He is not the Charles Anderson buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland simply because he was not African American and this cemetery was the home of African American burials for the Baltimore area. Charles Anderson was caucasian.
He was the son of Charles Anderson I and Grace Preston and was born in Carpenter's Plains, Swan Creek Run, Baltimore (later Harford) County, Maryland; he died in Muddy Creek, Cumberland Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Mitchell in 1756 in Maryland and they had 8 children: Daniel, Grace, Sarah, Charles, Richard, James, William and Amos. All the children were born in Maryland. He served during the Revolutionary War as a Captain of a militia from Maryland, Company E, in the Patriotic Service. He was a millwright. He is #A121408 in the DAR Patriot Index. For a brief genealogy of Charles Anderson and history of this company, see the "Tri-County Researcher" by Dallas Ewing, Installment 2. Charles and his family immigrated from Harford County, Maryland about 1778. Charles & Mary had 6 sons and they would need their own land for their families in the future. There wasn't much land left in Harford County, so they moved west to the land of the Monongahela Valley, where they could claim by right of settlement and for which a title could be procured from a state for just a few cents per acre. They chose to settle a couple of miles up Muddy Creek in a section of well watered rolling land. Charles also bought the adjoining land, bringing his land to 700 acres. The question was whether his land was in Virginia or in Pennsylvania, depending on the tax assessor he believed. But by 1784, his land was surveyed to be located in the Fish Creek hills near Littleton in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Charles filed his two surveys and obtained patents for one in 1788 and the other in 1790
Charles was also a signer of the Bush Declartion. On March 22, 1775, a committee of 34 Harford county men, duly elected, met at the Bush Tavern, and passed this resolution: "We the Committee of Harford County, having most seriously and maturely considered the Resolves and Association of the Continental Congress, and the Resolves of the Provincial Convention, do most heartily approve of the same, and as we esteem ourselves in a more particular manner intrusted by our constituents to see them carried into execution, we do most solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, and to our Country, and engage ourselves by every tie held sacred among mankind to perform the same at the risque of our lives and fortunes."
The copy of his will is hard to read; here is a transcription of those parts listing names and dates.
In the name of God Amen, I, Charles Anderson [?] of Cumber-land township, Greene County and State of Pennsylvania being aged and low in health, but of perfect sound memory, yet calling to mind the uncertainty of Life and being desirous of settling my affairs Before I shall be called hence by Death, Do make and publish this my last and Testament In Manner and Form following to wit.
And as to such worldly affairs I do now possess, I Leave in the manner and form, following after my Just Debts and funeral Expenses shall be paid according. The residue shall be divided as Follows, to my son, Wm Anderson, I give and Devise my Waggon [?] or windmill, Harrier, Horse saddle and bridle, my bed and bedding, Desk and Book Case, Two tables & Loom, and [?] Mill stones, and all the residue and Remainder of my Estate Paid, personal, mixed of what [?] [?] [?] kind server or wheresoever the same may be excepting such Articles as I allow to my Grandchildren. To my Grand daughter, Drusilla Anderson, I give and devise one Case of [?] [?] One Cupboard with furniture on spinning wheel, six pewter plates, two pewter dishes, one [?] [?], One Gallon pot, one [?], One Feather Bed & Furniture, One looking glass and Box iron. To my Grandson, Wm Anderson, son of Wm, I give and devise my rifle Gun Marked A.M. & C.A. and to my Other Grandson, Charles, son of Wm, I devise unto him One shot gun marked P.E. and unto my other Grandson, Jacob, son of Wm., I devise unto him One Rifle Gun no mark on barrel. And unto my Grand daughter, Polly Snively, I devise unto her one pot tramble and unto my son, Charles Anderson, I give him my Cross Cut Saw. And as to my Other Children and Grand Children who have Deceased or yet alive, No men-tion being made in this my Will, I debar them of all priviledge Laying any Claim or mak-ing any Demands against this my Will in Trust [?] And I do hereby appoint my two sons, James and William Anderson, to the Executors of this my Last Will, revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made and declaring this and no Other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal this fourteenth Day of April In the Year of our Lord, One thousand eight
Hundred and twenty one.
Term, Greene County: Sworn and Subscribed the 17th August 1824 before me. Kennerd Boreman- Register
Charles, his wife and all 8 children are enumerated on the Susquehannah Hundred tax census for Harford County, Maryland in 1776, which was taken by Charles Gilbert. They are listed on page 117 in a book entitled 1776 Census of Maryland, compiled by Bettie Caroteers. See copy of page posted to his memorial.
