or assigns, or any other person or person's whatsoever, and that the said
Robert Hunnicutt his heirs and assigns shall and may for ever hereafter
peaceably and quietly have hold use occupy and enjoy the said premises with the
appurtenances, without any loss, trouble, denyall, or eviction of or by the said
Cornelius Cargill his heirs or assigns, or any other person or persons
whatsoever. And lastly the said
Cornelius Cargill for him self his heirs, executors and Administrators, shall
and will warrant and forever defend to the said Robert Hunnicutt, his heirs and
assigns forever, the said land and premises and every part thereof, with the
appurtenances, against him the said Cornelius Cargill, his heirs, and assigns,
and against all and every other person and persons whatsoever claiming by,
from, or under him the said Cornelius Cargill, his heirs or assigns, or any
other person or persons whatsoever. In
Witness whereof the said Cornelius Cargill hath hereunto set his hand and seal,
the day and year first above written.
Sealed and Delivered
in presence of us. Cornelius Cargill Sealed with
James Gee a wafer
James Fletch
Wm Hamlin
Memorandum. That on the First Day of February, Anno Dominis, One Thousand
Seven Hundred, Twenty Six. Quiet and
peaceable possession and seizin of the houses lands and premises above
mentioned was delivered unto the above named Robert Hunnicutt and his heirs for
ever, according to the form and effect of the above written DEED, by delivery
of a Turf and Twigg of the said Land, in the name of all the lands and premises
contained in the said Deed, by Cornelius Cargill [etc.]
Thomas Anderson's will referred to the
the deeds above, was lost for a period of time due to the confiscation of
Prince George County records in the civil war and has recently been recovered.
In the 1980's a women in Cincinnati, Ohio mailed the Prince George County book
for 1710 to 1713 to the county. An
transcript of his will was published in the "Magazine of Virginia
Genealogy", Volume 29, Number 1, February 1991, page 65 but unfortunately
identifies his plantation as "Callactes" instead of
"Cattails".
Thomas' will names wife Mary and three
married children, two underage children and one grandchild Thomas Reese. Mary re-marries in 1712 to Cornelius Cargill
and has two more children in 1713 and 1718.
Since Thomas' three married children likely were at a minimum 18, 20 and
22 in 1711 this necessitates that an only wife had her first child by 1689 and
her last in 1718 which implies her last child was born at age 48. In light of Thomas' age and since the gap
betwen births was likely earlier and longer, for these reasons and for the
reason that Mary acted with Cornelius as guardians of Charles and Jane I have
concluded that Mary was a second wife. Mary's surname has not been established
by contemporary record or family tradition, although from circumstances it is
likely that she was a second wife, Mary Lucy, daughter of Robert Lucy and Sarah
Barker. Mary Lucy was then the mother of Charles and Jane. Thomas' three eldest
married children are believed born of an unknown first wife. The identification
of Thomas Anderson's children cannot be considered complete. As son-in-law William Sanders is named
without reference to a daughter that he married, it is possible that other
children were not named. It is also possible
that William Sanders was the son of his first wife by a previous marriage.
Thomas mention of his tools in his will
suggests that he also was a carpenter as were the next generations of the
family. Thomas was a literate man who
could read and write and it is my suspicion that he authored his own will. This is because it is somewhat unstructured
as though it was a single draft. In
addition it contains a serious legal flaw in that after bequeathing the use of
his Cattail plantation to his wife during the nonage of his youngest son by
her, Charles, it fails to clearly state the reversion of that Cattail estate to
either of his sons after the nonage or upon the marriage of his widow. The impact of this is that his son lost the
main Cattail plantation to his step-mothers second husband Cornelius Cargill.
Prince Georges Wills
and Deeds 1710-1713; P. 36
Will of Thomas
Anderson of Westover Parish, Prince George Co.
In the name of god Amen, I Thomas
Anderson of prince Geor County and parris of Westopher, being sick and weak but
of perfect sense and memory Thanks be to God for ye same do make and appoint
and ordain this my Last will and Testament In manner and form, following hereby
nullifying and making void all former wills and testaments by me made, and
declared and this onely to be taken for my last will and testament.
Firstly I give and bequeath my soul to
God that gave it me hoping by the merits of my blessed savior Jesus Christ to
Inherit Eternall Life and my body to ye earth to be buryed In such dessent
maner as my Exec. hereafter named shall think is fitt.
Secondly I give and bequeath the
plantation I now live on for and during her natural life, and do give her to
make use of any firewood upon any part of my land. For repearing the plantation
and too give to my loving wife Mary Anderson, the plantation and privilege, and
liberty during my son Charles his non age of the increase of hogs at the
plantation commonly called The Cattails and after to keep hoggs upon the land
during her natural life except she marry and then not to keep hogs there and I
too here give unto my loving wife her Choyce of my Beds with Boulster and
blankets and yarnset rug curtains and vallens one pare of sheets and to pillars
and one small feather bed and the choyce of my horses for her own house and all
my hogs running of the plantation I now live on.
Thirdly I give and bequeath unto my son
James Anderson my plantation I now live upon and all the land I hold adjoiyning
to the sd plantation and to his heirs for ever after the deces of my loving
wife and fifty acres of land next to Capt Taylors Cart path westardly being
part of the Cattail Land and one great Chest in the inward room which of the To
he pleases and the father bed he lyes upon and one rugg and a pare of Blankets
and sheets boulster and pillow one cutlis and gunn one pot which his mother
picks.
Fourthly I give and bequeath unto my son
Charles Anderson my first tract of land at the Cattail that is now leased and
to his heirs for ever and one featherbed boulster and yarnset rugg and blanket
and a pear of sheets and two pillows and one gunn formerly Wm Landry gun one
iron pot pothooks
Fifthly I give and bequeath unto my
daughter Mary Rees forty HHD in cask for her
one particular use after my decease If she lives and one cow and calf
and one to year ould hefer to my grandson Thos Rees and one mare filly the
first that be fallen of any of my mares after me decease. To my said daughter
Mary Rees.
Sixthly I give and bequeath unto my
daughter Jane Anderson one negro girl name Hannah and her first child If the sd
negro have any To my son Charles Anderson and the negro Hannah to remain with
my wife during my wifes life, and I give to my daughter Jane one feather bed in
the trundle bedstead bedstead and the furniture belonging to it and I give my
sd daughter one cow with calf and a hefer of to years ould. One chest and one
silver tumbler and one small pott & pot hooks and to pewter cups.
Seventhly my will and meaning Is that
all my wearing clouse whatever that be maid for my use in my lifetime equally
divided between my to sons James and Charles, and all my working tools and
books, excepting sundry moveables to be equally divided between my to sons.
Eighthly My will and meaning Is that all
my cattall Sheep & Horses & what moveables soever I have not disposed
of in this my will shall be equally divided between my loveing wife & my
two sons by my loveing friends Wm Harrison Senr. Jethro Hairston if they be
liveing at me decease & if they or one of them be dead at my decease then
my loveing wife to make choice of such other friend or friends as she pleases
to make the sd division so that it leeds to ye full satisfaction of my beloved
wife and what goods may be sent me out of England for ye Tob. I have sent &
what debts I have due to me at my decease to be equally divided between my sd
wife & sons.
9thly I give & bequeath to my son in
law Wm Sanders five hundred pounds tobacco
10thly I constitute appoint & ordain
my loving wife & my son James Anderson jointly & severally my Executors
of this my last will & testament, I give to my son Charles my chest that
was Wm Lucys & my rapior & belt.
Sealed & delivered
in presence of
Wm Harrison
Geo Hamilton Thomas Anderson
Wm X Sanders
On 11 June 1711, will
proved by above witnesses and probate granted to the relict and James Anderson.
His place of burial is unknown. The most likely location is his Prince
George County plantation along "Old Town Run". No burials are believed to have occurred at
Merchant's Hope Church (Westover Parish chapel south of the James River) in the
early colonial era. If the Rev. Charles
Anderson was indeed his brother, then it is likely that he was buried at old
Westopher Churchyard north of the James River with Charles officiating.
Conversation in 1987 with the current
owners of what is believed to be the "Cattail" plantation grounds
revealed no knowledge of Thomas Anderson, of the initial patent holder or of
any burials of that time period. So
little of the 1670-1800 history of the site was known however, that no
possibilities could be limited. The current home was built before 1846, but
does not likely predate that by much.
The grounds that the home is built on however, contain numerous large
oaks and poplars common to the colonial period which may well date to that
early period and indicate that the home site easily predates 1846.
The following patent was issued after
his death, but it was to this Thomas, as his son James signs a deed to this
land to Cornelius Cargill in 1712 mentioning that his father had had it
surveyed recently. It was not unusual
at all for that time to get a patent issued three years after your death. If you had paid for the survey and the
patenting fees the process itself for the issuance of the patent might take
years. The secretary of the colony
spent months preparing them and the governor signed them once each quarter.
Thomas Anderson
06/16/1714 105 acres Prince
George County
Virginia Patents Book
10, 1710-19, page 157
Anne To All
Know Ye that for divers good causes & considerations but more
especially for & in consideration of the sum of Ten shillings good &
lawful money for ourselves paid to our Revenuer General of our Revenues within
our sd Colony & Dominion of Virginia We have Given Granted & Confirmed
and by these presents for us our heirs & successors do Give Grant and
Confirm unto Thomas Anderson one certain tract or parcel of land containing one
hundred & five acres lying & being in the County of Prince George on
the Cattails and Reedy Branch and bounded by lands, to wit, beginning at a
corner Gum of his own land thence along his line South forty eight and half
degrees East sixty poles and fifteen links to a corner pine, thence East twenty
one degrees South one hundred and two poles & fifteen links, to a gum in a
branch, thence East one degrees north eighteen poles to a scrub white oak,
thence East eighteen degrees North twenty one poles seven links to a Spanishe
oak, thence North twelve degrees east forty one poles to a corner hickory,
thence North fourty degrees east fifty two poles to a corner stake, thence West
thirty degrees North eighty five poles eleven links to a red oak, thence West
five degrees South fourty eight poles ten links to a black oak, thence West
thirty four degrees forty five poles to a corner hickory of the Sd Anderson,
thence along his own line West twenty five degrees South one hundred two &
half poles to the beginning with all
To Have and to Hold To be
Held Yielding and paying provided
in witness witness our Trusty
& Welbeloved Alexander Spotswood our Ld Governor at Williamsburg under the seal of our Sd Colony this sixteenth
day of June one thousand seven hundred and fourteen in the Thirteenth Year of
our Reign. /s/ A. Spotswood
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Autographs, 1701/2, By
Elizabeth Lawrence Dow, Richmond, Virginia, 1976.
Cavaliers and
Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1666- 1695, Nell
Marion Nugent. Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, 1977.
Cavaliers and
Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1695- 1732, Nell
Marion Nugent. Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, 1986.
Charles City County,
Virginia, Court Orders, 1687-1695, Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B.
Weisiger, III, 1980.
Prince George County,
Virginia, Wills & Deeds 1710-1713, Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger III,
1992
Prince George County,
Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, 1973.
The Quit Rents of
Virginia, 1704, by Annie Laurie Wright Smith, Virginia State Archives, 1957.
Wills and
Administrations of Surry County, Virginia, 1671-1750; Eliza Timberlake Davis,
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1980.
Magazine of Virginia
Genealogy, Volume 29, February 1991, Number 1
More About Mister
Thomas Anderson:
Will Probate: June 11,
1711, Prince George County, Virginia
Notes for ?:
Because Thomas Anderson posted a high
bond to secure the estate of Sarah (remarried to Robert Reives) the widow of
Morris Calagham on 08/05/1695 it is possible that Sarah was a relation of
Thomas or his first wife. I have seen
no evidence that Sarah was a relation of Thomas and as Charles Gee was a
co-signer for the bond it is my current avenue of examination to determine
whether the first wife of Thomas Anderson may have been a sister of Charles
Gee. I have found no other supporting
evidence of this to date.
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Because Thomas Anderson names William
Sanders as a son-in-law without identifying the name of a daughter who may have
married him, it is also possible that William Sanders was a son of this first
wife from an earlier marriage of hers to an unknown Sanders.
Notes for Mary Lucy:
My current theory is that Mary was a
younger second wife to Thomas Anderson supported by the fact that James
Anderson, Mary Anderson and Eliza Anderson were all married by 1711 but Charles
Anderson and Jane Anderson were still minors and that the widow Mary Anderson
and Cornelius Cargill acted as guardians for Charles and Jane.
If so then it is likely that Mary is
Mary Lucy the daughter of Robert Lucy and Sarah Barker (daughter of William
Barker the Mariner who founded Merchant's Hope). Mary Lucy is last listed as a minor with guardian John Taylor
(her half brother son of Richard Taylor and Sarah Barker] in 1694 and the Saw
Tree plantation of Robert Lucy is adjacent Thomas Anderson's 1683 Cattail
patent . Mary Lucy could have been born
as early as 1678 as Sarah Barker had married Robert Lucy before that date. Charles and Jane Anderson are likely her
children then and James, Mary and Eliza Anderson were probably born of an
earlier wife of Thomas Anderson. The
advantage to this is twofold, (1) it explains how the widow Mary Anderson was
young enough to bear children with Cornelius Cargill as late as 1718, and (2)
it explains having a gap between the births of the early children of Thomas
Anderson and those of Mary Lucy.
Mary Anderson remarried after Thomas'
death to Cornelius Cargill about 1712.
According to the Cargill family researchers Mary is the mother of John
Cargill born in 1713 and Mary Cargill born in 1718.
Charles Anderson the son of Mary Lucy by
Thomas Anderson witnesses the sale of the neighboring Sawtree plantation [a
property of Robert Lucy, Mary's father] in 1726 by Elizabeth Duke nee Taylor
which substantiates his association with the Taylor family. His aquiescence would have cleared any claim
he may have had on the estate. The
Thomas Anderson 1711 will says that the residential lands of Thomas Anderson
were to be Mary's during the minority of Charles Anderson. Thomas' son James
sells the portion of his father's residence and his peripheral Cattail lands
that he inherited after Thomas' death to Cornelius Cargill in 1713. Charles then sells his inheritance in 1718
indicating that he may have come of age then and would have been born as late
as 1697.
Mary is not listed in the 1726 deeds of
Cornelius Cargill when he sells the southern half of the original property
consisting of the portions bought from the Anderson sons, therefore it is
likely that she died before 1726. The
Cargill family believes that she died before the birth of Cornelius Cargill,
Jr. in 1721. I believe that she
actually died in 1719 after which James Anderson reaffirms the sale of his
inheritance substantiating that Mary died in that year. Cornelius divides the
patents in half selling the lower half made up of the lands acquired by sale
from the Anderson brothers to Robert Hunnicutt, having had the land surveyed on
Feb 7th and 8th 1725, takes up a relationship with Elizabeth Daniel and moves
to Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
Cornelius holds on to the northern half of the Thomas Anderson Cattail
estate until sometime after 1730 and indeed because of the loss of Prince
George County records we cannot know if he was ever able to sell it.
A careful reading of the will of Thomas
Anderson indicates that residential estate was to revert to his son James upon
the death of Mary. James immdiate sale of that land substantiates that Mary may
have been much younger than Thomas.
However Thomas' will does not clearly indicate which son was to receive
the Cattail lands and under which circumstance. The deeds from James and Charles to Cornelius Cargill do not
relinquish their rights to the primary Cattail estate. Whether such reversion was their right is
not clear due to the lack of clear wording in the will and this issue is
interesting because Cornelius Cargill clearly takes control of the Thomas
Anderson 1683 patent. It possibly
helped that his wife Mary Lucy was the half sister of a County Court Justice.
Later, Rebecca Anderson nee Cooke the second wife of James Anderson becomes
embroiled in the 1750's in an unsccessful attempt to take control of the lands
of Thomas Anderson deceased. This may
have been an attempt on her part to excercise whatever rights of reversion may
have belonged to her husband James Anderson. (See Surry County Court order book
one pages 176, 271, 405, 464.)
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Subj: Mary Lucy
Date: 98-04-26 23:40:08 EDT
From: [email protected] (A. J. Myers)
Reply-to: [email protected]
Cliff Wilson, 1
Blackfriar Rd., Rosemont PA 19010-1003 and email at [email protected] says
"Mary Lucy was born about 1677.
Sarah Barker married (1) Richard Taylor some time before 1664; (2)
Robert Lucy c1671/73 and (3) James Bisse c1689/90. Sarah's Taylor children are older than her Lucy children which is
why for a while Capt. John Taylor was made guardian of Mary Lucy. I have no information on Mary Lucy's
marriages." This was in response
to my email to him that I was hoping to prove Mary Lucy married (1) Thomas
Anderson (2) Cornelius Cargill. Now all
that needs to be done is to prove it.
Regards, Patty Myers
Children of Thomas
Anderson and ? are:
+ 8 i. Mary5 Anderson, born Abt. 1685 in
"The Cattails", Charles City County, Virginia; died Bef. 1744 in
Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
+ 9 ii. James Anderson, born Abt. 1689 in "The
Cattails", Charles City County, Virginia; died November 20, 1751 in
"Arnols", Surry County, Virginia.
+ 10 iii. Eliza Anderson, born Abt. 1692 in "The
Cattails", Charles City County, Virgnia; died Bef. 1764 in Sussex County,
Virginia.
Children of Thomas
Anderson and Mary Lucy are:
+ 11 i. Charles5 Anderson, born Abt. 1697
in on "Old Towne Run", Charles City County, Virginia; died Aft. 1753
in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
+ 12 ii. Jane Anderson, born Abt. 1705 in on
"Old Towne Run", Charles City County, Virginia.
4. Sarah4 Anderson (Thomas3, Thomas2,
Richard1) (Source: Patrick J. Anderson, "Suspected but
unproven," Working Papers 2004.) was born Abt. 1665 in Charles City
County, Virginia. She married (1)
Morris Calagham Bef. 1690 in Charles City County, Virginia. He was born Abt. 1660, and died 1694 in
Charles City County, Virgnia. She
married (2) Robert Rives Abt. 1695 in Charles City County,
Virginia. He was born Abt. 1664, and
died Aft. 1716.
Notes for Sarah
Anderson:
Because Thomas Anderson served as an
appraiser of Morris Calagham estate on 11/08/1694, and posted bond for Sarah
his widow (remarried to Robert Rives) on 08/05/1695 it may be implied that
Sarah was a sister. But this is speculative and is just included because I want
to research it further.
harles City County
Court Orders 11/8/1694 page 529
John Boltin makes oath
on the will of Morris Calagham and probate granted to Sarah Calagham, th relect
of Morris, and to Thomas Chappell, the executors named in the will. Ordered
that Thomas Anderson, John Lanier and John Scott appraise the estate.
Charles City County
Court Orders 8/5/1695 page 580
Commission of
administration of late Morris Calagham granted already, Robert Reives and Sarah
his wife, Executrix of Morris Calagnham, exhibit inventory of estate, Robert
Reives, Thomas Anderson, and Charles Gee give 6000 lbs tob. bond for administration
of above estate by Robert Reives and Sarah his wife, to see that legacies are
paid
Charles City County
Court Orders 8/5/1695 page 588
Bond of Robert Reives,
Thomas Anderson and Charles Gee to pay the orphans of Morris Calagham when they
come of age, such estate as belongs to them, and payment by Sarah, the
Executrix of Calagham, no wifef of said Reives.
Notes for Morris
Calagham:
Charles City County
Court Orders 8/3/1694 page 515
Judgement granted
Edward Hill, Esq., agst John Taylor, High Sherr., for 600 lbs Tobacco and 6
capons, claimed by plt. from Morris Calagham, deft., who failed to appear. If
sheriff brings deft. to next court, judgement is void.
Charles City County
Court Orders 11/8/1694 page 529
John Boltin makes oath
on the will of Morris Calagham and probate granted to Sarah Calagham, th relect
of Morris, and to Thomas Chappell, the executors named in the will. Ordered
that Thomas Anderson, John Lanier and John Scott appraise the estate.
Charles City County
Court Orders 8/5/1695 page 580
Commission of
administration of late Morris Calagham granted already, Robert Reives and Sarah
his wife, Executrix of Morris Calagnham, exhibit inventory of estate, Robert
Reives, Thomas Anderson, and Charles Gee give 6000 lbs tob. bond for
administration of above estate by Robert Reives and Sarah his wife, to see that
legacies are paid
Charles City County
Court Orders 8/5/1695 page 588
Bond of Robert Reives,
Thomas Anderson and Charles Gee to pay the orphans of Morris Calagham when they
come of age, such estate as belongs to them, and payment by Sarah, the
Executrix of Calagham, no wifef of said Reives.
Child of Sarah
Anderson and Robert Rives is:
13 i. daughter5 Rives. She married William Jones.
Generation No. 4
8. Mary5 Anderson (Thomas4, Thomas3,
Thomas2, Richard1) (Source: Thomas Anderson, 1711 Will
of Thomas Anderson, (1710-1713 Will
Book, Page 36, Prince George County, Virginia).) was born Abt. 1685 in
"The Cattails", Charles City County, Virginia, and died Bef. 1744 in
Dinwiddie County, Virginia. She married
Roger Reese (Source: Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, Prince George County,
Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728,
(1973).) Bef. 1710, son of Roger Reese.
He was born Bef. 1683 in Charles City County, Virginia, and died Aft.
1746 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
Notes for Mary
Anderson:
Identified as Mary Rees in her fathers
1711 will. Mary was married to the son
of Roger Rees an associate of Thomas Anderson, her father. Roger Rees, Jr.
appears in the 1712 deed of James Anderson relinquishing control of his
father's estate together with the brother in law William Sanders so it would
appear that Mary married Roger Rees, Jr.
From Thomas Andersons 1711 will:
"Fifthly I give and bequeath unto
my daughter Mary Rees forty HHD in cask for her one particular use after my decease If she lives and one cow and
calf and one to year ould hefer to my grandson Thos Rees and one mare filly the
first that be fallen of any of my mares after me decease. To my said daughter
Mary Rees."
Notes for Roger Reese:
Prince George County,
Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, Benjamin B. Weisiger, III, 1973.
Surveys
Nov. 12, 1718 Roger Rees, adj. to Col. Edward Hill's
Burleigh tract 100 acres
Feb. 1, 1723 Roger Rees, on N. side White Oak
Swamp 300 acres
Jan. 1, 1725 Roger Rees, on south side of White Oak
Swamp 400 acres
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Cavaliers and
Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1695-1732, Nell Marion
Nugent. Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, 1986.
Roger Reece
13 November 1721 100 acres Prince Geroge County
Virginia Patents Book 11 Page
78
adjacent Col. Edward
Hill's Burley Tract; in a branch called Turner's Marsh; on Vinson's Line; to
Williams of Pattyson's corner.
Roger Reece
16 June 1727 300 acres Prince
George County
Virginia Patents Book 13 Page
121
on North side of White
Oak Swamp; on upper side of the mouth of Beaverpond Branch.
Roger Reece
28 Sept 1730 400 acres Prince
George County
Virginia Patents Book 14 Page
13
on South side of White
Oak Swamp; adjacent Robert West; & Williams line.
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James Anderson to Cornelius
Cargill
of Surry County
03/07/1712 155 acres
Prince George County
Book 1710-1713 page 254 recorded
01/13/1713
bounded by land given
by the will of Thomas Anderson, dec'd to his son Charles Anderson and the
Queen's land; 105 acres was lately surveyed by Capt. Robert Bolling for said
Thomas Anderson, and by him given to said James, with 50 acres adjoining Capt.
Taylor's cart path.
Wit: Francis West,
Will'm Sanders, Charles Anderson
Livery & seizin
witnesses by Roger Reess, Michael Rosser, Richard Whitmore, James Anderson and
wife acknowledged the deed.
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Roger Reese sells some
of his acres on White Oak Swamp to John Old before 1767 according to Old's will
in Amelia County Book 2X page 242.
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Children of Mary
Anderson and Roger Reese are:
14 i. Thomas6 Reese (Source: Churchill
Gibson Chamberlayne, Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico,
Prince George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,
Baltimore; 1980).), born Bef. 1710 in Prince George County, Virginia; died Aft.
1760 in ?Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He
married Mary ? Bef. 1727.
Notes for Thomas Reese:
Thomas Reece 08/01/1734
Prince George Co
150a north side of
White Oak Swamp
patents 15/250
Thomas Reece 07/10/1745
Prince George Co
250a north side White
Oak Swamp adj his own
patents 22/313
1760 Thomas Rees named
in estate sale of William Tisdale of Amelia Co.
15 ii. Hugh Reese (Source: Churchill Gibson
Chamberlayne, Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince
George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,
Baltimore; 1980).), born Bef. 1711 in Prince George County, Virginia. He married Sarah ?.
Notes for Hugh Reese:
This is a grandson that I cannot absolutely connect, but I
believe he was a son of Roger and Mary.
In the Book "Births from the Bristol Parish Register of
Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798" by
Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore,
Maryland, 1980; the childrens births are recorded. Births of Rogers and Marys
other sons are also recorded so it is likely they were co-located. Cooks Branch is within a mile of White Oak
Swamp where his brothers were.
the BPR shows Hugh
processioning "from White Oak to Namos" in 1735 and 1736
Hugh Reece 08/30/1743
Prince George Co
323a lowerside Cooks
Branch adj Mrs. Wyatt
patents 21/481
1759 Hugh Reece names
in estate sale of Rev. John Ornsby of Amelia Co.
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16 iii. Roger Reese (Source: Churchill Gibson
Chamberlayne, Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince
George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,
Baltimore; 1980).), born Abt. 1712 in Prince George County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth ?; born Abt. 1710.
Notes for Roger Reese:
Roger Reece,Jr.
12/01/1740 Prince George Co
315a Upper side of
White Oak Swamp
patents 19/889
Roger Reece,Jr.
08/16/1756 Dinwiddie Co
400a head of White Oak
Swamp
patents 33/240
17 iv. John Reese (Source: Churchill Gibson
Chamberlayne, Births from the Bristol Parish Register of Henrico, Prince
George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.,
Baltimore; 1980).), born Bef. 1720 in Prince George County, Virginia. He married Mary ?.
Notes for John Reese:
In the Book "Births from the Bristol Parish Register of
Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie Counties, Virginia, 1720-1798" by
Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore,
Maryland, 1980; the childrens births are recorded. Births of Rogers and Marys
other sons are also recorded so it is likely they were co-located.
Thomas son of John and
Mary Rees b. 10/10/1735
Since the second birth
is in the Albemarle Parish register this John went south and is possibly the
father of the Reese in Southampton County Joseph (will 1775) John (will 1794).
John Rees 08/28/1787
Southampton Co
574a St. Luke parish
adj John Williamson, Benjamin Lewis
grants 10/557
John Rees 09/17/1787
Southampton Co
559a north of Three
Creeks on LIttle Ploughman Swamp adj Benjamin Adams James Ivy
grants 14/177
9. James5 Anderson (Thomas4, Thomas3,
Thomas2, Richard1) (Source: (1) James Anderson, 1751
Will of James Anderson, (Will Book
9, Page 772, Surry County, Virginia)., (2) Thomas Anderson, 1711 Will of
Thomas Anderson, (1710-1713 Will
Book, Page 36, Prince George County, Virginia).) was born Abt. 1689 in
"The Cattails", Charles City County, Virginia, and died November 20,
1751 in "Arnols", Surry County, Virginia (Source: Gertrude R. B.
Richards, Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, (The National Society Colonial Dames of
America in the Commonwealth of Virginia; 1958).). He married (1) Mary Jordan (Source: Robert A. Jordan, Jordan
Journal, History of the George and Arthur Jordan Families of Virginia, North
Carolina, Indiana from 1634,
(Indianapolis, Indiana; 1996).) Abt. 1712 in Surry County, Virginia,
daughter of George Jordan and Mary Browne.
She was born Abt. 1694 in "Robin Hood Branch", Surry County,
Virginia, and died Abt. 1736 in "Arnols", Surry County,
Virginia. He married (2) Rebecca
Cooke Bef. May 01, 1740 in Surry County, Virginia, daughter of William
Cooke and Rebecca Jones. She was born
Abt. 1705 in Surry County, Virginia, and died 1770 in Surry County, Virginia
(Source: Lyndon H. Hart, III, Surry County, Virginia, Wills, Estate Accounts
and Inventories; 1730 - 1800,
(Southern Historical Press, Inc., Easley, South Carolina; 1985).).
