Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
Spouses
1Grizzel _____ 
266,62, 735
266,62, 735Birth Date1720
Birth PlaceAntrim, Ulster, Ireland
Death Date26 Nov 1783 Age: 63
Death PlaceThompson Hollow, Shenandoah, Virginia
Family ID2267
Marr Date1737
Marr PlaceAugusta County, Virginia
ChildrenJames (1737-1812)
John (1738-1795)
Alexander (1740-1806)
George (1741-1788)
Janet O’Neal , 367 (1747-1818)
Benjaman M. (~1754-1797)
Jeremiah (1756-1842)
Nancy (1764-1785)
Notes for Alexander MATHEWS
IRISH IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR landing at Newcastle, Delaware in 1708.
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Alternative spelling of last name Mathews and Matthews.
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A “Mathews, Alexander” is listed Colonial Soldiers of the South Poll for Frederick County, Dec. 11, 1755, List of voters, FOR COLO: GEO: WASHINGTON: (11 names down)500
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EMIGRANT ANCESTOR for the MATHEWS lineage from Ireland to the United States. MATHEWS or MATHEWS is British.
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MATTHEWS, Alexander: b - d 10-30-1788 m Grizelle - PS VA501
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Also, in DAR Patriot Index - Centennial Edition Part II G-O 1974, pg. 1920
Rev War Soldier CS PS VA
MATHEWS (MATHES) FAMILY
by I.C. Van Deventer
The following will supplement material presented in the genealogy entitled, “The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America,” by I.C. Van Deventer-Alexander Printing Co., 1925. Further research has disclosed important early records.
Alexander Mathews came with the Doak family in the Scotch-Irish emigration from North Ireland to Pennsylvania, later following John Lewis and EphraimMcDowell into Augusta Co., Virginia.
In an unpublished manuscript, “Finley-Shield,” by Major Albert Finley France, of Annapolis, Md., he says that James Doak, his wife Elizabeth, and five children, Samuel, David, John, Robert and Thankful emigrated from the North of Ireland to America, landing at Newcastle, Delaware, 1708, and settled in Chester Co., Pa. This fixes the time of the arrival ofthese families as 1708.
Through an error in date handed down in the family, the name of the immigrant ancestor has been written as “George.” This is not correct, and subsequent research shows that his name was Alexander Mathews. This family dropped the “w” from the name and it has since been spelled “Mathes.”
Alexander Mathews is said to have gone from Chester Co., Pa., to Augusta Co., Va., about 1737, and is first mentioned in Abstracts of Augusta Co., by Chalkley in 1746 (Vol. I, p. 25).
The following copy of a land grant has been furnished by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Richard, Va.:
THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain call’d Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia To all to whom this present Writing shall come Sends Greetings KNOW YE that for good Causes for and in Consideration of the Composition to Me paid and for the Annual Rent here-after reserved I have given granted and confirmed and by these Presents for Me my Heirs and Assigns do give and confirm unto Alexander Mathews of Augusta County a certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land in the said County upon Flint Run and Bounded as by a survey made bny Mr. John Baylis as followeth BEGINNING at a white oak at the Foot of a Hill on the East SideFlint Run and running N 40 E Three hundred and Twenty Poles to three Pines on a Hill Side thence N 50 degrees W Two hundred Poles to a Popular Locust and Spanish Oak on the Side of a Hill and Drain making into Shannondoah thence S 40 W Three hundred and twenty poles to two white Oaks and a Pine marked AM; thence S 50 E Two hundred Poles to the BEGINNING Containing four Hundred Acres Together with all Rights, Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging ROYAL MINES EXCEPTED and a full third Part of all Lead Copper Tinn Coal Iron Mines and Iron Ore that shall be found thereon To have and to hold the said Four hundred Acres of Land Together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in any Wise Appertaining Except before Excepted To him the said Alexander Mathews his Heirs or Assigns therefore Yeilding and Paying to Me My Heirs or Assigns or to my certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents or to the certain Attorney or Attorneys of my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck yearly and every year on the Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel the Fee Rent of One Shilling sterling Money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater of Lesser Quantity PROVIDED That is the said Alexander Mathews his Heirs or assigns shall not pay the before reserved annual Rent so that the same or any Part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by the Soace of Two whole years after the same shall become Due if Lawfully Demanded That then it shall and may be Lawful for Me my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents into the above granted Premises to Reenter and Hold the same so as if this grant had never pass’d. Given at my Office in the County of Fairfax within the said Proprietary under my Hand and Seal. DATED this fourteenth day of September in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. AD One thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Nine.
