Born in Province of South Carolina
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Gibbes
and Mary (Woodward) Gibbes
Sister of
Mary (Gibbes) Barnwell, Elizabeth (Gibbes) Carson, Robert Gibbes, John Gibbes and Anne (Gibbes) Ladson
Wife of
John Matthews
— married
10 Nov 1741 in South Carolina
Descendants 
Mother of
Lois (Mathewes) Hall, John Mathews, Elizabeth (Matthews) Heyward and Ann (Matthewes) Guerard
Died
at about age 34
in Charles Town, Province of South Carolina
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| Created 24 Jan 2015
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Biography
Sarah, born 17 February 1725/6, was the daughter of John Gibbes and Mary Woodward.[1][2]
On 10 November 1741 she married John Mathews,[1][2] by whom she had children John Mathews, Lois (m. George Abbott Hall), Ann (m. Godin Guerard, and Elizabeth (m. Thomas Heyward, Jr.).[3][4]
Sarah survived her husband by only a year. She wrote her Will on 1 May 1760, and it was proved 19 June 1760. She mentions her son John Mathewes, daughters Lowes, Ann, and Elizabeth Mathewes, brothers Robert Gibbes and John Gibbes, and brother [in-law] Dr. James Carson.[5]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Barnwell, Joseph W. “Dr. Henry Woodward, the First English Settler in South Carolina, and Some of His Descendants.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 8, no. 1 (1907): 35-6 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575150
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Bulloch, Joseph Gaston Baillie. A History and Genealogy of the Habersham Family. United States, R. L. Bryan Company, 1901, Addenda after p. 220, pp. 10-1 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89069277598&view=1up&seq=5&skin=2021
- ↑ "South Carolina Probate Records, Bound Volumes, 1671-1977," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939L-J818-Y?cc=1919417&wc=M6N4-668%3A210905601%2C211515701 : 21 May 2014), Charleston > Wills, 1752-1763, Vol. 008 > image 507 of 612; citing Department of Archives and History, Columbia. Will of Sarah Mathewes
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