George T. Anderson, of Granville

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The freeing of John Fulcher’s slaves caused so much of a stir that the General Assembly the following year recommended outlawing the manumission of slaves because they feared that freed slaves would help organize slave revolts – something the colonists were especially paranoid about. The names of the slaves freed in Fulcher’s will were: “Robert Richards, Maria Richards, Kate Anderson, Hester Anderson, Betty Anderson, Lewis Anderson, Sarah Anderson and children Peter Anderson, George Anderson, Dinah Anderson, Nedd Anderson, Rachell Anderson, Mingo Anderson, Tony Anderson, and Susan Anderson.”

George Anderson, born 1696. Freed in 1712 and by the 1730s, George owned land in Bertie County (modern Northampton County). By 1746, George sold his Northampton County land and was living in Granville County. George’s wife Mary’s maiden name is unknown, but George’s mistress with whom he fathered a child with was Lovey Bass, (daughter of John Bass 1673-1732). George enlisted in Col. William Eaton’s regiment which I blogged about previously here. An interesting details is that George Anderson’s daughter Ruth Anderson was a servant in Eaton’s household in 1755 when her child was bound to him. George Anderson is also the ancestor of the Anderson family who moved from North Carolina to the “Lost Creek Community” located in Vigo County

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The Anderson family was freed by the 29 October 1712 will of John Fulcher in Norfolk County, Virginia.

George Anderson, the mulatto son of John Fulcher, born say 1696, was the ancestor of the North Carolina branch of the Anderson family. On 13 January 1738 he bought 260 acres of land on the south side of Bear Swamp where he was then living in Bertie County, North Carolina, for "2 pounds silver money" from John Bass. This land became part of Northampton County when it was formed in 1741. George sold his 260 acres in Northampton County on 1 March 1745, and about 1746-48 he was taxed on two tithes in Granville County, North Carolina, in the list of Jonathan White adjacent to Lewis Anderson. He was listed with his wife and children in the 1752 list of Robert Harris:

Anderson, George his wife and sons George, Jermiah and Daughter Kate 5 black tithes. On 3 June 1755 he bought 240 acres in Granville from Jonathan White. He sold 200 acres of this land to his son Jeremiah on 22 December 1762 and on the same day sold 100 acres adjoining this land to Edward Bass. On 3 August 1768 Nathan Bass, the illegitimate son of Love Bass, was bound to him as an apprentice. However, Nathan was already living in George's house, taxable in his household in the 1767 list of Stephen Jett. George's will was proved in Granville County in May 1771. Lovey Bass was probably his mistress since he gave his plantation to her son Nathan Bass and gave her two cows and calves. He gave only one shilling to his wife Mary and children: Jerry Anderson, Kate Harris, and Betty Smith. At his death he owed 17 pounds, 8 shillings to Young, Miller & Company of Granville County, British merchants, who listed him in their claims after the Revolutionary War. The claim mentioned George Anderson's executor, John Whicker.

The Anderson's intermarried with Bass family members, of the Nansemond Indian Tribe, and those who remained in Virginia, were issued certificates of Nansemond Indian ancestry by the Norfolk Court on 15 and 20 July 1833.

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