Cornelius Anderson Biography

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OBJE:_META	<metadataxml><content><line><p>http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&amp;db=patander73&amp;id=I05228</p></line><line><p>Date: 98-07-29 17:53:52 EDT<br>From: Kebet@oregoncoast.com (Terry Bradley)<br>To: PatAnder73@aol.com (PatAnder73)</p></line><line><p>In 1694 Cornelius Anderson and brother Enoch were sued in the East Jersey Court of Con.. Right by Wm. Pinhorne, Esq., of Bergen Co., for trespass, in amount. of L150, and for debt on a bond involving breach of covenant, in amount of L500 They lost the suit for debt, and the other was withdrawn. Most unfortunately, no further details have been preserved.<br><br>On Mar. 18, 1698/9, as Cornelius Andris, he was among 28 grantees in a deed for land in Maidenhead (Lawrenceville), It is uncertain whether he was living in Maidenhead or Hopewell at the time, but he was certainly of Hopewell not long after, and for the balance of his life. In 1710, as Cornelius Andrews, he was Constable for Hopewell; in 1721, Overseer of the Poor; and in 1722, Overseer of Highways and Collector. In 1722 and 1723, Town Meetings were held at his house, but thereafter at Ringo's Mill. On May 30, 1724, administration on his estate was granted to his widow Annah and their son Eliakim. Of his children, one was baptized at Hackensack as a son of Cornelius Albardi, four at Hopewell in 1710 by the pastor of the New Dutch Church at Bensalem PA and one at Maidenhead by the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia. On Oct. 4, 1738, the estate of Cornelius not yet settled, his son Eliakim gave bond in amount of L800 to his four brothers, to protect their equal shares with him of the Hopewell farm formerly their father's, and then in nominal possession of Eliakim, but leased to Andreew Mershon. This bond was basis for a suit commenced in the N.J. Supreme Court in 1764, by Cornelius and Abraham Anderson, as survivors of John and Bartholomew Anderson, against Elizabeth and John Anderson, Executors of Eliakim Anderson, dec'd. The matter was eventually submitted to three referees, who, in 1768, found that the said Executors were indebted to laintiffs in the amount of L452. It was stipulated that the representatives of John and Bartholomew Anderson, dec'd, were equally entitled, with Cornelius and Abraham, to a share of the L452. Previous to this litigation there bad been some friction in the family, perhaps originating in the same situation, and in May, 1763, Cornelius and Abrahalm Anderson, Cornelius Mershon and his mother, Francina Mershon, and Cornelius Anderson, Jr. and Thomas Anderson, sons of Cornelius, gave bond to appear at the next session of the Hunterdon County Court, and meanwhile not to molest John Anderson of Hopewell, evidently Eliakim's son.<br><br><br>It has been stated that Cornelius married (1), before 1694, Francina Abrahams, but this is based on the record of baptism of Francina, daughter of Enoch Anderson, at New York, in 1693, when the witnesses were listed as Cornelis Andrieszen and Francina Abrahams. The original record fails to show whether the last named was matron or maid, but in all probability she was a daughter of Cornelius's aunt Francina, wife of Abraham Lubbersen, for whom the infant was named. Eliminating this, there is no intimation in any record that Cornelius<br>had any wife other than Annetje Opdyck.<br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>1724 May 30. Anderson, Cornelius, of Hopewell, Hunterdon Co. Bond of Annah, widow, and Eliakim, son of, as administrators of the estate, John Anderson, of Hopewell, and Francis Vannoy, of said Co., fellow bondsmen. Lib. 2, p. 263.<br>1724 Oct. 26. Inventory of the personal estate, &pound;166.11, made by Enoch Andrus (Andrews) and John Muirheid. Lib. 2, p. 263.</p></line><line><p>&nbsp;-------------------</p></line><line><p>&nbsp;Opdyke, Charles Wilson. <em>The Op Dyk Genealogy.</em> Online at Family History Library (Page 154)</p></line><line><p>Cornelius Anderson was baptised 26 Sept. 1670 in the JST. Y. Dutch church, by his father Jochem Andriesen. On June 6, 1710, Cornelius Anderson and "Atmetie Opdyck" brought their children, Abraham, Rebecca, Bartholomew, and Andrew to be baptised at Hopewell, N. J., by theRev. Paulus van Vleq, who was pastor of a Dutch church in Bucks Co., Pa., and came occasionally over the Delaware to serve the Dutch residents of West Jersey. Cornelius was joined with Johannes, Lawrence, and Albert Opdyck, Enoch and Joshua Anderson, in the various conveyances of Maidenhead church and farm plots already mentioned. In 1721 he was Collector in Hopewell, and in 1722 owned a mill in the southwest corner of that township. In 1721 the "Draft of the Amwell Road" on the Hunterdon Court records reads: "Beginning by ye Rarington path that leads from Mr. Reading's old plantation where John Reading now lives to the old Road that leads from George Green's old plantation to Cornelius Anderson;" the description states that the road "runs alongside of the school house," and is interesting as proving the early existence of a school house in this frontier district. Cornelius died in Hopewell in 1724, and letters of administration were granted to his widow "Annah" and eldest son Eliakim.</p></line><line><p>Annetie's son Eliakim Anderson was Constable of Hopewell in 1725, and was an executor of the will of his grandfather Johannes Opdyck in 1729. His signature as administrator of his father Cornelius is the same as that as executor of his grandfather; he appears as such executor upon the Hunterdon Court records, and as grand jury man from Hopewell in 1736. He and the other Andersons also appear as supporters and communicants in the oldest records extant of the Lawrenceville church. . . .</p></line><line><p>Annetie had also a son John, who died in Bethlehem, Hunterdon, in 1746, bequeathing 325 acres in Bethlehem and "my share of plantation in Hopewell where my mother now lives" to his wife Hannah and his children Cornelius, John, Andrew, Mary and Marth and granddaughter Anna More. This shows that Annetie Opdyck, daughter of Johannes, and wife of Cornelius Anderson, was living as late as 1746.&nbsp;</p></line><line><p>&nbsp;</p></line></content></metadataxml>
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Given names	Surname	Sosa	Birth		Place		Death		Age	Place	Last change
Cornelius Anderson Kornelis Andriesen Kornelis Andriesen Father: Joachim Andriessen Mother: Emmetje Jansdotter				September 26, 1670 1679 September 26, 1670	353	Elizabethtown, New Jersey, United States Elizabethtown, New Jersey, United States NY	1	1724	300	53	Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States	Never	M	YES	YES

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