Individual Details

daughter Echols [838.3.8] married Richard Anderson.
“Richard Anderson married old William Echols’ 4th daughter had 5 Children by her and she Died. I know the names of 2 of their sons — which was Medy and John. Medy became Very Rich, owned the first Merchant Mill I ever saw, on Banister River, Virginia, where there was a considerable town Named Medsville in honor of Medy Anderson’s name they both had families of which I know but little.”
Richard Anderson held 348 acres on both sides of Great Polecat Creek in Lunenburg County 20 September 1751, 400 neighboring acres in Lunenburg County in 1755, and another 454 acres on Polecat Creek in 1759. In 1768 Richard Anderson of Amelia County deeded 400 acres on the north side of Polecat Creek and 1,200 acres between Sandy and Polecat creeks to John Anderson and 400 acres on the north side of Polecat Creek to Meads Anderson.
Richard’s sons, John, Meade, and Paulin, provided beef, oats, brandy, bacon and a smoothbore gun to the Army during the Revolution, for which they were later reimbursed.
In an 1815-chancery suit in Halifax County, the heirs of Paulin Anderson sued his brothers and sisters over 400 acres on Polecat Creek that Richard gave Paulin without making a deed.
Richard married second Jane Foster and they had seven children. In 1830 in Wilson County, Tennessee, Richard’s heirs by his first wife sued the executors of Jane’s estate to retrieve property she took with her to Tennessee, which belonged to them. Unidentified heirs are George and Sally Jarott, Joseph and Frances Phillips, and Joel and Moses Anderson.

Father	William Echols (1702 - 1771)
Mother	Sarah Turner ( - )
Sibling	John Echols (1721 - 1795)
Sibling	Hannah Echols (1740 - )
Sibling	Ruth Echols (1735 - 1813)
Sibling	William Echols ( - 1794)
Sibling	Judith Echols ( - 1765)
Sibling	Ann Echols ( - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Echols ( - )