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PrC (DLC); in ink at foot of text: “Mr. Matthew Anderson Gloucester.”
Matthew Anderson (1743–1806), served in the Virginia General Assembly as a senator representing Gloucester, Middlesex, and Mathews from 1783 to 1794 and as a delegate representing Gloucester from 1801 to 1803 and from 1804 to 1805. He and his wife Mary Dabney Anderson were sericulturists at Exchange on the North River in Gloucester County, where they kept silkworms in the attic of their home and, in 1794, presented to George Washington enough silk for two suits (Leonard, General Assembly, 151, 198, 223, 227, 235; Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia Through 1865 [Richmond, 1959], 88–9; Lyon G. Tyler, “Old Tombstones in Gloucester County,” WMQ, 1st ser., 3 [1895], 184–5; W. P. Anderson, Anderson Family Records [Cincinnati, Ohio, 1936], 38–9; Mary Anderson to George Washington, 17 May 1794, in DLC: Washington Papers; Vol. 30:303–4).
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PrC (DLC); in ink at foot of text: “Mr. Matthew Anderson Gloucester.”
Matthew Anderson (1743–1806), served in the Virginia General Assembly as a senator representing Gloucester, Middlesex, and Mathews from 1783 to 1794 and as a delegate representing Gloucester from 1801 to 1803 and from 1804 to 1805. He and his wife Mary Dabney Anderson were sericulturists at Exchange on the North River in Gloucester County, where they kept silkworms in the attic of their home and, in 1794, presented to George Washington enough silk for two suits (Leonard, General Assembly, 151, 198, 223, 227, 235; Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia Through 1865 [Richmond, 1959], 88–9; Lyon G. Tyler, “Old Tombstones in Gloucester County,” WMQ, 1st ser., 3 [1895], 184–5; W. P. Anderson, Anderson Family Records [Cincinnati, Ohio, 1936], 38–9; Mary Anderson to George Washington, 17 May 1794, in DLC: Washington Papers; Vol. 30:303–4).
Contributor: robsmithiii (47472973) graciously sent the following:
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PrC (DLC); in ink at foot of text: “Mr. Matthew Anderson Gloucester.”
Matthew Anderson (1743–1806), served in the Virginia General Assembly as a senator representing Gloucester, Middlesex, and Mathews from 1783 to 1794 and as a delegate representing Gloucester from 1801 to 1803 and from 1804 to 1805. He and his wife Mary Dabney Anderson were sericulturists at Exchange on the North River in Gloucester County, where they kept silkworms in the attic of their home and, in 1794, presented to George Washington enough silk for two suits (Leonard, General Assembly, 151, 198, 223, 227, 235; Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia Through 1865 [Richmond, 1959], 88–9; Lyon G. Tyler, “Old Tombstones in Gloucester County,” WMQ, 1st ser., 3 [1895], 184–5; W. P. Anderson, Anderson Family Records [Cincinnati, Ohio, 1936], 38–9; Mary Anderson to George Washington, 17 May 1794, in DLC: Washington Papers; Vol. 30:303–4).
//founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-36-02-0308
PrC (DLC); in ink at foot of text: “Mr. Matthew Anderson Gloucester.”
Matthew Anderson (1743–1806), served in the Virginia General Assembly as a senator representing Gloucester, Middlesex, and Mathews from 1783 to 1794 and as a delegate representing Gloucester from 1801 to 1803 and from 1804 to 1805. He and his wife Mary Dabney Anderson were sericulturists at Exchange on the North River in Gloucester County, where they kept silkworms in the attic of their home and, in 1794, presented to George Washington enough silk for two suits (Leonard, General Assembly, 151, 198, 223, 227, 235; Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Epitaphs of Gloucester and Mathews Counties in Tidewater Virginia Through 1865 [Richmond, 1959], 88–9; Lyon G. Tyler, “Old Tombstones in Gloucester County,” WMQ, 1st ser., 3 [1895], 184–5; W. P. Anderson, Anderson Family Records [Cincinnati, Ohio, 1936], 38–9; Mary Anderson to George Washington, 17 May 1794, in DLC: Washington Papers; Vol. 30:303–4).
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Here lies the body of
Mathew Anderson, Esq
Born 6th Dec 1745
Died on 24 Dec 1806
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