James Matthews Sr.
James was born before 1690 in Wales.[citation needed]
Apparently the family story of Anna Ruth Matthews was that five Matthews brothers left England in about 1600 - 1650, and James was the name of one of the brothers:
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James is 29 degrees from Herbert Adair, 24 degrees from Richard Adams, 23 degrees from Mel Blanc, 30 degrees from Dick Bruna, 21 degrees from Bunny DeBarge, 37 degrees from Peter Dinklage, 20 degrees from Sam Edwards, 18 degrees from Ginnifer Goodwin, 23 degrees from Marty Krofft, 19 degrees from Junius Matthews, 16 degrees from Rachel Mellon and 23 degrees from Harold Warstler on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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I certainly appreciate your due diligence in catching this, but the odds are just not in favor of 2 men out of 2,251 being the same.
Aside from that I somewhat suspect that the James Mathews I created is from the area of Surrey, England. He shows a lot of interactions in the Virginia colony with families who were from that area. Maybe those interactions simply started in Virginia. Whether or not they did though there is still a huge pool of men named "James Mat(t)hews" born 1640-1660 (or estimated in that range) to choose from. To zero in on mine and the other one takes the extreme narrow view.
I've had people contact me before about the James in my tree being connected to this Anna Ruth Matthews and her "5 brothers" story before, but no one can offer anything other than supposition that there's a connection.
If I had a nickel for every story about 3/4/5 brothers coming to America I'd have a dollar or two.