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- Notes for John Anderson from the website "Descendents of David Anderson" http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~anderson/va/trees/david.html visited 10/29/2007
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Subj: John & Sarah
Date: 7/23/00 10:04:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: annbee@airmail.net (Ann Beeler)
To: PatAnder73@aol.com (PatAnder73@aol.com)
Pat,
You asked about John and Sarah:
According to his great-great grandson, Boon Anderson, John Anderson was born in Scotland and brought to this country as a boy. He married Sarah Carney in 1752 in Overwarton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia.
He and Sarah moved their family from Stafford County to Greenville County, South Carolina before the war with England. John served his country from here in Benjamin Roebuck’s Company. He was killed in the Battle of Augusta in 1781.
About 1795 virtually all of Sarah’s children left South Carolina and moved to Warren County, Kentucky. She went with them. Over the next thirty years these children and their children scattered and settled in western Kentucky, Alabama, Indiana, Mississippi and Texas where most of them still have descendants. Sarah died in Kentucky in 1811.
My webpage at
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/e/e/Ann-L-Beeler/index.html has this line with documentation. You're welcome to whatever you wish to copy from it.
Ann
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REV. JAMES ANDERSON NOT THE FATHER OFJOHN ANDERSON WHO MARRIED SARAH CARNEY
Probably twenty years ago, the assertion was made that the Rev. James Anderson was the father of our John Anderson. As soon as it came to my attention, I started trying to track down the reason why this statement was made. I didn't really doubt it, I just wondered how the connection was made. What I learned was that it all seemed to hinge on the fact that someone had given January 13, 1724 as our John's birthdate. Of course, that was when the Rev. James' son, John, was born.
My next step was to find out why this birthdate was assigned to our John. I finally tracked it back to an elderly lady in Kentucky who, when I wrote to her, didn't have a clue where she had gotten the date or why she thought it was our John's.
Then, I assembled all the references I could find which had been offered as proof and tracked them back as far as I could and came up with the following sources:
Bible Record of Rev. James Anderson - states only that he had a son, John, born January 13, 1724-5 in New York
Pennsylvania Genealogies by Wm. Egle - only quotes the above Bible record
Immigrants to America Before 1750 by Virkus - quotes the above Bible records and adds that John "died young"
DAR Application of Mrs. Dena Henslee Singleton, Nat'l #526822 - I received a copy of this application which DAR had corrected to show that her ancestor John Anderson who married Sarah Carney was born January 13, 1724 in New York. I wrote the Lineage Research Committee of NSDAR in Washington, D. C, regarding this entry, explaining the controversy over John's birthdate, etc. On August 15, 1979, they sent a letter stating - "The birthdate written in on National No. 526822 Is completely incorrect. That is the birthdate for John Anderson, son of Rev. James Anderson, but this man is not your Revolutionary ancestor. This man was married to Ann Irvin, From your records we know that your ancestor John Anderson was married to Sarah Carney. ...A date of circa 1730 has been given to your Revolutionary ancestor since we have no specific date for his birth."
The following, although it does not constitute proof, must be considered as much of the information came from this John Anderson's own granddaughter:
Maxwell History and Genealogy by Florence Wilson Houston - 1916
"The descendants of our John Anderson say he was the son of the Rev, James Anderson of Donegal, Penn, and so far we have found nothing to disprove this, while there is much that makes it conclusive, though it has been claimed by some historians that he was the son of John or James Anderson of Augusta County, Virginia."
"In the will of James Anderson he mentions by name only his wife, a niece, his daughter, Susanna, and the youngest son, Thomas, who was still a child and yet to be educated.... After mentioning these he directs that his remaining property be 'divided among all my children'."
"John, the seventh child of Rev. James Anderson, was born January 13, 1724. It is recorded that he was born in New York, while his mother was visiting at the home of a relative, His early years were spent in Pennsylvania, but when still a youth he went to Virginia and the greater part of his active years were spent there."
"By various records-especially the Virginia Magazine of History and biography and the Chalkley Records, his path is made clear, For the more minute and intimate details, as to his family, we have the long line of descendants given from the personal knowledge of his granddaughter Martha (Anderson) Baugh, near the middle of the last century...." (here follows a brief history of the Old Stone Church of Augusta Co., Va.)
"Reverting to John Anderson: He married, about 1750, Anna Irvine (Erwin). The following list of their descendants is from Court Records and from data given more than fifty years ago, by their granddaughter Martha (Anderson) Baugh, a daughter of their son, William.".... (There is no question but that this is a completely different line from ours.)
What it all come down to is that (unless there is some documentation that I don't know about) is there is NO proof that our John Anderson who married Sarah Carney is the son of the Rev. James Anderson and very substantial proof that the Rev. James' son, John, married Ann Irvine (Erwin).
If you have anything that would contradict this, I would be very interested in hearing about it.
Ann Beeler
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