ANDERSON.
David Anderson and his wife Elizabeth, came from Hanover
County, and lived on a plantation in Albemarle, not far
from Scottsville. David died in 1791, and his wife in 1804.
They had eight sons, William, Nathaniel, Thomas, Richard,
David, Matthew, Edmund and Samuel, and three daughters.
Of the daughters, Ann was married to Dabney
Minor, of Hanover, Sarah, to Chrisopher Hudson, and
the third to a Barrett, whose son Anderson Barrett lived
in Richmond, and was an executor of both his grandparents.
One of the sons, Nathaniel, had his residence
on the old glebe of St. Anne's on Totier, which he bought
from John Breckinridge in 1796. He married Sarah,
daughter of John Carr, of Bear Castle, and sister of Dabney,
Mr. Jefferson's brother-in-law. He died in 1812, and left
four children, William, Nathaniel, Mary, the wife of a
Mosby, and Elizabeth, the wife of a Lawrence. Nathaniel
married Sarah Elizabeth —, and his children were Martha,
the wife of Stephen Woodson, Mary, Dabney Minor and
Overton. Edmund, son of David, is thought to be the same
person who married Jane, daughter of William Lewis, and
sister of the celebrated explorer, Meriwether Lewis. He
died in 1809, leaving two sons and four daughters, William,
Dr. Meriwether, who married Lucy Harper, Ann, the wife of
Thomas Fielding Lewis, Jane, the wife of Benjamin Wood,
Lucy, the wife of —, Buckner, and Sarah, the wife of
Gabriel Harper.
Richard Anderson, son of David, married Ann Meriwether,
sister of Lucy, the wife of William Lewis. He at one time
owned an interest in the land on Ivy Creek on which the
Prison Barracks were built, and which he sold to John Harvie
about a year before their building took place. His son
David was living at Milton at the beginning of the century,
and represented Brown, Rives & Co., one of the firms
doing business in that town. In 1801 David was appointed a
magistrate of the county, but resigned the next year. Some
time after he removed to Richmond. He married Susan,
daughter of Reuben Moore, of Culpeper, and his children
were Meriwether L., Richard, Catharine, the wife of Jefferson
Trice, of Richmond, and Helen, the wife of a Porter. In
1829 he returned to Albemarle, and married again Mary,
daughter of Thomas W. Lewis, and widow of James Leitch,
and two years later his son Meriwether married Eliza Leitch,
daughter of his step-mother. Their home was at Pantops.
David Anderson died in 1841, and Meriwether in 1872.
It is believed Richard Anderson had two other sons,
Edmund and Jasper. Edmund married first Frances Moore,
sister of his brother David's first wife. Some years later he
married Ann, daughter of William Cole, of North Garden,
and not long after Jasper married her sister, Susan Cole. In
1813 Edmund purchased from Clifton Rodes, executor of John
Jouett, sixty acres of land lying east and north of Charlottesville,
and extending from the present Ninth Street east to the
hill overlooking Schenk's Branch, and laid it out in town lots.
This tract was known as Anderson's Addition. He sold
a number of lots, chiefly on East Jefferson and Park Streets,
during the decade of 1820, and in 1831 conveyed to John J.
Winn and Alexander Garret Lot Thirty-Four, the present
Maplewood Cemetery. In the meantime he removed to Richmond,
and entered into business under the firms of Anderson
& Woodson, and of Anderson, Woodson & Biggers; but
the business failing, he transferred all his property in Albemarle
to John R. Jones as trustee, who in 1829 sold it for
the payment of his debts. A son, Charles Anderson, was a
Druggist in Richmond, and a few years ago removed to
Roanoke, where he died.