Notes for James
Anderson:
James Anderson is named in the 1711 will
of Thomas Anderson of Prince George County.
That the James Anderson of Surry County is the son of Thomas is
established by a deed dated 04/14/1719 from James Anderson of Surry County to
Cornelius Cargill for 105 acres on Cattail Swamp bounded by a line of Charles
Anderson in which his wife Mary Anderson relinquishes her dower by separate
affidavit. These are the lands willed by Thomas Anderson. Thus, the father of
James Anderson of Surry County is Thomas Anderson of Prince George County. No contemporary birth record is known.
A caution, that in Prince George County
there also resides at this time the children of James Anderson with sons
Matthew,Jr., William,Jr. and James Anderson and daughter Elizabeth Ligon. There is no confirmed relationship although
such cannot be dismissed.
James Anderson is identified as an
executor of his father's will in 1711 and is mentioned in the inheritance lists
of his brother and sister in 1712. He
co-signs deeds with Mary and Cornelius Cargill of his fathers land in
1712. On that deed his wife Mary
approves and shows that James married Mary Jordan before 1712. In 1714 James sells his interest in the
plantation that his father resided on and willed to his widow Mary, to Edward
Goodrich.
In 1715 James's father-in-law George
Jordan gave his daughter Mary Anderson, land along the north side of the
Blackwater swamp. This was located in
Surry County. James was probably absent from the colony at the time of this
gift, which would explain why it was
drawn in her name allowing her to perfect the title. In 1730 he added 200 acres adjacent to this land by purchase from
Henry Thomas and John Avery. This Surry
County estate he called "Arnols".
Arnols/Arnolds Creek formed the eastern boundary of the estate north of
the Blackwater. His father in law
referred to this creek as a spring branch in his deed, without using the name
Arnols. It would appear from the first use in James' will that he named the creek. The plantation site, however, is at the
major crossing point of the Blackwater River east of City Point. It was at this point that the Berkley
directed explorations of Southwest Virginia crossed the Blackwater in the
1650's. At this point the Blackwater
River has a gravely bottom which would support fording traffic.
In 1718 James having returned from
whereever his travels or travails had taken him, identifies himself as James
Anderson of Prince George County and sells 104 acres near the Nottoway River
which he must have acquired before the surviving 1710 book of Prince George
County. He sells it to Joshua Meachum
and records it in Surry County indicating that he was relocating from the
frontier to the estate given his wife.
In 1723 James patented 100 acres of land
in Surry County (now Sussex) on the south side of the main Blackwater swamp
beginning on the north side of the Pigeon Swamp. This record is found in
Patents Book 11, 1735-38, page 289, dated 09/05/1723. This was located only a few miles south of his and his fathers
lands and can be found on the 7½ minute Geodetic Survey Map "Disputania
South". He sold this land to
William Sanders his brother-in-law in 1726.
In 1733 James acquires the southwest
corner of Whetstone creek and the Little Nottoway River in current Nottoway
County by purchase from its original patent holder Robert Mitchell. This deed
is filed in Brunswick County. This
Robert Mitchell was the brother-in-law of his second wife's sister. He was the
son of Henry Mitchell who was a landholder along the Prince George and Surry
County border as was James.
In 1735 James Anderson patents 150 acres
North of the Little Nottoway River in Prince Georges County (now Nottoway).
This is filed in patents book 16, page 150 dated 08/18/1735. From the 1736 tax lists of Amelia County it
would appear that James was speculating in Amelia County and was developing
lands near the junction of Whetstone Creek and the Little Nottoway River just
west of current Blackstone, Virginia.
In 1743 James Anderson, identified as
James Anderson,Sr. of Surry County leases to his sons Thomas and Jordan those
lands along Whetstone Creek and to his son James the land just east of them on
the North side of the Little Nottoway River.
These leases are filed in Amelia deed book 2. James' will consigns these lands to the sons in possession of
them. There is a land plat of the
original grants of this area prepared for the Amelia County Historical
Association and is a must for anyone who wishes to understand the lands of all
the Amelia Andersons. He retains title
to the head lands along Whetstone Creek until 1750, at which time he deeds this
land to his son John.
There are five sons and four daughters
known to be issue of James Anderson. I
am confident that this list is complete. See the book "Genealogy in part,
of the Anderson-Owen-Beall families"; By Grant James Anderson; Richmond
Virginia; Whitter & Shepperson printers, 1909. According to the family tradition of Grant James Anderson as
documented in his book, the family came to South side Virginia about 1733. An
unknown father of surname Anderson with his four sons James, Thomas, Jourdan,
John and daughter Faith. The mother's maiden name was Jourdan. It is not clear in the text whether their
mother came with them. The tradition
states that he remarried and sired another son William Anderson and another
unnamed daughter who married Mr. Moss.
The Christian name of the father is easily established by examination of
Amelia County, Virginia deeds and Surry County Wills. He was James Anderson, of
Southwark Parish in Surry County, Virginia.
My research has shown the immigration story of Grant J. Anderson to be
erroneous. We can hypothesize that his
story is attributed to the relocation and travel of the five children from
Surry County to Amelia County in 1733.
I have chosen to assign the daughters of
James Anderson to his first wife. This
is because the Grant Anderson text states Faith was a daughter of the unknown
Jordan. The text further says that
another daughter who married a Moss was the daughter of the second wife. However as she is recorded as having a child
in 1745 I think it likely she was the daughter of the first wife. It would appear that Mary was the oldest
child, from the date of birth of her own children.
Records of James Anderson
James Anderson to Cornelius
Cargill
of Surry County
03/07/1712 155 acres
Prince George County
Book 1710-1713 page 254 recorded
01/13/1713
bounded by land given
by the will of Thomas Anderson, dec'd to his son Charles Anderson and the
Queen's land; 105 acres was lately surveyed by Capt. Robert Bolling for said
Thomas Anderson, and by him given to said James, with 50 acres adjoining Capt.
Taylor's cart path.
Wit: Francis West,
Will'm Sanders, Charles Anderson
Livery & seizin
witnesses by Roger Rees, Michael Rosser, Richard Whitmore, James Anderson and
wife acknowledged the deed.
James Anderson to Edward
Goodrich
of Surry County
01/12/1713/14 100 acres
Prince George County
Book 1710-1713 page 272 recorded
01/12/1713/14
for 4000 lbs Tob. Land
where Cornelius Cargill & wife Mary lately lived (purchased by Thomas
Anderson of John Jane, and given to the relict Mary then to James]
James Anderson to Joshua
Meachum
of Prince George
County of Surry County
07/15/1718 104 acres
Surry County Book
1715-1730 page 127
This Indenture made
the fifteenth Day of July in the fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
George by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of
the Faith & in the year of our Lord God one Thousand Seven hundred and
Eighteen Between James Anderson of Prince George County of the one part and
Joshua Meachum of Surry County of the other part. Witnesseth that the said James Anderson for the valuable
consideration of four pounds current money of Virginia to him the said James
Anderson by the said Joshua Meachum according to agreement between them well
and truly satisfied and paid whereof and of every part and parcel thereof the
said James Anderson doth free, quitt release and discharge him the said Joshua
Meachum his heirs executors and administrators and hath for him and his heirs
given granted bargained sold aliened assigned en scoffed and confirmed and doth
by these presents fully freely and absolutely give grant bargain sell assign
over en scoff and confirm to him the said Joshua Meachum his heirs and assigns
one parcel of land in the present possession and occupation of him the said
James Anderson with all privileges profits and emoluments whatsoever thereunto
belonging. The said parcel contains one hundred and four acres of land be it
more or less situate lying and being in Surry County near Nottoway River
bounded as followeth Viz:. beginning at a small meadow branch thence Southeast
& by East one fourth East twelve poles to a black oak, thence South
Southeast three quarters East sixty one poles thence along the Line of Daniel
Eppes East thirty eight degrees South eighty poles to two hickorys thence Northeast
fourty poles to a black oak thence North by East half East fourty poles to a
black oak, thence North Eighty poles to three black oaks thence Norwest and by
West three quarters West sixty four poles to one oak and two hickorys, thence
South West Eighty Eight poles to a pine standing in the said meadow branch
thence up the said branch as it trends to the beginning including the said one
hundred and four Acres of Land. TO HAVE and TO HOLD the said one hundred and
four Acres of Land with all other the appurtenances thereunto belonging to him
the said Joshua Meachum his heirs and assigns forever in as Large and Ample
manner to all Intents and purposes as he the said James Anderson or any other
might or could enjoy the same and further the said James Anderson doth for
himself his heirs Est: & Administrators covenant promise and agree to and
with the said the said Joshua Meachum his heirs and assigns that he the said
James Anderson is at present rightfully seized of the said Land by an
Indeisseizable Title in Law and that the said Land is at present free and clear
and is and shall be warranted and maintained free and clear from nay former
bargain sale gift grant dower estate title claim or interest made by him the
said James Anderson or any other person or persons claiming by or under him or
his heirs or by or with their consents or procurement and that the said Joshua
Meachum his heirs an assigns shall peaceably and quietly possess & enjoy
all the above receited premises without the least hindrance or molestation of
him the said James Anderson or his heirs or any other person or persons. IN WITNESS whereof the said James Anderson
have hereunto set his hand and seal the Day and Year first above Written.
Signed Sealed and
Delivered
In the presence of James Anderson
sealed with
John Jane a wafer
John Ingles
John Ingles
Memo:
That on the tenth Day of July one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighteen
Quiet and peaceable Possession and seizin of the Land within mentioned was
delivered by the within named James Anderson unto the within mentioned Joshua
Meachum according to the form and effect of the within written Deed in due form
of Law.
At a Court held at Southwark for
the County of Surry July ye 16th 1718
This day appeared in
Court the within named James Anderson and did acknowledge the within mentioned
contents to be his real Act & Deed as also Delivery and Seizin which is
ordered to be recorded and is recorded by
James Anderson to Cornelius
Cargill
of Surry County of Prince George County
04/14/1719 105 acres
Prince George County
Book 1713-1728 page 292
This Indenture made
this Fourteenth Day of April in the year of our Lord Christ One Thousand Seven
hundred and Nineteen between James Anderson of the County of Surry of the One
part and Cornelius Cargill of the County of Prince George of the other
part. Witnesseth that the said James
Anderson for divers good causes and considerations him thereunto moving, but
more especially for and in consideration of the sum of Four pounds current
money to him in hand paid by the said Cornelius Cargill at and before the en
sealing & delivery of these presents the receipt whereof the said James
Anderson doth hereby acknowledge and thereof doth acquit release and discharge
the said Cornelius Cargill his heirs, executors, Etc. Hath given, granted,
bargained sold, remised, released, and for ever quitted claim, and by these
presents the said James Anderson doth for him self his heirs Excrs Etc.: give,
grant, bargain, sell, remise, release, and for ever quit claim unto the said
Cornelius Cargill and to his heirs for ever to all that seat, tract or parcel
of Land situate Lying and being on the Cattail Swamp in the County of Prince
George containing One hundred and five acres of land and bounded Viz: Westwardly on the Land of Charles Anderson,
Easterly Northerly, and Southerly upon unpatented Lands. To have and to hold
the said Lands and premises with all the appertenances thereunto belonging unto
the said Cornelius Cargill and to his heirs forever, together with all houses orchards,
gardens, meadows, pastures, fencings, woods, underwoods, ways, waters, and
watercourses thereon or thereunto belonging, so that neither the said James
Anderson or his heirs nor any other person or persons whatever claiming or to
claim by from or under him or them shall not at any time hereafter have any
right title interest claim or demand of or to the said lands and premises but
that the same with every part & parcel; [? ] of shall be and forever
hereafter [? ] to the only sole proper use & [?] of him the said Cornelius
Cargill and to his heirs for ever more and lastly the said James Anderson doth
hereby further covenant and agree to with him the said Cornelius Cargill to
defend and warrant the sayl of these presents by a general warranty against all
and all manner of persons whatever unto the said Cornelius Cargill and to his
heirs for ever. In Witness whereof the
said James Anderson hath hereunto set his hand and seal the Day and year first
above written
Signed sealed and
Delivered
in sight and presence
of James Anderson sealed with
red wax
On the back of the above deed
was a endorsement in the following words. Viz:
Memorandum
That Livery and Seizin of the
Lands and premises within mentioned was by the within named James Anderson made
and executed in due form of Law unto the within named Cornelius Cargill in
sight of
James Anderson
At a Court held at Merchant's
Hope for the County of Prince George on the second Tuesday in April being the
fourteenth Day of the said month Anno Domini, 1719
The above written deed
for land (indented and sealed) was in open Court acknowledged (with the above
endorsement of Livery of Seizin theron) by James Anderson the subscriber
thereunto, to be his act and deed to Cornelius Cargill named therein, on whole
motion the same by Order of the Court is truly recorded. And there also appeared in Court Mary the
wife of the said James Anderson and being first privately examined freely &
voluntarily relinquished to the said Cornelius Cargill her right of dower in and
to the lands in the said deed mentioned which by Order of the Court is likewise
recorded
teste Wm Hamlin Cl Cur
Anderson, James
09/05/1723 100 acres Surry
County
Patents Book 11,
1735-38, page 289
GEORGE [insert] TO
ALL[i] KNOW YE that for diverse good causes and considerations but more
especially for and in consideration of the sum of TEN SHILLINGS of good and
lawful money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Treasury in this
our Colony and Dominion of Virginia. WE
HAVE given granted and confirmed and by these presents for Us our [?] Do give
grant and confirm unto James Anderson of Surry County one certain tract or
parcel of Land containing one hundred acres lying and being on the South side
of the Main Blackwater Swamp in the County aforesaid and bounded as followeth,
to wit. BEGINNING at a pine on the North side of the Pigeon Swamp thence
Northeast one hundred and thirty nine poles to a red oak then North by East
seventy four poles to a pine thence West Northwest forty one poles to a pine
then South fifty five degrees West Sixty poles to a pine by the side of a small
Branch then down the various courses of the run of the said Branch to the
Pigeon Swamp aforesaid and down the various courses of the run of the said
swamp to the beginning WITH ALL[i] To have hold or to be held [i] yielding and
paying [i] provided [i] In witness [i] witness our Trusty and Well beloved Hugh
Drysdale Esqr. Lieut Govr. [i] at Williamsburg under the Seal of our said
Colony the Fifth Day of September One Thousand Seven hundred and Twenty Three
in the Fourth year of our Reign
Hugh
Drysdale
James Anderson to William
Sanders
/
/1726 100 acres
Surry County Book
1715-1730 Part 2 page 671-673
Land north of the
Pigeon Swamp beginning at the mouth of a branch.
James Anderson from Robert
Mitchell
05/15/1733 800 acres Brunswick
County
Brunswick County Deed
Book 1 page 36-36
Beginning at Samuel Jordans upper corner
on the River thence along Jordans line fore hundred sixty poles to his corner
red oak thence along his line two hundred seventy two poles to a small red oak
thence west fore hundred sixty five p.s to small red oak thence north two
hundred fifty p.s at a hickory thence east to a creek and down the sd creek to
the River and down the sd River to the beginning.
Brunswick County had been formed in
1720, however, due to the lack of population, record keeping had not begun
until 1732. The boundary between Prince
George County and Brunswick had been set by the legislature as the Nottoway
river, while the southern border was the boundary with North Carolina and was
not surveyed until 1728. In the year
1732, the boundary between Prince George and Brunswick was delineated as the
"Little Nottoway" and later changed to the "Nottoway
River". The above lands were located
in the fork between these branches of the Nottoway, in the southwest corner of
the current Little Nottoway river and Whetstone Creek, and would later fall
into Amelia County in 1736. In 1735
James added a patent across the Little Nottoway River from these lands as
follows:
Anderson, James
08/18/1735 150 acres Amelia
County
Virginia Patents Book
11, 1735-38 page ?
North side of the Little Nottoway River.
James Anderson from Henry
Thomas
14 Jun 1736 200 acres Surry
County
on Blackwater Swamp
James Anderson from James
Anderson
and Rebecca
12/20/1743 150 acres
Amelia County Book 2
page 17 (old number)
Lands on the North [east] side of the
Little Nottoway River beginning at the river east 180 poles south 160 poles
west 180 poles and then up river to the start. [East bank of the Little
Nottoway north of where Jordan's road crosses]
Thomas Anderson from James
Anderson
Rebecca
12/20/1743 300 acres Amelia
County
Amelia County Deed
Book 2 page 39 (20 old number)
Lands on South [west] side of Little
Nottoway river beginning at Jordans corner on the river west then south along
Jordans line then up Jordan's Little Run to a line of trees and then northwest
to a spring branch down the branch to Whetstone Creek and down the Creek to the
Little Nottoway river and then down to river to the start.
Jordan Anderson from James
Anderson
and Rebecca
12/20/1743 300 acres
Amelia County Book 2
page 19 (old number)
Lands on South [west] side of Little
Nottoway river beginning at a spring branch on Whetstone Creek, up the branch
to then south along Thomas Anderson's line to a line of trees northwest to the
head line and then north and then east to Whetstone Creek and down the creek to
the beginning.
John Anderson from James
Anderson
and Rebecca
03/19/1750/1 200 acres Amelia
County
Amelia County Deed Book 4 Page 39
This Indenture made
the Nineteenth day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand sevenhundred
and fortynine & fifty between James Anderson Senior of Surry County of the
one part and John Anderson of Amelia County of the other part Witnesseth that
the said James Anderson for an [sic] in consideration of the sum of One
Shilling Currt. money of of [sic] Virginia to him in hand paid by the said John
Anderson the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge he the said James
Anderson hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant
bargain and sell unto the said John Anderson his heirs and assigns One Tract or
Parcel of Land containing by estimation Two hundred Acres be the same more or
less lying and being in the County of Amelia on the Southside of Little
Nottoway River and bounded as follows (to wit) Beginning on Jordans Little Run
on Samuel Jordans Line thence along his Line South twelve Degrees West to a
corner red oak thence West fifteen Degrees North fore hundred and forty five
poles to a small red oak thence North along the head kine to a large Srub white
oak blas'd three ways thence a Direct cors [sic] to a large Srub white oak
blas'd four ways at the head of Jordans Little Run thence down the said run as
it meanders to the beginnign and the reversion remainder and remainders thereof
and all the Wright title interest claim and demand whatsoever of him the said
James Anderson of in or to the premisses or any part thereof to have and to
hold the said tract or parcel of land with the appurtenances thereunto
belonging to the said John Anderson his heirs and assigns forever and the said James
Anderson from him heirs the said land and premises with the appurtenances of
the said land unto the said John Anderson his heirs and assigns will warrant
and forever defend by these presents In witness whereof the said James Anderson
with Rebeckah his wife hath hereunto set there [sic] hands and sfixed there
seals the day and year first above written.
Signed Sealed and Delivered James
Anderson {seal}
her
In presents of ........... Rebeckah Anderson {seal}
mark
Exd. James Anderson,Junr: Edward Eppes: Daniel
Eppes. S.C.
At a Court held for Amelia County the
16th day of November 1750 this deed from James Anderson Senr. to John Anderson
was proved by the oaths of James Anderson, and Daniel Eppes. And at one other court held for the said
County the 19th day of April 1751 the same was also proved by the Oath of
Edward Eppes the other witness thereto and ordered to be recorded.
/s/ Samuel Cobbs
Clk
The 11/20/1751 date of James Anderson
death is known from the entry in the Albemarle Parish Register, reported by
Thomas Bedingfield. There is some
conflict between different abstracts of the register and I have not had the
opportunity to examine the original.
The will of James
Anderson appears in Surry County, Virginia,
Will Book 9, page 772. The inventory of his estate is filed 02/18/1752
and an account by his "exctriss" Rebecca Anderson is filed on
07/22/1752.
In the name of God
amen January 9th, 1750/1 I James Anderson of the Parish of Southwark and the
County of Surry being well in body and mind for which I praise almighty God and
do make and declare this my last will and testament in manner and form
following that is to say first and principally I commend my soul into the hands
of Almighty God that I give it and my body to the Earth to be decently buried
at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned and as touching such
Worldly Estate as it has pleased Almighty God to bless me with in this life I
give and devise of the same as followeth viz.
Item I give and Devise to my Son Thomas
Anderson all my Estate that he hath now in his Possession one book called human
prudence one other book called the whole Duty of man and five pounds current
money of Virginia.
Item I give to my Son James Anderson all my
Estate he hath now in his possession and also five pounds current money of
Virginia and after the Decease or Marriage of my Wife Rebecca one Negro man
called Peter and my large Bible to him and to his heirs for ever.
Item I give to my Son Jordan Anderson all my
Estate he hath now in his possession also five pounds current Money of
Virginia, one Book called the fountain of Life, and after the Death or Marriage
of my Wife Rebecca one negro man named Robin to him and his heirs for ever.
Item I give to my Son John Anderson and to
his heirs forever One certain parcel or tract of Land lying and being in the
County of Amelia joining to Thomas and Jordan Andersons Land it being the
remainder of a tract of Land given to the said Thomas and Jordan Anderson
containing by Estimation Two hundred Acres more or less as also fifteen pounds
current money in the lieu of a Tract of Land the I formerly designed to give to
him joining to my Land I now live on and also five pounds current money more,
and after the death of my Wife Rebecca or Marriage One negro Boy named Aaron.
Item I give all my wearing Apparel to be
equally divided between my Sons namely Thomas James and Jordan and John
Anderson.
Item I give my Daughter Mary Eps all the
Estate she hath now of mine in her Possession and five pounds current money of
Virginia.
Item I give to my Daughter Lyddey Averiss
Five pounds current Money of Virginia and all of the Estate she hath now of
mine in her Possession.
Item I give to my Daughter Priscilla five
pounds current money of Virginia and all the Estate she hath now of mine in her
Possession
Item I give to my Daughter Faith five pounds
current money and all the Estate she hath now of mine in her possession.
Item I give and Devise to my Son William all
my Land in Surry County to him and his heirs for ever as also one Snuff Box,
one Pockett Book, One Gun, called mine, and after the Death of my Wife Rebecca
one negro women named Kate and her increase one negro boy named Ned, one Still
and also my Desk.
Item I give to my wife Rebecca and my Son
William all my Estate that I have not Disposed of to be equally divided between
them and it is further my Will and Desire that if my Son William Anderson
should die before heirs of age or married that all the Estates as given to him
may be equally divided between all my children then living.
Item I give to my Wife the use of the
following negro's During her life Viz: Cate and Ned, as also Still, Gun, and
Desk I also give my Wife Rebecca the use of the following negro's during her
life or widowhood Viz, Peter, Robin and Aaron.
As I have given my Wife the use of all
my negro's and the plantation I live on during her life or widowhood it is my
further my [sic] will and desire that if she should Marry that then she should
have nothing to do with that tract of Land known by the name of Arnols.
And lastly do appoint Rebecca my Wife
whole and sole Executor of this my last will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal this 9th day of January 1750/1
Jas: Anderson L.. S..
Signed Sealed published
He. in presence of
Lemuel Cocke
his
John Bishop
mark
his
John Ray
mark
No site for the burial is known. It is
likely to be on the site of the Arnols plantation north of the Blackwater Swamp
near the common boundary of Prince George, Surry and Sussex Counties. The other possibility the Southwark Parish
Church cemetery is now a closed forest track but no sign of surviving burials
was noted on a visit to the site in 2002.
Sources
Charles City County,
Virginia, Court Orders, 1687-1695, Abstracted and Compiled by Benjamin B.
Weisiger, III, 1980.
Deed Book 1, Amelia
County, Virginia, Deeds 1735-1743, Bonds 1735-1741, Gibson Jefferson
McConnaughey, Mid-South Publishing Company, Amelia, Virginia, 1981.
Deed Book 2, Amelia
County, Virginia, Deeds 1742-1747, Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey, Mid-South
Publishing Company, Amelia, Virginia, 1982.
Prince George County,
Wills & Deeds 1710-1713, Compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger III, 1992
Prince George County,
Wills and Deeds, 1713-1728, Abstracted and Indexed by Benjamin B. Weisiger,
III, 1973.
Southside Virginia
Families, Volume I, by John Bennet Boddie, Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood
City, California, 1955.
Surry County,
Virginia, Wills, Estate Accounts and Inventories 1730-1800, by Lyndon H. Hart,
III, Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.
Wills and
Administrations of Surry County, Virginia, 1671-1750; by Eliza Timberlake
Davis, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1980.
More About James
Anderson:
Will Date: January 09,
1750/51, Surry County, Virginia
Will Filed: January
21, 1751/52, Will Book 9, Page 772
Will Probate: January
21, 1751/52, Surry County, Virginia
Notes for Mary Jordan:
Mary Jordan was the daughter of George
Jordan and Mary Brown. The will of George Jordan is filed in Surry County Will
Book 7 page 145, dated May 18, 1718 and probated August 20, 1718. He mentions his wife Mary and daughter Mary
Anderson and legated to her a "large" bible. This Bible is later
mentioned in James Anderson's will, and apparently goes to Georgia with Mary's
son James Anderson, Jr.
Mary acquiesed in the sale of James
Anderson lands from his father in 1712 indicating that they married before that
date. There are no known marriage records for this period. This sale was likely
done because James' stepmother Mary was still young and of child bearing age
and the estate was unlikely to revert to James Anderson any time soon.
George Jordan names his daughter Mary
Anderson, wife of James Anderson in a 1715 deed to her. The deed covered lands that had been in the
Jordan family since the 1650's, had passed out of the family temporarily and
then had been re-acquired in 1688 by River Jordan and Priscilla Brown. Mary's father George bought 300 acres of it
from his brother River in 1689 and probably move to and lived on this
land. In 1701 with the death of his
brother River he gained another 200a of this parcel. River's widow Priscilla lived on the remainder. George held the
300 acres of land from 1689 to 1715 and it is very likely that he began
construction of the home on it.
It is interesting and extremely unusual that the 1715 deed was
made directly to Mary Anderson in name, even though under law at the time it
became her husbands to use. Perhaps
there is a story there untold, possibly even a prenuptual agreement between
James and her. Most likely though the
explanation lies in what was going on in Virginia in 1715. Two items are of interest. First, on the
North Carolina and Virginia border, the Tuscarora Indians were holding the Lt.
Governor of North Carolina hostage and the Governor of North Carolina asked the
Governor of Virginia to send a militia expedition against the Indians from the
north. Second, the British fleet was at anchor in the James River, recruiting
militia men to go on an expedition against Newfoundland to wrest it from the
French. These demands on the militia
undoubtedly drew James Anderson into service in one of these efforts as he was
of the appropriate age and social status.
My guess is that he took his new toys, the sword and gun given him in
Thomas Andersons's 1711 will and shipped out for Newfoundland. James' neighbor and possible uncle, the Rev.
Charles Anderson, is recorded in William Byrd's diary as having reported to him
the arrival of the fleet in the James River.
Mary, living along the Nottoway River
adjacent the Indians, likely discovering herself pregnant with her first child
Mary, probably packed her horse and
rode east to daddy's new estate. There
she groused at him about being left to suffer her fate at the hands of the
Indians. He, put up with it for a
while, and then just to get her out of his hair, gave her the old lands north
of the Blackwater River and away from the Indians. Since she was the daughter
of a Jordan and a Brown it seems appropriate that she should receive it and the
gift probably created good will in both families except amongst her brothers,
who might have anticipated receiving the land themselves. By giving the deed to
her directly, it allowed her to perfect the title in the absence of James and
retain the title regardless of what became of James Anderson. It is this peculiarity of the arrangement
that leads me to believe James was out of the colony, could not be communicated
with, and with the possibility that he might not return.
The land is in the western most corner
of current Surry County and had a path running through it first noted in
Virginia records as the point along the Blackwater River at which exploration
parties crossed the river on the gravely bottom in the 1650's. Again in 1688 the land description includes
mention of the path that crosses the Blackwater. There is now a state highway
(route 606) and concrete bridge that cross at this point. It should be noted that the southern edge of
this property is truly a black water swamp and that any home must have been
located in the northern regions. Since
her sons are later noted as carpenters, there is some likelihood that they were
involved in building the home and first bridge at this location whereon they
may have performed their apprenticeships. Examination of Surry County Court
orders might find mention of any bridge building activity.
