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Col. Richard Clough Anderson
b.Abt 1765
Facts and Events
Research notes
Identification Numbers
- Ancestral File Number: 2141-9HB
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 1, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
Anderson, Richard Clough - entered service 1776 in Hanover County, Virginia; born there; [moved] to Jefferson County, Kentucky after Revolutionary War; died 10/16/1826; married 9/17/1797 to Sally Marshall (Marriage Bond dated 9/14/1797), Jefferson County, Kentucky; widow granted Pension age 68, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio, 1848 & died 8/26/1854; son William M. was living in 1849; query letter in file states soldier was born 1/2/1750; query letter in file states a William Marshall, born 8/27/1720, King & Queen County, Virginia, died 1810 in Henry County, Kentucky, was also a Revolutionary War soldier. R58.
Records
Richard Clough Anderson is mentioned in the Revolutionary Pension File of his brother-in-law John Anderson, as follows:
- Anderson, John, Bounty Land Warrant; query letter in file states soldier married Mary, sister of Richard Clough Anderson & that Mary was a daughter of Robert Anderson (1712-1792) & Elizabeth Clough (1722-1779) of Goldmine, Virginia.
References
- ↑ English, William Hayden. Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783, and life of Gen. George Rogers Clark: with numerous sketches of men who served under Clark, and full list of those allotted lands in Clark's Grant for service in the campaigns against the British posts, showing exact land allotted each. (Indianapolis, Indiana: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1896).
Elizabeth, daughter of John Clark and Ann Rogers Clark, was born in Caroline county, Virginia, February 11, 1768. She married Richard Clough Anderson, also a native of Virginia, about the year 1787. He entered the Revolutionary army, the head of a company, at the beginning of the war, and served in Colonel Parker's regiment, during the winter campaigns of 1776-7, in New Jersey, being at Trenton and Princeton. He participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown in 1777, and the next year was commissioned a major. He was also in the battle of Monmouth. His regiment went south in the summer of 1779 and he was wounded in the assault made on Savannah from which he never entirely recovered. Parker, the colonel of the regiment, was killed at the siege of Charleston. Samuel Hopkins succeeded him as colonel, and Major Anderson was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel. This is the same Samuel Hopkins who subsequently conducted two expeditions against the Indians northwest of the Ohio river. Colonel Anderson was taken prisoner at Charleston, but finally succeeded in securing an exchange and served until the close of the war. He was appointed principal surveyor of the lands granted by the state of Virginia to the soldiers of the continental line by the act of December, 1783. He opened his headquarters at Louisville, Kentucky, in July, 1784, and was a representative from Jefferson county to the conventions at Danville in 1784 and 1788.
Colonel Anderson was twice married. His first wife, Elizabeth Clark, died in 1795, having been the mother of four children; a son, named after his father, and three daughters, Ann, Cecelia and Elizabeth.
The second wife was Sarah Marshall, also of the Clark family, (NOTE: A descendant of the daughter of Jonathan Clark, Senior, who married Torquil McLeod.) and they had seven sons and five daughters, viz.: Fanny, Larz, Robert, William, Mary, Louisa, John R., Hugh, Charles, Lucelia, Matthew, and Sarah. Colonel Anderson died October 16, 1826, at soldiers' Retreat, Jefferson county, Kentucky. ...
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