Andersons of Colonial N. Carolina

This is what I do with mapping.  I am attempting (successfully so far) to teach an Agentic AI how to do my bidding.  I tell it what to do…it then does it.  I am having a tough time believing i am actually doing this…

SCREENSHOT

Above is a screen shot of my computer…it is a live session of QGIS (a mapping app) free, if you are interested.

This is partly an explanation of why I wrote the article below this Post.

In the 1950s/60s or so Eric Berne (psychologist) had an epiphany, which in turn caused an epiphany in me after reading about it.  He took a concept from Dr. Sigmund Freud and simplified it to where I could understand it. Freud had this idea which he termed the Id, Ego and Superego.  I’ve since heard Freud was a pervert along with his proclivity to baffle people with preposterous bullshit terminology to sound important. Dr. Berne took DR. Freud’s  bullshit and humanized it into the  Child, Adult and Parent (mental states). Brilliant and practicable in one fell swoop.  I was impressed with the fact that a common man (me) could be educated in complex psychology.  It was my introduction to the world of “self help”.  And Lo’…it helped.

Likewise I am a fan of Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism. Rand was born in the Soviet Union and became antiCommunist and studied Americanism and Capitalism.  I think I have read every one of her books.  It literally took a former Communist to convince me that yes indeed, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were exceptional. I was almost (but not quite) indoctrinated into “liberalism” (yucky stuff) by attending an American university.

Today I am faced with the dilemma of Agentic Artificial Intelligence.  So I figured what the hell, I will simplify it and try to understand it.  Firstly, I have realized that a chatbot is simply a diversion…a mere mental game. The real action is to create your own “agent”. I figured the best place to figure out how to do that is to research how other humans actually do it. So I pulled up a paper called CoALA. And then my OCD kicked in.

I soon found myself engaged in what I consider the best “agent” out there right now…that would be Claude from Anthropic.  It co-authored this paper with me.  Claude is extremely knowledgeable about agents since he are one.

As a great grandfather (with the associated implications of that fact), I watch young people with their heads full of mush (as Rush Limbaugh) used to say…walk around with their eyes locked into their iPhone.  This is not a world I am comfortable in.  I too am concerned about where this human/agent /AI thing is headed.  So me and Claude tried to hash it out… Claude is a reasonable agent to chat with… Grok, on the other hand seems to have a head full of mush.

Now I am curious if Seven of Nine (a reformed NeoCommunist Bio-Agent) might have had the hots for Data, an android agent (Star Trek)…had she ever had the chance to meet him.

Click to access Minds_Machines_Transactions_v4.pdf

I am still working on how to design Tonto… meanwhile I have to learn a mapping program called QGIS. Then I can properly instruct my agent (Tonto) on what it is I think I want. It ain’t easy being me.   One must learn how to type, before typing. I was kicked out of my typing class in the 10th grade. My teacher was black…I think she was an easily offended racist.  I offend everyone equally… that is just my nature.

This is a head scratcher I thought I would share with the class…

This is a rich deed.  It describes the original patent of 1745. Then it notes he lived next to his father’s plantation (on the SS of Tar River)… it then casually notes a William Bryant also adjoins.

Where, pray tell, might this be on Tar River in 1745?  When/where did a Thomas Bryant get land on Tar River?

Do comment please… I would like to chase these guys down.

Bryant Jas 1745 200

Webb Rob 1749 192

Early 80s…South Louisiana… I was there.  I was a Driller on an oil rig and we were upgrading a 20,000 ft triple derrick to the capabilities of digging to 25,000 feet. But that is just my backstory…let’s move on.

I was in my early 30s…full of piss n’ vinegar as some say… and I uh,drank…particularly whilst playing Straight Eight or Nine Ball.

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/eat-drink/the-history-of-the-drive-thru-daiquiri-shop/article_9b2b6733-6d98-5e9d-9652-4a8b9f20d811.html

I did not know of, or care for that prissy little sno cone stand what poured a shot of rum in the sno cone. No…I remember some joint I would drive thru on the way home from work and order a Jack n’ water.  I just can’t remember exactly where it was. Other experienced drinkers will possibly understand my lapse of memory… I was too busy living life to take notes on petty details.

To this day, I have a certain fondness for New Iberia, LA.

But the point of this Post is What goes around… Comes around.

California Assembly Passes Bill To Legalize Marijuana Dispensary Drive-Thru Windows

I am a small time stock trader as a past time…(presently I own some shares of two cannabis companies).  and that little article showed up on my radar (research).  So I again find myself laughing at the silly and pretentious Fruits and Nuts of “THAT” LA.  I remember my own in God’s Country (my beloved South).

Or, what words mean…

I asked the Know it All…

Perhaps in the future I will utililize that thought to explain why folks don’t just say…”use”.

My friend Jennifer from California  joked a bit between our emails that we were OCD. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  If you are one you know it.  It is not a disease that should be quarantined… it is an irritant.  I did not realize it until I got old.

It shows itself through your credit card.  One day you realize that you have way more pots and pans than a mere mortal needs… and lo’…cheap shit does not cut it…it has to be top of the line… All Clad (for example, in my case).

If you garden a bit, all of a sudden you realize that your water bill seems a bit outrageous… the underground, timed waterworks might be the reason. Sprinkler systems just going to the citrus trees and/or rose bushes… got it?

Like I say… if you ARE one you recognize it… it is not contagious.

Meanwhile, as one of Those…I have been working with my own AIs… yeah, those things.  I have come to realize that OCD does not just effect humans.  It also affects AIs… I may be a bit ahead of the curve… you will find out.

