Samuel Matthews

1630 - 1659  (29 years)

• Name	Samuel Matthews  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	1630	Virginia   [1, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1659	Warwick, Chesterfield, Virginia   [1, 4]
  Notes	bSamuel Jr. Gov Mathews (1630 - 1660) /bHistorians and genealogists who have attempted to identify Governor Samuel Mathews of Virginia, who died in office in January, 1659/60 (1), have assumed that his induction on March 13, 1657/8, was the beginning of his services as Governor. And, because of the youth of Lieutenant Colonel, afterwards Colonel Samuel Mathews, Junior, it has been assumed, also, that the Governor was Captain Samuel Mathews, Senior. In the William and Mary Quarterly (first series, Volume 1, p. 79), under the heading "Virginia Threads for the Future Historian," the Editor stated: "On the 26th of November 1653, the Irish and Scotch Committee of Parliament, after conferring with Col. Mathews, reported him to the Council of State as a fit person to be Governor of Virginia, which shows that the nomination of Mathews to succeed Diggs was first made by the English authorities, and several years before his election by the house of Burgesses." This item probably has had much to do with the general acceptance of Samuel, Senior, the one referred to in the foregoing, as Governor Mathews. But, it was not this Samuel but his son, Samuel, Junior who succeeded Diggs, a fact that may be further strengthened by trailing Samuel, Sr. in England as far as the few extant records yield information concerning him during this period. While evidently concurring with the Committee's report as to Mathews' general fitness, the Council of State of England deemed it wise to retain Mathews there to finish with the troublesome Maryland affair. Accordingly, the President of the English Council, Henry Lawrence, wrote to the Governor and "Generall Assembly of the English Plantation of Virginia", from Whitehall, January 4, 1653/4. This letter was covered in the previous chapter. The outcome was that Mathews, Sr. was retained as Agent to finish up what he had started by his petition for a settlement of the boundary question. As we have seen, it took four years to bring that matter to a "speedy" conclusion. Such evidences as exists, indicate that Colonel Mathews, Senior did not return to Virginia during these four years, or ever after. The Agent's salary was provided for by special levy upon the several counties. (2) Mathews also received a bonus of 200 pounds as Agent, for the settlement of the case of the Leopoldus, a Dutch ship, seized for carrying contraband goods. This by Act of the 1653 session of the Assembly. (3) At the November, 1654 Assembly it was ordered that the "Salarye appointed for agency, is by the severall Sheriffs & Collectors respectively to be paid to Leutt Collo Samuel Mathewes or his assignee."(4) Samuel, Jr. is not referred to as "Colonel Mathews" until the Assembly of December, 1656, refers to him as Governor elect. As this method of transmitting Colonel Mathews' salary as Agent probably continued as long as he served in that capacity, there is no further mention of it in the extant records. We know that he continued as Agent until after the signing of the articles of agreement with Lord Baltimore on November 30, 1657, after which he drops out of sight. Eighteen days after the signing of that agreement, the Council of State of England received the report "from the Committee for his Highness in America," recommending Diggs, not Mathews for Governor of Virginia. This was at the instigation of "Several merchants tradeing to Virginia", and as we have seen, was ignored by the Council. (5) One reason for the common error concerning this Governor is the fact that the original Council and General Court Minutes are entirely missing from early 1634 to early 1670 and that no copies are extant so far as known. All we have are a few memoranda made by Mr. Conway Robinson for his own use, and some of these are from earlier abstracts. Deplorably lacking in detail as these notes are, they often supply us with missing links, as for instance, under date of November 6, 1656, they tell us: "The Governor (Edward Digges) having to go to England, assembly called for 1st of December. (6) Said Assembly of December, 1656, ordered "That letters be sent unto Coll. Sam'l Mathews and Mr. Bennet that in respect the difference between us and the Lord Baltimore concerning our bounds is as far from determination as at first, they desist in that particular until further order from this country." It was also ordered "That Edward Digges, Esquire, being at present Governor, he be requested to continue his office, and reteine the reines of government in his hands during his abode in the countrie, and in the interim Coll. Samuel Matthewes, Governor elect to take place next him in the Council." In accordance with the foregoing instructions, Digges carried with him, when he sailed, a letter to Colonel Mathews and written instruction for himself which, among other things, told him to "join yourself with our friends colonel Matthews and mr. Bennett..."; and to deliver letters from the Assembly to Cromwell, the Lord Protector, and to the English Secretary of State, the