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Alexander Mathews/Mathes Notes and Family

Well-sourced biographical sketch, with 9 children. Clearly extracted from a larger descendancy.
Posted on ancestry.com by shirlijowatkins

Generation No. 1

1. ALEXANDER A. MATHEWS1MATHES, SR. was born Bef. 1708 in Antrim County, North Ireland, and died Bef. October 30, 1788 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He married GRIZZEL Bef. 1737

Notes for ALEXANDER A. MATHEWS MATHES, SR.:
The following will supplement material presented in the genealogy entitled "The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America" by I.C. Van Deventer -- Alexander Printing Co., 1925. Further research has disclosed important early records.

Alexander Mathews came with the Doak family in the Scotch-Irish imigration
from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania, later following John lewis and Ephraim McDowell into Augusta Co., Virginia. In an unpublished manuscript, "Finley - Shields" by Major Albert Finley France, of Annapolis, MD., he says that James Doak, his wife Elizibeth, and five children, Samuel, David, John, Robert and Thankful emigrated from North of Ireland to America, landing in Newcastle, Delaware in 1708 and settled in Chester Co., PA.

An error in the data handed down in the family has the immigrant ancestor written as "George". This is not correct; subsequint research shows that his name was Alexander Mathews. This family dropped the "W" from the name and has been since been spelled "Mathes".

Alexander is said to have went from Pennsylvania to Augusta Co., VA in 1737, mentioned in "Abstracts of Augusta,Co., by Chalkley" in 1746, (Vol. I, p. 25). His first Land Grant was from The Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax, baron of Cameron in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, Proprietor of the Northern Neck of Virginia for 400 acres on September 14, 1749, and went on record in the Northern Neck Book "G" at page 321.

Another grant of land for 265 acres on Aug. 6, 1750, is recorded in Northern Neck Book "G" pg 405. These tracts of land in Augusta Co., by the division of Counties, were successively in Frederick Co., Shenandoah, Co., and Warren Co.

He later sold 265 acres to James McNeill in Frederick Co., Deed Book 3, pg 392 on Feb. 4, 1755. A deed dated Nov. 26, 1783, from Alexander Mathews, Sr., to his son James, conveys a certain part of a tract of land near Flint Run surveyed by George Hume, bearing date Aug. 6, 1750, containing 132 acres.

In 1757 when George Washington was a candidate for the House of Burgesses, the name Alexander Mathews appears on a list of persons who voted for him.
(Story of Winchester in VA., by Morton, 1925 - pg 78).

Dec. 28, 1780, Alexander Mathews took the oath of Magistrate and took his seal accordingly.
(Minute Book, 1774-81 pg 176, Shenandoah,Co. VA records.)

The will of Alexander Mathews dated Sep. 5, 1783 is recorded in Will Book "B", pg 499, Shenandoah, Co.,VA., witnessed by Abraham Keller, James Hutchison and John Netherton, (we believe that this is Sarah Netherton's relative).

Another book that talks about Alexander is: "Prominent Tennesseeans" by William Speer, 1888, pg. 184.

Notes for GRIZZEL:
Everton Record show Grizzie 1720 from Ireland 1740 census in Augusta, Virginia. Mathews is married name, maiden name not known. Proper spelling of given name varies (Grizzie, Grezze). Listed as Grizzel in deeds of 1755 and 1783, including will of her husband in 1788. Listed as Grizelle in DAR Patriot Index-Centennial Edition Part 2, p 1920.

Children of ALEXANDER MATHES and GRIZZEL are:

  1. JAMES2 MATHEWS, SR., b. September 20, 1737, Augusta Co., VA; d. Bef. June 27, 1812, Jefferson County, Kentucky.
  2. JOHN MATHES, b. Abt. November 1738, Shenandoah, Co., VA; d. Green Co., NC/ Jefferson Co., TN; m. MARY ANN, 1792, Green Co., NC.
    Notes for JOHN MATHES:
    Was of Green Co., NC, 1792. (Deed Book 1, pg. 165 Shenandoah Co., VA), which later became Jefferson Co., TN, where he is buried.
    Marriage Notes for JOHN MATHES and MARY ANN:
    Their deed is recorded in Deed Book l, page 165, Shenandoah County Corthouse, Woodstock, VA.
  3. ALEXANDER MATHES, JR., b. March 12, 1740, Augusta County, Virginia; d. July 1806, Washington County, TN.
  4. GEORGE MATHEWS, b. Abt. 1741. 5.
  5. JEREMIAH MATHES, b. 1748, Shenandoah County, Virginia; d. Jefferson County, TN.
  6. JANET O'NEAL MATHEWS, b. July 20, 1747, Frederick Co., VA; d. April 23, 1818, Dandridge, Jefferson Co., TN; Adopted child.
  7. NANCY MATHEWS.
  8. BENJAMIN A. MATHEWS, b. Abt. 1763, Shenandoah County, Virginia; d. April 15, 1797, Warren County, Virginia
  9. ALLEN MATHES.
    Notes for ALLEN MATHES: Allen Mathes is not found in Virginia records that list his brothers and sisters, though Col. Edward Hart Mathes and "The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America" list him as one of the four brothers who came to Washington Co., TN.


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