He was the son of Charles Anderson I and Grace Preston and was born in Carpenter's Plains, Swan Creek Run, Baltimore (later Harford) County, Maryland; he died in Muddy Creek, Cumberland Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Mitchell in 1756 in Maryland and they had 8 children: Daniel, Grace, Sarah, Charles, Richard, James, William and Amos. All the children were born in Maryland. He served during the Revolutionary War as a Captain of a militia from Maryland, Company E, in the Patriotic Service. He was a millwright. He is #A121408 in the DAR Patriot Index. For a brief genealogy of Charles Anderson and history of this company, see the "Tri-County Researcher" by Dallas Ewing, Installment 2. Charles and his family immigrated from Harford County, Maryland about 1778. Charles & Mary had 6 sons and they would need their own land for their families in the future. There wasn't much land left in Harford County, so they moved west to the land of the Monongahela Valley, where they could claim by right of settlement and for which a title could be procured from a state for just a few cents per acre. They chose to settle a couple of miles up Muddy Creek in a section of well watered rolling land. Charles also bought the adjoining land, bringing his land to 700 acres. The question was whether his land was in Virginia or in Pennsylvania, depending on the tax assessor he believed. But by 1784, his land was surveyed to be located in the Fish Creek hills near Littleton in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Charles filed his two surveys and obtained patents for one in 1788 and the other in 1790
Charles was also a signer of the Bush Declartion. On March 22, 1775, a committee of 34 Harford county men, duly elected, met at the Bush Tavern, and passed this resolution: "We the Committee of Harford County, having most seriously and maturely considered the Resolves and Association of the Continental Congress, and the Resolves of the Provincial Convention, do most heartily approve of the same, and as we esteem ourselves in a more particular manner intrusted by our constituents to see them carried into execution, we do most solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, and to our Country, and engage ourselves by every tie held sacred among mankind to perform the same at the risque of our lives and fortunes."
The copy of his will is hard to read; here is a transcription of those parts listing names and dates.
In the name of God Amen, I, Charles Anderson [?] of Cumber-land township, Greene County and State of Pennsylvania being aged and low in health, but of perfect sound memory, yet calling to mind the uncertainty of Life and being desirous of settling my affairs Before I shall be called hence by Death, Do make and publish this my last and Testament In Manner and Form following to wit.
And as to such worldly affairs I do now possess, I Leave in the manner and form, following after my Just Debts and funeral Expenses shall be paid according. The residue shall be divided as Follows, to my son, Wm Anderson, I give and Devise my Waggon [?] or windmill, Harrier, Horse saddle and bridle, my bed and bedding, Desk and Book Case, Two tables & Loom, and [?] Mill stones, and all the residue and Remainder of my Estate Paid, personal, mixed of what [?] [?] [?] kind server or wheresoever the same may be excepting such Articles as I allow to my Grandchildren. To my Grand daughter, Drusilla Anderson, I give and devise one Case of [?] [?] One Cupboard with furniture on spinning wheel, six pewter plates, two pewter dishes, one [?] [?], One Gallon pot, one [?], One Feather Bed & Furniture, One looking glass and Box iron. To my Grandson, Wm Anderson, son of Wm, I give and devise my rifle Gun Marked A.M. & C.A. and to my Other Grandson, Charles, son of Wm, I devise unto him One shot gun marked P.E. and unto my other Grandson, Jacob, son of Wm., I devise unto him One Rifle Gun no mark on barrel. And unto my Grand daughter, Polly Snively, I devise unto her one pot tramble and unto my son, Charles Anderson, I give him my Cross Cut Saw. And as to my Other Children and Grand Children who have Deceased or yet alive, No men-tion being made in this my Will, I debar them of all priviledge Laying any Claim or mak-ing any Demands against this my Will in Trust [?] And I do hereby appoint my two sons, James and William Anderson, to the Executors of this my Last Will, revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made and declaring this and no Other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal this fourteenth Day of April In the Year of our Lord, One thousand eight
Hundred and twenty one.
Term, Greene County: Sworn and Subscribed the 17th August 1824 before me. Kennerd Boreman- Register
Charles, his wife and all 8 children are enumerated on the Susquehannah Hundred tax census for Harford County, Maryland in 1776, which was taken by Charles Gilbert. They are listed on page 117 in a book entitled 1776 Census of Maryland, compiled by Bettie Caroteers. See copy of page posted to his memorial.
