John Mathews, son of Anthony and Lois Mathews, was born in the Province of South Carolina. The date of his birth is not known, but he was underage when his father died in 1735, so he was born after 1714.[1]
He owned plantations in St. John Colleton and St. Bartholomew parishes, and at his death he held 101 slaves.[1]
John Mathews wrote his Will on 7 May 1759, mentioning his wife Sarah, son John Mathews, daughters Loes, Ann, and Elizabeth Mathews, and father-in-law John Gibbes.[4]
He died 13 May 1759[5]and was buried at the Circular Congregational Church in Charleston.[6]
Research Note
This John Mathews did not have a middle name Raven. There was a John Raven Mathews, who was the son of John's brother Benjamin Mathews and his wife Ann Holmes.
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 Edgar, Walter B. and N. Louise Bailey. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Volume II: the Commons House of Assembly 1692-1775 (1977), pp. 437-8
↑ Holmes, Henry S. “Robert Gibbes, Governor of South Carolina, and Some of His Descendants.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 12, no. 2 (1911): 83 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575298.
↑ Hutson, R. W. “Register Kept by the Rev. Wm. Hutson, of Stoney Creek Independent Congregational Church and (Circular) Congregational Church in Charles Town S. C. 1743-1760.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 38, no. 1 (1937): 36 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27571483.
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