FAIRFAX
Alexander Mathews’s Deed for 400 acres of Land upon Flint Run Augusta County.
I.T.D. YOUNG, Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth, do hereby certify that the foregoing is full, true and correct copy of land grant in the name of ALEXANDER MATHEWS for FOURN HUNDRED (400) ACRES in Augusta County, as shown by the records of this office in Northern Neck Book “G” at page 321.
Given under my hand and the Lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 31st day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and sixieth.
T.D. YOUNG
(Seal) Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth
Another grant of land to Alexander Mathews, of 265 acres, dated Aug. 6, 1750, is recorded in Northern Neck Book “G” p. 405. These tracts of land in Augusta Co., by the division of counties, were successively in Frederick, Shenandoah and Warren, the location being near Front Royal in Warren Co. It is quite possible that the family may have lived on this land for some time prior to the date of the grants, as often happened at that time.
A deed from Alexander Mathews and Grizzel, his wife, of Frederick Co., to James NcNeill, converys 265 acres, part of Mathews patent land laying in that part of Frederick Co., formerly Augusta Co., dated Feb. 4, 1755. (Deed Bk. 3, page 392, Frederick Co., Va., Records.)
A deed dated Nov. 26, 1783, from Alexander Mathews, Sr., to his son, James, conveys a certain part of a tract of land near Flint Run surveyed by George Hume, beraing date Aug. 6, 1750, containing 132 acres. (Deed Bk. D, p. 334, Shenandoah Co., Va., Records.)
In 1757 when George Washington was a candidate for the House of Burgesses, the name of Alexander Mathews appears in a list of persons who voted for him. (Story of Winchester in Va., Morton, 1925-p. 78)
Dec. 28, 1780, Alexander Mathews took the oath of Magistrate and took his seal accordingly. (Minute Bk., 1774-81, p. 176, Shenandoah Co., Va., Records.)
The will of Alexander Mathews dated Sept. 5, 1783, is recorded in Will Book “B,” p. 499, Shenandoah Co., Va., as follows:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, Alexander Mathes of Shanendon County and Colony of Virginia considering the mortality of my body and that it appointed for all men once to Die, do think it proper to leave my temporal affairs in as settled a manner as I can, and for this purpose I make a last Will and Testament; and being of sound mind and memory I first of all recommend my soul to God who gave it, with an humble resignation; and my Body to the Earth to be buried in a desent and Christian like manner I will as followeth viz.
Item-I give and bequeath unto my Beloved sons, James and John to them their heirs and assigns forever, that tract of land whereon they now live, to be divided in this manner, by a line that is already run Beginning (a) a white oak marked AM on the North line or side, thence south some degrees west to the back line near the Bruchey mountain, containing 132 acres each less or more.
Iten-I give and bequath to my four sons Alexander Jeremiah Benjamin and George to them their heirs and assigns forever all that tract of land whereon I now live containing 400 acres according as it is now laid off and devided amongst them only making this Reserve that my beloved wife Grizzel Mathes shall have the use of and enjoy one third peart of the said land during her natural life including the house & plantation where I now live.
Item-I give and bequath to my Beloved wife a third peart of all my movabls of every sort and kine.
Item-I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Benjamine Mathes two pearls of all my moveables to him his heirs and assigns.