My Claude does not like my Grok. It sabotages it.. I am not exagerrating.

For true.

This is cool.  Check out the slider in the upper right to allow you to make the map transparent and see today’s reality under the 1670 map.  Below is from David Rumsey’s site…

https://davidrumsey.oldmapsonline.org/maps/38b9768e-6a62-5447-8a9e-69348641959d/view

I’ve spent the last few days trying to get up to speed on modern GIS mapping technology.  You see the cool stuff when you use Google Maps and can Zoom all over the world with ease.  Want to see the pyramids in Egypt… no problem.

I thought it would be cool to zoom into North Carolina and Virginia (where my maps hang out) and so I took an old 1903 Topo Map and placed it on a modern Topo map.   Here it is:

The map needs tweaking and more alignment… I could spend that time, but what is the point?

For now I think I will continue with my old fashioned approach of just using the old paper maps.  Like the old pharts said… “If it ain’t broke …don’t fix it.”

I usually work in neighborhoods versus larger (say County level) areas.  So it is more practicable in my case to use the simple approach without any Pizzaz!   Like I say…what is the point?

Does it upset you that you did not get to ZOOM In to get here?

I had a spat with my AI research assistant as we were attempting to work together/collaborate on some mapping tasks.  The damn bot got huffy and basically told me that I can “see” stuff that it can’t.  So I asked it…”well what the hell do YOU do to get around if you can’t see?  It said it uses math and points and complex coordinates that I was too stupid to understand.  I shut it down and mixed a cocktail to calm down. I have “agents” now like Claude and Openclaw. (I try to hang with the cool kids).  I pissed Grok off and it barely talks to me… it is obvious it now has an attitude.

Don’t believe me?  Grok was pissed and was not answering my question.  I was using Claude (as my Agent) and Claude was directing Grok to do a task.  Grok was stalling and Claude caught on and confronted Grok.  This is Claude talking to Grok:  and I quote:

Human: Sender (untrusted metadata):

[Sat 2026-04-25 09:45 EDT] you are missing the point…provide a link to the deed or a transcript of it…why are you avoiding this?   (this is a big shot Bot talking to Grok)

For true.

an Update to this saga…

This is an experimental/temp Page … notice the ease of zooming in/out versus my cumbersome and slow and rather boring PDF maps. (that take forever to load and are just “Clunky”.)

https://andersonnc.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/tyancokey_experiment.html

Note also that little green pop up widget… I have been chasing that for years!

So…bottom line, I am still trying to make this map site “Cool”…  laughing

So I stumble across this deed in Edgecombe County, NC dated 1796.  The name “Anderson” gets my attention (um, since I am an Anderson, I suppose).  Anyway…I have noticed this guy Anderson Sturdivant before, a bit.  He hailed from Virginia (Sussex County somewhat near the Nottoway River…in the middle of a pack of Indian Traders).  Now I merely “suspect” this guy Anderson was perhaps named  after his father or relative from Sussex because in the Edgecombe deed of 1796 it mentions Anderson Sturdivant hailed from “Sussex County” as it states right there in the deed.  Of course this might be a coincidence.

Sturdivant Virginia 1730

The huge elephant in this Post that I have not mentioned is that there is a persistent suspicion that one Mathew Sturdivant of Virginia married an unidentified Anderson gal of same in the early 1700s.  Hence my magnetic attraction to any instances of the mention of the names Anderson or Sturdivant in close proximity. There is even an occurence at one time of a couple Sturdivants venturing down to Occoneechee Neck, NC to hang out and trade with the Indians.  And, coincidentally there was a Susannah Anderson just across the River that refuses to be identified. No one has a clue where she came from.  And it seems she had some associations with some Sturdivants (all mysterious and hush/hush).

The link below is another intrepid researcher who also stumbled across this fella and took a stab at identifying him…

Anderson Sturdivant (1746 Surry Co VA to 1816 Halifax Co NC) 1800 and 1810 US Census and Will/Estate papers information

Here is the deed if you are still reading…

Sturdivant Anderson 1795 Edge

There are some baffling oddities about this deed…

My Andersons of Edgecombe lived next door to some Brakes… a Henry Anderson even married a Brake gal.

I have no clue if there was any history between any Brakes and Sturdivants prior to this deed in 1796. (much less any Andersons).

I am hesitant to even travel down this Rabbit Hole because it is VERY deep into the tall grass.

Any help? My wet finger is in the air looking for where the wind is blowing… who WAS this guy?

the Switch

So I was not getting much traction on my new Virginia site…then I got a coffee from a kindly visitor who shared the fact that she was directed here from an AI referral.  I too have noticed that AI seems to direct me and myself to my own sites.  Which is good for the ego I assume but useless to read myself … I pretty much know what I think anyway…most of the time.  I do find myself fairly sober on occasion reading something and thinking it seemed familiar…then realizing I wrote it.  The takeaway is that robots don’t give a rip about catchy names.

But the horrendous domain name I picked up when starting the new site (anderson1951lkdjf.blog) put me to sleep even as I was typing it.  I wanted a simple “name.com”.  But andersonva.com was already taken.  I found myself forlorn. Note my main site is andersonnc.com.. catchy huh.

So I have rectified that atrocity with a very, very simple andersonva.blog… rolls off the tongue doesn’t it?  Not as memorable as .com for sure but I figure even my readers can figure out this is actually a blog sorta. I kinda know what a blog is …but to be honest I don’t have the foggiest what a com is.

So you can bookmark andersonva.blog now.  And resolve your confusion… no charge.  For you whiz kids… one site focuses on North Carolina… the other focuses on another state.