John Anderson (1665-1736)
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Contents

1 Biography

1.1 Name

1.2 Birth

1.3 Residence

1.4 Elections

1.5 Military Service

1.6 Ships Captain

1.7 Family

1.8 Death & Legacy

1.9 Research Notes

1.10 Research Notes

2 Sources

2.1 Trees

3 Acknowledgements

Biography

John Anderson migrated from Scotland to East New Jersey.

Name

Name: Capt John /Anderson/[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Birth

Date: 1665

Place: Fortrose, Ross-shire, Scotland[1][2][3][7][5]

Residence

Date: BEF 1675

Place: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland[7]

Date: 1675

Place: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland[7]

Elections

ELEC Presidents of New Jersey Provincial Council, Eastern Division. Upper House of the New Jersey Legislature

Date: BET 1735 AND 1736[7]

ELEC Appointed by the Queen. Except for 4 years, from 1713 through 1736 he was of the New Jersey Provincial Council.

Date: BET 1713 AND 1736

Place: Matawan, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA[7]

ELEC Acting Governor of New Jersey Colony. Upon the March 10, 1736 death of Gov. Sir William Cosby; John Anderson became acting governor, and served for eighteen days until his death.

Date: 10 MAR 1736

Place: Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA[7]

Military Service

Military Service: John Anderson became captain of the Unicorn, which rescued the survivors of the Darien scheme, a Scottish attempt to colonize Central America[8]

Date: 1698

Place: Puerto Escocés, Panama[7][5]

Ships Captain

Event: "John Anderson, a Scotch Presbyterian," with having, after his return to Amboy, ' ' let his ship rot and plundr 'd her and with ye plunder bought Land.'"

Type: Court: accused of breaking the law

Date: 02 JUN 1712

Place: Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey, USA

Event: Arrival

Date: BET 1665 AND 1736

Place: New Jersey[6]

Arrival: 1699 he came to East Jersey via Darian on Panama.[8]

Destination: Captained the ship Unicorn for the Darien Scheme to establish a Scottish colony in Central America.[4][8] [9]

Date: 1699

Place: "Caledonia" on the Isthmus of Panama

Note: In June of 1699 almost half the colony had died of fever, or flux, or privation and the councillors voted to abandon the project. They appointed Captain John Anderson to command the ship Unicorn to carry as many survivors as it could hold back to Scotland.[8]

Source details John Anderson's life as Captain of the "Unicorn" and his further exploits. [10]

Family

Husband: Capt John Anderson

Wife: Anna Reid

Marriage: Tintern Manor, home of Col. Lewis Morris

Date: 07 DEC 1701

Place: Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth, New Jersey[2][7][5]

Children:

James Anderson

Death & Legacy

Age: 71

Date: 28 MAR 1736[11]

Place: Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA[5][3][4]

Burial:

Date: 1736

Place: Marlboro, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA[1]

Research Notes

NOTE: There were at least two different Anderson families, but the most prominent in Monmouth County was Captain John Anderson, who was the captain of the "Unicorn" and married Anna Reid.[12] Sources must be considered carefully before adding them to the profile.

On Find A Grave there is a note: The information on this memorial has been superceded by new research published in 2008. Please see: Donald C Lockhart, "The Scottish Origin of Colonel John Anderson", The American Genealogist, 83:1 (2008). He shows that Col. John Anderson was the son of James Anderson of Fortrose, Scotland. (It previously said that John Anderson & Susannah Hamilton were the parents).

Fact: Christening (1 October 1665) Saint Nicholas Church, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland

Fact: Residence (1675) Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Fact: Burial (29 March 1736) Topanemus Cemetery, Marlboro, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States

Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch

CAUTION: PLEASE DO NOT MERGE WITH OTHER PERSONS NAMED JOHN ANDERSON. Multiple families were recently wiped out and people deleted with no thought about whether they were the same people from the same locality or had the same wife and children. THIS MAN WAS A GOVERNOR IN NEW JERSEY. The history that follows does not match what is in Wikipedia, although that is not well sourced. These parents attached may not be correct. Another contributor wrote: Found on Find a Grave site: COLONEL JOHN ANDERSON was born in Scotland. He was the son of John Anderson of Dowhill, Glasgow, Scotland. John Anderson was the Lord Provost of Glasgow. He Belonged to the Episcopal Church of Scotland. His place of residence was Dowhill, Stobcross Manor, Glasgow, Scotland. Colonel John Anderson, Jr. captained one of the ships that rescued the survivors of the "Darian Debale." The Darian Debacle was Scotland's attempt to colonize Central America in 1698. Several hunderd Scottish investors pooled several hundred thousand British Pounds together in order to colonize New Calendonia (Darian) including one John Anderson, a possible relative, who invested 1000 pounds. The "Darian Colonists" built Fort Saint Andrew on an isthmus located in a bay in what is today Panama. The fort was located on an isthmus across from Golden Island. The isthmus was made into an island by digging a short waterway through a narrow section of land which connected the peninsula to the mainland. A stone marker was dicovered a few years ago on the spot where the settlement was established. It has been argued by historians that the failure of the Darian Expedition led to a major disruption in the Scottish economy due to the widespread speculation and enormous amount invested by so many Scottish citizens. This factor, they argue, led to The Bitish Act of Union in 1707 whereby Scotland relinquished its independence and joined in union with Great Britain. The Darian settlement was a complete failure. Hundereds died within a few months from yellow fever. The leaders of the expedition determined that the remining survivors would be transported back to Scotland. Col. Anderson captained one of the rescue ships called the Unicorn. On the trip back the ship made its way to the island of Jamaica for repairs and supplies. From there it encounterd a storm and it limped its way into the harbor at Perth Amboy, NJ. After the ship landed and the surviors were put ashore, the ship was stripped down and eventually sank in the Perth Amboy, New Jersey harbor, at the foot of Fayette Street. Colonel Anderson remained in New Jersey eventually settling in the Matawan area of Monmouth County. Colonel Anderson married Anna (Miller) Reid on December 7, 1701 at Tintern Manor in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, NJ. The day after his wedding John Reid granted Col. Anderson, his son-in-law, land in Manalapan, Monmouth County, NJ. Tintern was the plantation of Gov. Lewis Morris; Find-A-Grave mm.#60755645. Anna Reid was born on January 24, 1679 in Lawers, Perthshire, Scotland. Anna (Reid) Anderson was the dauhter of John Reid; Find-A-Grave mem.#9178791 and Margaret (Miller) Reid; Find-A_Grave mem.#9338914. John Reid, her father, was the first Surveyor General of East Jersey. He was a third generation gardener and wrote the first book on gardening in Scotland, "The Scot's Gard'ner," before he emigrated to America with his wife Margaret Miller and thier young childern aboard the ship "Exchange" captained by James Peacock on December 19, 1683. They were married on November 29, 1678 in Tillock, Scotland. John Reid resided at Perth Amboy, NJ and encouraged the early Quaker migration to Monmouth County, NJ near the Indian settlement of Topanemus. He moved to that area in his later years. Anna (Reid) Anderson died in Manalapan, NJ on July 6, 1723. She is buried with her husband, parents and several of their children and their descendants in the Topanemus Cemetery. The flat ground level rectangular burial slabs of Col. John and Anna (Reid) Anderson were removed in the 1940's by Claude Anderson, a descendant. Claude Anderson carried the stone burial monuments to his home in Riverton, NJ. Claude Anderson nicknamed his residence "Rive Gauche." Colonel John Anderson's monument reads as follows: Under here lyes the body of Col. John Anderson Once President of His Majesty's Council for the Province of New Jersey (he held that position for 18 days) Who departed this life March the 28th Anno Domini 1736 aged 71 years. His country's true friend, obliging to neighbors, gave no man offense, paid each for their labor, was easie at home or abroad where appeared gave each man his due and no man did fear the same in all stations from flattery free.

Although Col. Anderson served only eighteen days as New Jersey's chief executive, he served on the Council of New Jersey from 1713-1736 missing just four years of service. In 1713, when he was first place on the council, an effort was made to discredit him in order to block his admission. He was charged with being a Presbyterian which would have automatically invalidated his appointment. It was also stated that he plundered the Unicorn at the time of its disablement. Both claims were proven false. He was in fact an Episcopalian. Colonel John Anderson became President of the Council of New Jersey on March 10, 1736.

