He was married to Elizabeth Dixon. In 1796, Anderson became engaged in the hotel business through the purchase of the Columbia House in Chester, Pennsylvania.[1]
Political career
He served as Delaware County auditor in 1804 and county director of the poor in 1805.[2] He was a Jeffersonian democrat and held many public offices.
Under Pennsylvania gradual abolition law, enslavers had six months to register the children of women they held in bondage. On July 2, 1806, Anderson registered a nineteen-week-old "male mulatto bastard child" named Francis as his property for twenty-eight years with the Delaware County clerk of courts.[4][5] This registration reveals that Anderson owned Francis' mother, whom he held in either lifetime or term slavery.