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| 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:
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]).
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