He is not the Charles Anderson buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland simply because he was not African American and this cemetery was the home of African American burials for the Baltimore area. Charles Anderson was caucasian.
He was the son of Charles Anderson I and Grace Preston and was born in Carpenter's Plains, Swan Creek Run, Baltimore (later Harford) County, Maryland; he died in Muddy Creek, Cumberland Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Mitchell in 1756 in Maryland and they had 8 children: Daniel, Grace, Sarah, Charles, Richard, James, William and Amos. All the children were born in Maryland. He served during the Revolutionary War as a Captain of a militia from Maryland, Company E, in the Patriotic Service. He was a millwright. He is #A121408 in the DAR Patriot Index. For a brief genealogy of Charles Anderson and history of this company, see the "Tri-County Researcher" by Dallas Ewing, Installment 2. Charles and his family immigrated from Harford County, Maryland about 1778. Charles & Mary had 6 sons and they would need their own land for their families in the future. There wasn't much land left in Harford County, so they moved west to the land of the Monongahela Valley, where they could claim by right of settlement and for which a title could be procured from a state for just a few cents per acre. They chose to settle a couple of miles up Muddy Creek in a section of well watered rolling land. Charles also bought the adjoining land, bringing his land to 700 acres. The question was whether his land was in Virginia or in Pennsylvania, depending on the tax assessor he believed. But by 1784, his land was surveyed to be located in the Fish Creek hills near Littleton in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Charles filed his two surveys and obtained patents for one in 1788 and the other in 1790
Charles was also a signer of the Bush Declartion. On March 22, 1775, a committee of 34 Harford county men, duly elected, met at the Bush Tavern, and passed this resolution: "We the Committee of Harford County, having most seriously and maturely considered the Resolves and Association of the Continental Congress, and the Resolves of the Provincial Convention, do most heartily approve of the same, and as we esteem ourselves in a more particular manner intrusted by our constituents to see them carried into execution, we do most solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, and to our Country, and engage ourselves by every tie held sacred among mankind to perform the same at the risque of our lives and fortunes."
The copy of his will is hard to read; here is a transcription of those parts listing names and dates.
In the name of God Amen, I, Charles Anderson [?] of Cumber-land township, Greene County and State of Pennsylvania being aged and low in health, but of perfect sound memory, yet calling to mind the uncertainty of Life and being desirous of settling my affairs Before I shall be called hence by Death, Do make and publish this my last and Testament In Manner and Form following to wit.
And as to such worldly affairs I do now possess, I Leave in the manner and form, following after my Just Debts and funeral Expenses shall be paid according. The residue shall be divided as Follows, to my son, Wm Anderson, I give and Devise my Waggon [?] or windmill, Harrier, Horse saddle and bridle, my bed and bedding, Desk and Book Case, Two tables & Loom, and [?] Mill stones, and all the residue and Remainder of my Estate Paid, personal, mixed of what [?] [?] [?] kind server or wheresoever the same may be excepting such Articles as I allow to my Grandchildren. To my Grand daughter, Drusilla Anderson, I give and devise one Case of [?] [?] One Cupboard with furniture on spinning wheel, six pewter plates, two pewter dishes, one [?] [?], One Gallon pot, one [?], One Feather Bed & Furniture, One looking glass and Box iron. To my Grandson, Wm Anderson, son of Wm, I give and devise my rifle Gun Marked A.M. & C.A. and to my Other Grandson, Charles, son of Wm, I devise unto him One shot gun marked P.E. and unto my other Grandson, Jacob, son of Wm., I devise unto him One Rifle Gun no mark on barrel. And unto my Grand daughter, Polly Snively, I devise unto her one pot tramble and unto my son, Charles Anderson, I give him my Cross Cut Saw. And as to my Other Children and Grand Children who have Deceased or yet alive, No men-tion being made in this my Will, I debar them of all priviledge Laying any Claim or mak-ing any Demands against this my Will in Trust [?] And I do hereby appoint my two sons, James and William Anderson, to the Executors of this my Last Will, revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made and declaring this and no Other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal this fourteenth Day of April In the Year of our Lord, One thousand eight
Hundred and twenty one.
Term, Greene County: Sworn and Subscribed the 17th August 1824 before me. Kennerd Boreman- Register
Charles, his wife and all 8 children are enumerated on the Susquehannah Hundred tax census for Harford County, Maryland in 1776, which was taken by Charles Gilbert. They are listed on page 117 in a book entitled 1776 Census of Maryland, compiled by Bettie Caroteers. See copy of page posted to his memorial.