The archeological records of old homes
in Surry County include a description of a home razed at the end of the last
century that was located at the junction of the road that crosses the
Blackwater and the road that goes northwestward to the plantation of James's
father Thomas Anderson in Prince George County. This home was in the northern portion of the estate. This old home had collapsed before it was
examined, but sufficent remains existed that it could be described as a two
story colonial home dating from before the revolution. As the property was not sold from the Anderson
family until 1773, and the subsequent owner went into receivership; it is
likely this was the home of the Anderson/Jordan family. How old it was is not determined and it
possibly dates back to the time of River Jordan and Priscilla Brown.
(drawing best viewed
in a non-proportional font like courier)
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from the front first floor
from above
f = fireplace; s= stairs;
b= brick; #= windows; (#)= dormer windows
It had brick walls of double chimneys at
each end creating eight fireplaces for the home. The wooden frame ground floor
was divided into four rooms; two on each side of a center hallway connecting a
front and back door. A stair case in the hall way took you to the second floor
where the bedrooms were located with dormer windows protruding through the
roof. The roof and 2nd floor beams were
suspended from chimney wall to chimney wall.
Similar homes of the period had on the first floor a sitting room for
entertaining visitors; a work/den room for buiness affairs and weaving and
spinning; a dining room; and a master bedroom.
The second floor dormer area would have been divided in the middle by
water closets and storage and would have created two bedrooms areas, one for
the girls and one for the boys.
The accouterments of the home can be
determined by examining the complete estate listing in 1751 of James Anderson.
From the estate list we know that to run the household his wifes had at their
disposal:
One negro Boy Aaron
One negro child Ned
one wench Cate
(these probably worked
in the house)
One Negro man Peter
one Negro man Robin
(Peter and Robin
probably worked on the farm)
There were 11 old
chairs and 3 tables distributed throught the house.
For the dining room
they had:
Tea Kettle, Sugar Box,
Canisters, Tea pott, 2 Dishes, 2 Basons, 12 plates, 6 spoons, 3 Dozen and 9
Spoons, 11 Dishes, Basons & 15
Plates, 3 Porringers, a pepper box, some old pewter, a tin bucket and other tin
ware, some napkins, Bagg and tablecloth, Butter Potts Muggs etc. and two Bowles
Cupps and Saucers, a parcel of table Kives and Forks, 3 glasses and 4 small
bottles, 2 pair of fire tongs Grid iron and an old cutting knife, One pewter
flaggon and three old candlesticks, some Pepper Allspice Allum and Ginger, 5lb
of Sugar.
for James' den they
had:
3 Dozn Pipes, Two pair
of money scales hone razor and straps, Two Lancetts Pen knife scissars waffers
and ink, One Black Wallnut Desk, a parcel of old books, Some Trupers Arms,
known to be a sword and gun from his father and a pair of pistols and holster
that he had bought.
for Mary's sewing room
they had:
1 Linnen Wheel, 3
spinning wheels and 5 pair of cards, a loom, 3 stays and harness, 17 Ells of
Ozenbriggs & 4 Ells, 13 yards of white Linnen, 186lb of cotton and some cotton & Flax thread, 3½ yards
of cotton, sheets and one blanket, 24lb
of stitch Cotton and 28lb of Flax, 24lb of feathers 4lb of mean feathers, 3
Wallet 5 Baggs, 20lb of wool.
for the bedrooms they
had:
1 Bed Bed Stead Hide
Rug Blanket and pair of Sheets, 1 Bed Ditto with Pillers, 1 Bedstead, One Bed
Bedstead and Covering, One Bed Ditto, One Bed Ditto, 6 Chests, All his wearing
cloaths 6 coats 7 Jackets Breeches Shirts stockings & shoes, a walking cane
Shoe thread & a small box, 2 pair of shoes.
There would have been an external
kitchen building and animal shed/barn.
The adult slaves would have slept in the kitchen where the warmth of the
hearth would serve them, and the young slave children would have slept on
bedrolls on the floor of the main house where they could have been at the beck
and call of the family to service the fireplaces, etc.
for the Kitchen they
had:
One large Still &
a parcel of Beef and Bacon, a skimmer and Flesh Forks, one iron spit and one
duck spit, 1 large Copper Kettle, 1 Brass Ditto 2 Small Ditto, 1 Bace Mettle
Skillet, 5 Iron Potts Hooks and Racks, 2 frying pans and Box Iron, 2 Bushels of
salt, 19 cyder casks & a parcel of old Barrels, Hoggsheads, baskets, etc.,
4 sifters and a case of bottles.
In the barn/shed they
had:
Three saddles; two
mens and one womens, a parcel of Bridles Houssing and Holkers, a pair of Horse
Teams Buckles Buttons etc., 9lbs of Tallow, a cart and wheels, harrow and gear,
6 Wedges, 4 Harrow Teeth and some old Iron, 8 new Hoes, a parcel of files and a
set, a parcel of fodder and nubbins, 1 grindstone, pales, a tub & a sifter,
one crosscutt Saw and 2 pair of Stilliards, a parcel of carpenters and coopers
tools (including a joining lathe), 2000 Ten penny nails and some small Ditto,
Some upper and sole leather, a parcel of rope and old traces, 4 hides in Tan,
and a parcel of corn, 3 bushels of wheat and eight bushels of Pease, a parcel
of Lime and 4 raw hides.
In pens around and
about the barn/shed they had:
10 geese, One old
Horse & one mare and one colt, 6 year old cattle, 12 Cowes, 15 young
cattle, 11 sheep, 6 fat Hogs, 29 Hogs & 6 Piggs.
I guess they didn't have a stereo, TV,
computer, radios, microwave, VCR, snow blower or all terrain vehicle: gosh, it
must have been quiet in the house:) This was probably made up for by the noise
of traffic on the road outside which would have been a major route in the
1715-1750 period for people moving into southern Virginia. Mary's neighbor to the east was her aunt
Priscilla now Thomas and her neighbor to the west was Jane Brown now Cocke her
first cousin once removed. The word
neighbor here has a diffrent meaning since they would have been at a 1 to 2
mile distance. However time also was measured differently in those days such
that an afternoons walk to visit your neighbor would have been quite normal.
/Arthur Jordan b: BEF.
1600 d: AFT. 1635
/Arthur Jordan b: 1627 d: 1698
/George Jordan b: BET. 1659 - 1660 d:
1718
|
| /Richard Bevin b: ABT.
1600 d: 1 APR 1653
|
\Elizabeth Bevin b: BET. 1634 - 1638 d: AFT. 1664
| \Mary ? b: ABT. 1600
Mary Jordan b: ABT.
1694 d: ABT. 1733
|
/William Browne b: BEF. 1630 d: 1705
\Mary Browne b: ABT. 1670 d: AFT. 1728
| /Henry Browne b: ABT. 1605 d: 1662
\Mary Browne b: ABT. 1638 d: ABT.
1674
\Anne Busher d: 12 AUG 1668
Mary Anderson from George
Jordan
07/01/1715 300 acres Surry
County
This Indenture made
this first day of July in the first year of our Sovereign Lord George by the
grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith
Etc. and in the year of our Lord God One thousand seven hundred and fifteen
between George Jordan Senr and Mary his wife of the County of Surry of the one
Part and Mary Anderson wife of James Anderson of the aforesaid County of the other
Part. Witnesseth that the said George
Jordan and Mary his wife for and in consideration of five shillings of Lawfull
money of England in hand Paid by the said Mary Anderson the receipt whereof and
he himself therewith fully satisfied contented and paid he the said George
Jordan and Mary his wife doth hereby acknowledge and for other good causes and
considerations him hereunto moving Hath given granted bargained and Sold
Demised Leased and to form letten and by these presents doth grant bargain and
sell demise and lease and to form lett unto Mary Anderson and the heirs of her
body one certain tract or parcell of land containing three hundred acres by
estimation be the same more or less situate lying and being in the County of
Surry and is bounded as followeth {Viz} beginning at the mouth of the spring
branch on the North side of the Blackwater Swamp thence up the said branch
about half a mile so thence a straight course Westerly to the first branch of
Wintico so thence down the said branch to the Blackwater Swamp so down the said
Swamp to the place began at with all houses edifaces buildings barns yards
gardens orchards fields lands fences woods underwoods wasy waters watercourses
swamps marshes meadows pasturage feedings and all other proffitts commoditys and
advantages whatsoever to the said tract of three hundred acres of Land or to
any part or parcell thereof belonging or any ways appertaining together with
priviledges of hawking and hunting fishing and fowling to have and to hold the
said demised premises unto the said Mary Anderson and the heirs of her body
from the day of the date hereof for and during the full term and time of three
years to be fully compleated and ended yeilding and paying therefore yearly on
the tenth day of September to the said George Jordan his heirs or assigns one
ear of Indian Corn if it be lawfully demanded upon the premises to the intent
and purpose that by virtue of these presents and of the statute for the
transferring uses into possession and that the said Mary Anderson may be in
actuall and peicable possession of the premises before granted and maybe
thereby the better enabled to accept of a grant or conveyance of the reverting
and inheritances therof to her and the heirs of her body for ever. In witness whereof of the said George Jordan
and Mary his wife hath set their hands and seales the day and year above
written
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In Presents of the mark of
John Avery George |G| Jordan
Tho Eldridge sealed with a wafer
At a Court held at Southwark for
the
County of Surry July the
twentieth 1715
This day appeared in Court the above
named George Jordan and did acknowledge the above specified contents to be his
real act and deed which is ordered to be recorded and is recorded by
/s/ Ar: Allen Cl Cura
Mary Anderson from George
Jordan
07/03/1715 300 acres Surry
County
This Indenture made
this third day of July in the first year of our Sovereign Lord George by the
grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King defender of the faith
Etc. and in the year of our Lord God One thousand seven hundred and fifteen
between George Jordan Senr and Mary his wife of the County of Surry of the one
Part and Mary Anderson wife of James Anderson of the aforesaid County of the
other Part. Witnesseth that the said
George Jordan and Mary his wife for and in consideration of five shillings of
Lawfull money of England in hand Paid by the said Mary Anderson the receipt
whereof and he himself therewith fully satisfied contented and paid he the said
George Jordan and Mary his wife doth hereby acknowledge and for divers other
good causes and considerations him hereunto moving Hath given granted bargained
and Sold Remised and Released and by these presents for himself and his heirs
and assigns Doth grant bargain and sell Remise and Release unto the said Mary
Anderson she being in full and peiceable possession and seizure by Virtue of a
Lease of the presents hereafter mentioned by the said George Jordan and Mary
his wife To the said Mary Anderson bearing date two days before the Date of
this presents all the Right Title Interest possession Claim and Demand of him
the said George Jordan and Mary his wife of in or to one certain tract or
dividend of land containing three hundred acres of land be the same more or
less situate lying and being in the County of Surry and bounded as followeth
{Viz} beginning at the mouth of the spring branch on the North side of the
Blackwater Swamp thence up the said branch about half a mile so thence a
straight course Westerly to the first branch of Wintico so thence down the said
branch to the Blackwater Swamp so down the said Swamp to the place began at
with all houses edifices buildings barns gardens orchards yards fields lands
fences woods underwoods ways waters watercourses swamps marshes meadows
pasturage feedings and all other feedings commoditys and advantages whatsoever
to the said tract of three hundred acres of Land or to any part or parcell
thereof belonging or any ways appertaining together with priviledges of hawking
and hunting fishing and fowling to have and to hold the said granted premises
and every part thereof with their and every of their appertanances unto the
said Mary Anderson and the heirs of her body forever to the only proper use and
behoof of the said Mary Anderson and the heirs of her body for ever to be held
to be held of our Sovereign Lord the King his heirs and Successors as of his
manner of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Acreage
Yeilding and Paying the Quitrents gue and Lawfully Accustomed to be paid for
the same being one shilling for every fifty Acres. In witness whereof of the
said George Jordan Senr and Mary his wife hath hereunto set their hands and
seales the day and year above written
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In Presents of the mark of
John Avery George |G| Jordan
Tho Eldridge sealed with a wafer
At a Court held at Southwark for
the
County of Surry July the
twentieth 1715
This day appeared in Court the above
named George Jordan and did acknowledge the above specified contents to be his
real act and deed which is ordered to be recorded and is recorded by
/s/ Ar: Allen Cl Cura
Notes for Rebecca
Cooke:
James Anderson's second marriage was to
Rebecca Cook. This is established by
examination of Surry County, Will Book 9, page 248. The will of William Cook dated 05/01/1740 names sons Robin Cook,
James Cook and daughters; Elizabeth who married Thomas Tomlinson, Rebeccah who
married James Anderson, Sarah who married Henry Mitchell, Mary who married Wm.
Briggs, Susannah who married Miel Hill, Hannah who married Richard Gary, Amy
who married John Maclin. The will was probated 11/19/1740.
/Richard
Cooke
/Philip Cooke b:
27 DEC 1589
/William Cooke b: 25 MAR 1613 d: 1679
/William Cooke b: ABT. 1633 d:
1698
| \Mary Blackbourne
/William Cooke d: 19 NOV 1740
|
| /Hugh Roper
|
\Joan Roper d: 1720
Rebecca Cooke d: 1770
|
/James Jones
\Rebecca Jones
\Sarah ?Lewis
Rebecca's name appears as the dower
signature in the 1743 leases to James' sons.
In 1752 Rebecca is under Surry County court order to cease and desist
from possession of the 400 acres of Thomas Anderson (deceased). See Surry County Court order book one pages
176, 271, 405, 464. This appears to be
an attempt on her part to take control of her deceased father-in-law's
land. The author found no record of
lands in Surry county owned by a Thomas Anderson. It is regrettable that the
Prince George County Court Orders are lost as these may have provided further
clarification over this struggle.
Rebecca Anderson nee Cook resides in Surry County, Virginia until her
death in 1770, without remarrying. Perhaps by 1752 the original lands of Thomas
Anderson were abandoned and she tried to use the vagueness of his will to
assert a claim.
An Inventory and
Appraisement of the Estate of James Anderson Deceased
One large Still @
£20/& a parcel of Beef and Bacon @ £3/ £
23,, 0,, 0
One old Horse @
20s/& one mare at £5 and one colt @ £3 9,,
0,, 0
One negro Boy Aaron @
£40 & one Negro man Robin @ £40 80,, 0,, 0
One negro child Ned at
£15 and one wench Cate at £35,,10,,0 50,,10,, 0
One Negro man Peter at
£16, & Tea Kettle Sugar Box Canisters and Tea pott 16,,14,, 0
Two pair of money
scales hone razor and straps 0,,11,, 0
Two Lancetts Pen knife
scissars waffers and ink 0,, 4,, 4
One Black Wallnut Desk
£4 and 11 old chairs a parcel of axes & hoes 7,, 4,, 0
a parcel of carpenters
and coopers tools 1,, 9,, 0
Three saddles two mens
and one womens @ 3,, 6,, 0
A parcel of Bridles
Houssing and Holkers 0,,14,, 0
6 Wedges 4 Harrow
Teeth and some old Iron 0,,18,, 9
a parcel of rope and
old traces 6s/ and 10 geese @ 7/6 0,,13,,
6
6 year old cattle at
£1,,4,,0.12 Cowes @ 20/ each & 15 young cattle at 15s/ 24,, 9,, 0
11 sheep at 40s/6 fat
Hogs at £ & 4 hides in Tan @ 24s/ 8,,
4,, 0
29 Hogs & 6 Piggs
@ £6,,11 and a parcel of corn at £22 28,,11,,
0
3 bushels of wheat and
eight bushels of Pease 1,, 5,, 0
a parcel of Lime at
5s/ and 4 raw hides at 11s/
0,,16,, 0
Some upper and sole
leather 1,,16,, 0
All his wearing
cloaths 6 coats 7 Jackets Breeches Shirts stockings & shoes 7,,17,, 0
a pair of Horse Teams
Buckles Buttons etc. 0,, 5,, 0
a walking cane Shoe
thread & a small box 0,, 3,, 0
a parcel of files and
a set 1s/6d a parcel of fodder and nubbins 3,,
1,, 6
11 Dishes at 35s/.8
Basons 22s/& 15 Plates @ 18/ 3,,15,,
0
3 Porringers and a
pepper box and some old pewter 1,,
2,, 0
a tin bucket and other
tin ware 0,, 7,, 0
Butter Potts Muggs
etc. 13s/6d and two Bowles Cupps and Saucers 0,,18,,
2
A skimmer and Flesh
Forks 0,, 2,, 6
One iron spit at 5s/
and one duck spit at 1s/6d 0,, 6,,
6
9lbs of Tallow at 3s/
a cart and wheels harrow and gear 1,,13,,
0
1 large Copper Kettle
1 Brass Ditto 2 Small Do: 7,, 1,, 6
1 Bace Mettle Skillet
at 12/. 0,,12,, 0
5 Iron Potts Hooks and
Racks 2 frying pans and Box Iron
1,,17,, 0
3 spinning wheels and
5 pair of cards 0,,15,, 0
1 grindstone at 3s/6d
pales a tub & a sifter 0,,17,, 6
19 cyder casks
£1,,18,,0 a parcel of old Barrels Hoggsheads baskets etc 4,, 2,, 0
2 Bushels of salt 0,, 3,, 4
24lb of feathers @
30s/4lb of mean feathers at 6d 1,,12,, 0
5 old combs @ 2/ 56
bottles @ 12s/ and 9 Juggs at 18s
1,,12,, 0
some Pepper Allspice
Allum and Ginger 0,, 5,, 0
Some Trupers Arms 2,, 0,, 0
2 Dishes 2 Basons 12
plates and 6 spoons 1,,16,, 0
3 Dozen and 9 Spoons @
6/6 and 3 Dozn Pipes at 1/ 0,, 7,, 6
5lb of Sugar 2s/6d a
parcel of shoemakers tools & lasts etc. 0,,17,,
6
2000 Ten penny nails
and some small Ditto 0,,16,, 0
17 Ells of Ozenbriggs
@ 17s/ & 4 Ells Ditto @ 3/ 1,, 0,,
0
13 yards of white
Linnen 1,, 1,, 8
3½ yards of cotton @
7s/11 sheets and one blanket @ £3,,16,,0 4,,
3,, 0
some napkins Bagg and
tablecloths 0,,19,, 0
3 Wallet 5 Baggs 0,,13,, 0
1 Bed Bed Stead Hide
Rug Blanket and pair of Sheets 4,, 0,, 0
1 Bed Ditto with
Pillers 6,, 0,, 0
1 Bedstead 0,, 2,, 6
1 Linnen Wheel 12s/ 4
Reap hoocks and a hackal 0,,14,, 0
8 new Hoes at 24s/20lb
of wool at 17s/4d 2,, 1,, 4
24lb of itch Cotton 24s/ and 28lb of Flax at 28s/ 2,,12,, 0
one crosscutt Saw at
5s/ and 2 pair of Stilliards @ 10s/ 0,,15,,
0
186lb of cotton @ 3d
p/lb and some cotton & Flax thread
3,, 7,, 6
4 sifters at 2s/6d and
a case of bottles at 12s/ 0,,14,, 6
2 pair of fire tongs
Grid iron and an old cutting knife 0,,
5,, 0
One pewter flaggon and
three old candlesticks 0,, 5,, 0
One Bed Bedstead and
Covering 4,,10,, 0
One Bed Do 5,,10,, 0
One Bed Do 5,, 0,, 0
6 Chests @ 35s/ and 3
Tables at 20s/ 2,,15,, 0
a parcel of table
Kives and Forks 0,, 6,, 0
3 glasses and 4 small
bottles etc 0,, 2,, 6
a parcel of old books 1,, 0,, 0
2 pair of shoes 0,, 2,, 6
In obediance to an
Order of the Worshipful Court held for Surry County January the 21st 1752 We
the subscribers being first sworn before Howell Briggs Gentleman one of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace of the said County have valued the Estate of James
Anderson deceased as appear by the Inventory above.
Teste Benja:
Baird
Rebecca Anderson
Extrice Thos: Bedingfield
Richard
Jones
At a Court held for
Surry County the 18th day of February 1752
The aforewritten Inventory and
appraisement of the Estate of James Anderson deceased was returned and by the
Court ordered to be recorded.
Exd: Teste
A. Claiborne
Clk.
1751 The Estate of James Anderson deceased Dt
To Funeral Expenses £ 3,,15,, 7
To paid the sherif of Surry for Levies,
Clks &
Secretaries Fees 422th to Co W/A/ 2,,19,,
0
To paid Do for Quit Rents 500 Acres of
Land 0,,12,, 8¼
1752 To paid the appraisers for two days 0,,18,,
0
To paid Doctor Peese 0,,
3,, 6
To paid John Bishop 0,,
3,, 6
_________
£
8,,12,, 3¼
To Rebecca Anderson Cr
By the personal Estate appraised to
£ 205,,10,, 1
By Cash found in the House 56,,13,, 5
By 3 Cropp hhds:Tobo: Wt:3160 lbs at 15/ 23,,14,, 0
By Mr. Peters 2,,
4,, 63/4
By Cash reced of Anthony Atkinson 0,,16,,
7½
By Do reced of John Reddin 0,,
6,, 4
_________
£ 289,, 5,, 0¼
E.E. by Rebecca Anderson Extrice
In obedience to the Worshipful
Court of Surry we have examined the above acct and found it right.
John
Hay
John
Nicolson
At a Court continued
and held for Surry County the 22 day of July 1752 the aforementioned Account
Current of the Estate of James Anderson deceased was returned and being first
Audited by persons specially Appointed was by the Court Ordered to be recorded.
Teste
A. Claiborne
Clk.
Rebecca's will is filed in Surry County,
Virginia, Will Book 10a, page 77. The
will, dated 10/14/1763 names her four sisters Sarah Rachel, Mary Bonner,
Sussana Hill, and Hannah Gray. A comparison of these names with the daughters
of William Cooke clearly establishes her identity. In addition, she mentions
her granddaughter Charlotte Anderson and son William Anderson, who is to get
the estate. The will is probated by her son and executor William Anderson in
03/20/1770. The inventory of the estate appears on page 94 and is dated
06/19/1770.
In the name of God Amen, October the
Fourteenth Day One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Three I Rebecah Anderson of
Sury County being of sound and Disposing Mind and Memory thanks be to God for
the same do make ordain constitute and appoint this my last Will and Testament
in manner following that is to say.
Inprincius It is my will and desire that all my
wearing apparel of every kind shall be equally divided as soon as conveniently
may be after my decease between my four sisters Sarah Rachel, Mary Bonner,
Sussanna Hill and Hannah Gary.
Item I give and bequeath unto my grand
Daughter Charlotte Anderson my Side saddle and Furniture one small trunk and a
plain gold ring with the initial letters of my name in it to her and her
assigns forever.
Item All the res and residue of my estate of
what nature or kind soever I give and bequeath unto my beloved son William
Anderson his heirs and assigns forever as a Testimony of his Duty respect to
me. And lastly I do constitute my said son William Anderson whole and sole
Executor of this my last Will and Testament and desire my Estate may not be
appraised. In Witness whereof I have
hereunto set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above Written
Signed Sealed Published and
Declared by the said Rebecah
Anderson as her last Will and her
Testament in whose presence and Rebecah + Anderson (seal)
at whose request We have mark
hereunto set our names as
Witnesses
John Edmunds
Moses x Hill
John x Johnson
At a Court for Surry County March the
20th 1770 The afore written last Will and Testament of Rebecah Anderson
Deceas'd was presented in Court by William Anderson the Executor therein named
who made oath thereto according to Law and the same being proved by the oaths
of Moses Hill and John Johnson two of the witnesses thereto was by the Court
ordered to be recorded. And on the
motion of the said Executor Certificate is granted him for obtaining a Probate
thereof in Due form
Test Wm Nelson CC Curr
An Inventory of the
Estate of Rebecah Anderson Dec'd £35-15-3 Cash found in the House, £7-8-9 due
to the Estate some corn and fodder, peas and Wheat, some carpenters coopers and
shoemakers tools, a set of Tea Ware, one Sugar Box on hone and strop, two pair
money scales, one pr. lancets, two pr. Horse Humes three saddles, a parcel of
hoes and axes, some bridles and halters two pr. hosen a set of troopers arms,
13 chairs 7 iron wedges, 8 harrow teeth, some old iron, some Horse harnesses,
one cart, 3 pair cart wheels, 2 plows, 2 Harrows, 14 Geece, A parcel of lime,
10 seder one yearling skin and 7 sheep skins of tanned leather. 4 rawhides and
3 sheep skins Do. Rebecah Andersons
Wearing Apparel some shoe thread, 3 small boxes 2 + cut saws, 2 hand saws all
with Refts and Files some Bridle & Halter buckels, 4 Feather Beds and
Furniture, 6 chests, one tin bucket and 2 funnels Do one box Iron and Heaters,
1 Quart Pott, a parcel of old Hogshead, Tubs, and Cyder Casks, 515 lb. Tobs, 29
plates, 14 basons, 15 dishes 27 spoons, 2 pewter tankards one pepper box Do 2
porngers Do some old pewter 5 Tea spoons of hard metal, 5 Iron Potts, 3 frying
pans, 2 Butter Potts and 13 Juggs, 2 Pitchers, one punch Bowl, 2 Drinking
Glasses, 2 Tumblers, 2 salt cellars, 3 Ticklers, 1 oil cruise, 2 Vinegar
Cruets, one Bell Metal Skillet, 24 common bottles, some flax and Toe, one
Linnen Wheel, 2 Hackles one hive of Bees some honey one Iron Spitt, one Duck
spitt, Iron Pott, Rack and some Hooks, one Copper Kettle and 2 Brass ones, 3
Spinning wheels, 5 pr. cards one grindstone some pails and Tubs, a parcel of
salt some geese & Duck feathers some Turkey and Chicken Do on case of
bottles, four horses, 26 head of Cattle, 10 sheep, 57 Hoggs, some sugar, some
brown Rowls some Virginia Cloth, one sf all Trunk, one gold Ring, one pair
silver studs, some napkins, meal Baggs and Table Linnen some nails and saddle,
tacks, aparcel of cotton, 6 Reap hooks, 2 Sives and a Sarch, 2 Wheat Riddles, 2
pair Fire Tongs, one Grid Iron, one cutting knife, one straw basket a parcel of
Table knives and forks. A Parcel of Old Books one Couch, some Dryed Meat, some
soap, some Tea and 2 Canisters 3 Cane Flasks, 2 Chamber Potts, a parcel of spun
cotton, Toe and Wool, 2 pair stilliards 7 Bread Trays, 2 candlesticks, 2 pr.
knitting Kneedles, 3 pair of spectacles, some sewing Kneedles, 19 Ducks &
some dunghill Fowls.
& Excepted
William Anderson
Executor
At a Court Held for
Surry County June the 19th 1770
The afore Written
Inventory of the Estate of Rebecah Anderson Dec'
was Returned and by
the Court Ordered to be Recorded
Test
Wm
Nelson C.Cur
Children of James
Anderson and Mary Jordan are:
18 i. Mary6 Anderson (Source: James
Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson,
(Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County, Virginia).), born 1715 in
"Arnols", Surry County, Virginia; died June 13, 1765 in Sussex
County, Virginia. She married Edward
Eppes (Source: John Frederick Dorman, Ancestors and Descendants of Francis
Epes I of Virginia, Volume One,
(Society of the Dscendants of Francis Epes I of Virginia; 1992.).) Abt.
1738 in Surry County, Virginia; born 1710 in Surry County, Virginia; died 1780
in Sussex County, Virginia.
Notes for Mary
Anderson:
Mary Anderson would have been born on her father's Surry
County plantation called "Arnols".
Armols was located in the western corner of Surry County Virginia. I
curently know of no record of her birth date, but I consider it likely that the
gift of a landed estate to her mother Mary Jordan in 1715 was in celebration of
the coming birth of this first child. Thus I list her birth as 1715.
Apparently there was little contact with her brothers after
1743 who relocated in Amelia County, as no oral tradition or correspondence
regarding Mary's family passed into the documentation of the later generations.
She is not mentioned in the family book "Genealogy in part, of the
Anderson-Owen-Beall families"; By Grant James Anderson; Richmond Virginia;
Whitter & Shepperson printers, 1909.
