Histories | Daniel Mathena Bio & Will from Along Pond Creek Five-page bio, including transcript of his will. Published in Along Pond Creek, by Helen M Kennedy, which credits the document to Ed Powell, and says it was presented at a Matheney family reunion in 1999. The document mentions research done in the late 1930's by Wm Blank Metheny, Esq. Of Philadelphia. |
Headstones | Daniel Mathena and the Aquia Episcopal Church Cemetery Birth: 1638, England Death: Oct. 14, 1685 Stafford County Virginia, USA Born at Bossenden Farm on the Faversham Road near Canterbury,County Kent. Son Of William Matheny,the great-grandson of a Huguenot refugee from Flanders. Many of his ancestors were French noblemen of the chevalier(knight)class. Immigrated to the Virginia Colony sometime around the mid-1600s.It is believed he first set foot in the new world at on near Jamestown,Virginia with his brother Michael. After docking he apparently made his way to Maryland.In 1681,he became embroiled in an early Protestant uprising against Lord Baltimore's Catholic dominated government in Maryland and was given the choice to leave the county or stand trail.He moved to Stafford County and the Hope Plantation,where he farmed tobacco. Source:Paula Shiver Hinkel Burial: Aquia Episcopal Church Cemetery Aquia Stafford County Virginia, USA |
Name | Daniel Mathena [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] | |||
Gender | Male | |||
Birth | 1638
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Died | 14 Oct 1685
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Stafford County, Virginia, USA [3]
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Father | William Metteneye (ID:I25590) b. Abt 1612, Bessenden, Kent, England | |
Relationship | natural | |
Mother | Living (ID:I28244) | |
Relationship | natural |
Wife | Sarah Wentworth (ID:I25589) (Age 52) b. 1648, Canterbury, Kent, England d. 1700, Stafford County, Virginia, USA (Age 52) | |||||||||||
Marriage | Bef 1664
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Arrival | Abt 1664
Charles County, Maryland, USA [6]
– May have landed in Jamestown, but had definitely settled in Maryland by this date, when he bought property from his father-in-law | |
Possessions | Betw 1680 and 1682
Charles County, Maryland, USA [7]
– Several transactions for parcels of land with names such as "Cowland" and "Mathena's Folly". In 1682, he is described as "late of Charles County in the Province of Maryland, now of Stafford County in the Colon of Virginia" | |
Departure | 1681
Charles County, Maryland, USA [8]
– Expelled from Maryland as a result of his participation in the Protestant Revolution of 1681. See p 301 of \"Along Pond Creek\" at http://play.google.com/books/reader?id=e0JyFxVAOvAC |
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