Posted on: Amelia County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Va/Amelia/662 Surname: Anderson ------------------------- 1. JOHN6 ANDERSON (JAMES5, THOMAS4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, RICHARD1)1,2 was born 1725 in "Arnols", Surry County, Virginia3, and died 1815 in Black's and White's, Nottoway County, Virginia4. He married MARY BELL5 Abt. 1749 in Surry County, Virginia, daughter of JOHN BELL and HANNAH ?. She was born Abt. 1728 in Surry County, Virginia, and died Bet. 1810 - 1815 in Black's and White's, Nottoway County, Virginia6. Grant J. Anderson in his book "Genealogy in Part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families", Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, Richmond, VA., 1909; gives the date of John's birth as 1725. This appears reasonable. No contemporary record has been found. He would have been born at his fathers Surry County estate called "Arnols". This is located in the southwest corner of current Surry County, Virginia along the north side of the Blackwater River. The family tradition of Grant James Anderson and the land patents of James Anderson, Sr. imply that the four sons and daughter Faith, removed from "Arnols" in Surry County about 1733, and settled in Nottoway Parish, Amelia County. This was along the east side of the Little Nottoway River across from Samuel Jordan just north of where Jordan' Bridge now crosses the river. It is very likely that these Amelia lands were speculative and I cannot be certain of how much actual development took place on them. It is likely that a home was built on the 1735 patent of John's father on the east side of the Little Nottoway River. Jordan's Bridge (due west of Blackstone) is the exact terminus of the "Church" road leading west from Petersburg, marked on the 1755 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, indicating that James Anderson's property was at the very edge of what was considered civilization in that year. Blackstone was built at the junction of Church road and the Colonial Road (route 40) which led along the ridge north of the Nottoway River from John's father's "Arnols" plantation. The land was sold in 1755 to Charles Hamlin and 1787 court records refer to "Hamlin's Tavern". In 1743 John's father James leased his Nottoway lands to his elder three sons and returned with his second wife to "Arnols" in Surry County. John appears with his older three brothers in Nottoway Parish tax rolls in 1747, four years after their initial leases from their father. This would have been the year he came of legal age. He is listed with his brother James Anderson,Jr. (carpenter) until 1750. John was likely assisting James in the construction of the church at Spring Swamp in Surry County during these years 1747-1750. About 1749 John Anderson marries Mary, the young daughter of the widow Hannah Bell, living one mile from the Spring Swamp Church. John's father leases him 200 acres in Amelia County in 1750. James Anderson dies at his "Arnols" plantation in Surry County in 1751 and in his will leaves John "the remainder of a tract of Land given to the said Thomas and Jordan Anderson containing by Estimation Two hundred Acres more or less" the same 200 acres of headland in Amelia County he leased in 1750, plus any remainder. John does not re-appear in Amelia tax records again until 1753, and he likely remained in Surry County from 1750-1753, as the birth of his eldest daughters are recorded in the Albemarle Parish Register in 1750 and 1752. It is possible that he was resident in the home of his wife's widowed mother adjacent St. Andrews Church (Spring Swamp renamed) on Spring Swamp, in light of the protests in Hannah's will about the absence of her sons. The land granted him by his father James in 1750, was 200 acres of headland (not creek side) that James had withheld from the original leases to his older three sons. James states in his will that he had intended to give John land near him in Surry County, but gives him 15 pounds in lieu of that land. Notice that this is the second generation of the family that has lost the family estate due to the presence of a second wife of the father, wherefrom must derive the reputations of stepmothers in literature. He returns to the lands that his father willed him in 1753 and again is listed in the Amelia County tax rolls. It seems likely that the brothers were sharing a home built on the east side of the LIttle Nottoway on the 1735 patent. Listed in his tax account is John Orgain, perhaps a servant, but more likely an apprentice carpenter. In 1754 he sells half of the 200 acres to Jordan Anderson, his brother. He witnesses the deed of Greenham Dodson to Peleg Ferguson on May 22, 1754 for 29 acres on the first spring branch out of Great Hurricane Creek below Peleg Ferguson's mill. His sister Faith had married Peleg Ferguson about 1750. In 1754 his brother Jordan moves off his Little Nottoway 300 acres to Cumberland County to marry Mary Watkins but retains the title to his Little Nottoway lands. In 1755 John's