In the 1750 will of James Anderson he names his daughter as
Mary Eps, "I give my Daughter Mary Eps all the Estate she hath now of mine
in her Possession and five pounds current money of Virginia". According to the source John Frederick
Dorman, Ancestors and Descendants of Francis Epes I of Virginia, Volume
One, (Society of the Dscendants of
Francis Epes I of Virginia; 1992.), Mary Anderson married Edward Eppes the son
of Daniel Eppes who had been a land owner adjacent James Anderson in the
1704-1718 time period.
Mary Eppes' name appears frequently in the records of the
Albemarle Parish register as a sponsor for the christening of children of many
of her neighbors and relations families.
She was a genuinely religious woman and the births of Edward's children
are carefully recorded in the register.
Since her brothers helped to build the chapels of the parish and her
fathers own death is amongst those recorded in the parish register it seems
likely that she was a prominent contributor to the religious life of the community
and the activities at St. Paul's church just a mile or so southeast of current
Waverly, Virginia. Regrettably no trace
of St. Paul's church remains today and as its location is a posted forest tract
I was unable to determine whether any tombstones remain.
Bibliography
"Frances Epes, His
Ancestors and Descendants", by Eva Lee Turner Clark, Richard and Smith,
New York, 1942.
"Southside
Virginia Families, Volume I", by John Bennet Boddie, Pacific Coast
Publishers, Redwood City, California, 1955.
"Register of
Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778", Transcribed and
Edited by Gertrude R. B. Richards, The National Society Colonial Dames of
America in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958.
a list of entries in
the book:
page 8 - Amy d. of
Edward Eps jr and w. Mary, b. Sept 19, c. Nov 20, 1739; gdpts. Peter Hawthorn,
ELizabeth Weaver, Sarah Davis.
page 48 - Sarah d. of
Edward Eppes and w. Mary; b. June 17; c. 1741; gdpts. Gilbert Weaver, Mary
Moore, Eliza Denton.
page 10 - Anne d. of
Edward Eppes and w. Mary; b. Sept. 15, 1743; c. Jan 8, 1743/4; gdpts. Richard
Avery, Arthur Freeman, Eliza Bell.
page 213 - Amy Eppes a
Child d. Oct 26, 1743; i. Edward Eppes.
page 80 - Mary d. of
Edward Eppes and w. Mary; b. July 4; c. Aug 31, 1746; gdpts. Eppes Moore, Eliza
Gilbert, Priscilla Mitchell.
page 172 - James s. of
Edward Eppes and w. Mary; b. March 11 1748/9; c. April 29, 1749; gdpts. James
Claiborne, James Anderson, Mary Tatum.
page 105 - Winny d. of
Edward Epes and w. Mary; b. Sept 16; c. Oct 20, 1751; gdpts. Drury Tatum, Mary
Moss, Judith Tion.
page 159 - Susanna d.
of Edward Eppes and w. Mary; b. Sept 12; c. Nov 23, 1753; gdpts. Richard Blunt,
Susanna Moore, Martha Gilbert.
page 140 - Elizabeth d.
of Edward Eppes and w. Mary; b. June 3; c. Aug 29, 1756; gdpts. Timothy Ezell,
Jr., Lucy Dunn, Anne Moore.
page 23 - Frances d. of
Edward Eppes and w. Mary; b. June 1; c. July 29, 1759; gdpts. Nathaniel
Tomlinson, Jacobina Wylie, Anne Wiggins.
page 220 - Elizabeth
Eppes d. Oct 14, 1768; i. John Adkins (unconfirmed that this is the daughter)
Notes for Edward Eppes:
Edward Eppes is the great-grandson of the original immigrant
Francis Eppes by way of John and Daniel Eppes.
He was born about the time his father moved to Albermarle Parish in what
is now Sussex County, Virginia. At that
time it was Surry County, Virginia.
/John Epes d: JAN 1526/27 =>
/Alan
Epes d: 1551
| \Alice ? d: 1527
/John Eppes b:
1550 d: 1627
| \Agnes ?
/Francis Eppes b: MAY
1597 d: 1655
| |
/Alexander Fisher d: 1590
| \Thomasine Fisher
| | /Peter Maplesden
| \Katherine Maplesden
/John Eppes b: ABT. 1626 d: ABT.
1679
| \Marie ?
/Daniel Eppes b: ABT. 1672 d: 6 JAN 1753
|
| /Humphrey Kent
|
\Mary Kent b: 1624
| \Joane ?
Edward Eppes b: 1710 d:
1780
\Mary ? b: ABT. 1676 d: 13 JUN 1755
Edward inherited his fathers lands in 1753 along the Nottoway
River adjacent the land which James Anderson had sold to Joshua Meachum in
1718. He lived on this land all his life never patenting or buying additional
lands. He does appear as witness on
various neighbors documents.
Edward had six tithables in Sussex County in 1754
Edward's will dated 06/08/1779 and probated 02/17/1780
bequeaths a negro to each of his daughters by name Sarah Tomlinson, Ann
Gibbons, Mary Moss, Susanna Harrison. He gives to his son James the estate that
he lives on and names son James and son-in-law Henry Moss, Jr. executors. Witnesses are Robert Watson, Susanna Moss,
Martha Meachum. Sussex County will book
C page 348. The inventory of the estate
is filed 02/25/1780 on page 362.
The birth and christening of the children is recorded in:
"Register of
Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778", Transcribed and
Edited by Gertrude R. B. Richards, The National Society Colonial Dames of
America in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958. A microfilm of this is available
in the Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia.
19 ii. Priscilla Anderson (Source: James Anderson, 1751
Will of James Anderson, (Will Book
9, Page 772, Surry County, Virginia).), born Abt. 1718 in "Arnols",
Surry, County, Virginia; died Aft. 1752 in Likely went to Georgia (Source:
James Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson, (Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County, Virginia).). She married James Moss Abt. 1744; born Abt.
1718 in Surry County, Virginia.
Notes for Priscilla
Anderson:
Priscilla Anderson would have been born of her fathers Surry
County Plantation called "Arnols".
This was located in what is now the southwest corner of Surry County,
Virginia. Grant Anderson recalls (1909)
that one of James' daughters married a Moss. The grounds for stating that
Priscilla married a Moss is by process of elimination of the daughters of
James. The Albemarle Parish register
provides the Christian name James Moss for her husband.
The Albemarle Parish register records the birth of Amy, born
09/24/1745, daughter of James Moss and Priscilla, christened 10/27/1745 with
godparents Henry Moss, Mary Eppes, and Mary Moss. Mary Eppes was Priscilla sister and Henry Moss was James Moss
brother. Take caution there is another
James Moss in Sussex with wife Anne throughout the period 1740 to 1762 a first
cousin to this James Moss.
James Anderson's 1751 wll does not identify her husband but
mentions her as, "I give to my Daughter Priscilla five pounds current
money of Virginia and all the Estate she hath now of mine in her
Possession".
I have never been able to find out what happened to James Moss
and I suspect he either died young and Priscilla remarried; or they both moved
to North Carolina or Georgia as did many neighbors.
Bibliography
Genealogy in part, of
the Anderson-Owen-Beall families, by Grant James Anderson, Whittet &
Shepperson, Richmond, Virginia, 1909.
Register of Albemarle
Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, Transcribed and Edited by
Gertrude R. B. Richards, The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958.
Notes for James Moss:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Subj: Family Research
Date: 99-04-27 19:12:00 EDT
From: [email protected] (rkirkpatrick)
Reply-to: [email protected] (rkirkpatrick)
Hi, My name is Linda
(Moss) Kirkpatrick,
One of my family
members gave me your email address. We are currently researching our family
line consisting of Obediah Mors(moss) d.1774 we believe it's tied in with some
of the imformation you have sent to my Brother -in-law . We don't know if he
got your email or imformation from a website or where but any information is
appreciated.
Priscilla Anderson b
before 1729 in Arnols in Surry Co. Va m. James Moss about 1744
This what he told us .
And again any imformation is appreciated and if we can help you any please let
us know
Thank you,
Linda
20 iii. James Anderson (Source: (1) Grant James
Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909).,
(2) James Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson, (Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County,
Virginia).), born 1720 in "Arnols", Surry County, Virginia (Source:
Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall
Families, (Whittet &
Shepperson, Printers; 1909).); died 1769 in Augusta, Georgia (Source: James
Anderson, 1764 Will of James Anderson,
(Georgia Colonial will book A page 296.).). He married Mary Ferguson Bef. June 10, 1744 in Amelia County,
Virginia; born Abt. 1723 in Rappahanock County, Virginia; died Aft. 1776 in
Augusta, Georgia.
Notes for James
Anderson:
James was born at his fathers estate "Arnols" in
Surry County, Virginia. This is located
along the north bank of the Blackwater River which forms the southern boundary
of current Surry county near the triangular intersection of Prince George
County, Surry County, and Sussex County.
No contemporary record is known.
"Genealogy in part, of the
Anderson-Owen-Beall families"; By Grant James Anderson; Richmond
Virginia; Whitter & Shepperson printers, 1909 gives his birth date as 1720.
His father obtains a land patent along the Little Nottoway
River in 1735 many miles west of Surry Co. and it is likely that James was
involved in developing these lands as a teenager. He first appears in the Amelia County tax rolls in 1741 at the
age of 21.
James Anderson became a contract builder. His Georgia will dated 08/24/1764 gives his
occupation as carpenter, and states that his sons are to be trained in the
craft of "hous joiner." His
father was in possession of a quantity of cooper and carpenters tools and his
grandfather Thomas named tools in his 1711 will. His brother John Anderson continues to reside in Amelia, later
Nottoway County, where he is recorded by the tax collector as
"Carpt." House Carpentry as a
craft was apparently a family occupation.
In 1743 his father apparently retires to the Arnols estate
with his second wife and leases to his sons the lands in Amelia County. The
Virginia land attributed to James Anderson is a plantation along the east side
of the Little Nottoway River opposite the mouth of the Whetstone Creek, just at
a bend in the River. This land was
patented by his father in 1735 and leased to him in 1743. He acquired title in his father's 1751 will
and sold the land to Charles Hamlin in 1755.
In 1747 he patented a section of land just to the east of this but never
perfected the title and abandoned it in 1756 when he moved to Georgia.
James Anderson to James
Anderson
12/20/1743 150 acres
Amelia County Book 2
page 17 (old number)
Lands on the North [east] side of the Little Nottoway River
beginning at the river east 180 poles south 160 poles west 180 poles and then
up river to the start. [East bank of the Little Nottoway north of where
Jordan's road crosses]
21 Sep 1743 surry book
4, page 157
takes Edward Griffis as
carpenters Apprentice
James Anderson
10/01/1747 104 acres Amelia
County
Virginia Patent Book 28
page 271
(This is in the approximate area of Dandy's Racepath just west
of Blackstone, Virginia on the north side of the Little Nottoway River.])
In 1747 the Albemarle Parish, in Surry County, ordered the
construction of a replacement chapel for Spring Swamp Chapel. This construction was contracted to James
Anderson of Amelia County, for £290.
Albemarle Parish Vestry
Book
Pages 37-39
Virginia State Library
Richmond, Virginia
At a Vestry for the
Parish of Albemarle in the County of Surry on the 20th Day of August 1747 at
the Church on Barlthorp Creek.
...
Ordered That Chris.r
Tatum & John Mason Sr. churchwardens do give public notice by
advertisements at such places in this County & the Counties adjacent as
they shall think proper, that on Thursday the 15th of October next a Vestry
will be held at the Church on Barlthorp Creek in order to treat with workman
for building & erecting a Church 70 by 26 feet at or near where the Chapel
at Spring Swamp now stands for the [?] of the sd purpose.
...
Albemarle Parish Vestry
Book
Pages 41-43
Virginia State Library
Richmond, Virginia
At Vestry held for
Albemarle Parish at Nottoway Church the 25th Day of October 1747.
...
The Vestry having
waranted & agreed with James Anderson of Amelia County for the building of
a Church or Chapel at or near where the Chapel at Spring Swamp now stands, for
which he is to have £290 Curr.t Money of Virginia, according the Dimensions
& manner following Viz. 69 feet in length & 26 feet in bredth in the
clear: 16 feet pitch under pind 2 feet high with 1/2 a foot below & 1 1/2
foot above the surface of the ground with good well [?] bricks & air holes
at proper distances, a strong substantial [?] floor laid with sound well
seasoned quartered pine plank in bredth not above 10 inches, all the pews to be
6 feet wide and 10 feet long , except two viz. on on each side of the Communion
Table, which are to be 9 by 7 the ally to be 6 feet wide. the Church is to have two doors in the South
side & one in the West and 4 feet wide and 9 feet high all to be folding,
and the work quarter round & rais'd panel: the two doors in the South side
to be made fast with bars & iron hooks, that in the West end with two
spring bolts & a nut & strong lock: all to be hung with suitable H
hinges: the pews to be 4 feet high & close, the front to be quarter round
& raised panel, the petitioners plain Wainscot: all the pews to be neatly
cap'd plank seats on three sides, the doors to be of size according to the plan
& hung with substantial H hinges, the Communion Table to be rais'd two
steps above the floor of the Church, and enclosed with rails & neatly twind
ballusters, the door thereof to hung with substantial hinges, a pulpit with a
neat & suitable canopy & door hung with H hinges & both that &
the two reading pews viz. for the Minister & Clerk to be the sort of work
with the front of the pews & of dimension according to the plan, rails
& ballusters from the Minister's reading pew to the pulpit: The length
& width fo the space for the Communion Table & number of steps to
ascend to the reading pews & pulpit to be set as mind & directed by the
Minister. The span of two pews on the
North side at the West end of the Church to be set apart for a Baptistry with
seats all around: A neat twind post erected in the area with handsum mouldings
around the top, whereon to place the font or bason & a desk adjoining to
lay the book on: two plank seats to be put up in the Westmost front doorway
& one in that of the Eastermost. The Church to have 6 windows in the South
Side 7 in the North side of sash on
& sills in the clear according to the plan, a large window in the East end
6 feet wide in the clear & of a proportional height divided by a part in
the middle a window in the West end above the plate of dimension suitable to
the place: all the Windows to be glaz'd with good crown glass, the running sashes
to be supported when up with iron pins made fast to the frame with a leather
thong. The Church to be done up the
height of the pews with ther edge
plank plain'd & bonded, to have a comon substantial roof with a compass
edging the walls & roof to be strengthened with great beams across in
number & size suitable, the walls above the pews & ceiling to be well
plaster'd & whitewashe: The window frames on the inside & door cases on
both sides to be archistrad: a small window in the back of the pulpit of size suitable
to the plan, shutters for all the windows of plain wainscot, to be hung with
substantial H hinges & made fast when open with iron hooks & staples
& when shut with an iron spring bolt, the walls & gable ends to be done
with feather edge plank plain'd & beaded to show not above 6 inches, with
cornish leaves. The roof to be covered on [?]'d laths with good C[?] heart
shingles in length 90 inches in thickness 1 inch & in bredth not above 4
inches & nailed with 6d nails the roof to be hip'd from the [?] beams, the
side & gable end walls to be well [?]'d: the window shutters on both sides
the outside of the doors & dorr cases, the outside of the window frames
& sashes the Cornish the corner & Barge Boards all to be well painted
with White Lead & oil: a Fraonton or Pediment over each door shingled as
the roof: White Oak or Light Wood steps
at each door mitred at the corner. A
gallery in the West end of the Church of pitch, dimension & form according
to the plan with a proper stair pews & close breast or front of wainscot
quartered round & raised panel with archistrad [?] & Cornish &
proper bars, one pew in the fore part on the North side 6 feet by 11 1/2 with
seats rais'd & sides the back door & ends: on the South side plain
wainscot 8 feet by 11 1/2 a passage from the stairs of 3 feet wide, a passge to
the backside of 3 feet wide, 8 seats on each side four 2 by 11 1/2 feet to rise
above one another 9 inches, a partition between each seat 2 feet high above
each respective floor of plain wainscot.
The gallery plastered underneath the whole to be completed &
finished at the proper cost & charges of the sd James Anderson and that in
a neat & workmanklike manner: by the 15th of June which shall happen in the
year 1750. For the performance whereof
the s'd James Anderson is to give Bond with sufficient surety as soon as may
be, to the Church wardens of the Sd Parish for the time being. Wm Willie Minr.
Amelia County, Deed
Book 5, page 380.
Edward Eppes, son of Daniel Eppes,Jr., deceased, of the County
of Surry, binds himself to James Anderson,Jr., of Amelia County, carpenter, to
learn the carpenter trade for the term of five years. 04/18/1749. Witnesses
John Anderson, Thomas Raines.
Albemarle Parish Vestry
Book
Page 66
Virginia State Library
Richmond, Virginia
At Vestry held for
Parish of Albemarle in the County of Surry on the 12th Day of November 1750.
...
The Vestry met in order
to take the Spring Swamp Chapel and the said Chapel being not compleatly
finished the said Vestry thought not yet fit to receive the said Chapel.
Ordered that the Church
wardens pay James Anderson so much money as will make 232,,12,,08 1/2 up 290
pounds
James Anderson has
given this parish liberty to make use of the chapel that he has built from this
day till such time as he can finish the said Chapel.
Albemarle Parish Vestry
Book
Page 92
Virginia State Library
Richmond, Virginia
1749 Albemarle Parish
[account sheet]
To cash paid Mr. Anderson viz. order 221,,18,, 8
Albemarle Parish Vestry
Book
Page 96
Virginia State Library
Richmond, Virginia
1751 Albemarle Parish
[account sheet]
To removing the Spring Swamp old Chappel 2,,--,--
Albemarle Parish Vestry
Book
Page 102
Virginia State Library
Richmond, Virginia
1751 Ordered that the
churchwardens pay to Ja.s Anderson the sum of twenty five pounds fice shillings
& six pence out of the money belonging to this Parish.
This chapel was shortly thereafter renamed St. Andrew's
Church. It was located on Spring Creek,
in southern Sussex County, near the current town of Jarratt.
Amelia County, Deed
Book 5, page 101.
This indenture made
this twenty fourth day of Jamuary in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and fifty four between John Nance and James Nance son of the sd John
Nance of the Parish of Nottoway in the County of Amelia of the one part and
James Anderson Junior Joiner of the same Parish and County of the other
part. Winesseth that the said John
Nance by virtue of these presents, and with the advise and consent of his son
James Nance and with the consent and approval of the Court of Amelia County
doth bind his said son James Nance to he said James Anderson Junior and with
him after the manner of an apprentice to serve for and during the full time of
five years from the first day of December last past; During all which time the said apprentice his said Master
faithfully shall serve his lawfull commands every where galdly obay [sic]; nor
absent himself day of night from his said Masters service but in all things
behave himself as a faithfull apprentice might to do during the full time for
which he is bound and the said James Anderson likewise obliges himself the sd
James Nance S and the art and occupation of a carpenter and joiner, which the
said James Anderson now follows, and intends so to do and find and provide for
the said apprentice good sufficient meat drink washing and lodging and cloths
and at the end of the five years three pounds current money and for the free performance
of all and every the sd covenants and agreements to each of the said parties
binds themselves to the other firmly by these presents in Witness whereof we
have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year above written.
Signed Sealed in John Nance,Senr seal
presents of us James
Nance seal
James Anderson seal
At a Court held for Amelia County the 24 day of Jan. 1754
James Nance,Jun in Court consented to serve James Anderson the full time
mentioned in this indenture and the Court did approve of the dame and ordered
the same should be recorded
Samuel Cobbs C.C.
_
James Anderson to Charles
Hamlin
11/26/1755 150 acres Amelia
County, Virginia
Amelia County Deed Book
5 Page 448 and 449
This Indenture made
this Twenty sixth day of November in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and fifty five between James Anderson and Mary his wife of the Parish
of Nottoway and County of Amelia of the one part and Charles Hamlin and of
Rawleigh Parish and County aforesaid of the other part for and in consideration
of the sum of one hundred pounds current money of Virginia to him in hand paid
by the sd Charles Hamlin the receipt whereof Sd James Anderson and Mary his wife doth hereby acknowledge
hath given granted bargained sold aliened conveyed and confirmed and by these
presents doth give grant bargain sell alien convey and confirm unto the Sd
Charles Hamlin his heirs and assigns one certain tract or parcel of land lying
and being in the County aforesaid on the north side of Little Nottoway River
containing on hundred and fifty acres more or less and the same is bounded as
followeth Viz: Beginning at two Dutch
Elms cornerd at the River thence East fifteen degrees North one hundrd and
eighty poles to a corner gum and poplar in a small branch thence South one
hundred and sixty poles to a corner red oak.
Thence due West one hundred eighty eight poles to a corner on Little
Nottoway River near below the Bent thence up the River as it meanders to the
beginning . To have and to hold the Sd tract or parcel of land with all of its
appurtenances to the said Charles Hamlin his heirs and assigns for ever and the
sd James Anderson and Mary his wife for them selves their heirs directors and
administrators doth further covenant and agree to and with the sd Charles
Hamlin that the the sd James Anderson will warrant and for ever defend the
above mentioned lands with all its appurtenances to him the said Charles Hamlin
his heirs and assigns for ever against him the Sd James Anderson his heirs and
assigns from the claim or claims of any person or persons whatsoever. In
witness whereof the sd James Anderson and Mary his wife hath hereunto set their
hands and affixed their seals this day and year above written.
Sealed and Delivered James
Anderson {seal}
In presence of her
his Mary Anderson {seal}
Saml Jordan mark
mark
Alexd Erskins
P Mcquaid
her
Phibe Rayns
mark
Memorandum
That quiet and Peaceable possession and seisur
of the within mentioned lands and premisses was given and taken by the within
named James Anderson and Mary his wife to the within named Charles Hamlin in
his own prper person for himself his heirs and assigns according to the
purposes of the written deed in the presence of us the subscbribers.
James Anderson {seal}
his Mary Anderson {seal}
Saml Jordan
mark
Alexd Erskins
P Mcquaid
her
Phibe Rayns
mark
At a Court held for Amelia County the 27th day of November
1755
This Deed with livery and seisur endorsed from James
Anderson and Mary his wife to Charles Hamlin was proved by the oaths of Samuel
Jordan and Alexander Erskin and at one other Court held for the said County the
24th day of June 1756 It was also proved by the oath of Phebe Rains the third
witness thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Samuel Cobbs CC
William Hamlin
12/15/1758 104 acres Amelia
County
Virginia Patent Book 33 page 520
On the N side of Little Nottoway River, adj. Peter Wynn,
Chappel, Cox, John Thomas & Eppes. 10 Shillings. Wheras by Pat. 1 Oct 1747 There was Gtd. James Anderson and
Whereas the sd James Anderson hath failed to pay Quit Rents & to make
Cultiv. & Improv. & William Hamlin hath made humble Suit & hath
obtained a G. for the same.
The book "Genealogy in part, of the Anderson-Owen-Beall
families"; By Grant James Anderson; Richmond Virginia; Whitter &
Shepperson printers, 1909 states that he "married and settled in, or near,
Savannah, Ga."
Upon moving to Georgia, James resided in Savannah where he
owned a portion of a lot. His name also
appears as a witness to transactions on Savannah lots for William Matthews, his
son-in- law, and others. He files
numerous petitions with the colonial government of Georgia which can be found
in the Georgia Colonial Records. It is
possible that he is also the surveyor James Anderson of those records. A
short list of his petitions extracted from the Georgia Colonial Records series
of volumes:
02/1756 Petition for 200 acres along the east
side of Buck Branch and Beaver Pond Creek. rejected.
04/12/1757 James Anderson and Andrew Newland petition
for reward and costs involved in the capture of escaped felon David Dundass.
Taken under advisement.
12/1757 Declaring that he has a wife and 6
children petitions for 200 acres on Briar Creek, 2 miles below Joshua Atkinson.
Postponed.
06/1758 same, granted.
05/1760 Declaring that he has a wife, 7
children and 3 slaves and has resided 3 years in the Colony petitions for 300
acers on Bowen's Branch bounded by William Raines and 300 acres on the south
side Walnut Branch between Evan Lewis and Thomas Irwin. Granted 500 acres on
Bowen's Branch.
03/1761 Declaring that he has a wife, 7
children and 2 slaves petitions for 200 acres on the Savannah above Point
Pleasant adjacent John Davis. postponed.
07/1761 petitions to reactivate 05/1760 land
warrant which had expired before a survey could be conducted.
04/1762 Petitions that he should be permitted
to improve a lot in Savannah and that he should be granted lot #9. Rejected.
05/1762 Petitions for 500 acres next Rocky
Creek in Hallifax District and requests an additional grant for 300 acres
adjacent which was granted to William Raines who has left the colony 2 years
ago.
05/21/1762 The Governor signs 500 acre grant to James
Anderson.
03/1764 Declaring that he has a wife, 7
children and 4 slaves petitions for 500 acres north of Great Ogeechee and east
of Spring Creek. Rejected.
04/1764 petitions for 400 acres adjoining his
lands which was William Matthews who left the colony. Granted.
08/1764 Governor signs grant for 400 acres.
06/1765 petitions for 1 acre lot in Augusta
lot #19. Granted.
07/1766 Petitions for lands he settled on
Rocky Creek branch of Buck Head in 1757 plus resolution of conflict over lands
granted Jacob Colson which he was originally awarded but could not settle due
to conflict with the Indians. granted.
12/1766 James Anderson petitions as deputy
surveyor for extensions of land warrants which could not be surveyed due to
inclement weather.
02/1767 Governor signs grant for 150 acres.
...
The cattle brand of James Anderson if recorded in Georgia
Colonial "marks and Brands" Book K on page 39. It was recorded in 1763 and indicates that
James Anderson is a resident of Savannah.
Examine Book JJ page 128 deed of Stephen Britton, cordweiner,
of Savannah and Wife Mary selling lot #9 in Savannah to Henry Yonge,Jr. of
Savannah. Lot granted in 1767 to Thos.
Moodie who sold in 1769 to Jas. Anderson, cabinetmaker and wife Mary, both of
Savannah, who sold same in 1772 to Britton.
This sale may be to James shortly before his death.
In 1768 he sells his Savannah lot and moves to his plantation
southwest of Augusta and purchases lot 19 in the town of Augusta.
James Anderson to Joseph
Butler
04/16/1768 lot Savannah,
Georgia
Ga. Col. Records Book S page 238
Lot in Savannah originally granted to Ann McIntosh, now wife
of Robert Bailie, sold by Ann to James Anderson.
His lot in Augusta bordered on that of Lachlan McAvillary a
Georgian of note, whose journal of that period is contained in the New York
City Historical Library, and would be worthy of examination for reference to
James.
James Anderson
05/21/1762 500 acres St
George Parish
Georgia Grant Book D
page 100
Bounded on the west by William Raines. on Rocky Creek. All
other sides vacant land.
James Anderson
07/03/1764 400 acres St
George Parish
Georgia Grant Book E
page 24
Bounded on the east by James Anderson. on Rocky Creek. All
other sides vacant land.
James Anderson
02/03/1767 150 acres St
George Parish
Georgia Grant Book F
page 51
Bounded on the south by Joseph Dunlap. On the north by James
Anderson. on Rocky Creek. All other sides vacant land.
Georgia Plat Book C page 2. Not examined yet (1987).
There are records of land sales by Anderson's in the
Revolutionary Records of Georgia which I have not had the opportunity to
examine. Augusta, Georgia changed hands
several times in the American Revolution and the Anderson lands would have been
within a few miles of the site of the major battles. The Anderson town lot was within a few hundred feet of the fort
the British built on the church cemetery in Augusta, and it is likely that it
was necessary to abandon the town lot and it is unlikely that any home upon
that lot survived the American Revolutionary War. Mary, Tabitha, Cynthia, and
Ann were unmarried in 1764. Elizabeth married William Matthews. The first
governor of Georgia was a Matthews, of no established relationship.
The reference Grant Anderson makes to "T. W. Anderson of
Twiggs County, Ga.; also a granddaughter who married Mr. Murvain" need to
be evaluated. Thomas W. Anderson did
indeed exist and is found amongst the records of Twiggs County. Thomas W.
Anderson is listed in the 1830 census of Twiggs County with a wife and three
sons.
James Anderson's will is dated 08/24/1764, probated on
01/06/1769 and filed in Georgia Colonial will book A page 296.