Lastly, I do nominate and appoint my two sons James and Benjmine Executors of this my last will and testament and revoking all and every other will or wills heretofore made declaring this only to be my last will and testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this 5 day of September anno Domeni 1783.
his
ALEXANDER A MATHES (L. S)
mark
Signed sealed published and )
declared by the Tesator to be )
his last will and testament )
in the presence of us
Abraham Keller
John Hutchison
John Netherton
At a Court held for the County of Shanandoah on Thursday the 30th day of October 1788.
The last will and Testament of Alexander Mathes, decd., was exhibited in the Court by James Mathes and Benjamin Mathes Executor therein named and was proved by the oathes to be recorded. On the motion of said Executor a probat thereof in due form is granted them they having given bond and security according to law.
JOHN WILLIAMS, C. S. C.
Copy Teste:
ANNA CATHERINE SPIKER, D. Clerk, for
LOY J. COFFMAN,
Cleark of the Circuit Court of Shenandoah Co., Va.
Will Book “B,” page 499.
1. ALEXANDER MATHEWS, b. ........, d. 1788, Shenandoah Co., Va.; married Grizzell .............
Children;
i. James, m. Sarah .............; s listed in first U. S. Census 1785, list of Abraham Keller,
Shenandoah Co., Va., with family of seven. His son, James, Jr., m. 1796, Miriam Thomas.
ii. John, m. Mary Ann .............; was of Greene Co., N. C. 1792. (Deed Bk. 1, p. 165, Shenandoah Co.,
Va.), later Jefferson Co., Tenn.
iii. Alexander, II, b. Mar. 12, 1740, Augusta Co., Va., d. July 1806; tombstone inscription, Old
Salem Cemetery, Washington Co., Tenn., gives his Revolutionary record.
iv. Jeremiah, m. Oct. 9, 1788. Elizabeth Leith.
v. Benjamin, m. Aug. 6, 1783, Rachel Keller, dau. Abraham Keller. From Order Bk. 2-B, p. 21, Shn.
Co., Va. Records: “Benjamin Mathews sworn Lieutenant of 2nd Regt. Feb. 22, 1787.” He remained
in Va. His will mentions wife Rachel, children, Abraham, Isaac, William, Betty, Rebeckah and
Sally, 1796. (Will Bk. E, p. 81, Shen. Co. Records.)
vi. George, m. Nancy Elizabeth Wood.
vii. Nancy, m. John Nelson; lived in Washington Co., Tenn. their dau. Nancy Ann Nelson (7186-1867)
m. Ebenezer Leith Mathees (1789-1868), son of Alexander Mathes II and Ann Leith.
viii. Janet, b. July 20, 1747, d. Apr. 23, 1818; m. Apr. 2, 1765, John Blackburn, b. Jan 27, 1741,
d. Feb. 9, 1808, son of Benjamin and Mary Blackburn, Augusta Co., Va. and Washington Co.,
Tenn.
(Information given in this location about sons and their families: 2. ALEXANDER MATHES II, 3. JEREMIAH MATHES, 4. GEORGE MATHES) Also, in this location a 1 1/4 page MATHEWS FAMILY deed dated Sept. 3, 1754, and recorded at a court held for King George County November 7, 1754 from Moseley Battaley of Spotsylvania County, and Samuel Battaley and John Camp of King George County 502
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County Antrim From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
County Antrim (Irish: Contae Aontroma or simply Aontroim) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Antrim.
Covering an area of 2,844 km², it has a population of approximately 616,000, most of them in and around the Belfast area. The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Bushmills produces legendary whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area. The majority of the capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is also in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.503
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Ulster From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emigration
Considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots just a few generations after arriving in Ulster migrated to the North American colonies throughout the 18th century (250,000 settled in what would become the United States between 1717 and 1770 alone). According to Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1988), Protestants were only one-third of the population of Ireland, but they comprised three-quarters of all emigrants from 1700 to 1776; 70% of these Protestants were Presbyterians.
