Individual Details

Peter Anderson

(24 May 1754 - Aft 1777)

Events

Birth24 May 1754Princess Anne, Norfolk, Virginia
Occupation18 May 1762Sailmaker - Princess Anne, Norfolk, Virginia
Legal-shared18 May 1762(Martha Anderson) living in Lynhaven Parish, Princess Anne County, when the court ordered her sons Joseph & Peter Anderson bound As Apprentices to Talbert Thompson [Minutes 1753-62, 488].
Indenture-shared18 May 1762(Joseph Anderson) bound to Talbert Thompson to be A sailmaker in Princess Anne Co [Minutes 1753-62, 488]. - Princess Anne, Norfolk, Virginia
MilitaryJan 1776 - 1777He defected to the British in JAN 1776, About the same time Talbot Thompson defected. He was fighting for the British when he was captured At Great Bridge but escaped & hid out in the woods until 1777 when he joined the British fleet on its way to the Siege of Charleston. He was taken to England where he submitted A claim to the Loyalist Claims Commission in which he said that he still had A wife & 3 children who were enslaved in Norfolk & had lost 4 chests of clothes, 20 hogs & 4 beds & furniture [Loyalist Claims Commission, file AO 12/99/354 & AO 13/27/230, cited by Professor Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney, Australia].
DeathAft 1777

Families

MotherMartha Anderson (1733 - 1768)
SiblingSarah Anderson (1750 - )
SiblingJoseph Anderson (1751 - 1772)
SiblingEaster Anderson (1755 - 1774)
SiblingJames Anderson (1768 - )