In the name of God
Amen, the twenty fourth Day of August 1764 I James Anderson of the Town of
Savannah and Parish of Christ Church Carpenter being in perfect mind and and
memory Thanks be given unto God therefore calling to mind the mortality of my
body and knowing that it is appointed for all men to die do make and ordain
this my last Will and Testament, that is to say, Principally & first of all
I recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body to the Earth, to be buried
at the Direction of my Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the Same again by
the mighty Power of God and as touching such worldly goods wherewith it has
pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give Remise and dispose of in the
manner and form following; First I give and bequeath unto Mary my Dearly
beloved Wife, her choice of the Feather beds and furniture as well as my bay
horse called Rock.
Also I give and
bequeath unto my son David Anderson three hundred acres of Land in St. Georges
Parish on Rocky Creek and Ten pounds Sterling.
Also I give and
bequeath unto my Son James Anderson three hundred acres of Land in St. Georges
Parish on Rocky Creek and ten pounds Sterling.
Also I give and
bequeath unto my Son Willm Anderson three hundred acres of Land in St Georges
Parish and on Rocky Creek & ten pounds Sterling.
Also I give and
bequeath unto my daughter Mary Anderson ten pounds Sterling.
Also I give and
bequeath unto my daughter Tabitha Anderson ten pounds Sterling.
Also I give and
bequeath unto my daughter Cynthia Anderson ten pounds Sterling.
Also I give and
bequeath unto my daughter Ann Anderson ten pounds Sterling.
Also it is my will and
desire that my daughter Elizabeth Matthews Shall have the use of what things
she hath of mine in her possession During her natural Life and then Dispose of
them as she please.
Also my will and desire
is that all the rest of my Estate both Royal and Personal be equally divided
between my Dearly beloved wife Mary and my seven children namely, David, James,
Mary, Tabitha, Cynthia, Ann, and William after my just debts and Financial
Expenses is paid, and that my wife Mary shall have the liberty to dispose of
any part of the Estate as she pleases to discharge the debts; and that my wife
Mary shall have the use of the rest of the Estate after my just debts are paid
and pay of [sic] the Legacys as the Children come of age or Marry (but not
bring any charges against the Children for their bringing up or Raising) that
is if She remain a Widow but if she marry than the children may (at the age of
twelve years) chose of or them selves and have their parts of the Estate with
them but if they chose to abide with their mother let them and their part of
the Estate abide together, also it is my will and Desire that she my wife Mary
shall have the use of her choice of two negroes as long as she remains a widow
(without being accountable to the children for any part of their all as so long as she remain a widow, but
nolong [sic] and when has it she marry then an equal division made between her
my wife Mary and the seven children before married (if alive) if any be ded
then an equal division to be made between Mary my wife and the children then
living and if any of the children Die in their minority their parts of the
Estate shall be equally divided between them that survive also my will is that
if my wife Mary do sell my house and lott in Savannah (or Shall chose to rent
it out to pay my debts) or for any other purpose as she shall think convenient
and move to the country than and
she shall have the liberty of settling on that part or portion of land
that shall be my son Williams and there to remain without during her widowhood or natural life
it is my will and desire that my William be bound out at the age of fifteen
years for the space or term of five years to any Trade or Occupation as he my
son William choses at the time he is to be bound which is at the age of fifteen
years. it is also my will and desire that when the land is divided that what
difference there may be in the quality ot may be made equal by paying a sum of
money to them that has that part (of lesser Tally) or parts Also it is my will and desire that my two
sons David and James bee all the assistance they can in maintaining sd family
till they com to the age of twenty one years and during that same time to be
employed by such persons as they think most proper to teach and instruct them
in the trade of a Carpenter and hous joiner
I also constitute and appoint my well beloved son David and James
Anderson with my dearly beloved wife Mary my sole Executors of this my last
will & testament and I so hereby utterly revoke and disanul all and every
other former testament wills legacies and bequests executed by me in any ways
before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other
to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal the day and year above written.
Signed, Sealed, Published, pronounced,
and delivered by the said James Anderson James Anderson s
his last will and testament in presence
of the subscribers
Peter Blythe
Thomas Barwich
Thomas Day
GEORGIA
Before me James Wright Esqr Capt.
General and governor in Chief of his Majestys said Province and ordinary of the
same appears Peter Blyth of Savannah in the province
aforesaid Carpenter one of the subscribing witnesses to the
last will and testament within written of James Anderson of the Town of
Savannah Carpenter deceased who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of
Almighty God made oath that he was present and did see the testator sign seal
publish pronounce and declare the same to be and contain his Last Will and
Testament and that he was of sound mind and disposing mind & memory to the
best of his knowledge and belief and that he with Thomas Barwich and Thomas Day
subscribed their names as witnesses to the said will at the request and in the
presence of the sd testator and in each others presence.
At the same time David Anderson one of
the Executors named in the said will qualified as such.
Recorded 9 january 1769 given under my hand the 6th january 1769
/s/ Ja. Wright
No record of burial is known.
The will was written in 1764 while residing in Christ Church
Parish (Savannah). However about that time he acquired the Augusta lot. In the will he recommends that his wife sell
or rent the Savannah lot and move to the Country. This sale had actually taken place in 1768. It is possible therefore that the actual
residence at the time of his death was Augusta, Georgia. He would then likely be buried in the
cemetery of St. Pauls Church. This was only two lots west from his. The
earliest recorded burial there is in 1783.
Some of the earliest fortifications in revolutionary Augusta were built
on the cemetery that existed at that time and it is likely that his grave was
disrupted by the construction of the revolutionary era forts.
His son David is the executor of the will and acquires
additional lands bounding his in 1774.
Bibliography
Colonial Georgia
Genealogical Data 1748-1783, William H. Dumont, National Genealogical Society, Special Publication No. 36,
Washington D.C., 1971.
Genealogy in part, of
the Anderson-Owen-Beall families, by Grant James Anderson, Whittet &
Shepperson, Richmond, Virginia, 1909.
Th
Notes for Mary
Ferguson:
James Anderson's wife was Mary, surname unconfirmed. As James is listed in the 06/10/1744 Tax List
of Amelia County as James Anderson and Wife.
Mary's name is established by the deed dated 11/06/1755 and
filed in Amelia County Deed book 5 on 11/27/1755. The dower signature is that of Mary. We can be confident that this is James son of James Anderson of
Surry because the land description is that of the original acreage leased to
him by his father in 1743 along the east side of the Little Nottoway
River. This same acreage was granted to
his father in 1735. Carpenter James
Anderson of Christ Church Parish Georgia (Savannah) named widow Mary in his
08/24/1764 will.
Examine the 1764 will
of Thomas Bridgeforth in Essex County which names Sarah Bridgforth and her
children Peleg Ferguson and son in law Benjamin (husband of Philadelphia
Ferguson) Bridgeforth. The will mixes a
Mary Anderson in with these and she is my suspect to be the wife of James
Anderson. If she was an older sister to Peleg she would be the likely
candidate.
"Will of Thomas
Bridgforth 1763. Records of Essex County. Tappahannock, Virginia. Wills No. 12.
1762-1775. p.147. Thomas Bridgforth of St. Ann's Parish, Essex Co., Va. Dated
25 April 1763. Probated 19 November 1764. All lands in Essex County "to my
Cousin Thomas Bridgforth", 6 slaves, etc. "Item I leave my Lands in
King and Queen County to be sold and the money arising from such sale to be
applied to Charitable uses in the Parish of St Ann's at the Decretion of my
Executors". Bequests to "my sister Sarah Ferguson". Bequests to
Benjamin Bridgforth. Bequests to Mary Anderson. Bequests to Mrs. Hannah
Edmondson. Residue of estate to be div. equally betw. Robert Fargeson, Titus
Farguson, Jael Ferguson, Peleg Ferguson,
Ann Martin, Joice Lumpkin and Elizabeth Ferguson. Exors. Mr. John
Rowzee,
Mr. Robert Brooke and
John Smelt. Signed Thomas Bridgeforth (LS).
Wit: Jere'h Boswell, Alex'r Anderson, Benj'a Edmondson."
21 iv. Thomas Anderson (Source: (1) Grant James
Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909).,
(2) James Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson, (Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County,
Virginia).), born 1721 in "Arnols", Surry, County, Virginia (Source:
Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall
Families, (Whittet &
Shepperson, Printers; 1909).); died Bet. 1782 - 1787 in Dinwiddie County,
Virginia. He married (1) Kehrenhappuck
Yarbrough Bef. June 10, 1744 in Amelia County, Virginia; born Abt. 1720; died
Bef. 1756 in Amelia County, Virginia.
He married (2) ? Jackson Aft. 1756; born Abt. 1730.
Notes for Thomas
Anderson:
Thomas Anderson would have been born on the estate
"Arnols" in the western corner of Surry County in 1721 according to
Grant J. Anderson's 1909 genealogy. No
contemporary record of his birth has been found. Thomas mother appears to have
died about 1733 precipitating speculation by his father James Anderson in the
western lands of expanding Virgnia. Thomas therefore was a resident of Amelia
County, Virgnia after 1740 and subsequently of Dinwiddie County after its formation
in 1752.
His first land patent is at the age of 18 years along
Whetstone Creek just northwest of his father's patent along the little Nottoway
River in Amelia County. He later sells
this patent off in lots of 200 and 54 acres.
Anderson, Thomas
09/22/1739 254 acres Amelia
County
Virginia Patents Book
18, 1738-39, page 469
North of the Whetstone Creek and south of Long Branch.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 08/15/1740
John Thomas appt. to clear road from Jordan's bridge best way
into Mr. Cock's road, Thomas & James Anderson, Thomas Taylor, and John
Thomas & all other male tithables to assist.
Jordan's Bridge crosses the Little Nottoway as 602 west of
Blackstone. His father James' owned the
plantation at the east end of this bridge, until it was given to his brother
James Anderson in 1743.
Amelia County Court Order Book 1 records at a Court on
07/16/1740 a deed as follows. No corresponding record is indexed in the Amelia
Deed Books. Because Thomas Anderson appears alone in Amelia County Tax records
in 1742 perhaps his father leased him some or all of the land in 1740 and the
lease was never recorded in the deed book and expired before 1743.
Thomas Anderson from James
Anderson
Count Orders Book 1
07/16/1740
Unknown land. Witness Samuel Jordan and James Anderson,Jr.
Anderson, Thomas to Thomas Burge
06/17/1741 200 acres Amelia
County
Amelia Co., Virginia
Deed Book 1, page 222-223
North side Whetstone Creek, bounded in part by Peter Benford's
line and the Long Branch, being part of a patent by Thomas Anderson. Wit. James
Anderson, John Taylor & Lucy Taylor.
Thomas reserved the timber rights to the 200 acre plot. When I was looking at the deed in the Amelia
County Courthouse a real estate attorney asked to look at the deed and stated
that he was glad it was not one of his properties. The land is currently farmed for timber. His descendents could
file claims.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 09/17/1742
Thomas Anderson is given leave to clear road from his own
house into Thomas' Road.
Thomas Anderson from James
Anderson
Rebecca
12/20/1743 300 acres Amelia
County
Amelia County Deed Book
2 page 39 (20 old number)
Lands on South [west] side of Little Nottoway river beginning
at Jordans corner on the river west then south along Jordans line then up
Jordan's Little Run to a line of trees and then northwest to a spring branch
down the branch to Whetstone Creek and down the Creek to the Little Nottoway
river and then down to river to the start.
The land deeded to him by his father in 1743 took up the
southwest corner of the intersection of Whetstone Creek and the Little Nottoway
River in Nottoway Parish of Amelia County, whereas his patent had been on the
northside of the Whetstone Creek. In
the 1744 tax list of Amelia County he is recorded as Thomas Anderson and
Wife. This indicates that he had
married Kehrenhappuck Yarbrough the daughter of William Yarbrough before June
of 1744. William Yarborough owned a
patent just to the west of Thomas Anderson's 1739 patent.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 12/20/1744
Petition Robert Melone vs. Henry
Robertson
Thomas Anderson & James Anderson appt. to view & value
work done by petitioner & make report.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 02/22/1745
Petition Robert Melone vs. Henry
Robertson
For £ 2,,10,,0 due for carpentry work done. Thomas Anderson
& James Anderson appt. to view & value work & make report. Found
work worth £ 2,,7,,6 & Ptf. to recover amt., plus costs.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 02/22/1745
Cate a Negro girl belonging to Thomas Anderson judged age 8.
Thomas was a friend of George Cabiness of Amelia County and is
mentioned in George's 1744 will and was executor. James Anderson, Thomas' brother, was an appraisor of the Cabiniss
estate.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 05/17/1745
Petition Thomas Anderson & Matthew Cabiniss, Excr. of
George Cabiniss, vs. William Hardcastle. Deft. failed to appear; to Ptf. for £
59,,6,,0 plus costs.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 05/18/1745
Petition Richard Witton vs. Thomas Anderson & Matthew
Cabiniss, Excr. of George Cabiniss, to Ptf. for £ 0,,40,,4 plus costs.
Amelia County
Court Orders Book 1
At Court on 07/19/1745
Petition Robert Bolling, Esq. vs. Thomas Anderson &
Matthew Cabiniss, Excr. of George Cabiniss, failed to appear; to Ptf. for £
0,,57,,11 plus costs.
Thomas Anderson
and
Kerenhappuck Anderson to Henry
Buford
03/25/1749 54 acres Amelia County
Amelia County Deed Book
3 page 235
adj. Binford's corner on Whetstone Creek, Thomas Burges' line,
& Whetstone Creek. Wit. Thomas Buford, Benjamin Shelton, Faith
Anderson. This is the sale of the
remainder of his original patent.
Thomas is mentioned in his father's 1751 will as follows,
"I give and Devise to my Son Thomas Anderson all my Estate that he hath
now in his Possession one book called human prudence one other book called the
whole Duty of man and five pounds current money of Virginia."
Amelia County
From the "Virginia
Gazette and General Advertiser", Williamsburg, Va., 1752, we are told:
Amelia County =, ff.
To all Sheriffs, Constables, and other His Majesty's Liege People, to Whom these Presents shall come. Greeting
Wheras complaint hath this day been made to me, on of his
Majesty's Justices of the Peace for this County, by Thomas Anderson, of the
County aforesaid, That he was, on Sunday the 23rd Day of August last, robb'd of
a Beaver Hat to the Value of 30 Shillings, a Pair of Leather Breeches, a Pair
of blue-grey Worsted, and a Pair of Yarn Hose, a Common-Prayer Book, a Razor
Strap, a half-worn down brown Linen Shirt, a Pair of Jack Boots, two Holland
Caps, one Pair of Shoes, and other Things, and that he has great Reason to
suspect one William Roach, alis Rough, late of this County, an idle Person,
about 23 Years old, short and well-set, with a simple Look, has a large scar
just above his Forehead, is much addicted to Gaming, had on when he went away a
blue- grey hald-trimm'd Coat, and a Pair of striped Holland Trousers :
These are therefore in His Majesty's Name, to command and
require all Sheriffs, Constables, and other His Majesty's Liege Peoples, within
this Colony, to make diligent Search nad Pursuit, by Way of Hue and Cry, within
their several Counties and Precincts, after the said William Roach, alias
Rough; and him having found, to apprehend and carry before the next Justice of
the Peace, that he may be dealt with according to Law. Herein fail not.
Given under my Hand and Seal, at Amelia, this 17th Day of
September, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty Two, in the Twenty Sixth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King GEORGE the Second.
CHARLES IRBY
Thomas Anderson to Thomas Williams
of Bath Parish,
Dinwiddie Co Bristol Parish,
Dinwiddie Co.
09/12/1755 300 acres Amelia
County for 200 pounds
Amelia County Deed Book
5 page 488
Southside of Little Nottoway River, being formerly conveyed by
James Anderson Sr. to said Thomas Anderson by deed.
Wits: Leonard
Claiborne, James Stark, Leonard Claiborne, Jr., David Smith
On 09/12/1755 he sells the remainder of his Amelia County
lands to Thomas Williams. In the deed
he is identified as being of Dinwiddie County.
Therefore we can assume he had removed to Dinwiddie before this, and had
purchased land there. It is likely that
this move was related to the suspected death of his first wife Kerenhappuck
about 1754 and a 2nd marrige probably to a women of the Jackson family who
lived across the border of Amelia with Dinwiddie County.
Unfortunately due to the destruction of Dinwiddie Records we
know little of him from 1755 to 1787 at which time he apparently dies.
Anderson, Thomas
02/01/1781 10 acres Dinwiddie
County
Patents Book D, Volume
2, page 514
Adjacent to John Jones
Jordan Anderson, his son, sold all of his 1782 (382 and 108
acres) Dinwiddie holdings to John Edmundson in 1787. The sons of Kehrenhappuck
apparently went through GA to Alabama, in the 1909 genealogy of Grant James Anderson
he states that the brothers Jordan and Robert were deaf mutes who went out
west, for which Alabama would have qualified in that day. The daughter Lydia
was married in the central valley of Virginia in one of the cities. The two
daughters of the 2nd wife ended up in Georgia, and likely migrated with the
Jackson and Elder families of Dinwiddie County.
The records of Dinwiddie County prior to 1833 have almost all
been destroyed in a fire. A surviving
survey book does have a record of an adjustment to one of Thomas's properties,
a survey of his 1781 ten acre patent adjacent his own lands. Perhaps when examined closely it will reveal
where he lived in Dinwiddie County. Little
more of the Thomas Anderson family will be found without special effort by researchers
delving into the Dinwiddie County past.
___________________________________________
Amelia County, Virginia
Tax Lists
1736
James Anderson
There is a Thomas
Anderson in this list but he lived in northern Amelia County and later moved to
Mecklenburg County. He originated in King & Queen County.
1740
James Anderson
Thomas Anderson
1741 List of Abraham Cocke
James Anderson,Jr. 1
Thomas Anderson 1
1743 James Anderson, Jack 2
Thomas Anderson, Robt
and Jordan Anderson 3
1744,10 Jun
James Anderson & wife 2
Thomas Anderson & wife 2
Jordan Anderson 1
1747, 10 Jun Below Deep
Creek and above the Cellar
Anderson, James,Jr., John Anderson
Thomas Raines & Jack & Cate 5
Anderson, Thomas, Jordan Anderson
Robert Munford, Jack , Manuel 6
1748, Jun List taken below Deep Creek and Above the
Sellar by Charles Irby
Thomas Anderson, John Nance, Jack, tom,
Manuel, Gideon 6
James Anderson,Jr., John Anderson
Thomas Raines, Jack and Cate 5
1749 Charles Irby's List of Nottoway Parish
Thomas Anderson, Jack, tom,
Manuel, Gideon 5 30
James Anderson,Jr., Thomas Raines,
John Anderson, Edward Eppes
Daniel Eppes, Jack, Cate 7 5
Jordan Anderson, Adam 2 12
1752
Anderson James,Jr., Edward Eppes,
Daniel Eppes and Cate 4x
Anderson Thomas 1x
Anderson Jordan, Adam 2x
[1752 formation of
Dinwiddie County places Thomas Anderson in Dinwiddie County. He no longer appears in Amelia County tax
lists.]
Dinwiddie County,
Virginia
1782 Dinwiddie County
Anderson Thomas 382 acres 12/6 238,15,0 ,27,9
108
acres 6 32 6,5
Bibliography
Genealogy in part, of
the Anderson-Owen-Beall families, by Grant James Anderson, Whittet &
Shepperson, Richmond, Virginia, 1909.
Will Book 1, Amelia
County, Wills 1735-1761, Bonds 1735-1754, Abstracted and Compiled by Gibson
Jefferson McConnaughey, Mid- South Publishing Company, 1978.
Wills and
Administrations of Surry County, Virginia, 1671-1750; by Eliza Timberlake
Davis, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1980.
Notes for Kehrenhappuck
Yarbrough:
Grant J. Anderson's genealogy states that Thomas married twice
and that his first wife was Kaehrenhappuck Yarbrough. The 1744 tax roll of Amelia County refers to Thomas Anderson and
wife. Kehrenhappuck Anderson is named
in the 1749 deed. However, there is no
dower signature in the deed of Thomas Anderson made in 1756. Perhaps she was dead by then.
She is the daughter of William Yarbrough who had patented land
just west of the Andersons in southern Amelia County, Nottoway Parish and is
named as Kehrenhappuck Anderson in his 1748 will..
Notes for ? Jackson:
This wife is likely a
Jackson as there was a Jackson family co-ocated in Nottoway Parish in the
1750's.
22 v. Jordan Anderson (Source: (1) Grant James
Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909).,
(2) James Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson, (Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County,
Virginia).), born May 05, 1723 in "Arnols", Surry County, Virginia
(Source: Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen -
Beall Families, (Whittet &
Shepperson, Printers; 1909).); died October 20, 1805 in Chesterfield County,
Virginia. He married Mary Watkins September
15, 1748 in Amelia County, Virginia (Source: Grant James Anderson, Genealogy
in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909).); born March 22,
1724/25 in Henrico County, Virginia (Source: Grant James Anderson, Genealogy
in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909).); died November 13,
1805 in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
Notes for Jordan
Anderson:
The book "Genealogy in part, of the Anderson-Owen-Beall
families". By Grant James Anderson, (Richmond Va., Whitter &
Shepperson printers, 1909), provides an account of the descendants of Jordan
Anderson as reconstructed from the ancestral correspondence and recall of Grant
J. Anderson who was a great grandson of Jordan Anderson. At the time of publication Grant J. Anderson
was a resident of Westminster, Texas, just north of Dallas, Texas. In his text G. J. Anderson refers to Jordan
Anderson using the spelling Jourdan Anderson.
This reflects the Virginia pronounciation of Jordan (Jur-dan). Virginia records however record the name as
Jordan.
Jordan Anderson was likely born on his father's estate
"Arnols" in the West corner of Surry County, Virginia, north of the
Blackwater River. He kept a register of
he births of his family which Grant Anderson apparently had in his possession
in 1909 at the time he published his book and his birth date came from this
source.
It would appear that he had several primary residences in his
life. First James, his father, leased
land along Whetstone Creek in 1743, then later in 1751 willed 200 acres at the
southwest intersection of Whetstone Creek and Little Nottoway River to Jordan
Anderson.
James Anderson to Jordan
Anderson
12/20/1743 300 acres
Amelia County Book 2
page 19 (old number)
Lands on South [west] side of Little Nottoway river beginning
at a spring branch on Whetstone Creek, up the branch to then south along Thomas
Anderson's line to a line of trees northwest to the head line and then north
and then east to Whetstone Creek and down the creek to the beginning.
Jordan began early to speculate on lands. In one land "deal" in 1744 he
bought 800 acres along the Little Nottoway River from Edward Thweatt and sold
it back to him for half as much the following year. Too many deals like that and anyone will go broke. However, it would appear that his skill
improved immeasurably as he dies a wealthy planter.
Jorda is named in his fathers 1751 will as follows, "I
give to my Son Jordan Anderson all my Estate he hath now in his possession also
five pounds current Money of Virginia, one Book called the fountain of Life,
and after the Death or Marriage of my Wife Rebecca one negro man named Robin to
him and his heirs for ever. "
He acquires his brother John's 200 acres adjacent his in 1754
and 1755 and then he and his brother John sell their lands along Whetstone
Creek to Francis Eppes in 1764. John apparently served as his overseer from
1754 to 1764. Although he kept his land in Amelia County, Jordan Anderson,
after his marriage to Mary Watkins settled in Cumberland County near his
Watkins kin. He described himself in 1754 as of Cumberland County. In the 1759
tax roll Jordan Anderson is listed next
to his brother-in-law, John Watkins, and to his wife's uncle, Thomas Watkins of
Swift Creek. Jordan would witness Thomas's will in 1760.
In 1762 he bought from Peter Randolph 200 acres "on the
run of Middle Creek," a stream now known as Goode's Creek, which raises
near the Skinquarter Church and flows south-westerly to the Appomattox River in
Chesterfield County, Virginia. A few
years later, in 1768, they bought their final home, 200 areas in the area of
southwest Chesterfield county now called "Clover Hill."
There is a flury of land transactions in the 1780's by Jordan
and his sons. He was involved in land
transactions along the Appomatox River and throughout Cumberland, Prince
Edward, Lunenburg and Charlotte Counties.
Jordan Anderson apparently dabbled in land speculation using his sons to
"occupy" the land. He apparently acted as banker for his son's land
deals as well. I have found several
occasions where a son has sold back to his father Jordan,Sr. a piece of land
only to have that piece resold by the father to another son.
From a study of his property it would appear that he had most
of his money in land at the time of the revolution and the inflation that
occurred at that time. This may have
been the key to his success. His lands
were located just west of the coal pits at Winterpock, which was the farthest
west the the militia were driven during any of the Virginia Military Operations
south of the James. Therefore his
properties avoided any of the damage sustained by those further east of him.
Jordan's land dealings were extensive and would require an
examination of almost all county records of Virginia and perhaps Georgia and
the Carolina's. His will refers to a
purchase made of Patrick Henry by his son David and wills his lands in Kentucky
to his son Thomas.
"Virginia Gazette
and General Advertiser", Williamsburg, 1768.
Run away from the subscriber in Chesterfield, about the end of
August last, a middle sized Negro man named WILL, about 30 years old, of a
yellowish complexion, very much marked on his face, arms, and breast, his
country fashion, speaks very broken, and can hardly tell his master's name; had
on when he went away a new osnabrugs shirt; Virginia linen short Trousers, old
cotton jacket, and felt hat, with part of the brim burnt off. He has made three attempts, as he said, to
get to his country, but was apprehended.
All masters of vessels are hereby forewarned from carrying the said
slave out of the colony. Whoever
apprehends him, and brings him to me,
shall have 20 s. reward, besides what the law allows.
Jordan Anderson
As regards Jordans
political opinions we have the following record:
To the Honourable The
President and Gentlemen of the Convention of the Colony of Virga.
The Petition of the
Freeholders and Inhabitants of the County of Chesterfield
Humbly Sheweth. That agreeable to the Eleventh Resolution of
the Continental Congress, the Delegates of the County proceded to the election
of a Committee for said County, In a
short time after being resolved on by The Honourable Congress, with a design to
bring the people into the Measures of Associating. As well as doing the other business to them recommended, for
which reasons, but Very Few had it in their power to vote in the choice of the
committee, at the time not well Understanding what they Ware to do, or the
intent of Associating, and the not being Associates, by which means some
persons was by the few, voted in, that we by no means can think proper, we now
conceiving that the committees are to do business of much Greater Importance,
then we could possible then conceive.
We humbly Pray that it may be dissolved before they proceed to further
business and another elected to execute and do all things that you in Your
wisdom shall think proper, that we may have no Divisions amongst us, but all
unite and be as one man in this critical time in the great & Common Cause,
and as in duty Bound Shall Ever Pray &c.
August 20, 1775
72 signators including
Jordan Anderson
Edward Anderson
Jordan Anderson became opposed to the perpetuation of slavery
as is confirmed by the details of his will and the following entry in
Chesterfield Deed Book 11 page 639.
Know all men by these
presents that I Jordan Anderson of the County of Chesterfield, seeing such an
inconsistency betwixt our Declaration of Independence Viz. That all men are
equally born free and our practice in holding a great number of our fellow men
in the most abject slavery especially those born since that Declaration and
also seeing our youths supported thereby, instead of becoming useful members of
Society in our Commonwealth are rather become a mere nuisance and scandal
thereto: observing these things I do hereby gradually emancipate and set free
the following persons Viz. York, Lucy, Rachel, and her increase, Tamy, Jack,
George, Felice and her increase the first day of January after my wife's and my
death. Amica, Miley, & Amy and
their increase as they come to age, unless that period arrives before our
deaths then they shall be free at the same time the others above mentioned
after our deaths. Frank and Little York
to be free at the same time if of the age of twenty one years. Frank was born April 25th 1773. Amica
September 24,1774. Milley March 12,
1777. Amy November 14,1779. Little York October 23,1782. Moses July 25,1787.
Salley September 8th,1789. The two last to be free at 21 years of age. In witness whereof I do hereby relinquish
all claim, title, or interest in them for that my heirs or assigns shall ever
have any right, or title, or claim to or in them after the above stated period
for my Heirs and Assigns forever for the due Comformance of which I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal this seventh day of April one thousand
seven hundred and ninety.
