Family/Spouse: Mary Mason SHERRILL. Mary was born on 25 Feb 1798 in Burke Co., North Carolina; died on 08 Jul 1879. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James Lewis MATTHEWS was born on 14 Jun 1819 in Pendleton Dist., South Carolina; died after 1870 in Gregg Co., Texas.
2. Jane Caroline MATTHEWS was born on 01 Dec 1820 in Limestone County, Alabama; died on 08 Jul 1899 in Panola County, Texas; was buried in Mt. Zion Cem., Panola Co., Texas.
3. William Dickerson MATTHEWS was born on 11 Mar 1824; died on 25 Aug 1875 in Panola County, Texas; was buried in Mt. Zion Cem., Panola Co., Texas.
4. David Willis MATTHEWS was born on 25 Feb 1825; died before 1860 in Panola County, Texas; was buried in Mt. Zion Cem., Panola Co., Texas.
5. Mary Anne MATTHEWS was born on 14 Sep 1826 in Lawrence Co., Alabama; died on 26 Apr 1882 in Brown Co., Texas.
6. Thomas Jefferson MATTHEWS was born on 18 Jul 1829 in Alabama.

James married Nancy DICKINSON in 1792 in Moore County, North Carolina. Nancy (daughter of Robert John DICKENSON and Mary PENDERGRASS) was born in 1773 in Moore County, North Carolina; died on 01 Oct 1844 in Olive Branch, Meriweather Co., Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Thomas Matthews Will - dated. August 17th, 1785 Chatham Co., NC Wills and Estates. Vol.1, Pg. 20(b), 21 N. C. State Archives film. # C.022.50001

In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Matthews of the county of Chatham in the State of North Carolina being weak in Body but sound memory blessed be God, do this day. August the seventeenth in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty five make and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner following that to say, first I give to my Daughter Sarah Morgan one Shilling Sterling-also I give and bequeath to my son William Matthews one Shilling Sterling-also I give and bequeath to my Daughter Hannah Griffith one Shilling Sterling also I give an bequeath to my son Thomas Matthews one Shilling Sterling also I give and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Matthews one Shilling Sterling also I give and bequeath to my son Ezekiel Matthews one Shilling Sterling-also I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret McDade one Shilling Sterling also I give and bequeath to my loving wife Margaret Matthews all my goods chattels and personal Estate such as Horse Cattle Hogs and Household furniture all my farming and carpenters Tools during her life and after her death I leave unto Ezekiel Matthews two oldest Daughters to them their Heirs and assigns forever and I make and ordain my Loving Wife Sole Executrix of this my Will in trust for the intents and purposes in this my Will Contained in Witness whereof I the said Thomas Matthews have to this my last Will and Testament Set my hand and seal thid Day and year above written
Signed Sealed and delivered
in the presence of us...
George Hobson
Jesse Hobson
Adam Moffitt
Signed Thomas (his X mark Matthews \
A Copy Test John Ramsey, C. C.


Died:
Chatham County, North Carolina

Thomas married Margaret MATHEWS about 1748 in South Carolina. Margaret was born about 1730 in Virginia; died before 1810 in Laurens County, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Robert married Mary PENDERGRASS about 1750. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

LDS AFN: P50J-K6
The will of Isaac Mathis is will number 38, page 225, Will Book #1, 1758-1774 in Halifax County, North Carolina. In it he mentions his son Samuel, son Reaps, sons Robert and Peter, wife Mary, and Thomas, Jean, Isaac, Mary, Sarah, and daughter Susanna Humphris. It has son Isaac and son-in-law Samuel Davis as executors. It does not mention son Moses but if he was the eldest he had already moved to South Carolina so would not necessarily be mentioned.

From "The History of Gwinnett County, Georgia":

"The Mathews family," according to C. H. Ward, genealogist, "has a history dating back to Sir Ivan, 12th Lord of Cardigan, of Oril College, Oxford, England who married Cecily, daughter of Sir Robert de Clare, who was the second son of Richard, 4th Earl of Hertford and his wife Amecia, sister of Isabel, wife of King John of England, and a descendant of Adelaide, sister of William the Conqueror. Sir Mathew, son of Sir Ivan, born about 1360, was knighted during the reign of Richard II (1382-1399) and his descendants are those who bear the name of Mathews in any of its varied forms."
"Captain, General, Governor Samuel Mathews, third son of Archbishop Tobias Mathews of Oxford, came to Virginia in 1622. Mary Mathews, daughter of Captain Samuel Mathews of Virginia, married Isaac Mathews, a grest-grandson of John Mathews of Milton and their son, Thomas Mathews, born in Virginia in 1726, came to South Carolina in 1767 and died there in 1831."

Isaac Edward Mathews and his wife Mary Mathews were distant cousins; Gov. Mathews was an ancestor of Mary. Their lineage converges in Sir Mathew ap Evan, Knight, b. 1368, Llandaff Court, Glamorgan, Wales, d. 1419, Glamorgan, Wales, married to Jenet Fleming. Their son Sir Dafydd Mathew, Knight, married to Gwendoline Hebert, is the direct ancestor of Isaac. His brother Sir Robert Mathew, married to Alice Thomas, is the direct ancestor of Mary.

Issac married Mary MATHEWS about 1723 in King & Queen County, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Captain Samuel MATHEWS and Elizabeth BRAXTON) was born in 1702 in Richmond County, Virginia; died on 10 Sep 1782 in Old Charles City, South Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Samuel((4)) (John((3)), Samuel((2)), Samuel((1))) married several times. In Essex records, 1720, there is a bond dated 1706 from Samuel Mathews, of St. Stephen's parish, King and Queen County, to Major George Braxton for the benefit of Elizabeth Mary Mathews((5)), "whom I had by my deceased wife." In Samuel Mathews' will (November 16, 1718), proved in Richmond County, he refers to this bond as "executed" from him "the day I was married to Katherine Dunstall when I was very much in drink." By his first marriage he also had John, died s. p., Baldwin, died s. p.