Display Patriot - P-103580 - Joseph Inslee/Insla ANDERSON
Joseph Inslee/Insla ANDERSON
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P-103580
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Birth: 05 Nov 1757 White Marsh / Philadelphia / PA Death: 17 Apr 1837 / Washington / DC
Qualifying Service Description:
Also Ensign, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Paymaster, Captain under Colonel Elias Dayton, Third New Jersey Regiment; Brevet Major, Fist New Jersey Regiment
Additional References:
Rev War Pension S*W3449
Spouse: Only Patience Outlaw Children: Alexander; Thomas;
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Author: Mark Andrew Davis
Joseph Inslee Anderson was born 5 November 1757, at White Marsh, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, a son of William Anderson and Elizabeth Inslee.
Anderson was commissioned as an ensign in May 1776 in the Third New Jersey Regiment. He was promoted in July 1776 to second lieutenant and first lieutenant in November 1776.
He served as captain of a company under the command of Colonel Elias Dayton of the Third Regiment. He also served as a temporary or “Brevet” Major in the First New Jersey Regiment. He served with Sullivan against the Iroquois at Monmouth and was at Valley Forge, 1777-1778. He was the Paymaster for the State of New Jersey until the end of the war.
After the war, Anderson was admitted to the bar and practiced at Delaware for several years. George Washington appointed Anderson as a United States Judge of the territory south of the Ohio River in 1791. He had a long career in public service, including United States Senator from Tennessee, filling two vacancies. He was appointed to Andrew Jackson’s seat when Jackson was elected President. President Madison appointed Anderson as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury, a role he held for 21 years until a stroke forced him into retirement.
Joseph Anderson married Only Patience Outlaw on 4 October 1791. They were the parents of seven children: William, Alexander Outlaw, Thomas von Albade, Pierce Butler, Addison Alexander, James Madison, and George Washington.
Anderson made his Last Will and Testament, on 2 January 1836, in Washington, DC. He died at the home of his son, William, in Washington, on 17 April 1837. He was buried at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington. His headstone is not contemporaneous with his death.
The estate of Only Patience Outlaw Anderson was probated at Washington, DC, in 1866, by her son, William. She was listed as late of Coffee County, Tennessee. A headstone for her was placed at Forsyth City Cemetery of Monroe County, Georgia, in 2017. The Forsyth location is based solely on a non-contemporary bible entry by a descendant. In the 1860 U.S. Census, she lived in Coffee County, Tennessee, with her son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Thomas A. Anderson and Hannah, and was listed as an 83-year-old insane person.
Sources:
Revolutionary War Pension File S/W 23449.
Knoxville Register, Knoxville, Tennessee, 3 May 1837, Pg. 3, obituary of Joseph Anderson.
Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee Confederate Physicians: Part 1 (Abernathy – Colquitt).
The Telegraph, Georgia. Macon, 24 November 2017, “Searching for the one and Only Patience.”
National Republican, Washington, District of Columbia, 02 Feb 1866, page 1, Only P Anderson estate.
District of Columbia, Wills and Probate Records, Wills Boxes 0014 Quinlin, Tasker C – 0018 Deggers, John.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Anderson, Joseph-1815.
McMillan, Fay E., American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; A Biographical Sketch of Joseph Anderson (1759-1837), East Tennessee Historical Society’s Publications, 1930, pages 81- 93.
1860 United States Federal Census. Year: 1860; Census Place: District 6, Coffee, Tennessee; Roll: M653 1245; Page: 60; Family History Library Film: 805245.
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