Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameJames MATHEWS
Birth Date20 Sep 1737
Birth PlaceAugusta County, Virginia
Death Date27 Jun 1812 Age: 74
Death PlaceJefferson County, Kentucky
Burial PlaceBrownsboro, Oldham County, Kentucky, James Mathes Burying Ground Cemetery
OccupationRevolutionary War Soldier, 1ST LIEUTENANT-VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL TROOPS
FatherAlexander MATHEWS , 734 (1708-1788)
MotherCatherine Ann GRIZZEL , 735 (1720-1783)
Spouses
Birth Date25 Apr 1738
Birth PlaceFairfax County, Virginia
Death PlaceJefferson County, Kentucky
Burial PlaceBrownsboro, Oldham County, Kentucky, James Mathes Burying Ground Cemetery
Family ID2300
Marr Date12 Aug 1758
Marr PlaceAugusta County, Virginia
Notes for James MATHEWS
1ST LIEUTENANT
VIRGINIA CONTINENTAL TROOPS
AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN


BIRTH

Eldest son and heir-at-law of
Alexander Mathes, gentleman, of Flint Run, In Shenandoah County (present-day Warren County), Virginia Colony.

MARRIAGE & FATHERHOOD

August 12th, 1758
James Mathes married
Sarah Netherton in Augusta County, Virginia Colony.

MILITARY SERVICE

1st Lieutenant of Virginia Continental Troops in the
Sullivan-Clinton Expedition during the Revolutionary War.

KENTUCKY PIONEER FAMILY

In 1801 James and his wife Sarah sold the last of their real estate in Virginia and removed to Kentucky, settling near Brownsboro, then in Jefferson County [present-day Oldham County].

On Find A Grave.


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Medical notes for James MATHEWS
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Notes for Sarah (Spouse 1)
Born on Great Rocky Run (a tributary of Occuquan), then in Prince William County [present-day Fairfax County], Virginia, to Henry Netherton and Sarah Rhodes, who removed to Shenandoah County, Virginia and settled on what became known as Netherton's Mill Run.

Married James Mathes in Augusta County, Virginia, August 12, 1758.

Her paternal grandparents were Henry Netherton (d. 1716), gentleman, gunsmith and surveyor of Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia and his wife Sarah Tucker, who remarried William Veale in 1717. Her maternal grandparents were John Rhodes (d. Nov. 12, 1748) of Overwharton Parish, Stafford County, Virginia and his wife Ann (alive 1759), who remarried Robert Fristoe on Feb. 23, 1752 in Overwharton Parish.

Great-granddaughter
Henry Netherton (c.1650-1705), of Bishopsgate, London, England and his first wife Sarah (c.1651-1687); and of John Tucker (c.1671-1699), merchant and constable of Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia.

The funerary monument of her aunt
Elizabeth Netherton Walker (c.1708-1737) survives to this day in St Paul's Episcopal Churchyard in King George County, Virginia.

On Find A Grave.

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