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State of Service: MD
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 27 Mar 1734 Death: bef 17 Aug 1824 Cumberland Twp / Greene / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Committee of Safety. Signed Bush Declaration 22 Mar 1775, Harford Co, MD. War Committee of Harford Co, MD, 1775. Cpt, Co 3, 23 Sep 1775, Harford Co, MD militia
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Author: James Gary Auber
Charles Anderson was born on Swan Creek Run in Baltimore County , Maryland on 27 March 1734, the fourth of the five children of Charles Anderson and Grace Preston Anderson. The family land was near Aberdeen in the northeastern part of Baltimore County which was formed into Harford County in 1774, now Susquehanna Hundred , Harford County . Speculation is that Charles 1 migrated up the Cheasepeake Bay from Jamestown or Norfolk. Charles became a millwright and is referred to as a tradesman in Harford County records. He inherited a small parcel of land from his mother as well as half-interest in his father's farms and bought several other tracts in the general area. He was a large land owner but he did not have any slaves and refused to have any part of it. In 1756 , he married Mary Mitchell a girl his age of 22 , daughter of Richard Mitchell and Elizabeth Williams. Census records of Susquehanna Hundred was recorded in 1776, it shows Charles and Mary Anderson having eight children. Charles was elected to the Harford County Committee in february 1775, and signed the Bush Declaration one month later.
THE BUSH DECLARATION March 22nd , 1775 “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 .” Descendants of signers may become members of “ THE HEREDITARY ORDER OF THE SIGNERS OF THE BUSH DECLARATION “ . In September 1775 , Charles Anderson was commissioned a Captain of militia of the Providence of Maryland and reported that Harford County Company No.3 consisting of 4 officers and 60 privates had formed themselves into the military unit . A part of the troops sent by Maryland to the Continental Army was called the “ Flying Camp “. Several companies of the Camp were called “Harford Rifles “. Charles Anderson also became a member of the Captain Harris company of Harford Rifles , established Nov . 2, 1776 in Philadelphia ,PA. In 1776 , Charles began to sell his land in Harford Maryland and by May he had sold most it. Then the Andersons began their move west following Braddock's road across the mountains and then down off Chestnut Ridge through Beeson's Town to the Monogahela at Redstone. They chose to settle on Muddy Creek, Cumberland Township , Washington County , Pennsylvania. The southern part of that County, including all of cumberland Township , was to be cut off and established as Greene County. Here land could be claimed for only a few cents per acre from the state. After they claimed their section, Charles also added another claim that was Edmund Polke's that he did not live on. This was 700 acres . Charles lived his life there 1/2 mile from what is now Carmichaels , Greene County Pennsylvania . During his time in Carmichaels he was a signer of a failed petition to the Continental Congress to form a new state of Westsylvania. Charles died in Carmichaels in 1824 , and was buried in the Anderson family cemetery along with his wife Mary Mitchell Anderson . On October 8 , 1975 , all grave stones/ markers were moved to a nearby wooded fence line in order to develop the Carmichaels Golf Course . I visited that site in 2015 and was able to find both Charles and Mary's grave markers off in the weeds against a tree. It is to me very disgusting and sad that this is allowed to happen !
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