Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . exchanged he was served as aide toGeneral LaFayette in his campaign againstCornwallis in Virginia, and as an aide to Gov-ernor Nelson at the siege of Yorktown. Atthe close of the war he was present with theofficers of the Continental army when theyorganized the Society of the Cincinnati, andwas a charter member. In 1783 he was madesurveyor-general of the Mrginia MilitaryLand District, and established an offi
Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the building of a nation . exchanged he was served as aide toGeneral LaFayette in his campaign againstCornwallis in Virginia, and as an aide to Gov-ernor Nelson at the siege of Yorktown. Atthe close of the war he was present with theofficers of the Continental army when theyorganized the Society of the Cincinnati, andwas a charter member. In 1783 he was madesurveyor-general of the Mrginia MilitaryLand District, and established an office inLouisville the same year. He attended theDanville Convention, and opposed the eflfortsof Wilkinson and Sebastian to induce thepeople of Kentucky to declare their inde-pendence and to form an alliance with correspondence with the Spanishgovernment shows that of the bribe of $100,000recommended by him to be oftered by it, $1,000was to go to Richard Clough Anderson, whowas said by Wilkinson to be a man of ordinaryability but great influence. Colonel Richard Clough Anderson married(first) November 24. 1787, Elizabeth, daugh-ter of John and Ann (Rogers) Clark, and. /J^yL/t-t:^ ^2^^-u^(UM-^^ ^ SOUTHERN NEW YORK sister of John Rogers Clark. She died in1795, and he married (second) September 17,1797, Sarah Marshall, second cousin of hisfirst wife, and second cousin to Chief JusticeJohn Marshall. Her father was Colonel Wil-liam Marshall, an early settler of Henry coun-ty ; and her mother was Ann (McLeodj Mar-shall, daughter of Torquel McLeod. It is amatter of history that Colonel Richard CloughAnderson and John Marshall were rivalsuitors for the hand of Mary Willis, daughterof Jacquelin Ambler, and, his rival being pre-ferred, Colonel Anderson married ElizabethClark. Children of Colonel Anderson by firstmarriage: i. Richard Clough Jr., born 1788,died 1826; was member of legislature manyyears, speaker of Kentucky house of repre-sentatives, and first minister of the
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