Honorable John Thurlow. Both of these letters were dated December 15th, 1656. (7) But Digges did not sail until some time after March 4, 1656/7, as he issued land patents on that date. One of this date was issued to Colonel Richard Lee. The indeterminate authority, during his "Abode in the countrie", seems to have caused some confusion since his quitting the country probably was a matter of sailing weather at the last; for, although, as just stated, Digges issued patents as late as March 4, Mathews issued them as early as March 2. He issued one to Edward Conway on March 3. And Mathews continued to issue land patents during 1657, 58, and until September 1659. (8) Apparently Governor Mathews did not call a Council meeting until April; for under date of April 27, 1657, the Robinson Notes read: Samuel Matthews Governor. Additional councilors sworn..Petition for assembly the 10th of May denied. (10) Now take special notice of the following dates and the data there under: November 28,1657, at Jamestown, Virginia, Governor Mathews issued a land patent.(11) November 30,1657, London, England, Colonel Samuel Mathews Senior, as Agent for the Colony, signed the Articles of agreement over the boundary line, with Lord Baltimore, in the presence of Edward Digges and others. (12) December 1, 1657, at Jamestown, Virginia,Governor Mathews issued a land patent. (13) Obviously Samuel Mathews Senior could not have signed a document in London two days after having issued a land patent in Virginia; and the day before issuing another patent in Virginia. The answer is, of course, that the son was serving as Governor of the Colony and the father was representing the Colony in England. The young Samuel Mathews could not have been over twenty-five or twenty six years of age when he became Governor. This would seem incredible did we not know something of the circumstances surrounding the man. With his father a fighter for the rights of Virginians' and an agent for the colony, it is not difficult for us to recognize that the young Mathews was well placed in the political arena. The Colonial Agents bore much the same relation to their respective colonies and the home government, as the Ministers from foreign lands to their home countries and the governments to which they were assigned. If Mathews senior could dispose one governor, it is reasonable to assume that he could make one as well. Samuel Mathews Junior was a Lieutenant Colonel, and a Burgess from Warwick County in 1652. In 1655, he was elevated to the Council, and as we have seen, to the Chair of Governor in 1657. In addition, he had the support of the Digges, Hinton and Harvey families backing him. To add further proof that it was Samuel Mathews, Junior that was elected Governor in March 1657/8, we must go back to Patent Book 4 of the Virginia Land Office, where under date of November 23, 1657, we find that Samuel Mathews "the present Govr of Virginia" produced at the office of the Virginia Secretary of State, for record in the patent Book, a survey of 5211 acres of land then occupied by the Wicocomoico Indians in Northumberland County. From the Robinson Notes of the Council minutes, under date of November 27, 1657, we learn that the Council ordered, "Lands of Wicimoco Indians when deserted to be for Saml Matthews." (14) At the Assembly of March, 1658/9 the following action was taken: "Whereas order for pattenting the land of the Wiccacomoco Indians in Northumberland county upon the said Indians deserting the land was granted to the honourable Samuel Mathewes, Esq. Governour &c, the twenty-seventh day of November, 1657, and confirmed by another order of the quarter court, dated the eleventh of March, 1658, and that grounded upon the desire of the said Indians to surrender the same to his honour, The Assembly hath thought fitt to ratifye the said grants, and do hereby confirme the same, Provided that no intrenchment be made upon any preceding rights of Coll Richard Lee." (15) This item, of itself, points to Governor Samuel Mathews of November 1657 - March 1657/8 and March 1658/9, as being one and the same; but there is further proof. A record states, without giving one further detail, that Governor Mathews died in January, 1659/60. The Assembly of March 13, 1659/60 confirmed his demise as about that time in an order concerning ships that had arrived since the death of the "right late honourable the Governour Coll Samuell Mathewes"; and in making provision for claims against his estate. (16) The Assembly held October, 1660 enacted: "Whereas the acknowledgment of the land of the Wiccocomoco Indians to Coll. Mathewes appears upon record, but not how justly acquired nor whether voluntary or not, It is ordered by that a consideration of ffiftie pounds vallew, bee proferred to the Indians for the said land by the guardians of the Coll Mathewes his heire, which shall be at theire free election to accept or refuse, & if accepted, the land to be confirmed by rights & patents to the said heire, But if now refused, and the Indians shall hereafter desert the said lands then Coll Mathewes his heire shall re-enter by virtue of his former grant, (any future alienation of the Indians to any other person hereafter notwithstanding) and enjoy the land as