BIO: James ANDERSON, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 260.
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  ANDERSON, REV. JAMES, was a native of Scotland, born November 17, 
1678, was educated under Principal Stirling, of Glasgow, and ordained 
by Irvine Presbytery, November 17, 1708, with a view to his settlement 
in Virginia.  He sailed March 6, 1709, and arrived in the Rappahannock 
on the 22d of April following, but the state of things there not 
warranting his stay, he came northward, and was received by the 
Presbytery September 20.  He settled at New Castle.  In 1714, out of 
regard to the desolate condition of the people in Kent county, he was 
directed to supply them monthly on a Sabbath, and also to spend a 
Sabbath at Cedar creek, in Sussex.  He subsequently ministered in New 
York, but owing to some difficulties in the congregation there he 
desired a removal.  He was called September 24, 1726, to Donegal, on 
the Susquehanna, and accepted it.  He was installed the last Wednesday 
in August, 1727.  In September, 1729, he gave every fifth Sabbath to 
the people on Swatara, and joined the congregation of Derry, thus 
becoming the first settled pastor over that church, until the call of 
Rev. William Bertram, 1732.  He died July 16, 1740.  In the language of 
the Presbytery, "he was high in esteem for circumspection, diligence 
and faithfulness as a Christian minister."  The Rev. Mr. Anderson 
married, February 1712-13, Suit Garland, daughter of Sylvester Garland, 
of the Head of Apoquinimy.  She died December 24, 1736.  He then 
married Rachel Wilson, December 27, 1787.  His son Garland Anderson, 
married Jane, daughter of Peter Chevalier, of Philadelphia, but died 
early.  His daughter Elizabeth married Samuel Breeze, resided in New 
York, and was a woman of great excellence.  A brother of the Rev. Mr. 
Anderson was John Anderson, of Perth Amboy, who in 1712 was made one of 
the council of the Province of New Jersey.  He died in March, 1736, 
aged seventy-three, being then president of the council.