As best as I can figure this James Anderson is the first Anderson in the area of Occoneeche Neck and may be the defining progenitor of the Andersons of the later Halifax and Edgecombe Counties. CHOWAN PRECINCT. NORTH CAROLINA , 1696-1723  Margaret M. Hofmann  Deed Book B #1 #889 pg. 345, Matthew CAPPS and Elizabeth … Continue reading James Anderson 1716