Descendants of Ericus Anderson
Generation No. 1
1. Ericus3 Anderson ("Southwest"2, "Colonial Virginia"1)
was born Abt. 1675, and died in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware.
Notes for Ericus
Anderson:
Subj: Andersons of SW
VA
Date: 10/11/03
12:34:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From:
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Good morning,
While stumbling around
on the net and going from link to link, I have come across some early Andersons
of Southwestern VA in whom each of you has had an interest, if only to help
separate the many Andersons of Virginia. These are a Jacob and John and James
of Grayson and Montgomery Cos., and I have enjoyed what is posted on them.
I started with the
website
http://www.geocities.com/herb194/AndersonDNA.html
and clicked on links
until I visited enough to become interested. I yanked this URL from a message
from one of my lists. I do belong to, but am a non-contributing member of a
mailing list entitled AndersonJW, mostly because my Anderson lineage pre-dates
what is discussed on that list.
I solemnly swear that
I am getting to Andersons you do like, but to get there I do need to drag through
mine. Please bear with me while I segue into people in whom you have no direct
interest ... but who may shed light on yours. I know that this is hard to read,
for there is too much data and no clear proof ... but the hints are killer for
SW VA Andersons.
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HOW I GET TO SW VA
I descend from the
Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, Anderson family ... and my family ends up in
the Washington/Russell/Lee Co., VA, area by 1774 according to their land
survey. More specifically, I come down from an Ericus Smith and wife Bridget
Anderson of New Garden settlement. They married in Wilmington, DE, on 22 Nov
1753. Ericus died in 1792, and widow Bridget is on the Russell Co., VA, tax
list of 1793 ... after which I lose all track of her.
My ancestor Ericus
Smith is son to an immigrant from Sweden, Hans Jurien Smith, of Wilmington, DE.
He married well, to a Mary Stalcup, whose grandfather was a 1638 founder of
Delaware. The Smith sons of this couple (minus one who died young and one whom
I have lost) end up in Montgomery, Washington, and Russell Cos., VA. They begin
to leave Wilmington, DE, in the 1740's and are all gone from there before 1760.
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ANDERSON BACKGROUND
Bridget Anderson, wife
of Ericus Smith, is a daughter to Peter Anderson and first wife Elizabeth
Derrickson. Peter Anderson left Wilmington, DE, between the sale of land
inherited from his father Ericus Anderson, in 1768 and 1770, at which time he
turns up making purchases on an Orange Co., NC, estate record. He is listed in
this record with his oldest son Ericus as well as a number of other
"escapees" from Wilmington, DE. He is there at least through sale of
his land in 1787. There is no probate, nor any further records on Peter
Anderson in NC. His son Ericus Anderson turns up in Russell Co., VA, where my
own Ericus Smith/Bridget Anderson had established themselves by 1774.
My Peter Anderson
(Sr.) also had a son Peter Anderson, born 27 Sep 1738 and bpt. 11 Oct 1738 ...
at which time his mother, Kerstin Derrickson Anderson was buried. This younger
Peter Anderson did survive, for he turns up in Orange Co., NC, as late as 1779
and 1780. But I lose him from NC records after this, and I'm not certain where
he went ... or if he died.