Disdaining (or forced out of) the heavily English regions on the Atlantic coast, most groups of Ulster-Scots settlers crossed into the "western mountains", where their descendants populated the Appalachian regions and the Ohio Valley. Here they lived on the frontiers of America, carving their own world out of the wilderness. The Scotch-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Author (and U.S. Senator) Jim Webb puts forth a thesis in his book Born Fighting to suggest that the character traits he ascribes to the Scots-Irish such as loyalty to kin, mistrust of governmental authority, and a propensity to bear arms, helped shape the American identity.
In the United States Census, 2000, 4.3 million Americans claimed Scots-Irish ancestry, though James Webb suggests estimates that the true number of Scotch-Irish in the USA is more in the region of 27 million. Interestingly, the areas where the most Americans reported themselves in the 2000 Census only as "American" with no further qualification (e.g. Kentucky, north-central Texas, and many other areas in the Southern US) are largely the areas where many Scots-Irish settled, and are in complementary distribution with the areas which most heavily report Scots-Irish ancestry.504
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Alexander MATTHEWS - CS PS VA NARA 1654 NF
b. abt 1722 d. Oct 30, 1788 m. Grizzel _____ abt 1742
S256: DAR Patriot Index vol. 1 pg. 444 Alexander: b - d 10-30-1788 m Grizelle - PS VA
S259: Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 by Murtie June Clark1983, pg. 331
DAR Patriot Index - Centennial Edition Part II G - O 1974, pg. 1920
DAR information 6/21/18: MATTHEWS, ALEXANDER
Ancestor #: A075403
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: CIRCA 1720
Death: ANTE 10-30-1788 SHENANDOAH CO VIRGINIA
Service Source: GILREATH, SHENANDOAH CO VA MINUTE BOOK 1774-1780, P 51; ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 3, P 842
Service Description: 1) MAGISTRATE; FURNISHED SUPPLIES
Residence 1) County: SHENANDOAH CO - State: VIRGINIA
Spouse 1) GRIZELLE X
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Alternative spelling of last name Mathews and Matthews.
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A “Mathews, Alexander” is listed Colonial Soldiers of the South Poll for Frederick County, Dec. 11, 1755, List of voters, FOR COLO: GEO: WASHINGTON: (11 names down)500
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EMIGRANT ANCESTOR for the MATHEWS lineage from Ireland to the United States. MATHEWS or MATHEWS is British.
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MATTHEWS, Alexander: b - d 10-30-1788 m Grizelle - PS VA501
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Also, in DAR Patriot Index - Centennial Edition Part II G-O 1974, pg. 1920
Rev War Soldier CS PS VA
MATHEWS (MATHES) FAMILY
by I.C. Van Deventer
The following will supplement material presented in the genealogy entitled, “The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America,” by I.C. Van Deventer-Alexander Printing Co., 1925. Further research has disclosed important early records.
Alexander Mathews came with the Doak family in the Scotch-Irish emigration from North Ireland to Pennsylvania, later following John Lewis and EphraimMcDowell into Augusta Co., Virginia.
In an unpublished manuscript, “Finley-Shield,” by Major Albert Finley France, of Annapolis, Md., he says that James Doak, his wife Elizabeth, and five children, Samuel, David, John, Robert and Thankful emigrated from the North of Ireland to America, landing at Newcastle, Delaware, 1708, and settled in Chester Co., Pa. This fixes the time of the arrival ofthese families as 1708.
Through an error in date handed down in the family, the name of the immigrant ancestor has been written as “George.” This is not correct, and subsequent research shows that his name was Alexander Mathews. This family dropped the “w” from the name and it has since been spelled “Mathes.”
Alexander Mathews is said to have gone from Chester Co., Pa., to Augusta Co., Va., about 1737, and is first mentioned in Abstracts of Augusta Co., by Chalkley in 1746 (Vol. I, p. 25).
