Matthew Garrigues Jr. (1712 - 1748)

Born 1712 in Saint Christopher (St. Kitts), British West Indies

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 6 Oct 1748 at about age 36 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Province of Pennsylvania

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Biography

This profile is part of the Garrigues Name Study.

Childhood

Matthew Garrigues Jr. was a son of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).

Matthew Garrigues Jr. was the son of Hugenot refugees from France born on the Island of St. Kitts in 1712.

Matthew Garrigues Jr. migrated from St Kitts to Pennsylvania Colony.

When Matthew was only a year old, his parents took this moment to emigrate again, this time sailing north along America's Atlantic Seaboard, until they reached Philadelphia, led by religious-tolerant Quakers under William Penn. The French Huguenot emigrants and their children became members of the Anglican Christ Church and were welcomed into Philadelphia's non-Quaker minority.

Matthew's father, Matthew Sr. passed away when Matthew was 14.

Adulthood

Matthew had one son, also named Matthew. There is no documentation of when this son was born or who his mother was.

He was a tailor and he fought in Capt. William Trent's company in 1746.^[1] Prior to departure, Matthew agreed to indenture his son to his younger brother John Garrigues to learn the trade of a cooper, to read, to write and to have customary dues.^[2] As the standard term of an indenture was until the indentee turned 21, this implies that Matthew the younger was only five at the time. Most likely scenario is that his mother had died so Matthew was putting him under his brother's care.

Matthew died two years later in 1748 at about 36 years old. He was buried in the Friends Burial Ground on Arch Street.

His son then migrated to North Carolina and founded the southern branch of the family.

Research Notes

He wasn't a Quaker

There is no evidence that he was a Quaker and he served in the military during King George's War not long before his premature death at the age of 36.

He was, however, buried in the Friends Burial Ground on Arch Street in Philadelphia.

My speculation is that he was injured in the Battle of Fort Saratoga and following that injury was brought to his family in Philadelphia where his son was being raised by his brother John, who was a Quaker. They then cared for him until his death a year or so later and had him buried in their Burial Ground even though he was not a member of their community.

Wife and Son in Lancaster?

We have no record of his wife's name or the date of his son's birth. The unit he served in was organized in Lancaster, not Philadelphia. I'm further speculating that when he completed his apprenticeship as a tailor, he moved to Lancaster to establish his own business and that's where he married and his son was born. It's possible that information on his wife and the birth of his son might be found in records from Lancaster that have not yet been digitized. So far as I know, no descendant has investigated the records in Lancaster under the assumption that he remained in Philadelphia. It would be interesting to visit archives there and search for him.

Timeline

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Linn, J. B., & Egle, W. H. (Eds.). (1890). Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the Province of Pennsylvania. 1744-1764. In Pennsylvania Archives (Vol. II, Ser. 2, p. 423). essay, E.K. Meyers, State Printer. Retrieved April 7, 2022, from https://www.fold3.com/image/3245310.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} “Account of Servants Bound and Assigned before James Hamilton, Mayor of Philadelphia (Continued).” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 32, no. 1 (1908): 88–103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20085419.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} "The Descendants of Matthieu and Susanne (nee Rochet) Garrigues..." by Robert Garrigus; Columbia MD: 2003
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), “Baptisms, marriages, and burials, Christ Church, 1719-1750,” Philadelphia Congregations Early Records, accessed May 14, 2022, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_BaptismsMarriagesBurials1717-1749_v029.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5} Per Help:Date Fields, we translate to Gregorian dates
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Isaac Garrigues / Christian Broadgate marriage
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4} Garrigus, Robert. “Job-Garges-Lineage,” June 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20061022100121/http://www.garrigus-family.com/job-garges-lineage.doc
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Find A Grave: Memorial #6336660 In Memory of Susannah Garrigues who departed this life the 30th day of Sep 1746 Aged 67 years
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.), “Baptisms, marriages, and burials, Christ Church, 1719-1750,” Philadelphia Congregations Early Records, accessed August 6, 2022, https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/ChristChurch.RectorsRegisters_BaptismsMarriagesBurials1717-1749_v029.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2} Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Trent#cite_ref-:1_9-0
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1 11.2} Memorial: Find a Grave (no image)
    Find A Grave: Memorial #146054859 (accessed 17 October 2022)
    Memorial page for Matthew Garrigues (1712-6 Oct 1748), citing Friends Arch Street Meeting House Burial Ground (Defunct), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Vivien Garrigues (contributor 47885459).

See also:

• Garrigues, Edmund, R. C. Garrigues, and Margaret L. Garrigues. A Genealogy of Matthew And Suzanna Garrigues, Who Settled in Philadelphia about the Year 1712, and Their Descendants ; with Introductory Notes of Families of the Same Name with an Account of the Family in France, England, Holland, Germany, and Denmark. Oceanside, Calif, U.S.A. : R.C. Garrigues, 1982. http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/267642
• "Our Garrigues ancestors: French Huguenots with connections to Charlemagne & European royalty', by Patricia Wright Strati and C. H. N. Garrigues; Gateway Press; 1992, P. 192."