Adam Anderson

Economist, Deceased Person

– 1765

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Who was Adam Anderson?

Adam Anderson was a Scottish economist. He was a clerk for forty years in South Sea House, the headquarters of the South Sea Company, where he published a work entitled Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, containing a History of the Great Commercial Interests of the British Empire.

Late in his life Anderson traveled to the American colonies, begetting a son, Adam E. Anderson, later noted for being an early settler and planner of the Ohio Territory.

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Jan 10, 1765

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on July 23, 2013

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