The following copy of a land grant has been furnished by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, Richard, Va.:
THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX Baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain call’d Scotland Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia To all to whom this present Writing shall come Sends Greetings KNOW YE that for good Causes for and in Consideration of the Composition to Me paid and for the Annual Rent here-after reserved I have given granted and confirmed and by these Presents for Me my Heirs and Assigns do give and confirm unto Alexander Mathews of Augusta County a certain Tract of Waste and ungranted Land in the said County upon Flint Run and Bounded as by a survey made bny Mr. John Baylis as followeth BEGINNING at a white oak at the Foot of a Hill on the East SideFlint Run and running N 40 E Three hundred and Twenty Poles to three Pines on a Hill Side thence N 50 degrees W Two hundred Poles to a Popular Locust and Spanish Oak on the Side of a Hill and Drain making into Shannondoah thence S 40 W Three hundred and twenty poles to two white Oaks and a Pine marked AM; thence S 50 E Two hundred Poles to the BEGINNING Containing four Hundred Acres Together with all Rights, Members and Appurtenances thereunto belonging ROYAL MINES EXCEPTED and a full third Part of all Lead Copper Tinn Coal Iron Mines and Iron Ore that shall be found thereon To have and to hold the said Four hundred Acres of Land Together with all Rights Profits and Benefits to the same belonging or in any Wise Appertaining Except before Excepted To him the said Alexander Mathews his Heirs or Assigns therefore Yeilding and Paying to Me My Heirs or Assigns or to my certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents or to the certain Attorney or Attorneys of my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors of the said Northern Neck yearly and every year on the Feast Day of St. Michael the Archangel the Fee Rent of One Shilling sterling Money for every Fifty Acres of Land hereby granted and so proportionably for a greater of Lesser Quantity PROVIDED That is the said Alexander Mathews his Heirs or assigns shall not pay the before reserved annual Rent so that the same or any Part thereof shall be behind or unpaid by the Soace of Two whole years after the same shall become Due if Lawfully Demanded That then it shall and may be Lawful for Me my Heirs or Assigns Proprietors as aforesaid my or their certain Attorney or Attorneys Agent or Agents into the above granted Premises to Reenter and Hold the same so as if this grant had never pass’d. Given at my Office in the County of Fairfax within the said Proprietary under my Hand and Seal. DATED this fourteenth day of September in the Twenty third Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. AD One thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Nine.
FAIRFAX
Alexander Mathews’s Deed for 400 acres of Land upon Flint Run Augusta County.
I.T.D. YOUNG, Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth, do hereby certify that the foregoing is full, true and correct copy of land grant in the name of ALEXANDER MATHEWS for FOURN HUNDRED (400) ACRES in Augusta County, as shown by the records of this office in Northern Neck Book “G” at page 321.
Given under my hand and the Lesser Seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 31st day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five and of the Commonwealth the one hundred and sixieth.
T.D. YOUNG
(Seal) Acting Secretary of the Commonwealth
Another grant of land to Alexander Mathews, of 265 acres, dated Aug. 6, 1750, is recorded in Northern Neck Book “G” p. 405. These tracts of land in Augusta Co., by the division of counties, were successively in Frederick, Shenandoah and Warren, the location being near Front Royal in Warren Co. It is quite possible that the family may have lived on this land for some time prior to the date of the grants, as often happened at that time.
A deed from Alexander Mathews and Grizzel, his wife, of Frederick Co., to James NcNeill, converys 265 acres, part of Mathews patent land laying in that part of Frederick Co., formerly Augusta Co., dated Feb. 4, 1755. (Deed Bk. 3, page 392, Frederick Co., Va., Records.)
A deed dated Nov. 26, 1783, from Alexander Mathews, Sr., to his son, James, conveys a certain part of a tract of land near Flint Run surveyed by George Hume, beraing date Aug. 6, 1750, containing 132 acres. (Deed Bk. D, p. 334, Shenandoah Co., Va., Records.)