his own forever; But in case of the disbursement of the money and the death of the said heirs before he come of age then the guardians disbursing the aforesaid summe as joint purchasers possess the land to them and their heires forever. "(17) In the history of this land we find clear and definite statement which confirm that the Governor was Samuel Mathews Junior and it is necessary to examine them with some care even if it is somewhat tedious in detail. Somewhat hidden in a Northern Neck land grant of 1715 and in papers filed in suits of some twenty years duration in the Circuit Court of Law and Chancery of Prince William County and its predecessors, which under the title of Robert G. Carter and Sophia C. Carter, his wife, against Henry Fairfax, and against John W. Williams and Jesse Williams, tenants, were settled in 1839. On July 29, 1710, Samuel Matthews, Gent of King and Queen County, sold to John Holloway, Gent., of the same county, for 160 pounds sterling, the 521l acres on Potomack River, south on Chappawamsick Creek, west in the main woods and north on Quanticott River or Creek, "Which land was granted to Samuel Matthews, Esqr., Grandfather to the above named Samuel Matthews by order of Council the twenty third day of November 1657, excepting all tracts which had been sold by Samuel Matthews or by John Matthews, Gent., deceased, father of the first named Samuel. The witnesses to this deed were Thomas Wasley, John Darkley and Thos. Herman. Holloway on June 14, 1715, obtained a re-confirmation of the 3,211 acres which remained in the tract by grant from the Proprietor of the Northern Neck. (18) In this grant the history of the land from the time of Governor Mathews' original patent is recited and the statement is made that "the Council of State for this Colony the twenty third day of November one thous[an]d six hund[re]d fifty seven did under their several hands sign a grant to Saml. Mathews, Esqr., then Governour here for five thous[an]d two hund[re]d and eleven acres of land scituate lying and being on Patowmack river abutting East on Patowmack river, south on Chapawamsick creek, west in the main woods, and north on Quanticut river or Creek, which Land was due to the s[ai]d Matthews for the Transportation of one hund[re]d and five persons into this Colony, all which matters now appear by records in the Secretaryes office at Williamsburgh, which land hath ever since been held, possessed and enjoyed by the s[ai]d Samuel Mathews, his heirs and their assignes and is now in the actual possession of Jno. Holloway, Esqr., of Williamsburgh by virtue of a bargain and sale by way of lease and release from Saml. Mathews, Gentlem[a]n, grandson and heir to the first above Saml. Mathews, except two thous[an]d acres which at several times hath been sold out of the said tract by the last mentioned Saml. Mathews and his deceased father Jno. Mathews who was son and heir of the first named Samuel Mathews." The recitations of title in the deed of 1710 and the grant of 1715 establish conclusively that it was Samuel Mathews, Junior, who was Governor of Virginia. Brief abstracts of seven deeds were made by the Clerk of Stafford County in 1822 to show the disposition of the 2,000 acres sold out of the 5,211 acre patent prior to the conveyance to Holloway in 1710. The book in which six of these deeds were recorded is no longer extant. These abstracts are as follows: "September 30, 1680: John Matthews to Burr Harrison, for 500 acres having thereupon three plantations or tenements, one in the tenure and occupation of Burr Harrison, one of Thomas Barton and one of Ralph Smith, being part of a greater tract descending to me from my father Samuel Matthews, late of this Colony, Esquire." "April 28, 1681: George Brent, attorney for John Matthews, to Thomas Merrideth, for 100 acres on Chapawamsick, part of 5,211 acres, bounded by a marsh upon the creek at Chapawamsick which divides this land and the land of Ralph Smith." "November 18, 1681: George Brent, attorney for John Matthews, to Ralph Smith, for 260 acres on Chapawamsick, part of 5,211 acres, bounded at a marsh upon the creek of Chapawamsick which divides this land and the land now in the possession of Thomas Merrideth, and extending down the creek to a swamp commonly called Bosses Hole." "April 3, 1683: George Brent, Attorney for John Matthews, to John Waugh, for 300 acres on Chapawamsick, part of 5,211 acres, bounded on the west side of land which formerly belonged to Thomas Merrideth and running up the main run of Chappawamsick, which land was formerly in the possession of Seymour Thomas, taylor, and is now in the tenure and occupation of John Waugh." "September 27, 1686: George Brent, attorney for John Matthews, to Peter Beach, for 500 acres on Chapawamsick Creek, part of 5,211 acres, bounded near the head of Bowsin's Run, on the branch side near a tobacco house, and up Chapawamsick Creek." "September 15, 1684: Captain John Matthews to Roger Davis, for 100 acres on the north side of Chappawamsick Creek, on the western bounds of 100 acres sold Thomas Merredeth, part of 5,211 acres which descended to Captain Matthews from his father." The last conveyance out of this tract previous to the sale to Holloway was: "May 1, 1706: Nicholas