Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — A Comer in Ancestors [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Comer in Ancestors

By ELEANOR LEXINGTON

Anthony Family

William Anthony ot Cologne, Germany, who went to London in the reign of Edward VI., is called the forefather of the Anthonys of America, who trace back to the immigrant John, from London, 1634, to Rhode Island. William was chief graver of the mint and seals to the king, Edward, end also to Mary and Elizabeth. Some writers give the name Derick Anthony instead of William. He is supposed to have engraved the seals for the Virginia companies. Derick, or William (William let him be, Derick is unromantic) married Elizabeth Erley. John Anthony, settler, came over In the Hercules. He had five children; his grandson, William, had 14,

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ton of whom married. Hifl name frequently appears in the records as AnthoinS. John was a freeman of Portsmouth, R. 1., 1640, and about the tome time corporal in a military company, also deputy and commissioner. He left three sons and two daughters, and is a “sure enough” good ancestor to anchor by. Jlis son John married Frances Wordell, or Wardell, first, and second, Susanna Albro, and had 12 children all told. Frances was daughter of William Wardell, the purchaser, with Samuel Gorton of Warwick, R. I. The famous painter, Gilbert Stuart, born 1755, comes into this story. He was Son of Gilbert Stuart, born at Perthshire, Scotland, who married Elizabeth Anthony, daughter of Albro and Susan Hefferman Anthony. Albro

was grandson of John Anthony, the Rhode Island settler. A good story is told of Gilbert Stuart, the first He was the most absent-minded of men, and jogging along to church, his wife and himself on a pillion, she dropped off by tlie roadside.,. Quite unaware that he was alone, he went on for" some distance in blissful ignorance of the situation, but finally he regained his mind, turned back and found his spouse quietly sitting by the roadside awaiting his return. ' One branch of the Anthonys of the south traveled back to England and picked up tjie earl Of Shaftsbury en route. Mark Anthony, Virginia settler, was afterwards in Georgia. Joseph, his son, or grandson, married Elizabeth Clarke, daughter of Capt. Christopher Clarke, who was also first in Virginia. Christopher Clarke went to Georgia in 1766 and the Anthonys were his companions. Isabella Hart is said to have been the name of the wife of Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony the first is called the son of Sir Charles Anthony of England, who, for services rendered the crown, was knighted and given land in Virginia. Sarah Anthony, born 1742, in Virginia, and granddaughter of Mark Anthony, married Capt. Thomas Cooper, and their descendants can claim membership with all patriotic societies. Capt. Thomas was in the revolution; he was member of the bouse or burgesses, and a representative at the convention of 1783. Other good ancestors to claim—if you can—or at any rate, to make a good fight for, are Elizabeth Anthony, born 1746, in Georgia, and her husband, William Chandler, deputy surveyor, member of the legislature, a judge and a soldier of the revolution. They were great-grandparents of Gov. Chandler of Georgia. Variations of the name Anthony are Antony, Antonii, Antonie, Antonio and Anthon and Anton are of the same derivation. St. Antoine and Antoigne are towns in Normandy, and perhaps there the family originated, or the name, as a surname. The next step is to say that one of the family went over with the conqueror. Perhaps he did! This must be inquired into! At any rate we find in Cornwall a parish called Anthony, and in Hampshire a river of this name. The illustrated coat-of-arms is blazoned: Argent i a leopard’s head, gules, between two Haunches, sable. Crest: A demi-goat proper, charged with a bezant, armed and attired, or.