Anderson Township

The earliest entries of land in what is now Anderson Township, are as follows : Township 5 south, Range 3, west, Section 6, Ephraim Cummings, 1818 ; Section 35, William Horner, 1817, Township 6 south, Range 2 west, Section 8, John Donnelly, 1820. These were the only entries prior to 1820, in the present Anderson Township. August 7, 1820, the following men polled their votes in Anderson Township at the house of Daniel Purcell ; Theodorus Davis, John Davis, Daniel Hendricks, John Terry, John Jarboe, Thomas Fitzgerald, Richard Kennedy, Richard Davis, Caleb Huston, John Stuck, William Taylor, William Royal, William Hicks, John Wheatley, James Hendricks, David Gregory, Thomas B. Van Pelt, John Lanman, John Farris, John Cassidy, Smiting Irish, John Beardsley, Jesse Barber, Stephen Owens, Daniel Purcell, John Woodall, Samuel Morgan, Gideon Draper and Samuel Eslick.