He was the son of Charles Anderson I and Grace Preston and was born in Carpenter's Plains, Swan Creek Run, Baltimore (later Harford) County, Maryland; he died in Muddy Creek, Cumberland Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Mitchell in 1756 in Maryland and they had 8 children: Daniel, Grace, Sarah, Charles, Richard, James, William and Amos. All the children were born in Maryland. He served during the Revolutionary War as a Captain of a militia from Maryland, Company E, in the Patriotic Service. He was a millwright. He is #A121408 in the DAR Patriot Index. For a brief genealogy of Charles Anderson and history of this company, see the "Tri-County Researcher" by Dallas Ewing, Installment 2. Charles and his family immigrated from Harford County, Maryland about 1778. Charles & Mary had 6 sons and they would need their own land for their families in the future. There wasn't much land left in Harford County, so they moved west to the land of the Monongahela Valley, where they could claim by right of settlement and for which a title could be procured from a state for just a few cents per acre. They chose to settle a couple of miles up Muddy Creek in a section of well watered rolling land. Charles also bought the adjoining land, bringing his land to 700 acres. The question was whether his land was in Virginia or in Pennsylvania, depending on the tax assessor he believed. But by 1784, his land was surveyed to be located in the Fish Creek hills near Littleton in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Charles filed his two surveys and obtained patents for one in 1788 and the other in 1790
Charles was also a signer of the Bush Declartion. On March 22, 1775, a committee of 34 Harford county men, duly elected, met at the Bush Tavern, and passed this resolution: "We the Committee of Harford County, having most seriously and maturely considered the Resolves and Association of the Continental Congress, and the Resolves of the Provincial Convention, do most heartily approve of the same, and as we esteem ourselves in a more particular manner intrusted by our constituents to see them carried into execution, we do most solemnly pledge ourselves to each other, and to our Country, and engage ourselves by every tie held sacred among mankind to perform the same at the risque of our lives and fortunes."
The copy of his will is hard to read; here is a transcription of those parts listing names and dates.
In the name of God Amen, I, Charles Anderson [?] of Cumber-land township, Greene County and State of Pennsylvania being aged and low in health, but of perfect sound memory, yet calling to mind the uncertainty of Life and being desirous of settling my affairs Before I shall be called hence by Death, Do make and publish this my last and Testament In Manner and Form following to wit.
And as to such worldly affairs I do now possess, I Leave in the manner and form, following after my Just Debts and funeral Expenses shall be paid according. The residue shall be divided as Follows, to my son, Wm Anderson, I give and Devise my Waggon [?] or windmill, Harrier, Horse saddle and bridle, my bed and bedding, Desk and Book Case, Two tables & Loom, and [?] Mill stones, and all the residue and Remainder of my Estate Paid, personal, mixed of what [?] [?] [?] kind server or wheresoever the same may be excepting such Articles as I allow to my Grandchildren. To my Grand daughter, Drusilla Anderson, I give and devise one Case of [?] [?] One Cupboard with furniture on spinning wheel, six pewter plates, two pewter dishes, one [?] [?], One Gallon pot, one [?], One Feather Bed & Furniture, One looking glass and Box iron. To my Grandson, Wm Anderson, son of Wm, I give and devise my rifle Gun Marked A.M. & C.A. and to my Other Grandson, Charles, son of Wm, I devise unto him One shot gun marked P.E. and unto my other Grandson, Jacob, son of Wm., I devise unto him One Rifle Gun no mark on barrel. And unto my Grand daughter, Polly Snively, I devise unto her one pot tramble and unto my son, Charles Anderson, I give him my Cross Cut Saw. And as to my Other Children and Grand Children who have Deceased or yet alive, No men-tion being made in this my Will, I debar them of all priviledge Laying any Claim or mak-ing any Demands against this my Will in Trust [?] And I do hereby appoint my two sons, James and William Anderson, to the Executors of this my Last Will, revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made and declaring this and no Other to be my Last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal this fourteenth Day of April In the Year of our Lord, One thousand eight
Hundred and twenty one.
Term, Greene County: Sworn and Subscribed the 17th August 1824 before me. Kennerd Boreman- Register
Charles, his wife and all 8 children are enumerated on the Susquehannah Hundred tax census for Harford County, Maryland in 1776, which was taken by Charles Gilbert. They are listed on page 117 in a book entitled 1776 Census of Maryland, compiled by Bettie Caroteers. See copy of page posted to his memorial.
Inscription
In
Memory of
Charles
Anderson
