Families of John1 and Rebecca (Waite) Anderson and John1 and Mary (Applin) Anderson

John1 Anderson, of Scottish or Scotch-Irish ancestry, came to America and settled in Watertown, Mass. [Scotch-Irish descent means his early Scotch ancestors might have spent one or more generations in Ireland before immigrating to America.] John1 Anderson married on 16 July 1706, [Watertown VR] for his first wife, Rebecca Waite (or Waight), born 1680, daughter of John & Mary (Woodward) Waite . It would appear that the Waight's and the Woodward's were both early settlers of Watertown, Ma. John1 Anderson lived in Watertown and Newton, Ma. until after 1715, when he moved to Groton, Ma. He married 30 July 1716 [Watertown VR] for his second wife, Mary Applin (b 11 Oct 1677 d ) daughter of schoolmaster John and Bethshuah (Bartlett) Applin. Again, Mary Applin's ancestors seem to have come from the Watertown, Ma. area, with Bethshuah Bartlett's father having been Ensign Thomas Bartlett, an original proprietor of Watertown, Ma., died 26 Feb. 1654.

    Children of JOHN and REBECCA (WAITE) ANDERSON, all born in Watertown, MA, are:

  1. HANNAH2 ANDERSON (b 13 Aug 1707 d )[Watertown VR]
  2. ABRAHAM2 ANDERSON (b 18 Aug 1708 d 25 Dec 1768) [Watertown VR says b. 18 Aug 1709 while Bond's Watertown and others list 18 Aug 1708. Note next child's birth at 7 or 19 months. We assume Bond is correct.]
  3. REBECCA2 ANDERSON (b 29 Mar 1710 d )[Watertown VR]
  4. MARY2 ANDERSON (b 29 Aug 1711 d )[Watertown VR]

    Children of JOHN and MARY (APPLIN) ANDERSON are:

  1. RICHARD2 ANDERSON (b d )
  2. JOHN2 ANDERSON (b d )

Also read about what James Savage has written about the first Andersons in New England.

Also see Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, by Henry Bond, M.D., Volume I, pages 8, 9, 18-19, and 617-618., and Volume II, p. 674.

©Copyright Robert E. Anderson 1996

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