By Delaware church
records, Peter Anderson's second wife was Catherine Lynam/Linam, daughter of
Andrew Lynam of Wilmington, DE. Her brother Andrew Lynam was also an early
resident of SW VA, being in the Woods Hole entry book by 1745. His sons Richard
and Andrew Lynam kick up regularly in SW VA records ... let me paste in an
extract from a book which ties together any number of people with whom I'm
confusing you today:
UNSETTLED SETTLEMENTS
INDIAN FORAYS ON THE HOLSTON AND CLINCH RIVERS 1773-1794; Weaver, Jeffrey with
Emory L. Hamilton and John and Betty Mullins; Mullins Printing:Chitwood, VA)
1992; p. 54
"KILLING OF
RICHARD LYNAM AND SOLOMON KENDRICK
by Emory Hamilton
Richard Lynam, who lived on the Thompson's
Creek is[sic] New Garden of
Russell County,
Virginia, was killed by the Indians in Powell Valley in the
year 1777, Robert Sinclair,
son fo Charles Sinclair of Sinclair Bottom, whose
Revolutionary War
pension claim was filed in Madison County, Missouri on August
1, 1832, tells of the
killing thusly:
"Captain (Charles) Cocke's company
rendezvoused at Wolf Hills
(Abingdon) and marched
to Powell's Valley. Sixteen days after marching
to Powell's Valley,
Solomon Kendrick, the Indian spy, was killed by the
Indians, and this
applicant and Andrew Lynam acted as spys. Said
applicant was at
Powell's Valley about three months. At the end of this
time myself and Andrew
Lynam (40) went to Blackmore's Fort on Clinch
river and acted
together as spys for about twenty days, under the
command of Captain
Crump, at which time, Lynam and myself were out as
spys, and he, and
myself were sitting on a log when we were fired upon
by a party of Indians
and Lynam was killed. Three balls passed through
the clothes of this
applicant. After the death of Lynam, William
Richardson took his
place."
It was Richard Lynam, instead of his
brother Andrew killed in the described
incicent can be proven
by a court held in Washington County, Virginia on May
19, 1778 wherein James
Anderson was appointed administrator of the estate of
Richard Lynam, deceased,
with John Lewis and Samuel VanHook as his securities,
with Patrick Denny,
William Ferrill, Ericus Smith and James Anderson as
appraisers, all of
whom lived in Elk Garden.
[********LESLIE'S NOTE
ON THIS GROUP OF APPRAISERS IS BELOW.]
At a court held in the same county on
March 17, 1779 the following entry was
made: "On motion
of Samuel VanHook it is ordered that James Anderson,
Administrator of the
estate of Richard Lynam, deceased, be summoned to next
court to render an
account how he transacts the estate." On May 20, 1779 the
court ordered:
"Ordered that Arthur Campbell, Gent. Sheriff be administrator of
the estate of Richard
Lynam in the room of James Anderson, who of his own
account resigned in
court."
(40) In the above statement Robert Sinclair's
memory played him a trick and
he really means
Richard Lynam instead of his brother Andrew. Andrew was not
killed but Richard
was. Andrew Lynam was a veteran of the French and Indian War
and was very much
alive at this time and afterwards. Andrew moved on to
Kentucky and applied
for a Revolutionary War pension claim in Bath County,
Kentucky on June 23,
1834 and died in that county on July 3, 1847 at the ripe
old age of 88 years.
He was born in Guilford Conty, North Carolina on January
5, 1759."
[********Ah, ha! Those
1778 appraisers are telling. Richard Lynam, deceased, is a cousin to Bridget
Anderson Smith, Ericus Smith is the husband of my Bridget Anderson, Patrick
Denny is the father to the Jane Denny who md. my Aly Smith (son of Ericus Smith/Bridget
Anderson - and there is a large Denny family of Wilmington, DE, as well - I've
just never put in the time to connect this particular ancestor of mine to
them). I don't know William Ferrill ... but I'll bet that this James Anderson
is part of the same Anderson family.]
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BACK TO MY RUSSELL
CO., VA, SMITH/ANDERSON FAMILY & CLOSING IN ON YOURS
Bridget Anderson Smith
must not have lasted much longer than the 1793 tax list of Russell Co, for in
1797 the children of Ericus Smith/Bridget Anderson divide the property in
Russell Co. deed records, thereby identifying themselves, but there's no share
laid off to mom. My particular child is a Rev. War Aly Smith who md. Jane Denny
in Washington Co. in 1783 and later migrated to Campbell Co., TN, but his two
sisters are married to Joseph and Ephraim Hatfield ... and here it gets more
interesting.
