Robert Anderson, Sr.

Robert married Mary Elizabeth Overton. Mary (daughter of William Overton and Elizabeth Waters/Walters) was born 28 Jun 1673. [Group Sheet]

1. Robert Anderson, III was born Abt 1712; died 9 Dec 1792, Goldmine Plantation, Hanover Co., Virginia.

Notes:

From the Virginia land patents
1666 Robert Anderson adjacent Moyses Davies at Tottopottomoyes Creek
1670 Robert Anderson adjacent John Fleming & Thomas Glass

The 1666 record is the first that we can soundly assigned to the family of Robert Anderson, Sr., either to himself or his father. Virginia land patents often identify the land by reference to nearby creeks and branches and whether they are above of below a river that is a branch of the Chesapeake Bay. In addition they list the adjacent landowners. These two records indicate that a Robert Anderson already owned land along Tottopottomoyes Creek before 1666. Totopotomey's Creek flows into the Pamunkey River from the south in the eastern part of what is now Hanover County Virginia.

George Chapman
04/22/1670 4150 acres New Kent County
Pamunkey Neck, etc. for the transport of Robert Anderson
This reference may be from Robert returning from a trip to England. There were many reasons for such a trip including the need to see to family affairs there and for education and merchantile affairs. At this time the many landowners frequently selected a member from among them to act as an agent, who returned to England in the spring season when such trips were considered safe from hurricanes and took with him papers and power of attorney from the other landowners that allowed him to represent their interests. He would then return their monies and report to them upon his return. Such trips were burdensome and such task was rotated among landowners.
In 1677 Robert Anderson signed the petition of grievances for Blisland Parish regarding Gov. Berkley. He was a vestry man of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County on 11/1686; and for St. Paul's Parish from 1704-1712. However these records do not imply that he had ever moved, rather they reflect the reorganization of the parishes that were occuring at the time as the Virginia frontier expanded St. Paul's Parish having been formed from the western reaches of St. Peter's Parish.
Robert Anderson
04/16/1683 727 acres New Kent County
Patent Book 7 page 272
N of Chickahominy Swamp in the head of Holly Bush Branch adj. Thomas Glass, to mouth of Meyry Branch. For the importation of 15 persons

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Name:
Son of Robert Anderson, Jr. and Elisabeth Anderson

Richard married Elizabeth Hawkins 20 Dec 1611, London, England. Elizabeth was born Est 1585, England; died Bef 1634, England. [Group Sheet]