The children of Colonel John and Anna (Reid) Anderson: (1) John Anderson (b.ca.1704) (2) James Anderson (b.July 7, 1708) (3) Hellana Anderson, the daughter of John and Anna (Reid) Anderson, married Thomas Hankinson. Hellana (Anderson) Hankinson, the daughter of Col. John Anderson and Anna (Reid) Anderson is Find A Grave: Memorial #9337624. (4) Col. Kenneth Anderson; Find A Grave: Memorial #12125814 married Hannah Hankinson; Find A Grave: Memorial #9275601.

NOTE: Hannah Hankinson and Thomas Hankinson were the children of Thomas Hankinson; Find A Grave: Memorial #5516099.

Col. Kenneth and Hannah (Hankinson) Anderson had a daughter Lydia Anderson; Find A Grave: Memorial #9275610 and a daughter Isabella Anderson; Find A Grave: Memorial #11327889. Isabella Anderson married Dr. Nathaniel Scudder; Find A Grave: Memorial #5989072.

Dr. Nathaniel Scudder was a signer of The Articles of Confederation (America's first Constitution). Colonel Dr. Nathaniel Scudder led a regiment at the Battle of Monmouth. He is the only member of the Continental Congress to die in battle during the American Revolution. (5) Johnathan Anderson (6) Margaret Anderson (7) Anna Anderson (8) Elizabeth Anderson (9) Isabella Anderson

Research Notes

Note the statement on Find A Grave: "2016 FROM A MEMBER:

The information on this memorial has been superceded by new research published in 2008. Please see: Donald C Lockhart, "The Scottish Origin of Colonel John Anderson", The American Genealogist, 83:1 (2008). He shows that Col. John Anderson was the son of James Anderson of Fortrose, Scotland."

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Find A Grave Index, database with images (accessed 18 December 2017), Find A Grave: Memorial #9178807, Col John Anderson (1665-1736), Topanemus Episcopal Burial Ground, Marlboro, Monmouth County, New Jersey; headstone photograph by Terry_T. Retrieved 18 Dec 2017.

↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004

↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Volume: 158; SAR Membership Number: 31552, Ancestry.com Title: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011

↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Symmes, Frank Rosebrook. History of the Old Tennent Church (Canbury, NJ: G W Burroughs, 1904), 458.

↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Unknown Family History Family history Object: @M448@ Please delete when a better source is found

↑ 6.0 6.1 Ancestry.com Title: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010, Source Citation: Place: East New Jersey; Year: 1665-1736; Page Number: 6 Data: Text: Name: Capt John Anderson arrival date: 1665-1736 arrival place: New Jersey

↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 Captain John Anderson on Wikipedia

↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Klett, Joseph R. Genealogies of New Jersey Families: Families A-Z, pre-American notes on old New Netherland families (NJ: Genealogical Publishing Com, 1996), 103.

↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme

↑ [1]

↑ "New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988," database, FamilySearch (New Jersey Deaths : accessed 18 December 2017), John, Hon., Esq. Anderson, 01 Apr 1736; citing , reference ; FHL microfilm 1,543,555.

↑ New Jersey Historical Society. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume 3; Volumes 5-7 (Paterson, NJ: The Press Printing and Publishing Company, 1909), 81.

International Marriage Record 1560-1900

Book; Manalapan in Three Centuries, By James S. Brown

Claude J. K. Anderson, "The Andersons of Scotland" Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol 24 (1949).

Historical & Genealogical Miscellany", J. Stillwell, Vol. II.

"History of the Old Tennent Church", second edition, by Rev. Frank R. Symmes, (1904).

Charles C. Gardner, "Monmouth County Andersons," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, (1946).

Charles Caroll Gardner, Genealogical Dictionary of New Jersey, p.34.

Horton, This Old Monmouth of Ours, p.112.

Trees

"Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 28 June 2017, 05:39), entry for Capt. John Anderson III(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LK55-N5Q); contributed by various users.

Acknowledgements

Anderson-16512 was created by James Perrine through the import of Perrine Family Tree_2014-11-01.ged on Nov 2, 2014.

A special thanks to Donald Lockhart for providing information about the Anderson family. The Scottish Origin of Colonel John Anderson, The American Genealogist, 2007.