As an aside, although
this is many years later, Ephraim and Mary (Smith) Hatfield are the progenitors
of what became the infamous fueding Hatfields of Pike Co., KY, and Logan Co.,
WV. The man who began the feud was a g' grandson William Anderson "Devil
Anse" Hatfield.
But it's backwards on
the Hatfields that is of interest to me today. These Hatfields appear to be
sons to a George Hatfield who appears in Botetourt in 1771. A proven son to
this George Hatfield (by Botetourt tax lists, which say "George Hatfield
and sons George and Jeremiah") is a Jeremiah Hatfield who left later
records in Montgomery, Grayson, Russell, and Lee Cos., VA. This Jeremiah
Hatfield is the father of a Mary Hatfield who md. William Cornett, son of
David, in Grayson Co. 2 Jun 1793. Jeremiah Hatfield signed a permission for his
daughter to marry William Cornett, so this is as clean a proof as can be found
for genealogists.
If your research has a
Cornett interest, then hang around for some Hatfield addendum.
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NOW FOR SOME HATFIELD
INFO
Back in Wilmington,
DE, there was a "census" taken of members of Holy Trinity Church in
1753. On it are found in one household my Smith immigrant Hans Jurian Smith
(who died of TB after making his will 12 Dec 1753 & was buried 27 Dec of
that year) and his son Ericus Smith ... as well as their housekeeper, Bridget
Anderson ... who md. the same Ericus Smith 22 Nov 1753. They lived in what
passed for downtown Wilmington, for Hans Smith was a hatter, not a farmer, and
the land on which the church was built was part of his wife's father's property
... they were literally across the street.
My Hans Jurian Smith
came to America from Falun, Sweden, in 1713 with his brother Frederick Smith.
Both were hatmakers, sons to a hatmaker named Peter Smith of Falun ... and we
have their passports from Sweden allowing them to emigrate as well as their
christening records which identify them clearly. Brother Frederick Smith moved
back and forth between Philadelphia and Wilmington, both of which were Swedish
settlements (this pre-dates William Penn). Although now in different states,
the early Swedish settlements between which these Swedish families moved were
in today's Philadelpha (PA), Wilmington (DE), and Raccoon Creek (NJ). If you'll
look at a map, you will see that all of these are no more than 15 miles apart
and all lie on the Delaware River.
BTW, the name
"Jurian" translates to English as "George." Remember that,
because it's about to crop up in the Hatfields.
Living exactly in the
household censused adjacent to Hans Smith in 1753 in Wilmington is a married
Hatfield daughter, daughter to Edward Hatfield and Catherine Lykins (all from
baptismal records). Edward Hatfield was a son to Jurian (remember- that's
George in English) Hatfield. The Hatfield genealogy is as tangled as any other,
so I am unsure if the George Hatfield who came to SW VA with his large number
of children is a grandson to Jurian Hatfield of Philadelphia through son George
or through son Edward mentioned abouve ... but it's one of them, and they're
all related.
My point is that
provable Andersons of SW VA, Hatfields, Smiths, Lynams (and too many more to
mention) all come from the same place and are all related to one another. I
have much further info showing that they came to SW in groups. Some came very
early in company with James Patton in the 1740's and 1750's, some went first to
NC and straggled into SW VA twenty years later.
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BACK TO THE JEREMIAH
HATFIELD WHOSE DAUGHTER MD. MARY CORNETT
Jeremiah Hatfield (who
was md. to Fannie Holland, d/o George Holland of an 1802 will in Grayson Co.,
VA) died or otherwise disappeared from the records of SW VA after the Lee Co.
tax list of 1796. He may have turned up briefly in Wayne Co., KY, from 1802 to
1809 ... or that may be a namesake son or nephew.
(Jeremiah's brothers
Valentine and Joseph Hatfield - this one md. to Rachel Smith - do go briefly to
Wayne Co., KY, and are on the same tax lists, but all leave pretty promptly.
