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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: bef 1743 Death: bef 1806 / Fairfax / VA
Qualifying Service Description:
Provided material aid by paying the 1783 Virginia Personal Property Tax
Additional References:
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
Author: John Robinson Hundley III
John Anderson Sr. came from Scotland with Lord Fairfax. On 10 October 1764 he and his wife Eleanor leased 150 acres in Truro Parish in Fairfax County from Lord Fairfax. The Colonial Papers of George Washington record John Anderson as having voted for Washington for Burgess. John Anderson's son John Anderson Jr. served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, most likely the Fairfax County Militia whose records were burned during the Civil War. John Anderson Sr. paid the 1783 Virginia Personal Property tax which supported the American Revolution. John Anderson Sr. died sometime before January, 1806 when his estate was inventoried.
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