brothers James and Thomas sell their lands on the Little Nottoway and move away. In 1756 John sells the other 100 acres of his inherited headlands to his brother Jordan Anderson of Cumberland County. However as he witnesses the deed of neighbor Patrick McQuaid to Samuel Jordan on Mar 27, 1758 he was obviously still a nearby resident. In 1764 John and Jordan grant a deed to Frances Eppes selling 993 acres at Little Nottoway and it is signed by both John and Jordan Anderson and their wives. The tax list for Jordan Anderson indicated in 1763 that he owned 500 acres and thus it appears our John had received a windfall through the "reaminder" wording of his father;s will perhaps as much as 493 acres. Additionally it seems likely that John Anderson was acting as overseer for Jordan Anderson's lands throughout 1754 until 1764. No contemporary document exists which declaritively states the surname of John Anderson's wife. John's wife Mary's dower signature is recorded in the 1754, 1756 and 1764 sale of their Nottoway estate to Jordan Anderson then Francis Epes. My research has shown the surname of John's wife Mary is Bell. Mary Bell was a resident of Surry, later Sussex, County living approximately one mile from the Spring Swamp Chapel at the time John's brother James built St. Andrews Church. According to the wills of John and Hannah Bell their daughter Mary Bell married an Anderson sometime between 1746 and 1768. In the 1766 tax roll John is listed as John Anderson, Carpt. without any indication of land acreage. In 1767 he purchases 103 acres from Thomas Morgan and Rachel his wife adjacent Mr. Arthur Leath along Long Branch falling just within the southern town limits of current Blackstone, Virginia. This is very near the estate of his sister Faith. In 1768 he is identified as taxed on the 103 acres that he purchased in 1767. Most importantly, in 1768 he is taxed on one slave named Patt. A woman slave, named Patt, is left to his wife Mary Bell by Hannah Bell, her mother in her 1768 will in Sussex county, and this provides the confirming evidence that John married Mary Bell. Patt appears in his tax list for many years later including the 1782 Amelia county list which includes his son Allen, so we know that it is this John that married Mary Bell. In 1786 he acquires a 30 acre piece of land adjacent to him from Mr. Leath along Long Branch. The 1787 Nottoway County tax roll credits John Anderson with two land plots one of 103 acres and another of 30 acres, identified as 10 miles SE of the courthouse on Long Branch. There are two Long Branch Creek's in Nottoway. One is just above his original deed from his father, however his 1767 purchase was along Long Branch just south of Blackstone, Virginia. The 1815 Nottoway Tax lists indicates that the 135 acres of John Anderson were acquired by Edmund Irby in 1815. Edmund Irby must have handled the affairs of John's estate, but no record was found at the courthouse. Edmund Irby was the executor for his daughter Hannah's estate. She also died in 1815, after John, in light of subsequent litigation. John Anderson is often listed as a carpenter in the county tax records. Such a notation is not common for other occupations other than Minister of the Gospel (M. G.) and implies that the tax collector considered his skill and implements noteworthy. The tax lists indicate that he did not own any field slaves. He was due one other slave from the estate of his step mother who died in 1770 but there is no indication that he ever received that legacy. His lands and those of his children are around and about the town now called Blackstone, which was in colonial times was called Black's and Whites. It is logical to assume that he was in some part responsible for the construction of buildings at the junction of Cocke's road and Church road which developed into that town. In fact his land faced onto Cocke's road which was a segment of the colonial post road from Richmond to the south. The colonial stage coaches traveling south from Richmond would have passed his home. Today the place his 1767 home would have occupied is a super Walmart. Only one building in town today survives from that period which through serendipidy is called Anderson House (aka Schwartz Tavern), though named after a much later Anderson family. In addition, just a few miles northwest along Church road a two story wooden church was built before the revolution which survived until it was destroyed in a hurricane in 1836. Also along Jordan's road the Green Church was built before the Revolution which served first as the Methodist church, then as a Presbyterian Church until it was destroyed by arson in 1827 by a neighbor who complained that she couldn't keep a ladel at her well because of the church goers. There was considerable enterprise involved in building what is today a significant southern Virginia town, and it is likely that this enterprise provided John's livelihood. Children of JOHN ANDERSON and MARY BELL are: i. MARTHA7 ANDERSON7,8, b. October 29, 1750, Surry County, Virginia9; d. Abt. 