Jordan Anderson seal
At a court held for Chesterfield County April 8th 1790 This Instrument
of writing was acknowledged by Jordan Anderson a party thereto and ordered to
be recorded.
Teste Thos Watkins C.C.C.
He dies in Chesterfield County. The exact date of death is known through the obituary of the
Virginia Gazette and General Advertizer 9 November 1805. Jordan,Sr. and his wife of 57 years, died in
Chesterfield Co., Va. His obituary
refers to him as Dr. Jordan Anderson and mentions that although he had received
no formal schooling he was trusted for his healing skills. Several of his sons
were apparently also "doctors".
Jordan Anderson's will is dated 01/01/1805 and probated
12/09/1805. It is filed in Chesterfield
Will Book 6 page 264. It is interesting
for the detailed account of the portion of his estate to go to each of the Chesterfield
sons and for the fact that he willed each of his slaves to be freed upon
reaching the age of 21.
Chesterfield County,
Will Book 6, Page 264
In the name of God
Amen, January 1st 1805. I Jordan Anderson, senior of Chesterfield county being
by the course of nature near my dissolation, but in my reason and senses do
make and declare this my last will and testament, and do make all my other
former wills void. First and
principally I give my soul to God who gave it, trusting only in the merits of
Jesus Christ for my salvation, who hath redeemed me from destruction and
brought me again unto a lively hope of the resurrection of the dead to live
under his smiles to all eternity. Glory
be to God for the gift of his dear Son and for his unspeakable love and
unmerited favour and as touching such worldly estate as God has trusted me with
I give and bequeath as follows.
Item, I give and
bequeath unto my son Edward Anderson and his heirs forever, five hundred
dollars. Item, I give and bequeath unto
my son Charles Anderson and his heirs forever, one hundred and seventy six
acres of land in Prince Edward County that I bought of my son David Anderson, a
part of the land he the said David bought of Patrick Henry, which he has given
me a bond of one thousand dollars to make a good and lawful title to any person
as I shall direct by will or otherwise, but if my son Charles shall chosse to
have the one thousand dollars in stead of the land, my son David shall pay the
said sum of money to Charles and keep the land aforesaid, also I give
Charles one bed & furniture. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son John
Anderson and his heirs forever, one stud horse named Juniper now in his possession. Item, I give and bequeath unto my son James
Anderson and his heirs forever, all the tools I lent to him in Lunenburg
County, I also give to his children and their heirs forever, all the stock and
all the other property lent to him at the same time and place now in his
possession, and also give them and their heirs forever, two hundred and fifty
pounds, the sum I leave in my sons Jordan's hands to be paid by him to the said
children as they shall come to age or marry, and have a right to give a lawfull
discharge, I give unto them also one bed and furniture to be deposited in their
mothers hands for them. Item, I give
and bequeath unto my son David Anderson and heirs [sic] forever, four hundred
dollars and one bed and furniture.
Item, I give and bequeath unto my son Jordan Anderson and his heirs
forever, that tract of land he now lives on, one hundred and fifty acres, and
after the death of my beloved wife (his mother) the tract of land I now live
on, two hundred and fifty acres, on his paying his brother James' children
their legacies above, but if my son Jordan shall fail to pay the money as above
directed the said two hundred and fifty acres of land shall be sold to pay the
same money given those children. Item,
I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Anderson and his heirs forever, all my
right and title to all lands I have any right and title to in Kentucky, also
the land I had of Captn Hezekiah Rudd, according to my bargain with said Rudd:
as that now he stands in my place essentially as his own bargain. I also give him two hundred two hundred
dollars.
Item, I give and
bequeath unto my son Nathan Anderson and to his heirs forever five hundred
dollars, deducting the money and interest he owed me on two bonds, and also for
seven hundred and fifty two pounds of pork in the year 1791, to be paid for at
forty shillings per hundred havin had it thirteen years to this date. I also
give him the the labour and raising of my young negroes, namely Annicas
increase, and Tom, and Patt, and Peter, Fillis's children and her future
increase, not to be moved out of the state or so far as to deprive them of
their freedom. It is further my will
and desire that my son Thomas shall have all the labour and the raising my
yound negroes namely Amey's and MIlley's increase and Sall, till come to age of
twenty one years but not to move them out this state, or so far as to prevent
their freedom, but Matt is excepted now with Charles. It is further my and desire that my son Jordan shall have the
labour of and the raising of all Rachel's increase, but not to move them out of
this state or so far as to prevent their freedom. It is further my will that my son Jordan shall account for the
pork I lent him five hundred and fifty five pounds, and pay off his bond to me
of Ten pounds on interest, in short, that all my children shall pay to my
estate all the debts any of them may owe to it. as there are two young negroes with Charles and two with James,
they, and all the others to be free at Twenty one years old. Item, is is further my will and desire that
after my death all my estate that can conveniently be spared of wasting
property shall be sold, and the money applyed in discharging the money legacies
with the last crop if any to be spared in proportion to each, also all the
money in hand or to be collected then due to my estate: excepting one thousand
dollars which I devise and give as follows, that is to say, I give the interest
of one thousand dollars for ten years from this date to be applyed for the
spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, if it shall be wanting for that
purpose, but if it is not wanting for that purpose, then it shall be applied to
the relief of the most indigent and distressed pious, Methodist saint: and
after that term of years, then the principal one thousand dollars shall be
equally divided among all my sons and their heirs forever: it is to be
observed, I mean by the money legacies that I have given to my sons Edward and
David, and Thomas and Nathan and that James's children are to come in for a
part of the one thousand dollars instead of himself. Item, it is my will and desire that this plantation shall be occupied with the negroes and
stocks on it, for raising money to support my beloved wife Mary Anderson and
for advantage of my children after her death equally to be divided: and I leave
in trust this business to my three sons Jordan, and Thomas and Nathan to see my
desires fulfilled, especially see their mother duly taken care of so that she
shall want for nothing that this world affords that can be got for comfort
& support, and as she is incapable of judging or determining for herself,
may the Lord give you to remember her exertions for your temporal interest, and
give you the tendeest feelings for body and soul: and keep a just account of the cost and expence she may be, also
the profits of the estate: and I desire you shall receive a just and reasonable
compensation for your troubles out of the profits. It is my will and desire that all my negroes that shall be twenty
one years old now living with me and my sons Jordan, Thomas, and Nathan shall
be free on the first day of January after mine and my wife's death, and they
shall be well clothed both males and females, and shall have their working
tools, and bread corn for one year, and liberty to settle on 33 acres of land
where my son Thomas shall choose for them, and I earnestly request that no
advantage may be taken of them or suffer any to be taken of them that can
conveniently be prevented, but let them have wood land as well as cleared: and
it is my desire that my estate shall not be appraised: and that my loving and
beloved wife shall live where she shall choose, and any one of the negroes she
may choose to wait on and attend her during her life, and if any of my
executors shall move away they shall then settle with the others the estate
affairs. Item, it is further my will
and desire that a thousand dollars shall be put into the bank of the United
States, or into the hands of my executors for the presiding elders of this
district to collect the interest for the purpose above mentioned, who shall
give up a just account to my executors and bishops how the same is expended,
with the receipts for it: the same to be collected annually and expended. And lastly, I do appoint Jordan Anderson,
Thomas Anderson, and Nathan Anderson my sons, executors of this my last will
and testament. Witness my hand and seal
the day and date above written.
Published and signed
in presence Jordan Anderson, senior
of - Interlined before signed and
published.
Peter Rowlett
Thomas Cavender, junr
It is my desire that the thousand dollars I give the
interest of for ten years, shall be put into the treasury of the United States,
it it can be done, that the interest may be the more easily or readily
collected, and it, is to be observed that I mean by Bishops Mr Francis Asbury,
Coke and Watcote, as they have a more copious view what manner of expending
with the money for the Glory of God.
Witness my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Interlined before signed.
Thomas Calender, junr Jordan
Anderson, senior
At a court held for Chesterfield county the 9th day of
December 1805. The last Will and testament of Jordan Anderson, senr was proven by the oath of Peter Rowlett and
Thomas Calender subsribing witnesses, and ordered to be recorded.
Teste Th: Watkins Clk.
Petersburg
intelligencer (Petersburg, Va.) Died - At his seat in Chesterfield Co. on Sun,
Oct 20th last, Doctor Jordan Anderson, in the 84th year of his age. (pg 3, col
3) Tue, Nov 12, 1805.
Amelia County Tax Lists
1744,10 Jun
James Anderson
& wife 2
Thomas Anderson & wife 2
Jordan Anderson 1
1747, 10 Jun Below Deep
Creek and above the Cellar
Anderson, James,Jr., John Anderson
Thomas Raines & Jack & Cate 5
Anderson, Thomas, Jordan Anderson
Robert Munford, Jack , Manuel 6
1748, Jun List taken below Deep Creek and Above the
Sellar by Charles Irby
Thomas Anderson, John Nance, Jack, tom,
Manuel, Gideon 6
James Anderson,Jr., John Anderson
Thomas Raines, Jack and Cate 5
1749 Charles Irby's List of Nottoway Parish
Thomas Anderson, Jack, tom,
Manuel, Gideon 5 30
James Anderson,Jr., Thomas Raines,
John Anderson, Edward Eppes
Daniel Eppes, Jack, Cate 7 5
Jordan Anderson, Adam 2 12
1752
Anderson James,Jr., Edward Eppes,
Daniel Eppes and Cate 4x
Anderson Thomas 1x
Anderson Jordan, Adam 2x
Bibliography
Genealogy in part, of
the Anderson-Owen-Beall families, by Grant James Anderson, Whittet &
Shepperson, Richmond, Virginia, 1909.
Revolutionary Virginia,
The Road to Independence, Vol. III, Compiled and Edited by Robert L. Scribner
and Brent Tarter, University Press of Virginia, 1977.
Southside Virginia
Families, Volume I, by John Bennet Boddie, Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood
City, California, 1955.
Surry County, Virginia,
Wills, Estate Accounts and Inventories 1730-1800, by Lyndon H. Hart, III,
Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.
The Armistead Family
and Collaterals, Margaret R. Cate and Wirt A. Cate, Reed Printing Company,
Nashville, Tennessee, 1971.
Notes for Mary Watkins:
In June 1765, Edward
Watkins bequeathed to "Daughter Mary Anderson, a Negro girl named Tamer
and her issue" with two pounds cash.
Virginia gazette, &
general advertiser - Died on Wed last, age 82, Mrs. Mary Anderson, consort of
Dr. Jordan Anderson, whose death was lately notified in this paper. (pg 2, col
4, issue of Wed, Nov 20, 1805.
Virginia gazette, &
general advertiser. Died - On Wed last, age 82, Mrs. Mary Anderson, consort of
Dr. Jordan Anderson, whose death was lately notified in this paper. Married for
57 years. (pg 2, col 4) Wed, Nov 20, 1805.
23 vi. John Anderson (Source: (1) Grant James
Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909).,
(2) James Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson, (Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County,
Virginia).), born 1725 in "Arnols", Surry County, Virginia (Source:
Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall
Families, (Whittet &
Shepperson, Printers; 1909), 12.); died Bef. April 1815 in Black's and White's,
Nottoway County, Virginia (Source: John Anderson, 1807 WIll of John Anderson.). He married Mary Bell (Source: John Bennet
Boddie, Southside Virginia Families, Volume I, (Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood City, California; 1955.).)
1749 in Surry County, Virginia; born Abt. 1728 in "Spring Swamp",
Surry County, Virginia; died Bet. 1810 - 1815 in Black's and White's, Nottoway
County, Virginia (Source: John Anderson, 1807 WIll of John Anderson.).
Notes for John
Anderson:
Grant J. Anderson in his book "Genealogy in Part, of the
Anderson - Owen - Beall Families", Whittet & Shepperson, Printers,
Richmond, VA., 1909; gives the date of John's birth as 1725. This appears reasonable. No contemporary record has been found. He would have been born at his fathers Surry
County estate called "Arnols".
This is located in the southwest corner of current Surry County,
Virginia along the north side of the Blackwater River.
The family tradition of Grant James Anderson and the land
records of James Anderson, Sr. imply that his four sons and daughter Faith,
removed from "Arnols" in Surry County about 1733, and settled in
Nottoway Parish, Amelia County. This
was along the east side of the Little Nottoway River across from Samuel Jordan
just north of where Jordan' Bridge now crosses the river. It is very likely that these Amelia lands
were speculative and I cannot be certain of how much actual development took
place on them. It is likely that a home
was built on the 1735 patent of John's father on the east side of the Little
Nottoway River. Jordan's Bridge (due
west of Blackstone) is the exact terminus of the "Church" road
leading west from Petersburg, marked on the 1755 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia,
indicating that James Anderson's property was at the very edge of what was
considered civilization in that year.
Blackstone was built at the junction of Church road and the Colonial
Road (route 40) which led along the ridge north of the Nottoway River from
John's father's "Arnols" plantation.
The land was sold in 1755 to Charles Hamlin and 1787 court records refer
to "Hamlin's Tavern" at this location.
In 1743 John's father
James leased his Nottoway lands to his elder three sons and returned with his
second wife to "Arnols" in Surry County. John appears with his older three brothers in Nottoway Parish tax
rolls in 1747, four years after their initial leases from their father. This
would have been the year John came of legal age. John is listed with his
brother James Anderson,Jr. (carpenter) until 1750. John was likely assisting James in the construction of the church
at Spring Swamp in Surry County during these years 1747-1750. About 1749 John Anderson marries Mary, the
young daughter of the widow Hannah Bell, whose family lived one mile from the
Spring Swamp Church. John's father grants John 200 acres in 1750 in Amelia
County adjacent his brothers. James Anderson dies at his "Arnols"
plantation in Surry County in 1751 and in his will leaves John "the
remainder of a tract of Land given to the said Thomas and Jordan Anderson
containing by estimation two hundred acres more or less".
John does not re-appear in Amelia tax records again until
1753, and he likely remained in Surry County from 1750-1753, as the birth of
his eldest daughters are recorded in the Albemarle Parish Register in 1750 and
1752. It is possible that he was resident
in the home of his wife's widowed mother adjacent St. Andrews Church (Spring
Swamp renamed) on Spring Swamp, in light of the protests in Hannah Bell's will
about the absence of her sons.
The land granted him by his father James in 1750, was 200 acres
of headland (not creek side) that James had withheld from the original leases
to his older three sons. James states
in his will that he had intended to give John land near him in Surry County,
but gives him 15 pounds in lieu of that land.
Notice that this is the second generation of the family that has lost
the old family estate due to the presence of a second wife of the father,
wherefrom must derive the reputations of stepmothers in literature.
He returns to the lands that his father willed him in 1753 and
again is listed in the Amelia County tax rolls. Listed in his tax account is John Orgain, perhaps a servant, but
more likely an apprentice carpenter. In
1754 he sells half of the first 200 acres to Jordan Anderson, his brother. He witnesses the deed of Greenham Dodson to
Peleg Ferguson on May 22, 1754 for 29 acres on the first spring branch out of
Great Hurricane Creek below Peleg Ferguson's mill. His sister Faith Anderson had married Peleg Ferguson about
1750. In 1754 his brother Jordan Anderson
moves off his Little Nottoway 300 acres to Cumberland County to marry Mary
Watkins but retains the title to his Little Nottoway lands. In 1755 John's brothers James and Thomas
sell their lands on the Little Nottoway River and move away. In 1755 John sells the other 100 acres of
his first 200 to his brother Jordan Anderson now of Cumberland County. John witnesses the deed of neighbor Patrick
McQuaid to Samuel Jordan on Mar 27, 1758.
In 1764 John Anderson and Jordan Anderson grant a deed to
Frances Eppes selling 993 acres at Little Nottoway and it is signed by both
John and Jordan and their wives. The
tax list for Jordan Anderson indicated in 1763 that he owned 500 acres (300
inherited + 200 bought of John) and thus it appears that the land had been resurveyed
and our John had received a windfall through the "remainder" wording
of his father's will perhaps as much as 93 acres over and above the 400 he got
from his father. Additionally it seems
likely that John Anderson was acting as overseer for Jordan Anderson's lands
throughout 1754 until 1764.
No contemporary document exists which declaritively states the
surname of John Anderson's wife. John's
wife Mary's dower signature is recorded in the 1754, 1756 and 1764 sale of
their Nottoway estate to Jordan Anderson then Francis Epes. My research has shown the surname of John's
wife Mary is Bell. Mary Bell was a
resident of Surry, later Sussex, County living approximately one mile from the
Spring Swamp Chapel at the time John's brother James built St. Andrews
Church. According to the wills of John
and Hannah Bell their daughter Mary Bell married an Anderson sometime between
1746 and 1768.
In the 1766 tax roll John is listed as John Anderson, Carpt.
without any indication of land acreage. In 1767 he purchases 103 acres from
Thomas Morgan and Rachel his wife adjacent Mr. Arthur Leath along Long Branch
falling just within the southern town limits of current Blackstone, Virginia.
This is very near the estate of his sister Faith Ferguson. In 1768 he is identified
as taxed on the 103 acres that he purchased in 1767. Most importantly, in 1768 he is taxed on one slave named
Patt. A woman slave, named Patt, is
left to his wife Mary Bell by Hannah Bell, her mother in her 1768 will in
Sussex county, and this provides the confirming evidence that John married Mary
Bell. Patt appears in his tax list for
many years later including the 1782 Amelia county list which includes his son
Allen, so we know that it is this John that married Mary Bell. In 1786 he acquires a 30 acre piece of land
adjacent to him from Mr. Leath along Long Branch. This acquisition is witnessed by his son Armstead Anderson who
has returned home from his legal troubles in Henry County, VA and was likely intended
for his use.
The 1787 Nottoway County tax roll credits John Anderson with
two land plots one of 103 acres and another of 30 acres, identified as 10 miles
SE of the courthouse on Long Branch.
There are two Long Branch Creek's in Nottoway. One is just above his original deed from his father, however his
1767 purchase was along Long Branch just south of Blackstone, Virginia. The
1815 Nottoway Tax lists indicates that the 135 acres of John Anderson were
acquired by Edmund Irby in 1815. I
suspect that John Anderson had mortgaged his property to Edmund Irby as he grew
elderly. Edmund Irby likely handled the affairs of John's estate, but no record
was found at the courthouse. Edmund
Irby was the executor for his daughter Hannah's estate who also died in 1815,
after John, in light of subsequent litigation.
An old home of Nottoway County, "The Elms" , originally known
as "Poplar Hill" was constructed in 1812 by Edmund Irby. John would have been 85 years old in
1812. This house still stands.
"The Bowry" was built by John Freeman Eppes son of Captain
Thomas Eppes, year unknown. His son
Samuel Eppes did not like the name and changed it to "Battleview",
because of its proximity to the battle of "The Grove", whereat the
Union Cavalry under Kautz and Wilson were repulsed on 06/23/1864 during the Civil
War. John Anderson is listed on page 17
in the 1810 Census of Nottoway County contiguous to Thomas and John Eppes,Sr.
John Anderson is often listed as a carpenter in the county tax
records. Such a notation is not common for other occupations other than
Minister of the Gospel (M. G.) and implies that the tax collector considered
his skill and implements noteworthy.
The tax lists indicate that he was not a major slave holder, the 1792
tax lists credits him with 2 slaves. He was due one other slave from the estate
of his step mother who died in 1770 but there is no indication that he ever
received that legacy.
His lands and those of his children are around and about the
town now called Blackstone, which was in colonial times was called Black's and
Whites. It is logical to assume that he was in some part responsible for the
construction of buildings at the junction of Cocke's road and Church road which
developed into that town. In fact his land faced onto Cocke's road which was a
segment of the colonial post road from Richmond to the south. The colonial stage coaches traveling south
from Richmond would have passed his home.
Today the place his 1767-1815 home would have occupied is a super
Walmart.
Only one building in town today survives from that period
which through serendipidy is called Anderson House (aka Schwartz Tavern),
though named after a much later Anderson family. In addition, just a few miles
northwest along Church road a two story wooden church was built before the
revolution which survived until it was destroyed in a hurricane in 1836. Also along Jordan's road the Green Church
was built before the Revolution which served first as the Methodist church,
then as a Presbyterian Church until it was destroyed by arson in 1827 by a
neighbor who complained that she
couldn't keep a ladle at her well because of the church go-ers. There was
considerable enterprise involved in building what is today a significant
southern Virginia town, and it is likely that this enterprise provided John's
livelihood.
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Records of John Anderson
John Anderson from James
Anderson
and Rebecca
03/19/1750/1 200 acres Amelia
County
Amelia County Deed Book 4 Page 39
This Indenture made the
Nineteenth day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand sevenhundred and
fortynine & fifty between James Anderson Senior of Surry County of the one
part and John Anderson of Amelia County of the other part Witnesseth that the said
James Anderson for an [sic] in consideration of the sum of One Shilling Currt.
money of of [sic] Virginia to him in hand paid by the said John Anderson the
receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge he the said James Anderson hath
granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell
unto the said John Anderson his heirs and assigns One Tract or Parcel of Land
containing by estimation Two hundred Acres be the same more or less lying and
being in the County of Amelia on the Southside of Little Nottoway River and
bounded as follows (to wit) Beginning on Jordans Little Run on Samuel Jordans
Line thence along his Line South twelve Degrees West to a corner red oak thence
West fifteen Degrees North fore hundred and forty five poles to a small red oak
thence North along the head kine to a large Srub white oak blas'd three ways
thence a Direct cors [sic] to a large Srub white oak blas'd four ways at the
head of Jordans Little Run thence down the said run as it meanders to the
beginnign and the reversion remainder and remainders thereof and all the Wright
title interest claim and demand whatsoever of him the said James Anderson of in
or to the premisses or any part thereof to have and to hold the said tract or
parcel of land with the appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said John
Anderson his heirs and assigns forever and the said James Anderson from him
heirs the said land and premises with the appurtenances of the said land unto
the said John Anderson his heirs and assigns will warrant and forever defend by
these presents In witness whereof the said James Anderson with Rebeckah his
wife hath hereunto set there [sic] hands and sfixed there seals the day and
year first above written.
Signed Sealed and Delivered
James Anderson {seal}
her
In presents of ...........
Rebeckah Anderson {seal}
mark
Exd. James Anderson,Junr: Edward Eppes:
Daniel Eppes. S.C.
At a Court held for Amelia County the 16th day of November
1750 this deed from James Anderson Senr. to John Anderson was proved by the
oaths of James Anderson, and Daniel Eppes.
And at one other court held for the said County the 19th day of April
1751 the same was also proved by the Oath of Edward Eppes the other witness thereto
and ordered to be recorded.
/s/ Samuel Cobbs Clk
______________________________
John Anderson to Jordan
Anderson
05/13/1754 100 acres Amelia
County
Amelia County Deed Book
5 Page 156
This Indenture made the
Thirteenth day of May In the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and fiftyfour
Between John Anderson of the County of Amelia of the one part and Jordan
Anderson of Cumberland County of the other part Witnesseth that the said John
Anderson for and in consideration of the sum of fifty pound Current money of
Virginia to him in hand paid by the said Jordan Anderson the Receipt whereof he
doth hereby acknowledge he the said John Anderson hath granted bargained sold
and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said Jordan Anderson
his heirs and assigns all that Tract and Parcel of Land containing by
estimation One hundred acres be the same more or less lyning in the fork of
Nottoway and on the head of Jordan's Little Run in the said County of Amelia
bounded as follows. Beginning at a large Srub white oak at the head of Jordan's
Little Run thence West twenty six Degrees North along a line of Marked Trees to
a large srub white oak at the head line thence along the head line South to the
corner thence East fifteen Degrees South one Hundred and Sixty seven poles to a
small red oak marked three ways with a braoad ax thence North four Degrees East
to the Beginning and the reversion remainder and remainders thereof and all the
Estate Right Title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever of him the said John
Anderson of in or to the premisses or any part thereof To have and to hold the
said Tract or Parcel of Land with the appurtenances thereunto belonging to the
said Jordan Anderson his heirs and assigns forever to the only use and behoof
of the said Jordan Anderson his heirs and assigns forever and the said John
Anderson for himself and their heirs the said Land and premisses with the
appurtenances unto the said Jordan Anderson his heirs and assigns will warrant
and for ever Defend by these presents
In witness wherof the said John Anderson and Mary his Wife hath hereunto
set their hands and seals the day and year above written The word County Interlined before affixed and
the letter e
Signed Sealed and
Delivered John Anderson {seal}
In the Presents of
us... Mary Anderson {seal}
Richard Ellis
Chrispin Skelton
James Anderson
At a Court held for Amelia County the 23d Day of May 1754
John Anderson and mary his wife came into Court and
acknowledged this their written Deed unto Jordan Anderson which was ordered to
be recorded.
/s/ Samuel
Cobbs C.C.
____________________________________
John Anderson to Jordan
Anderson
11/20/1755 100 acres Amelia
County
Amelia County Deed Book
5 Page 437
This Indenture made the
Twentieth day of November In the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred
and fiftyfive Between John Anderson and Mary his wife of the Parish of Nottoway
and County of Amelia of the one part and Jordan Anderson of the County of Cumberland
of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Anderson and Mary his wife for
and in consideration of the sum of Twenty nine pounds Current money of Virginia
to him in hand paid by the said Jordan Anderson the Receipt whereof they do
hereby acknowledge they the said John Anderson and Mary his wife hath granted
bargained and sold and by these presents do bargain and sell unto the said
Jordan Anderson his heirs and assigns forever all that Tract or Parcel of Land
containing by estimation One hundred acres lying in the fork of Nottoway River
in the said Parish of Nottoway and County of Amelia bounded as followeth (to
wit) Beginning on Walker Boyds upper
line where it crosses Jordan's Little Run thence along Boyds and Jordans lines
South twelve Degrees West to a corner red oak. Thence West fifteen degrees
North to Jordan Andersons corner black srub oak. Thence along his line North
two Degrees East to a large srub white oak at the head of the North fork of
Jordan's Little Run. Thence down the said branch as it meanders to the
beginning. And the reversion remainder
and remainders thereof and all the Estate Right Title Interest Claim and Demand
whatsoever of them the said John Anderson and Mary his wife of in or to the
premisses or any part thereof To have and to hold the said Tract or Parcel with
the appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said Jordan Anderson his heirs and
assigns for ever to the only use and behoof of the said Jordan Anderson his
heirs and assigns for ever and the said John Anderson and Mary his wife for
themselves and their heirs the said Land premisses with their appurtenances
unto the said Jordan Anderson his heirs and assigns will warrant and for ever
by these presents In witness wherof the
said John Anderson and Mary his Wife hath hereunto set their hands and seals
the day and year above written
Signed Sealed and
Delivered John Anderson {seal}
In the Presents of
us... Mary Anderson {seal}
Chrispin Shelton
Charles Hamlin
James Anderson
Memorandum
That this day full and peaceable possession and
seisure of the within mentioned Land and premisses were given and delivered by
the within named John Anderson and Mary his wife to the within mentioned Jordan
Anderson. In presence of
Chrispin Shelton John
Anderson {seal}
Charles Hamlin
James Anderson Mary
Anderson
At a Court held for Amelia County th 22 day of April 1756 John
Anderson presented and acknowledged this deed with livery and seisure theron
endorsed to Jordan Anderson and ordered to be recorded
/s/ Samuel
Cobbs C.C.
____________________________________
Jordan Anderson &
Mary of Chesterfield
John Anderson &
Mary of Amelia to Francis Eppes
May 24, 1764 Amelia County Book 8
Page 354
993 acres in Amelia County for consideration of 484 pounds In
the fork of the Nottoway River adjacent a small branch, Jordan's Little Run,
Boyd, Polecat Branch, & Whetstone Creek as it meanders with all houses,
woods, etc.
Amelia County Book 8
Page 354
Commission to Wood Jones, David Greenhill, John Winne,
Alexander Erskine, Richard Jones, & Robert Munford, Gent. - two of these
men to receieve the dower relinquishments of both of the foregoing wives, done
June 25, 1764 returned June 28, 1764 and recorded.