In 1757 when George Washington was a candidate for the House of Burgesses, the name of Alexander Mathews appears in a list of persons who voted for him. (Story of Winchester in Va., Morton, 1925-p. 78)
Dec. 28, 1780, Alexander Mathews took the oath of Magistrate and took his seal accordingly. (Minute Bk., 1774-81, p. 176, Shenandoah Co., Va., Records.)
The will of Alexander Mathews dated Sept. 5, 1783, is recorded in Will Book “B,” p. 499, Shenandoah Co., Va., as follows:
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I, Alexander Mathes of Shanendon County and Colony of Virginia considering the mortality of my body and that it appointed for all men once to Die, do think it proper to leave my temporal affairs in as settled a manner as I can, and for this purpose I make a last Will and Testament; and being of sound mind and memory I first of all recommend my soul to God who gave it, with an humble resignation; and my Body to the Earth to be buried in a desent and Christian like manner I will as followeth viz.
Item-I give and bequeath unto my Beloved sons, James and John to them their heirs and assigns forever, that tract of land whereon they now live, to be divided in this manner, by a line that is already run Beginning (a) a white oak marked AM on the North line or side, thence south some degrees west to the back line near the Bruchey mountain, containing 132 acres each less or more.
Iten-I give and bequath to my four sons Alexander Jeremiah Benjamin and George to them their heirs and assigns forever all that tract of land whereon I now live containing 400 acres according as it is now laid off and devided amongst them only making this Reserve that my beloved wife Grizzel Mathes shall have the use of and enjoy one third peart of the said land during her natural life including the house & plantation where I now live.
Item-I give and bequath to my Beloved wife a third peart of all my movabls of every sort and kine.
Item-I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Benjamine Mathes two pearls of all my moveables to him his heirs and assigns.
Lastly, I do nominate and appoint my two sons James and Benjmine Executors of this my last will and testament and revoking all and every other will or wills heretofore made declaring this only to be my last will and testament. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this 5 day of September anno Domeni 1783.
his
ALEXANDER A MATHES (L. S)
mark
Signed sealed published and )
declared by the Tesator to be )
his last will and testament )
in the presence of us
Abraham Keller
John Hutchison
John Netherton
At a Court held for the County of Shanandoah on Thursday the 30th day of October 1788.
The last will and Testament of Alexander Mathes, decd., was exhibited in the Court by James Mathes and Benjamin Mathes Executor therein named and was proved by the oathes to be recorded. On the motion of said Executor a probat thereof in due form is granted them they having given bond and security according to law.
JOHN WILLIAMS, C. S. C.
Copy Teste:
ANNA CATHERINE SPIKER, D. Clerk, for
LOY J. COFFMAN,
Cleark of the Circuit Court of Shenandoah Co., Va.
Will Book “B,” page 499.
1. ALEXANDER MATHEWS, b. ........, d. 1788, Shenandoah Co., Va.; married Grizzell .............
Children;
i. James, m. Sarah .............; s listed in first U. S. Census 1785, list of Abraham Keller,
Shenandoah Co., Va., with family of seven. His son, James, Jr., m. 1796, Miriam Thomas.
ii. John, m. Mary Ann .............; was of Greene Co., N. C. 1792. (Deed Bk. 1, p. 165, Shenandoah Co.,
Va.), later Jefferson Co., Tenn.
iii. Alexander, II, b. Mar. 12, 1740, Augusta Co., Va., d. July 1806; tombstone inscription, Old
Salem Cemetery, Washington Co., Tenn., gives his Revolutionary record.
iv. Jeremiah, m. Oct. 9, 1788. Elizabeth Leith.
v. Benjamin, m. Aug. 6, 1783, Rachel Keller, dau. Abraham Keller. From Order Bk. 2-B, p. 21, Shn.
