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m. Est 1713
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m. 1747
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James Anderson was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia __________________________ [edit] Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA
James Anderson's land (Borden Tract SW, 200 acres, 1757, acquired from John and Margaret Buchanan, part of his 634-acre patent, (but listed as James Anderson's patent on the Hildebrand Map) as shown on the map meticulously drawn by J.R. Hildebrand, cartographer. This map is copyrighted©, used by permission of John Hildebrand, son of J.R. Hildebrand, April, 2009. (Note: land of James Anderson's brothers, Isaac and Jacob is located nearby, as highlighted on the Hildebrand map).
[edit] James Anderson, Alias "Ute Perkins"This James Anderson was sometimes listed as "Ute Perkins" in Augusta County, VA records. This seems to be because his wife Elizabeth, who was married first to William Skillern, may have used the Perkins name (and therefore her husband James who apparently used the name "Ute Perkins") to throw off creditors in Augusta County. More research is necessary to sort out the details of this family. It should be noted that there was an actual Ute Perkins, who was the leader of the "Perkins Gang" in early Virginia.
[edit] Processioning List of 1760 & 1765
[edit] Records of James Anderson in Augusta County, VAFrom Chalkley’s Augusta County Records:
[edit] Information on James AndersonFrom Chalkley's Augusta County, Virginia Court Judgements: (not sure this is same James Anderson) Wm. Morrow and Jane, his wife, vs. Samuel Anderson, eldest son and heir of James Anderson, deceased.--Chancery, Writ, 20th February, 1780. FEBRUARY 17, 1747/8. (344) Patrick Finley convicted of aiding Utis Perkins and George Steel to escape. FEBRUARY 18, 1747/8. (345) Ro. Cunningham complains that Samuel Gay has indulged Utis Perkins in several things after he had apprehended him; ordered under bond; John and Wm. Anderson securities NOVEMBER 28, 1750. (493) Ute Perkins and his followers--property supposed to belong to them to be delivered up to the offices. MARCH 21, 1771 (217) Elizabeth, wife of James Anderson, relinquished dower in 100 acres--deed to Joseph Reaburn
http://www.mindspring.com/~jogt/surnames/skillern.htm The Anderson Family Elizabeth Skillern's maiden name may have been Anderson, so it is unclear why her new husband also took this name, but James Anderson certainly sounds better than Utis Perkins! Unfortunately, it also adds to the confusion in history. In Sequatchie Families by James L. Douthat, (printed by Mountain Press, Signal Mountain, TN) we read: The Anderson family of east Tennessee and southwest Virginia has been, and remains one of the most influential of all families. Each county of this area of the United States owes much of their history to the influence of these people. The family traces it's origin to a Scotch-Irish background. They were forced to leave Scotland due to religious persecution and thence came to America where they became pioneers in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, called at the time Augusta County, an area of the Commonwealth that covered the present boundaries of several states. There are known to have been about seven to eight heads of households in the area of the time in question. Tradition says that John, George, William and James Anderson settled in the Stone Church area and were thought to have been brothers. Some of them settled on the Borden land grant in what is now Rockbridge County, Virginia. This is definitely the same Anderson family, and subsequent generations in America also married Skillerns, as seen in John Anderson's will of 1794: ....to son Isaac C. Anderson, to son William Anderson, three hundred acres on North Fork of Clinch River; to daughter Mary Skillern, 185 acres adjoining same; .... More from the Sequatchie Valley book reveals these notes: Of John Anderson's children two, and possibly three, moved to Sequatchie Valley. We do know that John Anderson, Jr. and his sister Mary (John Skillern) were earlier settlers in Sequatchie. In all likelihood Rebecca (William Skillern) also came to Sequatchie. When Bledsoe County was created on November 10, 1807, the commissioners listed in Book A, page 403, were John Anderson, John Narramore, John Tollett, Michael Rawlings, William Roberson, James Standifer and Thomas Coulter. The Skillern family began their migration towards Sequatchie Valley from Lee County, Virginia when John and Mary Anderson Skillern made their own roads into the unsettled Sequatchie Valley. John received a grant of 280 acres in the Hamilton District of Bledsoe County that was taken from Thomas C. Clark's land granted in 1809. This land, in part, was sold by Audley Skillern to James B. Skillern in 1851 for $1,000.00 This was done at the time that Audley was in Washington County, Arkansas. James Skillern was granted 200 acres from the same tract of Thomas N. Clark and this land adjoined John Skillern's and William Rodgers. Anderson Skillern was granted 76 acres in Bledsoe by the State fo Tennessee in the Third District....this grant was made "in consideration of military services performed by John Flinn to the State of North Carolina warrant #5096 dated December 6, 1797 and entered on August 25, 1807..." Anderson was the assigned heir to Flinn....James was granted 81 acres for the same reason as Anderson.
Husband: James ANDERSON Born: at: Ireland Married: at: Died: 1779 at:
Father:John ANDERSON
Mother: MARGARET
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CHILDREN Name: John ANDERSON Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Name: George ANDERSON Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Name: James ANDERSON Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Name: Agnes ANDERSON Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Name: Jane ANDERSON Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Name: Samuel ANDERSON Born: at: Married: at: ? Died: at: Spouses: Elizabeth ANDERSON NOTES |
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