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Robert Anderson, Sr.[1, 2]

Male 1663 - 1712  (49 years)


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  • Name Robert Anderson 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Born 1663  King and Queen County, Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1712  Hanover Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I9772  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2017 

    Father Robert Anderson, I,   b. 1613, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1666, New Kent County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 53 years) 
    Family ID F1006  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Elizabeth Overton,   b. 28 Jun 1673 
    Children 
     1. Robert Anderson, III,   b. Abt 1712,   d. 9 Dec 1792, Goldmine Plantation, Hanover Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years)
    Last Modified 30 Jan 2017 
    Family ID F5448  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Virginia Colonial Soldiers Listed by County- Abraham Venable Capt. of Foot in Louisa County with William Anderson, Ens.; Richard Anderson and Robert Anderson
    Virginia Colonial Soldiers Listed by County- Abraham Venable Capt. of Foot in Louisa County with William Anderson, Ens.; Richard Anderson and Robert Anderson
    16322VAColonialSoldiers-2AbrahamVenable.jpg

  • Sources 
    1. [S84] Rootsweb, http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~anderson/va/trees/robert2.html.
      5. Robert6 Anderson, Jr. (Robert5, Robert4, Richard3, "York Watershed"2, "Colonial Virginia"1) (Source: (1) William Pope Anderson, Anderson Family Records, (W. F. Schaeffer & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; 1936)., (2) William Pope Anderson, Anderson - Overton, A Continuation of Anderson Family Records (1936) & Early Descendants of William Overton & Elizabeth Waters of Virginia & Allied Fa, (Cincinnati, Ohio; 1945.)., (3) C. G. Chamberlayne, The Vestry Book of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County, Virginia 1706-1786, (Clearfield Company, Inc.; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland 1999).) was born 1663 in New Kent County, Virginia, and died 1716 in Hanover County, Virginia. He married Mary Overton Bef. 1702, daughter of William Overton and Elizabeth Waters. She was born June 08, 1673 in Virginia, and died Aft. 1744 in Hanover County, Virginia.
      Robert's birth date is derived from Edward L. Anderson and William Pope Anderson publications. Robert was born in the delta of the Pamunkey River at the head of the York River branch of the Chesapeake Bay.
      1680 Robert Anderson headright of William Wyatt to New Kent Co.
      It was common practice at the time for Virginia landholders to send their sons back to England to be educated. A return trip from England to Virginia earned you a headright regardless of whether you had been born in Virginia.
      Robert Anderson, Jr.
      10/23/1690 1200 acres New Kent County
      Virginia patents book 8/page 103
      S of York River on branches of Mechumps Creek & Crumps Creek. Begin James Pyron's line, at John Langworthy's line, adj. Stephen Tarton and Fleman's land. Assigned to John Wray by John Webb and William Claibourne, deserted. for the import of 24 persons
      Robert Anderson,Jr.
      10/23/1690 727 acres New Kent County
      Virginia patents book 8/page 107
      North of the Chickahominy Swamp, begin at a branch of said swamp called Holly Bush Branch, adj. Thomas Glass. Assumed from the deserted patent of his father Robert Anderson.
      York County wills and deeds
      9/24/1694 Robert Anderson Jr. witness

      The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704, by Annie Laurie Wright Smith, Virginia State Archives; 1957.

    2. [S107] Family Histories, https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE1256120.

    3. [S84] Rootsweb, http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~anderson/va/trees/robert2.html.
      Robert Anderson's death in 1712 is recorded in the St. Paul parish vestry book when an entry is made that he is deceased and being replaced as church vestryman.