ANDERSON – Descendants of Nutfield Settlers Allen and James Anderson

Anderson Farm, built by descendants of James Anderson
on the Londonderry/Windham town line

[Note:  I will be doing a series of genealogical sketches on the early Nutfield settlers in advance of the 300th anniversary of Founders Day, April 12 - 14, 2019 in Derry, New Hampshire.  If you have additional notes on the first few generations of this family, please comment below or send me an email at vrojomit@gmail.com, and I will edit this sketch.  These sketches will be used and distributed to the public and to descendants at the Founders Day activities.]

It is unknown if these two Anderson men (Allen and James) were kin.  Some suppose them to be brothers, but there is no proof.

Allen Anderson married Hugh Rankin’s daughter.  He was granted land in 1719 and in 1728.  Allen Anderson died childless.   His sister, Martha Anderson, married William Moore, who settled in Nutfield soon after 1720.  Seven Moore children are named in William Moore’s will, and also in the will of their uncle Allen Anderson.

James Anderson married Mary Unknown and had five sons and two daughters. He died in 1771 at age 88. James Anderson settled east of the turnpike in the Double Range of what is now Derry, New Hampshire.  His grand daughter Alice married Rev. Joseph McKeen, the first president of Bowdoin College in Lewiston, Maine.  He was the grandson of Nutfield settler, James McKeen.

Children:

      1.      Samuel, married Martha Craig, four children: James (married Nancy Armstrong), John (married Anna Davidson and Mary Williams), Samuel (married Mary Davidson) was a soldier of the American Revolution, Margaret (married John Graham).  This Samuel lived on the Anderson Farm located on the corner of Chase and Mammoth Roads, near the Londonderry/Windham border.      

      2.      Robert, married Agnes Craig, nine children:  James (unmarried), John (married Jane Wallace), William (married Margaret Wilson), Allen (married Sally Moor), Robert (married Mary Darrah), Samuel (married Anna Alexander and removed to Acworth), David (married Sally Barnett), Mary (married James Dinsmore), Jane (married David Campbell).

      3.      James, married first Nancy Woodburn and had eight children– James (married Margaret Reid, was lieutenant under Captain George Reid at the Battle of Bunker Hill, he died at Troy, New York in 1827), John (married Mary Morrison), Rufus, Joseph (moved west according to Parker), Mary (married Thomas Aiken), Margaret (married James Moor), Alice (married Rev. Joseph McKeen), Nancy (married John McClary). James Anderson then married second to the widow Elizabeth Barnett and had four children – Alexander (married Martha McGilvery), Benjamin (married Lydia Jackson), William (married Prudence Ladd), Jane (married Alexander McCollom). 

      4.      Thomas married Mary Craig, seven children – Daniel (married Sarah Nesmith), James (unmarried), John (unmarried), Mary (married William Anderson of Candia), Jane (married Robert Nesmith), Martha (married Robert McClure of Acworth), Margaret (unmarried).

      5.      David, married Mary Wilson and had three sons – Robert (married Naomi Aiken), James and Andrew. 

      6.      Jane, married Elder James Taggart and had two sons Samuel and Thomas.

      7.      Nancy (unmarried)

Note:  There was also an unrelated Scots Irish settler named John Anderson who came from Northern Ireland to Londonderry in 1725 with his children John (had two sons Matthew and John at the Battle of Bunker Hill), James (married Isabel McQueston), Robert (married and lived in Derryfield and had no children), and Jane (married and lived in Vermont).

For more information: 

History of Londonderry, by Rev. E. L. Parker, see pages 259 - 260 for a sketch of Allen and James Anderson.

See the blog post on the Anderson farm on the Londonderry/Windham town line:

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/anderson-farm.html 

Click here for links to the sketches of all sixteen first Nutfield settlers: 
https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/nutfields-first-16-settlers.html 

  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “ANDERSON – Descendants of Nutfield Settlers Allen and James Anderson", Nutfield Genealogy, posted February 8, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/anderson-descendants-of-nutfield.html: accessed [access date]).