Valentine Hatfield goes on to Overton & then Roane Cos., TN. Joseph
Hatfield settles in Campbell Co., TN ... the part that became Scott Co., TN, in
1850.)
Jeremiah's apparent
sons are without a father present, but do kick up themselves in Knox Co., KY,
and then Whitley Co., KY, beginning no later than 1804. They move back and
forth in this region, living sometimes in Campbell Co., TN, and sometimes in
Knox and Whitley Cos.
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FINALLY FOR LATER
ANDERSONS
There is a website on
the net for Anderson family research which seems to track with everything I've
written.
http://www.geocities.com/andersonkntv/misandersonnotes.html
See all its homepage
... this just has the record citations, so I used it.
Note carefully that
they are pursuing a John Anderson, assignee of Jeremiah Percefield of Knox Co.,
KY, in 1807. This family, as well as Jeremiah Percefield migrate to Campbell
Co., TN, for I have most of the early Campbell Co. records since my Aly
Smith/Jane Denny moved there.
They also search Jacob
Anderson, husband of Nancy Richardson, who left scads of records scattered from
Knox, Wayne, Whitley and Pike Cos., KY, and Campbell and Scott Cos., TN. .
Their Jacob and John
Anderson have "doins" with some Ferrells and Richardsons in Knox Co.
... these exactly the same surnames that appear in the 1778 Rev. War account
and 1779 Washington Co., VA, estate of Richard Lynam which I quoted to you
above ... and which mention my Ericus Smith, Patrick Denny, James Anderson, et
al. Knox Co., KY, is also where the sons of Jeremiah Hatfield/Fannie Holland
make records at this same early 1880s time period.
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THE JACOB ANDERSON
WEBSITE
They cite an 1834 deed
in Whitley Co. with a Thomas Bird ... while I show that a Thomas Bird md. a
Bridget Anderson (but by then she was then a widow to John Seeds) in
Wilmington, DE, in 1759 ... but I've never gone to get their children. This
particular Bridget Anderson is a daughter to Ole (which is William in English)
Anderson, brother to my own Peter Anderson Sr.
There are several
RootsWeb WorldConnect files which name this Thomas Bird of Whitley Co., KY, as
a son to a Robert Bird who seems to have left a will in Whitley Co. in 1821. A
brother to Whitley Co. Thomas Bird, an Isiah Bird, did live past 1880 and says
that he was born in NC and his father was born in Virginia. Perhaps based on
good evidence, or perhaps on less sound evidence, this Robert Bird has been
connected to another Bird family of King and Queen Co., VA. I've not a clue if
this connection is correct, for I know zero about Bird genealogy, but I
wouldn't want to mislead you into thinking that I know more than I do. If
WorldConnect files are corrent in placing these Whitley Co. Birds back into a
King and Queen Co., VA, family, then this part of my flight of fancy is
incorrect ... but if their info is sketchy and somewhat theoretical, then I
could have another Anderson link.
They cite land on Pine
Creek in Wayne Co., KY, in a disputed area that was also claimed by Scott Co.,
TN, ... and on this very creek were the Hatfields who would be cousins through
their grandmother Bridget Anderson Smith (this Bridget being a daughter to
Peter Anderson Sr.).
They talk about
possible NC origins and mention a maiden name of "Bull" for the wife
of their Jacob Anderson. Look at this from my files. It's too late for their
ancestor, but it does seem to connect the children of my Peter Anderson Sr. to
a Bull family back in NC, for this is part of or next to his original land:
DEED: ORANGE COUNTY
(NC) RECORDS, VOL. VIII, DEED BOOK 5, ABSTRACTS; Bennett, William D.; privately
published; Raleigh NC; 1991; p.89
p.448 of original Deed
Book 5
10 Nov 1792 John Elmore
of Orange to Jennet Anderson & James her son of same,
150 pounds, 240 ac.,
on Haw R. begin at a gum on river, N48E 58 ch. to a
P.O., NW 37 ch. to a
P.O., S48W 62 ch. to gum on river, down river to first
station; signed John
(X) Elmore; witness: Richard Bull, Samuel Scott; proved
May Term 1796 by
Scott.