Co., Va. Records: “Benjamin Mathews sworn Lieutenant of 2nd Regt. Feb. 22, 1787.” He remained
in Va. His will mentions wife Rachel, children, Abraham, Isaac, William, Betty, Rebeckah and
Sally, 1796. (Will Bk. E, p. 81, Shen. Co. Records.)
vi. George, m. Nancy Elizabeth Wood.
vii. Nancy, m. John Nelson; lived in Washington Co., Tenn. their dau. Nancy Ann Nelson (7186-1867)
m. Ebenezer Leith Mathees (1789-1868), son of Alexander Mathes II and Ann Leith.
viii. Janet, b. July 20, 1747, d. Apr. 23, 1818; m. Apr. 2, 1765, John Blackburn, b. Jan 27, 1741,
d. Feb. 9, 1808, son of Benjamin and Mary Blackburn, Augusta Co., Va. and Washington Co.,
Tenn.
(Information given in this location about sons and their families: 2. ALEXANDER MATHES II, 3. JEREMIAH MATHES, 4. GEORGE MATHES) Also, in this location a 1 1/4 page MATHEWS FAMILY deed dated Sept. 3, 1754, and recorded at a court held for King George County November 7, 1754 from Moseley Battaley of Spotsylvania County, and Samuel Battaley and John Camp of King George County 502
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County Antrim From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
County Antrim (Irish: Contae Aontroma or simply Aontroim) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Antrim.
Covering an area of 2,844 km², it has a population of approximately 616,000, most of them in and around the Belfast area. The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Bushmills produces legendary whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area. The majority of the capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is also in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.503
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Ulster From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emigration
Considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots just a few generations after arriving in Ulster migrated to the North American colonies throughout the 18th century (250,000 settled in what would become the United States between 1717 and 1770 alone). According to Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1988), Protestants were only one-third of the population of Ireland, but they comprised three-quarters of all emigrants from 1700 to 1776; 70% of these Protestants were Presbyterians.
Disdaining (or forced out of) the heavily English regions on the Atlantic coast, most groups of Ulster-Scots settlers crossed into the "western mountains", where their descendants populated the Appalachian regions and the Ohio Valley. Here they lived on the frontiers of America, carving their own world out of the wilderness. The Scotch-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Author (and U.S. Senator) Jim Webb puts forth a thesis in his book Born Fighting to suggest that the character traits he ascribes to the Scots-Irish such as loyalty to kin, mistrust of governmental authority, and a propensity to bear arms, helped shape the American identity.
In the United States Census, 2000, 4.3 million Americans claimed Scots-Irish ancestry, though James Webb suggests estimates that the true number of Scotch-Irish in the USA is more in the region of 27 million. Interestingly, the areas where the most Americans reported themselves in the 2000 Census only as "American" with no further qualification (e.g. Kentucky, north-central Texas, and many other areas in the Southern US) are largely the areas where many Scots-Irish settled, and are in complementary distribution with the areas which most heavily report Scots-Irish ancestry.504
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Alexander MATTHEWS - CS PS VA NARA 1654 NF
b. abt 1722 d. Oct 30, 1788 m. Grizzel _____ abt 1742
S256: DAR Patriot Index vol. 1 pg. 444 Alexander: b - d 10-30-1788 m Grizelle - PS VA
S259: Colonial Soldiers of the South, 1732-1774 by Murtie June Clark1983, pg. 331
DAR Patriot Index - Centennial Edition Part II G - O 1974, pg. 1920
DAR information 6/21/18: MATTHEWS, ALEXANDER
Ancestor #: A075403
Service: VIRGINIA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE
Birth: CIRCA 1720
Death: ANTE 10-30-1788 SHENANDOAH CO VIRGINIA
Service Source: GILREATH, SHENANDOAH CO VA MINUTE BOOK 1774-1780, P 51; ABERCROMBIE & SLATTEN, VA REV PUB CLAIMS, VOL 3, P 842
Service Description: 1) MAGISTRATE; FURNISHED SUPPLIES
Residence 1) County: SHENANDOAH CO - State: VIRGINIA
Spouse 1) GRIZELLE X
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Notes for Grizzel (Spouse 1)
IRISH IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR, landing at Newcastle, Delaware in 1708.
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EMIGRANT ANCESTOR for the _____ lineage from Ireland to the United States.