____________________________________
John Anderson from
Thomas Morgan and Rachel his wife all of Nottoway Parish
11/23/1767 103 acres
Nottoway Parish Amelia County
Amelia Deed Book 9, page 290
recorded March 24, 1768
This Indenture made in
the seventh year of his Majestys Reign George the Third by the grace of god of
Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith Etc. and the twenty
third day of November in the Year of our Lord god One thousand seven hundred
and sixty seven by and Between Thomas Morgan and Rachel his wife of the Parish
of Nottoway in the County of Amelia of the One part and John Anderson of the
aforesaid Parish and County of the Other Part Witnesseth that the said Thomas
Morgan and Rachel his wife for & In consideration of the sum of Twenty five
pounds Ten shillings Current money of Virginia in hand paid the receipt whereof
he doth hereby acknowledge and thereof and evry part and parcel thereof Clearly
and absolutely - requit exoneerate and discharge the said John Anderson by
these presents and for divers other good causes and consideration him the said
Thomas Morgan and Rachel his wife especially thereunto moving hath granted
Bargaind, sold and enscoffed & confirmed and by these presents doth grant
bargain sell enscoff and confirm unto the said John Anderson all that Tract of
parcel of Land Lying situated and being in the said Parish of Nottoway in the
county of Amelia Containing One Hundred and three acres of Land Beginning at
Leaths Corner White Oak on the Long Branch thence up the said Branch as it
Meanders to a Corner Willow Oak on the Same thence West fifteen Degrees North
Forty one Poles to afaced Corner on the road thence on the said Road as it
meanders to afaced Corner on the same in Leath's Line thence East Thirteen
Degrees North Eighty two poles on Leath's line to the Beginning and the
Reversion and Revershions Remainder Remainders Right Estate Interest Claim
benefit and Demand Whatsoever of him the said Thomas Morgan and Rachel his wife
to the same or any part thereof To Have And To Hold the said tract or parcel of
Land and all and singular the premises with their and every of their
appurtenances unto him the said John Anderson and his heirs to the only use and
behoof of him the said John Anderson his heirs Executors Administrators and
Assigns for ever and the said Thomas Morgan and Rachel his wife for himself and
his heirs the said tract of land with all and singular premises with their and
every of their appurtenances unto him the said John Anderson his heirs
Executors Administrators & Assigns shall and will Warrant and forever
defend by these presents In Witness whereof he the said Thomas Morgan and
Rachel his wife hath hereunto set his hand and affixed his seal the day and year
first above written.
Signed Sealed &
acknowledged
before
Tho. X Morgan
John Winn, Peter
Pincham
Robt Munford, Sr; Thos.
Williams Rachel X Morgan
Memorandum: That
Peaceable and quiet possession and seizur of the within mentioned Land and
Premises was had and taken by the within Named Thomas Morgan and Rachel his
wife and by him delivered to the said John Anderson this Twenty third day of
November 1767.
Signed Sealed &
Delivered
In Presence of Tho. X Morgan
John Winn, Peter
Pincham
Robt Munford Sr., Thos.
Williams Rachel X Morgan
____________________________
This Indenture made
this twenty fourth day of May One thousand seven hundred and eighty six between
John Leath of Amelia County of the one part and John Anderson of the aforsaid
county of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Leath for and in
consideration of the sum of Eighteen Pounds six shillings to him in hand paid
the receipt whereof he doth acknowledge doth grant bargain and sold afixed and
confirmed unto the said John Anderson his heirs Executors and Assigns forever a
certain tract or parcel of land containing thirty acres and a half be the same
more or less bounded by Mills and Bridgeforth and also all hereditments ways
waters water courses and appurtenances whatsoever to the said tract or parcel
of land belonging or any way appurtaining and also the Revision and Revisions
Remainder and Remainders of the said premises and every part thereof to have
and to hold the said tract or parcel of land and all singular the premisses
above mentioned and that the said John Leath his heirs or assigns to the only
proper and behoof of him the said John Anderson his Heirs Executors and Assigns
forever and that the said John Leath for him self his heirs and assigns against
all and any person or persons whatsoever to the said John Anderson his heirs
Executors and assigns will warrant and forever defend by these presents In
Witness whereof I have to these presents set my hand & seal the day and
year above written.
Signed Sealed &
acknowledged
before John X
Leath
Richard Cross
Am Cross
John Cross
Armstead Anderson
William Manly
At a court for Amelia County
the 22nd day of June 1786 this indenture was acknowledged by John Leath the
party thereto and ordered to be recorded.
Teste Holmes
____________________________
The will of John Anderson, dated 11/04/1807 was not probated
until 04/06/1815. He mentions his widow
Mary, and his three unmarried daughters Hannah, Lucy, and Rebbeca.
In the name of God Amen
I John Anderson of Nottoway County being in a low state of health but sound in
mind and memory & calling to mind the uncertainty of life; Do make and
ordain this my last Will Testament,
Hereby revoking all former Wills by me or for me made. In manner and form following Viz.
Inprincius: my will and desire is that all my just debts be paid. Secondly I lend to my beloved wife Mary
Anderson all my estate both real and personal during her life to have it in
quiet & peaceable possession. Item
I give and bequeath to my three daughters, namely Hannah Anderson Rebekah Anderson
& Lucy Anderson all my Estate both real and personal that I have lent to my
wife ( at her death ) to them and their heirs forever. My will and desire is that there be an
appraisement on my Estate; Lastly I nominate and appoint my three daughters, namely
Hannah Anderson Rebekah Anderson & Lucy Anderson my sole Executrices of
this my last Will & Testament given under my hand and seal this twenty
fourth day of November in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ Eighteen hundred
& seven, Signed, sealed & acknowledged
to be the last Will and Testament of John Anderson and witnessed at his request
on the day and year above written. by
attest John
Anderson seal
Saunders Crenshaw
Alain Crenshaw
At a Court held for
Nottoway County the 6th day of April 1815.
The last Will and Testament of John Anderson dcd. was exhibited into
Court, proved by the Oaths of Saunders Crenshaw and Alain Crenshaw witnesses
thereto and ordered to be recorded
Teste
F. Fitzgerald,Jr. Clk.
________________________
Tax Data
Amelia County, Virginia Tithables
1747, 10 Jun Below Deep
Creek and Above the Cellar
Anderson James,Jr. John Anderson
Thomas Raines & Jack & Cate 5
1748, Jun List taken below Deep Creek and above the
Sellar by Charles Irby
James Anderson,Jr. John Anderson
Thomas Raines, Jack and Cate 5
1749 Charles Irby's List of Nottoway Parish
James Anderson,Jr. Thomas Raines,
John Anderson, Edward Eppes,
Daniel Eppes, Jack, Cate 7 5
1750 Charles Irby's
List of Nottoway Parish
James Anderson,Jr.
Ed. Eppes, John Anderson, Jack,
Daniel Eppes, Cate 6 27
1752
James Anderson,Jr. Edward Eppes,
Daniel Eppes and Cate 4
1753
James Anderson,Jr., et. al. 5
John Anderson, John Orgain 2
1763 Bookes List
Anderson, Jordan's list
Dick Bruce 3 500 acres
1765 Winn's List of Nottoway
John Anderson 1
1766 Erskine's list of lower part of Nottoway
John Anderson, Carpt. 1
1768 Munford's list
John Anderson & Patt 2
103 acres
1770 Cooke's list
John Anderson
Patt 2 100 acres
1771
John Anderson
Patt 2 100 acres
1781 Cooke's list
John Anderson, Patt 2
1782 Stephen Cooke's list of Nottoway
John Anderson Carpt., Patt 2
Allen Anderson 1
1782 tax roll Amelia County, Virginia
John Anderson 11 whites, 2 blacks
1785 tax roll Amelia County, Virginia
John Anderson 15 whites, 2 dwellings, 3 outer
1810 Census Nottoway
County, Virginia
017 John Anderson
Male 0 1 0 0 1 2
female 0 0 0 2 1
Notes for Mary Bell:
Mary Bell was born about 1728 the youngest daughter of John
and Hannah Bell, and a granddaughter of John Bell and Anne Bennett. Mary is
named in the 1746 will of her father who bequeaths her "fifty shillings
current money of Virginia and likewise two cows and calves & one fether bed
and furniture to be delivered to the said Mary Bell at the age of twenty and
one years or at the Day of Marriage".
She is last named as Mary Bell in the Register of Albemarle Parish on
March 17, 1747/48. She married John Anderson after then and before October 29,
1750 when the birth of her first daughter Martha is recorded in the parish
register.
The Spring Swamp Chapel (later St. Andrew's Church) was
contracted by the Albemarle Parish Vestry to be replaced for £290 in 1747. James Anderson of Amelia County was the
undertaker (18th century term for contract builder). The church was completed in 1749. The Amelia Tax rolls for 1747, 1748, 1749 list John Anderson and
Thomas Raines and the Eppes brothers as co-resident with James Anderson in
Amelia County where his lands were located. These data indicate that while James and John were land owners in
Amelia county, they were likely residing and working in Surry County near
Spring Swamp Chapel. Perhaps they bunked
with the nearby Bell family at Spring Swamp.
It is likely that Mary Bell and John Anderson were married in
the old Spring Swamp Chapel since no services are recorded at St. Andrew's
Church until 1751. John Anderson's and
Mary's eldest two daughters were baptised in 1750 and 1752 in Albemarle Parish.
These events are recorded in the Albemarle Parish register of which parish
Spring Swamp Chapel was one of the member churches. These children were likely baptized in the baptismal fonts of the
old Spring Swamp Chapel and then of St. Andrew's Church built by James
Anderson.
The god-parents for the Baptism of Martha, the first daughter
of John and Mary Anderson were: Phoebe Bell nee Stokes, daughter of Sylvanus
and married to John Bell, Mary's brother;
Drury Stokes, grandson of Sylvanus; and Jane Judkins of unknown probable
relation to Charles Judkins a witness for the will of John Bell, Mary's father.
John Bell's widow Hannah Bell gives a woman slave named Patt
to her daughter Mary Anderson in her 1768 will, "I give and bequeath to my
Daughter Mary Anderson my Negro Woman named Patt to her and her heirs and
assigns forever." The slave Patt
appears in the Amelia County tax lists for John Anderson beginning in 1768, and
appears in his tax lists until after the 1780's including lists with John and
his son Allen Anderson.
The 1807 will of John Anderson says that his wife Mary is
still living, " Secondly I lend to my beloved wife Mary Anderson all my
estate both real and personal during her life to have it in quiet &
peaceable possession." The 1810 census listing for John Anderson reflects
the presence of 2 females under 45 years of age and only one female greater
than 45. As his three daughters Hannah,
Rebeccah and Lucy were alive at this time it seems likely that two of these
three are living with him. His daughter
Susan Vaughan, living east of the Long Branch Creek, has an extra female
greater than 45 living with her and perhaps this is the other daughter or Mary
Bell, who then was likely one of the two women over 45 and thus died after 1810
and before 1815. The name Polly B.
(Mary Bell) is used by two generations of the descendants of John Anderson and
Mary Bell.
The children of John Anderson and Mary Bell are established
by: first, two entries in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties,
1739-1778, Gertrude R. B. Richards, The National Society Colonial Dames of
America in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958
page 150; Martha d. of
John Anderson and w. Mary; b. Oct 29; c. Dec 16, 1750; gpts. Drury Stokes, Phoebe Bell, Jane Judkins.
page 30; Katie d. of
John Anderson and w. Mary; b. March 25; c. April 26, 1752, gpts. John Welborn,
Lucy Newsom, Rebecca Smith.
and; second, those
children born after the move to Nottoway Parish are derived from:
Nottoway County Court
Order Book 7, page 194
"May Court 1815
Rebecca Anderson Complt.
In Chancery
against
Dfts.
Edmund Irby adms. of
Hannah Anderson decd. Daniel Vaughan
& Caty His wife,
Priscilla Hawkes, David Vaughan &
his
wife, Lucy Anderson,
Armstead Anderson, Allen Anderson, Wm
Anderson and Harp children and infants of
Henry Harpe by Sally
his wife formerly Sally Anderson and
Eckles children & infants
of Freeman Eckles
by Rebecca B Eckles,
formerly Rebecca B. Anderson, the said
infants by Freeman
Eckles their special Guardian
It is decreed and
ordered that Nathaniel Niblett, Abraham Buford, John Pace, and Samuel Morgan or
any three of them who are hereby named and appointed Commissioners for that
purpose do proceed to sell to the highest bidder on a credit of twelve months
one negro Girl and one colt of which Hannah Anderson died possessed, and that
they do divide the proceeds of the said sale into ten equal parts and that they
assign to Rebecca Anderson one equal part, to Daniel Vaughan & Sussey his
wife one other equal part, to Priscilla Hawks one other equal part, to David
Vaughan & Caty his wife one other equal part, to the children of Henry Harp
by Sally his former wife who was Sally Anderson one other equal part, to the
children of Freeman Eckles by his former wife Polly B Eckles who was formerly
Polly B. Anderson one other equal part, to Lucy Anderson one other equal part,
to Armstead Anderson one other equal part, to Allen Anderson one other equal
part, to William Anderson one other equal part, and that they make a report to
this court in order to a final decree.
The banner of this
court order confuses the children but the body is correct. The subsequent return indicates that the
order was carried out but adds no familial detail. One does wonder how the sons got their share in far away places
but I suppose the spinster daughters made good use of it.
Bibliography
Register of Albemarle
Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, Gertrude R. B. Richards, The
National Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia,
1958
page 150; Martha d. of
John Anderson and w. Mary; b. Oct 29; c. Dec 16, 1750; gpts. Drury Stokes, Phoebe Bell, Jane Judkins.
page 30; Katie d. of
John Anderson and w. Mary; b. March 25; c. April 26, 1752, gpts. John Welborn,
Lucy Newsom, Rebecca Smith.
Marriage Notes for John
Anderson and Mary Bell:
Would have been married in the old Spring Swamp Chapel,
Albemarle Parish, Virginia, located a couple miles NE of the current town of
Jarrat, Virginia. Mary lived only a
mile or so west of the chapel. The replacement church (St. Andrew's Church) was
being built by her brother-in-law and husband in the 1747 to 1749 time period
but no services took place in the new chapel until 1751.
24 vii. Faith Anderson (Source: (1) Grant James
Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909).,
(2) James Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson, (Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County,
Virginia).), born 1727 in "Arnols", Surry, County, Virginia (Source:
Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall
Families, (Whittet &
Shepperson, Printers; 1909).); died Bet. 1770 - October 20 1776 in Nottoway
County, Virginia. She married Peleg
Ferguson (Source: Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson -
Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet
& Shepperson, Printers; 1909).) Bet. 1750 - 1754 in Amelia County,
Virginia; born Abt. 1727 in Rappahanock County, Virginia; died 1796 in Nottoway
County, Virginia.
Notes for Faith
Anderson:
No contemporary birth record has been found. James Grant Anderson gives her birth as 1724
in his book Genealogy in part, of the Anderson-Owen-Beall families. Faith
Anderson would have been born on her father's Surry County plantation called
"Arnols" located in the West corner of Surry county, Virginia North
of the Blackwater River.
Faith Anderson apparently relocated to Amelia County with her
brothers about 1733 and remained in Amelia County in 1743 when her father
returned to the Arnols estate in Surry County. Faith Anderson did not marry
until after 1749 as she appears as a witness using her maiden name in her
brother Thomas Anderson's deed along Whetstone Creek in that year. Faith is
mentioned in her father James Anderson's 1751 will as follows: "I give to
my Daughter Faith five pounds current money and all the Estate she hath now of
mine in her possession."
Thomas Anderson
and
Kerenhappuck Anderson to Henry
Buford
03/25/1749 54 acres Amelia County
Amelia County Deed Book
3 page 235
adj. Binford's corner on Whetstone Creek, Thomas Burges' line,
& Whetstone Creek. Wit. Thomas Buford, Benjamin Shelton, Faith
Anderson. This is the sale of the
remainder of his original patent.
It is stated in the Anderson genealogy of G. J. Anderson
(1909), that Faith Anderson married Peleg Ferguson. This marriage is not
confirmed as of yet but is very likely as Peleg Ferguson appears co-located in
Nottoway Parish with her brother John along Hurricane Creek from 1754 until
1796 and John Anderson acts as a witness for his deed.
Faith dies before 1776 as Peleg remarried before that year,
but all his children are believed to have been hers.
Tax Data
-1782 tax
roll Amelia County, Virginia
Peleg Ferguson 9 whites, 11 blacks
-1782 tax
roll Nottoway County, Virginia
Allen Anderson 1 tythe
Peleg Feguson 5 tythes
John Ferguson
-1785 tax
roll Amelia County, Virginia
John Anderson 15 whites, 2 dwellings, 3 outer
Peleg Ferguson 9 whites, 3 dwellings, 5 outer
Bibliography
Genealogy in part, of
the Anderson-Owen-Beall families, by Grant James Anderson, Whittet &
Shepperson, Richmond, Virginia, 1909.
Notes for Peleg
Ferguson:
In the book "Genealogy in part, of the
Anderson-Owen-Beall families", by Grant James Anderson, Whittet &
Shepperson, Richmond, Virginia, 1909; it is stated that Peleg married Faith
Anderson and the children of Peleg and Faith are listed as Mary, John, Delphy,
Betsey, William and Lucy. Faith's brother John and Peleg were in the same tax
district and lived near each other at Hurricane Creek south of current
Blackstone Virginia.
Amelia County Deed Book
5, page 166
May 22, 1754
Greenham Dodson of
Nottoway Parish to Peleg Farguson of Nottoway Parish in consideration of 6
pounds.
29 acres in Nottoway Parish, being part of a patent of 444
acres to Hugh Williams on Aug 1, 1745, and by him conveyed to Greenham Dodson.
land is adjacent first branch spring out of Great Hurricane Creek, below said
Ferguson's mill.
WIts: John Durham, John
Anderson(brother of his wife Faith), & William Morgan
Amelia County Deed Book
7, page 573
Mar 4, 1762
Robert Ferguson to
Peleg Ferguson for 5 shillings
300a in Nottoway Parish adj John Bridgforth & Harricane
Creek as it meanders, being part of 950 acres patented to James Farguson Oct 1,
1757.
Peleg apparently remarried after Faith's death. On 10/20/1776
Francis Eppes conveys to Peleg Ferguson and Frances his wife, her dower of her
late husband, Charles Williams. In his will he mentions no wife so it is
assumed that Frances died before 06/1795.
The will of Peleg does not mention all of his children, as the
Amelia County marriage records provide us with the name of Delphe Ferguson
daughter of Peleg. The 1795 will of Peleg Ferguson names no wife
and his beloved daughter Mary Anderson, son William Ferguson, daughter
Elizabeth Jackson, daughter Lucy Tankersley, grand-daughter Ann Jackson
(daughter of Lucy), grand-daughter Betty Tankersley (daughter of Lucy) and son
John Ferguson. He designates John Ferguson
and friend Freeman Eppes as executors.
Witnesses are Woodlief Thomas, John Mills, Edw Mays, Benjn
Bridgeforth. In a codicile he provides
for Rebecca Chavis and her daughter Betty Chavis who attended him in his
declining years. files in 1796 on page 213,214 of will book 1?
In the name of God Amen
I Peleg Farguson of the Country & Parish of Nottoway being weak in body but
in perfect sound mind & memory do make ordain this my Last will &
Testament hereby revoking all other will by me heretoforer made and after
paying all my just debts I give and dispose of the rest of my Estate in maner & form following viz... Item I give & bequeath to my beloved
Daughter Mary Anderson five pounds specie... Item I give & bequeath to my
Son William Farguson five pounds specie... Item I give & bequeath unto my
Daughter Elizabeth Jackson five pounds specie and two pewter Dishes of a middle
size two pottle pewter basons six pewter plates the above pewter to be new
& good... Item I give and bequeath
to my beloved Daughter Lucy Tankersley five pounds specie and two middle sized
pewter ddishes xx...xx..xx, one size under the other two pewter pottle basons
six pewter plattes the pewter to be new & good... Item I give & bequesth unto my Grand Daughter Ann Jackson
daughter of Lucy Tankersley a negroe girl by the name of Jenney together with
her increase to her & the lawful heirs of her body but if should die before
she marry or comes of lawful age it s
my will & desire that the above named negroe Jinney shall with her increase
go to my Gran Daughter Betty Tankersley daughter to my Sd. Daughter Lucy
Tankersley... Item I give & bequeath to my beloved son John Farguson &
his heirs foever all the rest & residue of my estate of what nature or kind
soever whether real or personal provided he pays the legacies mentioned to my
Daughter Mary Anderson, my Son William Farguson, Elizabeth Jackson & Lucy
Tankersley and likewise he is to perform & fulfill the conditions of the
memorandum made on the back of these presents.
It is my will & desire that there shall be no inventory or
appraisement of my Estate and that my Exceutors herein after named shall hav a
reasonable time allowed them after my death to make from my estate a
suffficiency to pay the money legacies, as above directed. I constitute & apoint my beloved son
John Ferguson & my friend Freeman Epes my Executors of this my last will
& testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my
seal this first Dat of December in the year of out Lord One Thousand Seven
Hundred & Ninety Five. Signed Sealed published & declared to be the
last will & Testament of Peleg Farguson & by his request signed by us
Woodlief Thomas Peleg
Farguson {seal}
John Mills
Edwd Mayes
Benjn Bridgforth
Item I do further add
as my will & Desire and do give & bequeath unto Rebecca Chavis who has
faithfully attended on me for some time past as well as at this time my weaving
loom & five slays one little Iron Pott and the largest of the bigg potts three pewter plates one
pewter dish one pewter bason of the old kind the old knives & forks three
of the oldest chairs the old table & one barrel of corn and three hundred
weight of good pork consisting of three hogs for each year for ten years Also
one pair of pott hooks & the bed stead she now makes use of. The frying pan
the water pail I made Eleven ducks six henns one cocke one ax and one good milk
cow every year for ten year I also leave her the use of my house that stands
over the cellar during her natural life with the use of as much ground as she
can tend in the following, Bounds Beginning at the great gulley aaat the creek
and up the said gulleyby the barn to the fence that encloses the orchard and
down siad fence to th mill pond and thence down the said pond to the mill &
from thence down the said creek to the beginning with the priviledge of as mcuh
fruit as she an dry for her own use and to eat also as much fire wood as is
necessary for her use, but if she should attempt to dispose of her right and
title to the sd house and land she shall by so doing forfeit her right &
Title to the whole left her she is not to keep no other person whatsoever with
her but her Daughter Ritter Chavis for the use of the house & land she is
to spin on pound of cotten for my son John Farguson, that will run five yards
to the fine hundread slay & year.
Attest
Woodlief Thomas
Pelege {mark} Farguson {seal}
John MIlls
Edwd Mayes
Benjn Bridgforth
Editors Note: The Chavis family was descended from a
Moorish Doctor who came early to Virgnia and his many descendents practiced the
art of medicine and nursing.
Tax Data
-1782 tax
roll Amelia County, Virginia
Peleg Ferguson 9 whites, 11 blacks
-1782 tax
roll Nottoway County, Virginia
Allen Anderson 1 tythe
Peleg Feguson 5 tythes
John Ferguson
-1785 tax
roll Amelia County, Virginia
John Anderson 15 whites, 2 dwellings, 3 outer
Peleg Ferguson 9 whites, 3 dwellings, 5 outer
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Posted to Genforum by: Mary Ferguson Fiser Date: September 26,
1999 at 19:40:19
In Reply to: Peleg
Ferguson abt 1730-1796 Amelia VA by Patrick Anderson
Hi Patrick!
I am collecting the
descendants of Peleg's paternal grandparents, John Ferguson (Fargeson, etc.)
and Anne Stubbleon of Essex Co., VA. Please contact me via email -
[email protected]
Thanks, Mary Ferguson
Fiser
__________________________________
George Ingram
<[email protected]>
/John FERGUSON , Sr. b: ABT. 1650
d: 1717
/John FERGUSON , Jr. b: ABT. 1685 d: 22
APR 1769
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| /Stubble STUBBLESON d:
UNKNOWN
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\Ann STUBBLESON d: ABT. 1735
Peleg FERGUSON d: 1796
\Sarah BRIDGFORTH d: UNKNOWN
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25 viii. Lydia Anderson (Source: James Anderson, 1751
Will of James Anderson, (Will Book
9, Page 772, Surry County, Virginia).), born Bet. 1717 - 1730 in
"Arnols", Surry County, Virginia; died Aft. 1752. She married William Avoris; born Bet. 1715 -
1730 in Surry County, Virginia; died Aft. 1771.
Notes for Lydia
Anderson:
Lyddey Anderson would have been born on her father's Surry
County plantation called "Arnols".
She does not appear in the genealogy of Grant J. Anderson (1909)
"Genealogy in part, of the Anderson-Owen-Beall families"; By Grant
James Anderson; Richmond Virginia; Whitter & Shepperson printers, 1909 and
it would appear therefore that little contact existed between her and her
brothers in Nottoway County.
Lyddey is named iin the 1750 will of fher father Jamesd Anderson
as having married an Averiss, "I give to my Daughter Lyddey Averiss Five
pounds current Money of Virginia and all of the Estate she hath now of mine in
her Possession". I have not
absolutely been able to identify her husband but by process of elimination he
appears to be William Averiss.
It seems very likely that William and Lyddey were among the
many families that left for the Carolinas in the 1750's.
Notes for William
Avoris:
The christian name of Lyddey's husband has not yet been
confirmed. An examination of Surry
County records reveals a John Averiss 6/26/1761 will naming son William Averiss
and son Thomas Averiss, deceased. John
Averiss' sons are the most likely candidates for Lyddey's husband. Thomas
Averiss' 05/18/1751 estate settlement lists his wife Rebecca as executor. Thomas Averiss' son John Averiss eventually
ends up with James Anderson's Arnols estate.
The most likely candidate for the husband of Lyddey is William
Averiss the brother. As the Avories
family children were not listed in the Albemarle Parish register it is likely
that the were Quakers or Baptists.
Bibliography
Surry County, Virginia,
Wills, Estate Accounts and Inventories 1730-1800, by Lyndon H. Hart, III,
Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1985.
Child of James
Anderson and Rebecca Cooke is:
26 i. William6 Anderson, born Bef. 1742
in "Arnols", Surry, County, Virginia; died December 03, 1773 in
Dinwiddie County, Virginia (Source: Gertrude R. B. Richards, Register of
Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, (The National Society Colonial Dames of
America in the Commonwealth of Virginia; 1958).). He married Elizabeth Chappell January 13, 1763 in Southampton
County, Virginia; born July 06, 1745 in Surry County, Virginia (Source:
Gertrude R. B. Richards, Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex
Counties, 1739-1778, (The National
Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia; 1958).).
Notes for William
Anderson:
William Anderson should have been born on his Father's Surry
County estate called "Arnols".
This is located in the Southwest Corner of Surry County along the north
side of the Blackwater River. He is
named in the 1750 will of his father James Anderson as follows, "I give
and Devise to my Son William all my Land in Surry County to him and his heirs
for ever as also one Snuff Box, one Pockett Book, One Gun, called mine, and
after the Death of my Wife Rebecca one negro women named Kate and her increase
one negro boy named Ned, one Still and also my Desk."
William is identified as a son of the second wife of James
Anderson in the Grant J. Anderson Genealogy of 1909. He is named in the 1770
will of his mother Rebecca Anderson nee Cooke as follows, "All the res and
residue of my estate of what nature or kind soever I give and bequeath unto my
beloved son William Anderson his heirs and assigns forever as a Testimony of
his Duty respect to me."
The dower signature in the deeds of William Anderson is
Elizabeth. The association of Elizabeth
in Dinwiddie with Thomas Chappel of Charlotte, suggest that her maiden name may
have been Chappel. Southampton County
marriage records record the marriage of William Anderson to Elizabeth Chappel
with Thomas Chappel sureter in 1763.
The only confirmed child is Charlotte mentioned in her
grandmother's will. However, Thomas
Chappel of Charlotte County acts as co-executor with his widow of his estate
after his death in Dinwiddie County.
