Andersons wrote: > > Roll call and searching for ancestors and origin of: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------- > John1 Anderson, of Scottish or Scotch-Irish ancestry, came to America and > settled in Watertown, Mass. [Scotch-Irish defined as their Scotch ancestors > spent one or more generations in Ireland before immigrating to America.] > John1 Anderson married on 16 July 1706, [Watertown VR] for his first wife, > Rebecca Waite (or Waight), b 1680, d ?, daughter of John & Mary (Woodward) > Waite . It would appear that the Waight's and the Woodward's were both early > settlers of Watertown, Ma. John1 Anderson lived in Watertown and Newton, Ma. > until after 1715, when he moved to Groton, Ma. He married 30 July 1716 > [Watertown VR] for his second wife, Mary Applin, b 11 Oct 1677, d ? , > daughter of schoolmaster John and Bethshuah (Bartlett) Applin. Again, Mary > Applin's ancestors seem to have come from the Watertown, Ma. area, with > Bethshuah Bartlett's father having been Ensign Thomas Bartlett, an original > proprietor of Watertown, Ma. who died 26 Feb. 1654. > > Children of JOHN and REBECCA (WAITE) ANDERSON, all born in Watertown, MA, > are: > > 1. HANNAH ANDERSON (b 13 Aug 1707 d )[Watertown VR] > 2. ABRAHAM ANDERSON (b 18 Aug 1708 d 25 Dec 1768) [Watertown VR says b. 18 > Aug 1709 while Bond's Watertown and others list 18 Aug 1708. Note next > child's birth at 7 or 19 months. We assume Bond is correct.] > 3. REBECCA ANDERSON (b 29 Mar 1710 d )[Watertown VR] > 4. MARY ANDERSON (b 29 Aug 1711 d )[Watertown VR] > > Children of JOHN and MARY (APPLIN) ANDERSON are: > > 1. RICHARD ANDERSON (b d ) > 2. JOHN ANDERSON (b d ) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Bob Anderson > Anderson email address - anderson@qni.com > Web Site URL - http://www.qni.com/~anderson/ > "Colonial Massachusetts and Maine Genealogies" > > ==== ANDERSON Mailing List ==== > Try this link to <a href="http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/virginia.html">Colonial Virginia Anderson Families</a> with family trees from 1600 to 1800. Anderson researcher There is a strange nameing pattern of your John Anderson children and the John Anderson in my family. My John also had a son Benjamin who had a son Abraham born in Maryland and A daughter Rebecca, and Mary. I find it very interresting about the names. David L. Anderson