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County Antrim From Wikipedia
County Antrim (Irish: Contae Aontroma or simply Aontroim) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Antrim.
Covering an area of 2,844 km², it has a population of approximately 616,000, most of them in and around the Belfast area. The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Bushmills produces legendary whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area. The majority of the capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is also in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.503
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Ulster From Wikipedia
Emigration
Considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots just a few generations after arriving in Ulster migrated to the North American colonies throughout the 18th century (250,000 settled in what would become the United States between 1717 and 1770 alone). According to Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1988), Protestants were only one-third of the population of Ireland, but they comprised three-quarters of all emigrants from 1700 to 1776; 70% of these Protestants were Presbyterians.
Disdaining (or forced out of) the heavily English regions on the Atlantic coast, most groups of Ulster-Scots settlers crossed into the "western mountains", where their descendants populated the Appalachian regions and the Ohio Valley. Here they lived on the frontiers of America, carving their own world out of the wilderness. The Scotch-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Author (and U.S. Senator) Jim Webb puts forth a thesis in his book Born Fighting to suggest that the character traits he ascribes to the Scots-Irish such as loyalty to kin, mistrust of governmental authority, and a propensity to bear arms, helped shape the American identity.
In the United States Census, 2000, 4.3 million Americans claimed Scots-Irish ancestry, though James Webb suggests estimates that the true number of Scotch-Irish in the USA is more in the region of 27 million. Interestingly, the areas where the most Americans reported themselves in the 2000 Census only as "American" with no further qualification (e.g. Kentucky, north-central Texas, and many other areas in the Southern US) are largely the areas where many Scots-Irish settled, and are in complementary distribution with the areas which most heavily report Scots-Irish ancestry.504
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EMIGRANT ANCESTOR for the _____ lineage from Ireland to the United States.
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County Antrim From Wikipedia
County Antrim (Irish: Contae Aontroma or simply Aontroim) is one of the traditional counties of Ireland. It is located within the province of Ulster and is part of Northern Ireland. It was named after the town of Antrim.
Covering an area of 2,844 km², it has a population of approximately 616,000, most of them in and around the Belfast area. The Glens of Antrim offer isolated rugged landscapes, the Giant's Causeway is a unique landscape and a UNESCO World Heritage site, Bushmills produces legendary whiskey, and Portrush is a popular seaside resort and night-life area. The majority of the capital city of Northern Ireland, Belfast, is also in County Antrim, with the remainder being in County Down.503
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Ulster From Wikipedia
Emigration
Considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots just a few generations after arriving in Ulster migrated to the North American colonies throughout the 18th century (250,000 settled in what would become the United States between 1717 and 1770 alone). According to Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (1988), Protestants were only one-third of the population of Ireland, but they comprised three-quarters of all emigrants from 1700 to 1776; 70% of these Protestants were Presbyterians.
Disdaining (or forced out of) the heavily English regions on the Atlantic coast, most groups of Ulster-Scots settlers crossed into the "western mountains", where their descendants populated the Appalachian regions and the Ohio Valley. Here they lived on the frontiers of America, carving their own world out of the wilderness. The Scotch-Irish soon became the dominant culture of the Appalachians from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Author (and U.S. Senator) Jim Webb puts forth a thesis in his book Born Fighting to suggest that the character traits he ascribes to the Scots-Irish such as loyalty to kin, mistrust of governmental authority, and a propensity to bear arms, helped shape the American identity.
In the United States Census, 2000, 4.3 million Americans claimed Scots-Irish ancestry, though James Webb suggests estimates that the true number of Scotch-Irish in the USA is more in the region of 27 million. Interestingly, the areas where the most Americans reported themselves in the 2000 Census only as "American" with no further qualification (e.g. Kentucky, north-central Texas, and many other areas in the Southern US) are largely the areas where many Scots-Irish settled, and are in complementary distribution with the areas which most heavily report Scots-Irish ancestry.504
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