ANDERSON FAMILY.

The Manor of Penley, which is partly within the parish of Tring and partly in the neighboring parish of Aldbury, but with its caput maneri, or manor house, in the former parish, held 10 Edward I., by John d'Aygnel, and thence descending finally to the family of Verney, was sold by Sir Francis Verney to Richard Anderson, Esq., who held a court there, Anno 5 Jac. I., and was knighted two years afterwards. Sir Richard Anderson's wife, Mary, was daughter of Robert, Lord Spencer, Baron of Wormleighton, owner of the manor of Althorp in Northampton,

This Sir Richard Anderson seems to have been by far the most important parishoner then living in Tring, where he died 3 August, 1632, and was buried within the chancel rail of that parish church. His widow, dame Mary Anderson, afterwards lived in Richmond Surrey, but was buried at Tring, July, 1658. I examined the will of Sir Richard Anderson. It follows:

SIR RICHARD ANDERSON, of Penley in the county of Hertford knight, 5 October 1630, proved 27 August 1632. To poor of Bitterly in Shropshire, Norton in Glostershire, Corringham in Essex, Albury, Tring and Wigginton in Hertfordshire, to each parish five pounds. To town of Tring ten pounds to be added and employed, with that money already there in stock, to set the poor on work, which money of my own and some others given to that use is in ffeoffe's hands at this time thirty pounds. To my uncle Francis Garaway or if dead, amongst his children, twenty pounds; to my Uncle Mr. John Bowyer and my two cousins, his sons John and Francis, either of them, ten pounds. To my brother in law Thomas Cowly, now consul at Sante, twenty pounds.

Item I bequeath to Mr. Robinson's two sons, one of Pembroke College the other of Albourne Hall, and to my cousin Larance Washington of Brasenose and to Mr. Dagnall of Pembrock College, to each of them forty shillings.

To my wife (over and above her jointure) bedding and household stuff belonging in my father's time to a house he had in Chiswick, &c &c. My bigger diamond ring to my daughter Elizabeth. I will and bequeath to my dear and only surviving sister the Lady Spencer of Offley twenty pounds. To the Right Hon. the Lord Spencer, Robert Needham Esq., Richard Spencer Esq., Sir Edward Spencer knight and Sir Thomas Derham knight, my worthy brothers-in-law, ten pounds each. Provision made for second son ROBERT and third son JOHN, and two younger sons WILLIAM and RICHARD (under one and twenty). Eldest daughter ELIZABETH, second daughter MARY and third daughter FRANCES (all unmarried). To five younger daughters, MARGARET, KATHERINE, PENELOPE, ANN and BRIDGET, Son HENRY. My wife Dame Mary. The manor of Corringham in Essex.

Audley, 86 (P. C. C.)

(Genealogical Gleanings In England, Vol. I, p. 365 by Henry F. Waters, A. M.)

ANDERSON, OF PENLEY. ENGLAND.

1784. SIR HENRY ANDERSON, knt. alderman of London, and sheriff in 1602, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Bowyer, knt., and had issue:

1785.* i.

1786. ii.

RICHARD Anderson, his heir.

CATHERINE Anderson, m.,

Sir John Dereham, knt.

1787. iii.

1788. iv.

1789. V.

1790. vi.

ELIZABETH Anderson, m.,

Thomas Cowley, esq., of London, and d. s. p.

FRANCES Anderson, m.,

Robert Needham, esq. of Sherington.

SARAH Anderson, m.,

Sir Charles Wilmot, Viscount Athlone.

MARY Anderson, m.,

Sir John Spencer, bart. of Offley.

Sir Henry Anderson, d. in 1605, and was succeeded by his son:

(1785) SIR RICHARD ANDERSON, who married:

Mary, daughter of Robert, Lord Spencer of Wormleighton, and had issue: (as per will, see Walters Gleanings, Vol. I, will dated 5 October 1630; pro. 27 August, 1632).

1791. i.

1792. ii.

1793. iii.

1794. iv.

1795.* v.

1796. vi.

1797. vii.

HENRY Anderson (his heir) esq. of Penley, in the county of Hertford, who was created baronet by King Charles I, on the 3d, of July. 1643.

ROBERT Anderson.

JOHN Anderson.

WILLIAM Anderson "under one and twenty."

RICHARD Anderson, "under one and twenty."
ELIZABETH Anderson,

MARY Anderson.

1798. viii. FRANCES Anderson, "all unmarried." and five younger daughters, Margaret, Katherine, Penelope, Ann and Bridget.

(1795)

RICHARD ANDERSON1, who on July 4th, 1635, took the oath of allegiance and supremacy and to that conformable to the discipline of the Church of England, and

left England for Virginia, is the Richard Anderson, who is mentioned in the will of Sir Richard Anderson (1632) of Penley, County Hertfordshire, England, as "under one and twenty," who settled in Gloucester City, Virginia, owing to the destruction of many early records his immediate descendants cannot be positively traced, but, he is said to have been the ancestor of the Anderson's of "Goldmine" New Kent County, Va. (New Kent County was taken from York, in 1634, and Hanover County was taken from New Kent, in 1720, Goldmine when first established was in New Kent but after 1720 in Hanover County.)

1799. ROBERT ANDERSON2, son of Richard, was granted April 16, 1683, 727 acres in New Kent, for the importation of fifteen persons, he was the first Anderson of "Goldmine."

1800. i.

1801. ii.

1802. iii.

1803. iv.

In the Parish Book of New Kent, 1686, he is shown to have been a vestryman of St. Peter's until the Parish of St. Paul was cut off in 1704, in which latter Parish he remained Vestryman until his death in 1712, aged about 72 years. He married Cecelia Massie (a descendant of the Massie's, who arrived in Virginia about 1635.) Children:

RICHARD Anderson3, who was a magistrate in King and Queen County, 1699-1702.

DAVID Anderson3, whose son was an officer in the New Kent Militia in 1700.

MATTHEW ANDERSON3.

JOHN Anderson3, who was greatgrandfather of Capt. of the 3rd and 5th Virginia, and married,

Mary Anderson, dau. of Robert Anderson'.