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Robert Anderson, III[1]

Male Abt 1712 - 1792  (~ 80 years)


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  • Name Robert Anderson 
    Suffix III 
    Born Abt 1712 
    Gender Male 
    Died 9 Dec 1792  Goldmine Plantation, Hanover Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17546  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2017 

    Father Robert Anderson, Sr.,   b. 1663, King and Queen County, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1712, Hanover Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Mary Elizabeth Overton,   b. 28 Jun 1673 
    Family ID F5448  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Clough,   b. 3 Apr 1722, Chickahominy, Hanover Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Nov 1779, Hanover Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years) 
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2017 
    Family ID F6294  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S84] Rootsweb, http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~anderson/va/trees/robert2.html.
      "Robert Anderson II, married Mary Overton, sister of Captain James Overton (1688-1749) militia officer and vestryman of St Paul's Parish, Hanover, and daughter of William Overton, who was born in England 3 December 1628, emigrated to Virginia, to whom, with Eben Jones a patent issued on 23 April 1681, for 4600 acres of land in New Kent County (later Hanover) on South side of Pamunkey River, on Falling Creek, for the transportation of ninety two persons and among the headrights were William and Elizabeth. Overton, on 29 October 1690 William Overton and John Lyddall had a patent for 837 acres of land in St Peter's Parish, NewKent (later Hanover) County above the main fork of Pamunkey next above land granted Jonathan Norwood and Ambrose Clare. William Overton married Elizabeth Waters, daughter of Mrs. Ann Waters, of St. Sepulchers, London ,widow; will (11) dated September 29, 1697; proved 4 July 1700, besides her son-in-law and daughter, the Overtons, Mrs. Waters mentioned in her will her son John Waters, who had long resided in Virginia; her son Samuel Waters, and her son Thomas Waters, her son-in-law William Goodwinand brother-in-law Caleb Millett.

      Robert Anderson III (Source: William Pope Anderson, Anderson Family Records, (W. F. Schaeffer & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; 1936).), born January 01, 1711/12 in New Kent County, Virginia; died December 09, 1792 in "Goldmine" plantation, Hanover County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Clough July 03, 1739; born April 03, 1722 in Hanover County, Virginia; died November 10, 1779 in Hanover County, Virginia.
      Robert Anderson 12/13/1736 Hanover Co
      400a bothsides Andersons Creek adj Edward Nix
      Virginia patents 17/page 212

      Magazine of Virginia Genealogy - beginning with Vol 34 - 1996 #3 - continuing series
      Merchant's Account Book: Hanover Co., Va. 1743-1744 - Francis Jerdone, merchant.
      Abstracted by Edgar MacDonald for the Virginia Geneaogical Society -
      Hanover 1 Oct 1743 - list of debts due to the Cargo of Neill Buchanan of London -
      Nathaniel Anderson, deceased
      Charles Anderson
      Robert Anderson
      Nelson Anderson
      Bartelott Anderson
      James Anderson
      Capt. Thomas Anderson
      Jane Anderson
      Matthew Anderson
      Robert McCoy & Bartelott Anderson by Mr. Thomson
      Charity Anderson
      Nathan Anderson
      Louisa Co., Va. Deed Book A - pg 265.
      4 Jan 1745 /6 - Matthew Anderson of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover Co., Va. "Merchant" to Robert Anderson of same planter. 400 acres lying near the Mountains; granted to sd [Robert] Anderson; mortgaged unto William Prentice of the City of Williamsburg (recorded in Williamsburg). Matthew Anderson purchased the same [the mortgage] of sd Prentice and in consideration that Robert Anderson by deed released & made over his right & title in two tracts adjoining each other, containing 200 acres, does release and quit claim unto sd Robert Anderson all right & title.
      Matthew Anderson
      Wit: John Anderson, Mary Cocke, William Roach, Richd Johnson, Jas. Littlepage, Daniel Williams. Recorded 27 Jan 1746
      1763 TITHABLES:
      Bartlett Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 150
      David Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 1244
      Benjamin Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 150
      Thomas Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 335 acres
      Sarah Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 210 "
      Henry Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 201
      Nelson Anderson Hanover Co 1763 672
      Pouncey Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 1114
      Richard Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 200
      Robert Anderson Hanover Co. 1763 721 & 213
      The Robert Anderson of this record with 721 acres is the resident of the "Goldmine" Plantation inherted from his grandfather to his father to hm North of the Chickahominy Swamp, begin at a branch of said swamp called Holly Bush Branch, adj. Thomas Glass.

      Robert's deeds are transcibed in the pages of; and Robert's will is on page 35 of: Anderson Family Records by William Pope Anderson, Press of W.F. Schaeffer & Co., Cincinatti, Ohio, 1936; this book contains images of his bible records listing his birth marriage and death and that of his wife and children.