| Birth | 1761 | Granville, North Carolina | | | |
| Military | 11 Jun 1783 | Revolutionary War Pay Voucher - Hillsborough, Orange, North Carolina | | | |
| Property-shared | 10 Mar 1784 | (Lewis Anderson Sr) gave 200 acres in deed of Gift from Sr to Jr. for 200 Acres on both sides of Fishing Creek [DB O:299]. Reuben Bass, Bartlet Tiler, Drury Taburn, Lewis Anderson, Jr., & Jacob Anderson were buyers At the sale of his estate on 3 DEC 1785 [N.C. Archives, Estate Files, Anderson, Lewis (1805)]. We can determine Lewis & Sarah's children from the early Granville Co. tax lists & Lewis's 1783 will - North Carolina | | | |
| Census | 1786 | Fishing Creek, Granville, North Carolina | | | |
| Marriage | 23 Dec 1788 | Granville, North Carolina - Mary Ann “Polly” Hines | | | |
| Census | 1800 | Wake, North Carolina - Wake, North Carolina | | | |
| Legal | 15 Apr 1815 | he & his daughter Lydia Pettiford petitioned the Wake Co. court on 15 APR 1815 to bind her children to him. She Asked the Wake Co. court to Apprentice them to her father because her husband was hiring them out Against her will [CR 099.101.1]. | | | |
| Death | Abt 1835 | German Township, Darke, Ohio | | | |
| Admixture-Ethnicity | | He was called A "free man of color" when he & his daughter Lydia Pettiford petitioned the Wake Co. court on 15 APR 1815 to bind her children to him. | | | |