This Thomas Chappel, is apparently Thomas Chappel,IV the son of Mary
Cook, William's mother's sister. In the 1782 taxes of Dinwiddie County, Thomas
Chappel is acting as the guardian for a minor James L. Anderson. James L. is
being taxed on 444 acres comprising two plots one of 382 acres the other of 62
acres. In 1794 Richard Mays is taxed on 70 acres conveyed by James Anderson. In 1796 James Anderson is taxed on 359 3/4
acres. In 1797 Joel Roper is taxed on
14½ acres conveyed by James Anderson. In 1797 William Chandler is taxed on 592
acres conveyed by James Anderson. These
associations would indicate that William had a son James L. Anderson. This James Anderson marries Martha Chappel
the daughter of Thomas Chappel in Sussex County in 1800.
William inherited the "Arnols" estate in Sussex
County in reversion from his mother who dies in 1770. He expanded the estate in 1764 and sells it to John Avoriss in
1773, the deed identifies William as a resident of Dinwiddie County. All pre 1836 Dinwiddie records, other than a
court order book and a surveyors book, were destroyed in a court house fire in
that year.
William died 12/03/1773 according to the Albemarle Parish
register. His death is reported by
William Dunn,Jr. a neighbor of James Eppes the son of his brother-in-law Edward
Eppes.
William Anderson
03/01/1773 54 acres Surry
County
Virginia Patent Book 41
page 287
North of the Blackwater River.
William Anderson from John Johnson
03/25/1764 150 acres
Surry County Book 8
Page 233
150 acres adjacent to the 300 inherited from his father?
William Anderson to Richard Blunt
Elizabeth (dower)
08/26/1772 63½ acres
Surry County Book 10
1769-1778 Page 238
William of Surry sells a portion of the Arnols Estate not
along the water.
William Anderson to John Saunders
Elizabeth (dower)
10/30/1773 12 acres
Surry County Book 10
1769-1778 Page 371
A portion of the Arnols Estate
William Anderson to John Averiss
Elizabeth (dower)
11/01/1773 371 acres
Surry County Book 10
1769-1778 Page 401
William Anderson of Dinwiddie County for £ 324,,12,,06 on
Arnolds Spring Branch on Blackwater Swamp up the branch to Henry Cocke's line
thence along his line N 30 W 40 poles to a Hickory, N 20 W 83 poles to a white
oak at a corner of Lemuel Cocke's line thence with his line N 44 W 72 poles, N
48 W 104, N 75 W 31 poles to a red oak, S 27½ W 33 poles, S 5 W 25 poles to a
pine thence by a line of new marked trees S 26 W 228 poles to an oak standing
in the Thoany Branch thence down the watercourse of the said branch to the Main
Blackwater Swamp and Down the Swamp to the begininng.
Thomas Chappell from John Averiss
& Elizabeth
Anderson
03/05/1774
Surry County Book 10
1769-1778 Page 427
A title to his personal property in lieu of seizure of his
land because of his inability to pay a bond used in the preceding sale of the
Arnols estate, with an option to redeem at a later date.
John Avoris
07/13/1776
Virginia Gazette
his admr., Thos. Chappell and Jos. Fowler of Dinwiddie will
sell all of his est. consisting of 371 ac.
John Averiss to John
Stewart
08/20/1776 371 acres
Surry County Book 10
1769-1778 Page 486
The Arnols estate for 200 some odd pounds.
Bibliography
Genealogy in part, of
the Anderson-Owen-Beall families, by Grant James Anderson, Whittet &
Shepperson, Richmond, Virginia, 1909.
Southside Virginia
Families, Volume II, by John Bennet Boddie, Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood
City, California, 1956.
More About Elizabeth
Chappell:
Living: 1774, Dinwiddie
County, Virginia
10. Eliza5 Anderson (Thomas4, Thomas3,
Thomas2, Richard1) (Source: Gertrude R. B. Richards, Register
of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, (The National Society Colonial Dames of
America in the Commonwealth of Virginia; 1958).) was born Abt. 1692 in
"The Cattails", Charles City County, Virgnia, and died Bef. 1764 in
Sussex County, Virginia. She married William
Sanders (Source: Thomas Anderson, 1711 Will of Thomas Anderson, (1710-1713 Will Book, Page 36, Prince George
County, Virginia).) Bef. 1711 in Prince George County, Virginia. He was born Bef. 1687 in Charles City
County, Virgnia, and died 1764 in Sussex County, Virginia.
Notes for Eliza
Anderson:
From the will of Thomas Anderson d.1711,
"9thly I give & bequeath to my son in law Wm Sanders five hundred
pounds tobacco."
The Albemarle Parish
Register mentions Eliza Sanders in 1745 associated with christenings of the
Tomlinson family.
Register of Albemarle
Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, Transcribed and Edited by
Gertrude R. B. Richards, The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the
Commonwealth of Virginia, 1958.
Notes for William
Sanders:
William Sanders witnesses the 1711 will
of Thomas Anderson and is named as a son-in-law in the will. This can be interpreted in two ways, 1) that
he married a daughter of Thomas Anderson unnamed in the will, or 2) that he was
a son of Thomas Anderson's first wife by an earlier Sanders husband. I am still trying to find a document that
clarifies which circumstance is true.
Surry County Wills,
Deeds, Etc. #5 1694,1709, page 376, 1 Nov 1707
Charles Briggs of
Surry County to William Sanders of Waynoke Parish in Prince George County ----
100 acres at Otterdam Swamp bounded by Mr. Thomas Hunt, Samuel Briggs, Patrick
Lashely and Henry Briggs.. Wit: Henry Harrison and Joel Barker.
Surry County Deeds
Wills Book #7, 12 Feb 1719, page 248
William Saunders to
Henry Briggs
100 acres on Otterdam
Swamp at said Henry Briggs and bounded by Edward Gunell and THomas Blunt.
Wit: James Anderson,
John Cargill and Daniel Eelbank Recorded 17 Feb 1719
William Sanders leased
200 acres adjacent James Anderson in the 1719 time period as is found in the
following
THOMAS, William; Leg
To son John Thomas all my land on the south side of Meherrin River, featherbed,
furniture, etc. To son William, my Plantation he now lives on, one negro, my
silverheaded cane, wathc books, etc.. To daughter Jane Later, 200 acres,
adjoining Mr. Bluntsland & one Negro, when she is 18 years old, feather bed
etc. To daughter Ann a negro. To daughter mary negro. To Son Henry the land
where William Saunders now lives and the land at Beaverdam, two negroes one
three pint silver tankard and six silver spoons etc. all stock at Meherrin to
be equally divied. My desire is that all goods now come in the Bradby, be sold
by outcry at Cabbi's Point to raise money to pay Mr. Blunt's children To wife a
negro and rest of my estate for life by equally divided among my children.
Mentions three youngest daughters.
Makes wife Priscilla Thomas Executrix. Made 17 Jan 1719 probated 17 Feb
1719 Wit: Thomas Bedingfield, Howell Edmunds, Wm Blunt Book 7, 243
James Anderson to William
Sanders
/
/1726 100 acres
Surry County Book
1715-1730 Part 2 page 671-673
Land north of the
Pigeon Swamp beginning at the mouth of a branch.
The description of
this land is contained in the patent:
Anderson, James
09/05/1723 100 acres Surry
County
Patents Book 11,
1735-38, page 289
GEORGE [insert] TO
ALL[i] KNOW YE that for diverse good causes and considerations but more
especially for and in consideration of the sum of TEN SHILLINGS of good and
lawfull money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Tresury in this
our Colony and Dominion of Virginia. WE
HAVE given granted and confirmed and by these presents for Us our [?] Do give
grant and confirm unto James Anderson of Surry County one certain tract or
parcel of Land containing one hundred acres lying and being on the South side
of the Main Blackwater Swamp in the County aforesaid and bounded as followeth,
to wit. BEGINNING at a pine on the North side of the Pigeon Swamp thence
Northeast one hundred and thirty nine poles to a red oak then North by East
seventy four poles to a pine thence West Northwest fforty one poles to a pine
then South fifty five degrees West Sixty poles to a pine by the side of a small
Branch then down the various courses fo the run of the said Branch to the
Pigeon Swamp aforesaid and down the various courses of the run of the said
swamp to the beginning WITH ALL[i] To have hold or to be held [i] yielding and
paying [i] provided [i] In witness [i] witness our Trusty and Wellbeloved Hugh
Drysdale Esqr. Lieut Govr. [i] at Williamsburg under the Seal of our said
Colony the Fifth Day of September One Thousand Seven hundred and Twenty Three
in the Fourth year of our Reign
Hugh
Drysdale
William Sanders
06/10/1737 Prince George Co
200a north side
Gravelly Run adj William Richards, Jeffrey Munford etc.
Virginia patents
17/329
William is named as
witness to several Surry County deeds in the 1730's
William Sanders will
is filed in Sussex County Will Book "A", page 336 21 Jun 1764 and
names son William Sanders the land he now lives on; Son John Sanders the land I now live on. Wife Mary Sanders my
personal estate for life. Executors: Sons. Wit Reuben Baird, William Evans and
Henry Peoples. Inventory book "B" page 12.
Children of Eliza
Anderson and William Sanders are:
27 i. William6 Sanders, born 1714 in
Surry County, Virginia; died Aft. 1765.
He married Huldah ? Bef. 1748; born 1728; died Aft. 1765.
Notes for William
Sanders:
William was christened 11/13/1748 at age 34 and recorded in
Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, Gertrude R.
B. Richards, The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth
of Virginia, 1958.
Sussex Deed book C,
page 192
Oct 17, 1765
William Sanders and
Hulda to Benjamin Figg for 18 pounds 90a on the north side of Black Swamp
More About William
Sanders:
Living: 1765, Sussex
County, Virginia
Notes for Huldah ?:
Christened on November
13, 1748 at age of 20 APR
More About Huldah ?:
Living: 1765, Sussex
County, Virginia
28 ii. Sarah Sanders, born Abt. 1716.
Notes for Sarah
Sanders:
Sussex County Will Book
"B" page 340 16 Apr 1772
Inventory of Estate of
Sarah Sanders, dec'd, for John Sanders
29 iii. John Sanders, born Abt. 1720 in Surry
County, Virginia; died Aft. 1773. He
married (1) Mary Parsons; born Abt. 1735; died Aft. 1774. He met (2) Anna Curtis.
Notes for John Sanders:
John got the 100a of his father on Pidgeon Swamp which left
him in Albemarle Parish. John's
childrens births are recorded in the Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and
Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, Transcribed and Edited by Gertrude R. B. Richards,
The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia,
1958.
Suusex County Deen Book
B, page 388
21 Apr 1763
John Gary to John
Sanders for 10 pounds 50 acres on Pidgeon Swamp being part of a tract bought by
John Gary from Reuben Baird and bounded by Robins Branch.
Sussex County Deed Book
C, ppage 143
17 Dec 1764
John Gary to John
Sanders for 8 pounds 40 a on Pidgeon Swamp being part of a tract bought by said
Gary from Reubin Baird on 21 Nov 1760 bounded by north side of Pidgeon Swamp.
Sussex County Deed Book
D, page 169
19 Apr 1770
John Sanders and wife
Mary Sanders to John Clark for 35 pounds 100a on east side of Pidgeon Swamp.
Sussex County Deed Book
E, page 159
15 Oct 1773
John Sanders and wife
Mary to Joshua Johnson for 50 pounds 90a on Pidgeon Swamp being part of tract
bought from John Gary bounded by Robins Branch and Gary's Old Field. (resold by
Johnson in 1777 to Jesse Partridge)
Notes for Mary Parsons:
Sussex County Deed Book
C, page 192
21 Sep 1765
Robert Parsons to his
son and daughter, John Sanders and Mary Sanders for love and affection one
negro girl, Lydia.
Robert Parsons will 18
Jun 1777 proven 18 Sep 1777 names dau Mary Sanders
John Parsons
<[email protected]>
/Unknown PARSONS
/Robert PARSONS b: 1720 d: SEP 1777
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\Unknown HARRISON
Mary PARSONS b: 1755
\Eleanor HINES b: 1725 d: 9 NOV 1770
11. Charles5 Anderson (Thomas4, Thomas3,
Thomas2, Richard1) (Source: Thomas Anderson, 1711 Will
of Thomas Anderson, (1710-1713 Will
Book, Page 36, Prince George County, Virginia).) was born Abt. 1697 in on
"Old Towne Run", Charles City County, Virginia, and died Aft. 1753 in
Dinwiddie County, Virginia. He married ?.
Notes for Charles
Anderson:
Thomas Anderson names his son Charles in
his 1711 Will. An inventory of Charles Anderson's portion of his father's
estate is filed on 09/07/1712 in Prince George County by Cornelius Cargill his
guardian and at the prayer of James Anderson it was recorded. This indicates that Charles was stll a minor
at the death of Thomas.
There is filed on page 957 of the Prince
George County records 1713-1728, a deed of 02/01/1726 from Cornelius Cargill to
Robert Hunnicutt for 150 acres on the south side of Cattail Swamp on the north
side of the Blackwater and both sides of Reedy Branch formerly the, "occupation
of one Thomas Anderson now deceased, and by James Anderson and Charles Anderson
two of the sons of the said Thomas Anderson...", 105 acres sold by James
Anderson to Cornelius Cargill by deed dated 04/14/1719 and the rest by Charles
Anderson his brother by deed dated 03/10/1718.
There are records of Charles Anderson
witnessing deeds to lands bordering on the patent of his father. Charles appears as a witness to a deed of
Elizabeth Duke in 1726 and another of William Jackson in 1727. Elizabeth Duke nee Taylor had inherited the
Saw Tree Plantation to the southwest of Charles' father's plantation. This indicates that he was still a nearby
resident.
The Prince George County 1737-1740 Court
Orders record on page 106 that Charles Anderson served 05/09/1738 on a grand
jury regarding the acceptance of a bridge.
Again on page 365, Charles Anderson is reimbursed 20 shillings on
11/14/1739 for setting up one post. In
light of the talents of his father, brother and nephews as carpenters these
items are suggestive that this Charles is the son of Thomas.
Charles Anderson was given a patent in
the southern portion of central Prince George County in 1733. The area of this patent exists within the
eastern boundary of Dinwiddie County today.
Dinwiddie was formed from the western half of Prince George County in
1752. This is the same year that his brother James purchased lands in Brunswick
County, well to the west of this patent.
Some potential clarification may be
found from a close examination of Charles Anderson data from Amelia County tax
records 1736-1752. At the time I
examined these I was not familiar with Charles Anderson data as I am
today. Little additional information is
available about the family of the Dinwiddie County Charles Anderson because the
county records were destroyed in an 1833?7 fire at the courthouse.
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Prince George County,
Virginia, Wills & Deeds 1710-1713, page 161
A true inventory of all Charles Anderson
son of Thos Anderson D'cd his estate land only excepted bequeathed to him by
aforesaid Anderson in his last will & testament.
Item Feather bed & boulster with curtains
& vallances & yarn sett rug & blanketts & pair of sheets two
pillows one gun one iron pott with pott hooks one chest one rapier & belt.
Item One mare about three years old, five
sheep, vis 3 Ewes 2 weathers, & the third part of a price of two steers
valued to seven hundred pds of Tobacco being vis 233.
Item One cow called Blossom another called
Snowflake & another Pretty, one red yearling steer, one heifer of two years
old with ware all appraised to fifteen hundred pds of Tobco.
Item Three four year old Barrows five old
sows five young sd, five young Barrows [could?] said half old.
Item His part of two hhds Tobco said out at the
land platt amounting to 366.
Item His part of thousand pounds of Tobco
said out lying part amounting to 593.
Item His part of Tobco due from Joshua Wynne
amounting to 233.
Item His part of Tobco due from John Hardyman
amounting to 523.
Item His part of Tobco due from Cpat. Fra.
Mallory amounting to 143.
Item from Peter Walpoole ......40
Item for a coat sold to Edwd Denton his part
amounts ....175
Item from Joseph Pattison ....76
Item from George Hamelton ....100
Item from David Goodgame ....20
Item from Jno Wickill ....81
Item from Joseph Carter ....36
Item Two Rupia Leather Chairs ....150
Item from Daniel Higdon ...50
Item Cash ... vis 40s
Item One couch viz tan leather
Item one eight gold [?P/R rop]
Item one old frying pan
Item five doe skins
Item for his part of old lumber ....136
Item his part of the Pewter....viz...28s
Pr. George County
Court February 1712
This above and here
before witten Invent & acct of the estate of Chas Anderson was presented
into court by Cornelius Cargill his guardian & at prayer of James Anderson
same was truly recorded.
test. Edwd Goodrich
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Charles Anderson to Cornelius
Cargill
Westopher Parish Weynoak Parish
Pr. George County Pr. George County
03/04/1718 50 acres Prince
George County
This Indenture made
this Fourth Day of March in the year of our Lord Christ One thousand Seven
hundred and eighteen. Between Charles
Anderson of the Parrish of Westopher on the County of Prince George of the one
part and Cornelius Cargill of the Parrish of Waynoake and County aforsaid of
the other part Witnesseth that the said Charles Anderson for divers good causes
and considerations him thereunto moving but more especially for and in
consideration of the sum of five pounds current money to him in hand paid by
the said Cornelius Cargill at and before the [?] and sealing and delivery of these presents [?] receit whereof the said Charles Anderson
doth hereby acknowledge and thereof doth acquit release and discharge the said
Cornelius Cargill his Ers. etc. Hath given granted bargained sold and for ever
quitted claim and by these presents the said Charles Anderson doth for himself
his heirs executors etc. give grant bargain sell and for ever quitt claim to
the said Cornelius Cargill and to his heirs for ever to all that seat tract or
parcel of land situate lying and being on the south side of the cattail swamp
in the County aforesaid containing fifty acres, be it more or less being all
the land that the said Charles Anderson holds on the south side the said swamp
and joining the said Cargills land. To
have and to hold the said lands and premisses with all the appurtenances
thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said Cornelius Cargill
and to his heirs for ever. So that
neither the said Charles Anderson or his heirs nor any other person or persons
whatsoever claiming or to claim by from or under him or them shall not at any
time hereafter have any right title or interest in or to the said land and
premises, but that the same with every part and parcell thereof shall be and
for ever hereafter enure to the only sole proper use and behoof of him the said
Cornelius Cargill and to his heirs for ever In witness whereof the said Charles
Anderson hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first upon
written.
signed sealed and
delivered
in presence of Charles Anderson sealed
with
Gil Hay red
wax
John Peterson,Junr
On the back of the above Deed
was an endorsement in the folowing words Viz:
Memorandum: That Livery and Seizin of
the Lands and premisses within mentioned was by the therein named Charles
Anderson delivered by Turf and Twigg unto the therein named Cornelius Cargill
with quiet and peaceable possession of the same in presence and sight of us.
Charles Anderson
At a Court held at Merchants
Hope for the County of Prince George on the second Tuesday in March being the
Fourth Day of the said month Anno Dom. 1718.
The above written Deed for land
(indented and sealed) with the above endorsement of livery of Seizin thereon
was in open Court acknowledged by Charles Anderson the subscriber thereto, to
be his act & Deed to Cornelius Cargill named therein on whoose motion the
same by order of the Court are truly recorded.
Test Wm Hamlin Cl Cur
________________________
Charles Anderson
06/20/1733 400 acres Prince George County
Virginia Patents Book
15 page 23.
George the second and
to all prs. know ye that for divers good causes and consideration but more
especially for and in consideration of the sum of forty shillings of good and
lawful money for our use paid to our revenur general of our [Row??] in this our
Colony and Dominion of Virginia WE HAVE given granted and confirmed and by
these presents for us our heirs and succesors do give grant and confirm unto
Charles Anderson of Prince George County one certain tract or parcel of land
containing four hundred acres lying and being in the county aforesaid on the
leads of Wills run of Stony Creek and joyning Robert Bollings Sappone Tract and
bounded as followeth (to wit) BEGINNING at a large pine at the head of the said
run in the said Bollings line thence north twenty five degrees west one hundred
and twenty one poles to a corner red oak thence east thirty six degrees north
two hundred and fifty six poles to a corner thence south thirty six degrees
east two hundred and sixty poles to a corner thence west thity six degrees
south two hundred and twenty two poles to Bollings line thence north thirty six
degrees west sixty poles to his corner gum in a meadow thence west twenty degrees
north one hundred and fourteen poles to the beginning WITH ALL er. to have hold
er. to behold er. yielding and paying er. Provided er. in his h??? er. We h???
our Trusty and Wellbeloved William Gooch Esq. our Lieutenant Governor and
Commaner in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburgh under the seal of our said colony the twentieth
day of June One Thousand and Seventeenhundred and thirty three of the seventh
year of our reign.
William
Gooch
_______________________________________
Evaluate the following
Subj: Anderson, REES
Date: 3/2/01 8:59:46 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: [email protected] (Doris)
To: [email protected] (Anderson, Bill),
[email protected] (Anderson, Bud), [email protected] (Anderson, PAt)
CC: [email protected] (Grimes, Lisa),
[email protected] (Pattie), [email protected] (doris)
Page 126. Account
Current of the estate of John Miles, deceased.
Debits. To: 2 caveats
against Tinsly; Sec'y's fees for Miles against Dawson; 3 children's schooling;
a girl for 4 months' tending the children; a hand for 2 weeks assisting to
Dutell(?); 3 appraisers' fees; a cart to carry the children to Pennsylvania;
Capt. John Austin; Edmund Booker, his Sheriff's Acc; William Baldwin; Francis
Graham; William Watson; Stephen Lewis; James Francis; Mathew Talbot; Douglas
Baker; Margaret Zyre; George Henry; Wm Rees; James McCroy; John Ruffin;
Alexander Hamilton; Charles Anderson; John
Gordon; Saml Baker;
Clement Read; Secretary Nelson. Total: £ 66.15.7.
Credits. By: an acco
sales of the personal estate which is hereunto annexed - £ 131.10.0.
At Aug 7, 1753 Court,
Thomas Boulden and Abraham Martin, Gent, who were appointed by a former order
of this Court to settle an account current of the estate of John Miles,
deceased, this day returned this account current, which is passed by the Court,
and ordered to be recorded.
http://www.tlc-gen.com/LunenburgWillBook1.htm
More About Charles
Anderson:
Living: 1733, Prince
George County, Virginia
Children of Charles
Anderson and ? are:
30 i. Charles6 Anderson (Source:
Patrick Joseph Anderson, GEDCOM of Reynard Anderson Family, (9654 Blatimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland
20723 ([email protected])), "Electronic," Date of Import: Feb 13,
2000.), born Abt. 1730 in Prince George County, Virginia. He married Sarah Herbert Claiborne (Source:
Patrick Joseph Anderson, GEDCOM of Reynard Anderson Family, (9654 Blatimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland
20723 ([email protected])), "Electronic," Date of Import: Feb 13,
2000.); born Abt. 1740 in Sussex County, Virginia (Source: Patrick Joseph
Anderson, GEDCOM of Reynard Anderson Family, (9654 Blatimore Avenue, Laurel, Maryland 20723
([email protected])), "Electronic," Date of Import: Feb 13, 2000.).
Notes for Charles
Anderson:
Charles Anderson that appears in the Albemarle Parish Register
is likely this individual as his father lived just across the Parish Border to
the west on Stony Creek. Proof remains
to be found though.
31 ii. William Anderson, born Abt. 1735 in Prince George
County, Virginia. He married Jane ?.
Notes for William
Anderson:
Subj: Anderson in Surry/Sussex VA
Date: 2/18/01 11:07:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: LynWilkins
To: PatAnder73
Hi Patrick,
My name is Lyn
Wilkinson. I am doing research on my
Wilkinson line. Henry Wilkerson married
Susanna Anderson in 1791 in Sussex.
Near that time was a McDowell Anderson and a Nelson Anderson. Let me give you the connection. My ancestor James W. Wilkinso migrated to GA
in 1832. He had 4 sons and 2 daughters
-- his first son Robert McDowel Wilkinson, his third son was Joseph Nelson
Wilkinson, his first daughter was named Susanna. I have been trying to find his origin in VA. I know that he came from Sussex. I have always been going on the theory that
McDowell was the surname of James W. Wilkinson's mother -- but when I saw both the McDowell Anderson
and Nelson Anderson along with the marriage of Henry Wilkerson to Susanna
Anderson. I have been researching the
Anderson but have not made much sucess in identifying McDowell Anderson and
Nelson Anderson.
Can you help me?
Thanks,
Lyn
12. Jane5 Anderson (Thomas4, Thomas3,
Thomas2, Richard1) (Source: Thomas Anderson, 1711 Will
of Thomas Anderson, (1710-1713 Will
Book, Page 36, Prince George County, Virginia).) was born Abt. 1705 in on
"Old Towne Run", Charles City County, Virginia. She married John Taylor Duke, son of
Henry Duke and Elizabeth Taylor. He was
born 1705 in Prince George County, Virginia, and died 1790 in Wilkes County,
Georgia.
Notes for Jane
Anderson:
My current theory is that Jane married
John Taylor Duke. The connection is
unproven but substantiated by the fact that she is born within a few years of
John Taylor Dukes birthdate and is a contemporary of his and her brother
Charles witnesses the sale of Richard Tylor's 1673 patent which descended to
Elizabeth (Taylor) Duke wife of Henry Duke.
John Taylor Duke and Jane Anderson definitely knew each other as
teenagers but I am still seeking proof that she is his wife Jane.
Jane Anderson was the daughter of Sarah
Barkers last child by her 2nd husband Robert Lucy and Elizabeth (Taylor) Duke
was a daughter of John Taylor, Sarah Barker's first child by her 1st husband
Richard Taylor. John Taylor, father of
Elizabeth was the guardian for Mary Lucy the mother of Jane Anderson in 1694.
Richard Taylor and Robert Lucy obtained
side by side patents along the Blackwater RIver in 1673 and in 1683 Thomas
Anderson patented the land above them along Cattail Creek.
________________________________________________
Prince George County,
Virginia, Wills & Deeds 1710-1713, page 161
Inventory of all Jean
Anderson, daughter to Thomas Anderson, dec'd, her estate, bequeathed to her by
the said Andreson in his last will & testament. One featherbed in the
trundle bedstead with the furniture thereunto belonging,, one cow with calf
& heifer of Two years old, one chest, one silver tumbler, one small iron
pott and pott hooks, two pewter dishes.
Pr. Geo County Court
the day of [?] 1712
This above written
acctt of estate of Jean Anderson was presented into court by Cornelius Cargill
her guardian and ordererd by the justices to be truly recorded - Edward
Goodrich
More About Jane
Anderson:
Living: 1712, Prince
George County, Virginia
Notes for John Taylor
Duke:
Christina Hunt
<[email protected]>
Residence: Brunswick
Co., VA 1733
Residence: Lunenenburg
Co., VA 1757
Residence: Brunswick
Co., VA 1761
Residence: Lunenburg
Co., VA 1763
Residence: Mecklenburg
Co., VA 1764
Residence: SC 1769
Residence: Washington
Co., GA 1784
Residence: Wilkes Co.,
GA 1787
__________________________________
Linda L. Clements
<[email protected]>
John Taylor Duke was
born between 1705 and 1710 in Prince George County, Virginia, and was named
after his maternal grandfather. He married Jane. He owned land and live in
several different counties in Virginia. He seemed to move quite often. Before
1769 he had left Virginia and lived in both North and South Carolina. By the end
of the Revolutionary War John Taylor Duke was living in Georgia.
(from Duke web site at
www.geocities.com/WallStreet/Market/4071/Duke.html -- presumably taken from a
Duke family history book, accessed 7-99)
He had at least five
children. (from "Henry Duke, Councillor -- His Descendents and
Connections" by Walter Garland Duke, Dietz Press, Inc., Richmond, VA,
1949; cited by Don A. Marsh on his website at www.mexia.com/LadyHawke/1210.htm,
last revised 11 January 1992.)
John Taylor Duke was a
soldier in the Revolutionary War, and received land in Georgia in payment for
his service. (According to DUKE rootsweb posting by Leon Flusche, 30 May 1999)
Children of Jane
Anderson and John Duke are:
32 i. Michael6 Duke.
33 ii. Edmond Duke, born Abt. 1726.
34 iii. Charles Duke, born Abt. 1728.
35 iv. James Duke, born Abt. 1730.
36 v. Robert Duke, born Abt. 1732.
37 vi. Thomas Duke, born Abt. 1734.
38 vii. Henry Duke, born Abt. 1736 in Virginia; died
September 18, 1780 in Georgia.
39 viii. John Taylor Duke, born Abt. 1740.