Anne McDaniel was a resident of Bertie County, North Carolina by 1733. That year she married George Martin, who died in 1734. By 1747 Anne had remarried, this time to Joseph Anderson of Chowan County and she was widowed in 1750. Despite her former husband's status as a member of the North Carolina Council, attorney general, and crown attorney, by the time of the American Revolution Anne had allied herself with the Patriot cause. In 1774 she signed a nonimportation agreement that later became known as the Edenton Tea Party Resolves. Anne appears to have managed a large estate and enslaved twelve people by the time of the 1784 census. She died in Chowan County in about 1788.