BTW, the man who
witnessed the 1827 will of William Anderson of Knox Co., KY, is not
"Ezekiel L. Jones." That's a misreading of his name due to lousy
handwriting. He was Ezekiel S. Jones, and his middle name is "Smith."
He was husband to Elizabeth Kincaid, daughter to Thomas Kincaid/Martha Wyatt of
Campbell Co., TN. This couple probably md. in Campbell Co., TN, circa 1825/1830
(no civil record - TN did not require civil recording of marriages before 1836)
and very shortly went back to Knox Co., KY. Ezekiel and Elizabeth Jones are
still alive in 1850 in Knox Co. ... and
he is a Baptist minister (which with this branch of Anderson family
connection is not a surprise). I have not a clue if Ezekiel Smith Jones was in
Campbell Co. as a minister and that is how he met Elizabeth Kincaid, although
that is certainly possible.
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IN SUM
Not that this is short
...it's taken 2 hours to write ... but I think you might wish to explore the
Delaware Anderson family for the origins of yours. Mind you, they're only
Swedish in the first generation or two ... after that they marry standard-issue
colonists and lose all trace of Swedish beginnings. But if you connect, Anders
Joransson - the immigrant of this Anderson line - was in Delaware by the 1660's
if not earlier.
I see several Jacob,
John and James Andersons in my larger Anderson family who are of an age to be
the ones in whom you have an interest, and any number of them were in SW VA.
And they are all cousins to each other ... and related to my own Ericus
Smith/Bridget Anderson. Some of them are first cousins to her, some are second
cousins.
I'd not bother you
with this since it's all circumstantial, execpt that you have indicated an
interest in counties where my own ancestors lived. The Andersons whom you study
migrate again to places where my families move, and some of the allied names
mentioned in your various citations are already in my database because I've had
to work on them as part of my family. There are too many possible ties for me
to leave this lying in the dust.
I'd love to discuss
this with one and all.
Leslie Smith Collier
Children of Ericus
Anderson are:
+ 2 i. Peter4 Anderson, born Abt. 1700
in Newcastle, Delaware; died Aft. 1787 in Orange County, North Carolina.
+ 3 ii. Ole Anderson.
Generation No. 2
2. Peter4 Anderson (Ericus3,
"Southwest"2, "Colonial Virginia"1)
was born Abt. 1700 in Newcastle, Delaware, and died Aft. 1787 in Orange County,
North Carolina. He married (1)
Elizabeth Derrickson. He married (2)
Catherine Lynam.
Notes for Peter
Anderson:
Bridget Anderson, wife
of Ericus Smith, is a daughter to Peter Anderson and first wife Elizabeth
Derrickson. Peter Anderson left Wilmington, DE, between the sale of land
inherited from his father Ericus Anderson, in 1768 and 1770, at which time he
turns up making purchases on an Orange Co., NC, estate record. He is listed in
this record with his oldest son Ericus as well as a number of other
"escapees" from Wilmington, DE. He is there at least through sale of
his land in 1787. There is no probate, nor any further records on Peter
Anderson in NC. His son Ericus Anderson turns up in Russell Co., VA, where my
own Ericus Smith/Bridget Anderson had established themselves by 1774.
Notes for Elizabeth
Derrickson:
My Peter Anderson
(Sr.) also had a son Peter Anderson, born 27 Sep 1738 and bpt. 11 Oct 1738 ...
at which time his mother, Kerstin Derrickson Anderson was buried. This younger
Peter Anderson did survive, for he turns up in Orange Co., NC, as late as 1779
and 1780. But I lose him from NC records after this, and I'm not certain where
he went ... or if he died.