1800, Nottoway County, Virginia; m. JOHN MAY; d. Abt. 1796, Nottoway County, Virginia. ii. CATHERINE ANDERSON10,11, b. March 25, 1752, Sussex County, Virginia12; d. Bet. 1820 - 1825, Lunenburg County, Virginia; m. DAVID VAUGHAN, Abt. 1780, Amelia County, Virginia; b. Abt. 1750, Dinwiddie County, Virginia; d. 1825, Lunenburg County, Virginia. iii. HANNAH ANDERSON13,14, b. Abt. 1754, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bef. May 1815, Black's and White's, Nottoway County, Virginia. iv. ARMSTEAD ANDERSON15,16, b. September 02, 1756, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia17; d. 1843, Boxville, Union County, Kentucky; m. (1) URSHULA FARRIS18, Abt. 1779, Henry County, Virginia; b. July 09, 1759, Halifax County, Virginia19; d. Aft. January 1803, Logan County, Kentucky; m. (2) SARAH LANGSTON, Abt. 1803, Logan County, Kentucky; b. May 29, 176219; d. Aft. 1840, Union County, Kentucky. v. ALLEN ANDERSON20,21, b. 1758, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; m. LUCY ?SNEAD. vi. REBECCA ANDERSON22,23, b. Abt. 1760, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Aft. 1820, Nottoway County, Virginia. vii. LUCY ANDERSON24,25, b. Bef. 1765, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Aft. 1820, Nottoway County, Virginia. viii. PRISCILLA ANDERSON26,27, b. Bef. 1765, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Aft. 1828, Nottoway County, Virginia; m. PETER HAWKS, Bet. 1794 - 1797, Nottoway County, Virginia; b. Bet. 1760 - 1770, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bef. September 23, 1813, Nottoway County, Virginia. ix. SUSAN ANDERSON28,29, b. Bef. 1765, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Aft. 1815, Nottoway County, Virginia; m. DANIEL VAUGHAN, Bef. 1790, Nottoway County, Virginia; b. Bef. 1765, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bef. December 1840, Nottoway County, Virginia. x. POLLEY B. ANDERSON30,31, b. Abt. 1770, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bef. 1815, Nottoway County, Virginia; m. FREEMAN ECKLES, Bef. 1793, Nottoway County, Virginia; b. 1765, Virginia; d. Bef. 1830. xi. WILLIAM ANDERSON32,33, b. Abt. 1770. xii. SALLY ANDERSON34,35, b. Bef. 1774, Black's and White's, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Bef. 1815; m. HENRY HARPER; b. Bef. 1777, Amelia County, Virginia; d. Aft. 1815, Prince Edward County, Virginia. Endnotes 1. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 2. James Anderson, 1751 Will of James Anderson, (Will Book 9, Page 772, Surry County, Virginia). 3. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909), 12. 4. John Anderson, 1807 WIll of John Anderson. 5. John Bennet Boddie, Southside Virginia Families, Volume I, (Pacific Coast Publishers, Redwood City, California; 1955.). 6. John Anderson, 1807 WIll of John Anderson. 7. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 8. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 9. Gertrude R. B. Richards, Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, (The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia; 1958). 10. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 11. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 12. Gertrude R. B. Richards, Register of Albemarle Parish, Surry and Sussex Counties, 1739-1778, (The National Society Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia; 1958). 13. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 14. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 15. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 16. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 17. Urshula Anderson Kief, Anderson Family Bible of Urshula Kief, (Collins's Third Edition, New York; Printed and sold by Collins & Co.; 1814.). 18. et al, History of Union County, Kentucky, (Evansville, Ind.; Courier Co., Printers, Binders and Engravers; 1886). 19. Urshula Anderson Kief, Anderson Family Bible of Urshula Kief, (Collins's Third Edition, New York; Printed and sold by Collins & Co.; 1814.). 20. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 21. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 22. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 23. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 24. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 25. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 26. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 27. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 28. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 29. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 30. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 31. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 32. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 33. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815). 34. Grant James Anderson, Genealogy in part, of the Anderson - Owen - Beall Families, (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers; 1909). 35. Estate Settlement of Hannah Anderson, (Nottoway Court Order Book 7, Page 194, May 1815).