Archives of Maryland
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Dr. John W. Anderson (b. 1805 - d. 1867)
MSA SC 5496-036252
Property Owner, Rockville District, Montgomery County, Maryland

Sources:

Archival Sources -

Detail of Rockville from Simon J. Martenet, Martenet and Bond's Map of Montgomery County, 1865, Library of Congress, MSA SC 1213-1-464.

Letter from John H.B. Latrobe, Baltimore, to Dr. John Ridout, regarding "the cause of African Colonization." April 10, 1830. Ridout Papers, [MSA SC 910].

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, CIRCUIT COURT, (Equity Papers), 1868, [MSA T415-33]. John H. Higgins, Mary A Almoney, and Samuel Riggs of R vs. Mira Anderson, et al., Equity Case No. 190., January 1868.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT (Land Records), Liber BS 11, Folio 578, 1842-1843, [MSA CE 148-37]. William O. Chappell, Sheriff, to John W. Anderson, July 21, 1843.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Liber JGH 2, Folio 198, 1853-1853, [MSA CE 63-2]. John W. Anderson and Mira Anderson to Otho Magruder, October 19, 1852.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Liber JGH 2, Folio 384, 1853-1853, [MSA CE 63-2]. John W. Anderson to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Co, August 6, 1853.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT (Land Records), Liber EBP 3, Folio 74, 1866-1867, [MSA CE 63-13]. John W. Anderson to Nicholas D. Offutt, June 25, 1866.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, (Marriage Licenses), 1867-1899, [MSA T2490-1]. Nicholas D. Offutt and Mary Louisa Anderson, September 24, 1867.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF SLAVE STATISTICS (Slave Statistics), [MSA CM750-1]. Mira Anderson, May 8, 1867. Page 12.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURT, (Marriage Licenses), 1798-1839, Film Reel: CR 8920, [MSA CM724-1]. John W. Anderson and Mira C. Magruder, February 12, 1831.

---MONTGOMERY COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, (Marriage Licenses), 1867-1899, [MSA T2490-1]. Nicholas D. Offutt and Mary Louise Anderson, September 24, 1867.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, 1840, Montgomery County, Rockville, Page 15, Line 10 [MSA SM61-113, M 4722]. Continued on Page 16, Line 10.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, Slaves, 1850, Montgomery County, Rockville District, Page 2, Line 25 [MSA SM61-168, M 1505-5].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, 1850, Montgomery County, Rockville District, Page 6, Line 32 [MSA SM61-142, M 1499-1].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John W. Anderson, Slaves, 1860, Montgomery County, District 4, Page 16, Line 30 [MSA SM61-239, M 7230-2].

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) for John Anderson, 1860, Montgomery County, District 4, Page 7, Line 16 [MSA SM61-213, M 7223-1].

Newspapers and Journals -

"$100 Reward!!" Montgomery County Sentinel 7 June 1856. MSA SC 2813, Reel M 475-01. Maryland State Archives.

"Country." Baltimore Sun 13 June 1856: 2. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Affairs in Montgomery County: Crops." Baltimore Sun 9 June 1856: 2. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Affairs in Montgomery County: Deceased." Baltimore Sun 17 July 1867: 2. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"The Crops in Virginia." Baltimore Sun 3 June 1856: 4. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Dr. John W. Anderson." Baltimore Sun 4 November 1851. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"The Great Falls of the Potomac Water Works." Baltimore Sun 21 September 1853: 4. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Harvest and Crops." Baltimore Sun 2 July 1856: 4. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"Letter from Washington: Maryland Claims for Property Taken During War." Baltimore Sun 3 March 1875: 4. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"The Planting Season." Baltimore Sun 9 April 1856: 1. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

"The Potomac Gold Mines." Baltimore Sun 25 December 1856: 1. The Baltimore Sun Historical Archives. Enoch Pratt Free Library.

Anderson, George M. "Growing Sugar Cane in Montgomery County: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Experiment by James W. Anderson." Maryland Historical Magazine 79:2 (Summer 1984): 134-41.

Anderson, George M. "The Civil War Courtship of Richard Mortimer Williams and Rose Anderson of Rockville." Maryland Historical Magazine 80:2 (Summer 1985) 119-138.

Anderson, George M. "'Premature Matrimony': The Hasty Marriage of Bettie Anderson and Philemon Crabb Griffith." Maryland Historical Society. Maryland Historical Magazine. 83.4 (1988): 369-377.

Books -

Cordell, Eugene Fauntleroy. University of Maryland, 1807-1907. Vol. 2. New York, NY: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1907.

High, Mike. The C & O Canal Companion. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

Maryland Geneological Survey. Report. Vol. 8. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1909.

Rubin, Mary H. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2003.

Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Western Maryland: Being a History of Frederick, Montgomery, Carroll, Washington, Allegany, and Garrett Counties from the Earliest Period to the Present Day. Vol. 1. Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1882.

Still, William. The Underground Railroad. Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, 1872.

United States Geological Survey. Contributions to Economic Geology, 1904. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1905.

Internet Sources -

"Anderson House." Rockville, Montgomery County, M: 26-11-9. Maryland Historical Society. http://www.mdihp.net.

"Porter Ward House." Rockville, Montgomery County, M: 26-11-3. Maryland Historical Society. http://www.mdihp.net.

"Rockville Academy." The Historical Marker Database. http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=94.


 

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