Notes for Catherine
Lynam:
By Delaware church
records, Peter Anderson's second wife was Catherine Lynam/Linam, daughter of
Andrew Lynam of Wilmington, DE. Her brother Andrew Lynam was also an early
resident of SW VA, being in the Woods Hole entry book by 1745. His sons Richard
and Andrew Lynam kick up regularly in SW VA records ... let me paste in an
extract from a book which ties together any number of people with whom I'm
confusing you today:
Children of Peter
Anderson and Elizabeth Derrickson are:
4 i. Ericus5 Anderson, born Abt. 1725
in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware.
Notes for Ericus
Anderson:
Ericus Anderson
09/15/1797 Russell Co
74.5a Cedar Creek adj
Henry Campbell
grants 39/607
5 ii. Bridget Anderson, born Abt. 1730 in
Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware; died Bet. 1793 - 1797 in Russell County,
Virginia. She married Ericus Smith
November 22, 1753 in Wilmington, Delaware; died 1792.
Notes for Bridget
Anderson:
, I come down from an
Ericus Smith and wife Bridget Anderson of New Garden settlement. They married
in Wilmington, DE, on 22 Nov 1753. Ericus died in 1792, and widow Bridget is on
the Russell Co., VA, tax list of 1793 ... after which I lose all track of her.
Bridget Anderson Smith
must not have lasted much longer than the 1793 tax list of Russell Co, for in
1797 the children of Ericus Smith/Bridget Anderson divide the property in
Russell Co. deed records, thereby identifying themselves, but there's no share
laid off to mom. My particular child is a Rev. War Aly Smith who md. Jane Denny
in Washington Co. in 1783 and later migrated to Campbell Co., TN, but his two
sisters are married to Joseph and Ephraim Hatfield ... and here it gets more
interesting.
+ 6 iii. Peter Anderson, born September 27, 1738 in
Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware; died Abt. 1819 in Hancock County, Tennessee.
3. Ole4 Anderson (Ericus3,
"Southwest"2, "Colonial Virginia"1)
Child of Ole Anderson
is:
7 i. Bridget5 Anderson. She married Thomas Bird.
Generation No. 3
6. Peter5 Anderson (Peter4, Ericus3,
"Southwest"2, "Colonial Virginia"1)
was born September 27, 1738 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, and died Abt.
1819 in Hancock County, Tennessee. He
married Martha ?.
Notes for Peter
Anderson:
Subj: [ANDERSON-L] PETER ANDERSON
Date: 9/15/99 12:53:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: [email protected] (Peggy Trimble)
Reply-to: [email protected] (Peggy Trimble)
Looking for
information on PETER ANDERSON. Have little
information. In Bedford CO, VA ca 1760 or later, then to Grayson CO, VA
ca 1794, Hawkins CO, TN ca 1816 ending
in Hancock CO, TN ca 1819. Need info on siblings and parents.
Thanks for any help
Peggy
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Peter 09/01/1797
Grayson Co
120a east side of Fox
Creek
grants 36/533
Peter 06/06/1793
Washington Co
180a lick run of
middle fork of Holstein River
grants 29/180
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Subj: Peter Anderson.
Date: 11/3/00 8:36:30 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: [email protected] (Virginia Welding)
My ancestor Peter
Anderson was found by me and a few others in Lee co. Va. wife Martha
Anderson. Sometimes they are listed in
Hawkins co Tn>Hancock co. Tn. with hree children. Catherine, Mary, and John
M. (my line) He seems to be related to
a Morgan Anderson, same locale who is husband to Edna Elizabeth Livesay. Peter and Marha have eluded me as to their
parents, where they came from etc. Can you help? Could the Peter you name be an ancestor to my Peter? Could he be a Richard P. that I have encountered
in that vicinity? Thanks so much.
VirginiaWelding POB 97
Nickerson Ne. 68044
Children of Peter
Anderson and Martha ? are:
8 i. Catherine6 Anderson.
9 ii. Mary Anderson.
10 iii. John M. Anderson.