Brent of Woodstock, Stafford County, attorney of Mr. Samuel Mathews of King and Queen County, to Ralph Smith of Choppowomsick, Stafford County, for 200 acres part of 5,211 acres situated between Choppowamsick and Quantiquot creeks, bounded at a swamp commonly called Beses Hole, which swamp divides this land and the land Ralph Smith now lives one." (19) During his administration Mathews was inclined to assert his authority beyond the limits set by the commissioners in 1652. This may have been due in part to youthful impatience of restraint; but the chief cause of his trouble, according to contemporaries, was the bad advice of some of his Councilors. (20) Perhaps, too, the Assembly had become more jealous of its power. In any event, the happy spirit of moderation kept differences of opinion from ending in strife. The Assembly, though keeping the Governor and Councilors in office, reaffirmed its authority to appoint all officers in the Colony and restated the powers given them by the commissioners. The Governor and Council, when differing with the Burgesses on occasion, were careful to defer to them until the Protector's wishes could be known. The first business of the Assembly of March 1658 was the consideration of the report of the committee appointed in December 1656 for the revision of the laws. (21) The revised laws of March 1658 (131 acts) and the proceedings of the House of Burgesses at that session and the next (March 1659) show a liberal and democratic spirit, and a determination on the part of the Burgesses, the "representatives of the people", to keep peace and unity in the government and in the Colony and to preserve their ancient rights and institutions from the fanatical factional strife which sorely distressed England at that time. The first of these acts, that which provided for the settlement of the Church, made no reference to doctrines or forms of worship but wisely left the whole management of the Church and its officials in the hands of the parishioners. There was apparently no interference with the services of the Church of England in Virginia during the years of Purtian supremacy. (22) The parishes were to co-operate with the courts in suppressing drunkenness, blasphemous cursing and swearing, and certain other offenses. A Puritanical note may be found in the law requiring the officials to see to it that servants and others attended church; that there be no shooting of guns or loading of ships on the Sabbathe; and "that no journeys be made except in case of emergent necessitie."(23) Little glimpses of life in the mid-seventeenth century may be seen in these acts. The length of the voyage and hardships often endured by immigrants to Virginia are shown in the law that required ship masters to carry a four-month supply of food for the journey from England to Virginia, and to see that poor passengers were not lacking in clothes and bedding for the voyage. There were laws concerning imprisoned poor debtors; the forwarding of public letters from plantation to plantation on the way to their destination; rewards for the killings of wolves; provisions for the naturalization of foreigners; laws for the regulation of millers, surveyors, inn-keepers, physicians, and tobacco planters; a law requiring the branding on the shoulder with the rogue's R for the second offense of the runaway servant, and provision for the protection of servants from neglect or ill-treatment by their masters; each county court was required to provide highways from county to county, and to churches; the fact that planters could get no pay for crops damaged by the domestic animals of others unless they fenced their fields shows that most of the country was still in the frontier stage. Meanwhile, differences had arisen between the Governor and Council on the one hand and the House of Burgesses on the other. In the course of the debate over lawyers, the House voted that no attorney or other person be allowed to plead a case for pay before the courts. (23) When this bill was referred to Governor Mathews by the Burgesses, they received this curt reply: "The Governor and Council will consent to this proposition so far as it shall be agreeable to Magna Charta." The House, after having considered Magna Charta, replied that there was no conflict with it and proceeded to make the bill a law. (24) On another occasion the House decided that all "propositions and lawes" be first discussed by the Burgesses in private before being considered in the presence of the Governor and Council. (25) On March 31, the House repealed the law which allowed the Councilors 200 pounds sterling each for accommodation at Quarter Courts and Assemblies. At the same time it refused to restrict the number of Burgesses from each county to two in order to save expenses. (26) On the next day Governor Mathews and the Council dissolved the Assembly. The Burgesses, however, voted unanimously that such action was illegal, ordered its members not to leave, and made them take an oath to keep secret their debates. After further correspondence, the Governor and Council agreed to revoke their declaration, leaving the question of its legality to the decision of the Protector. Still unsatisfied, the House appointed a committee, headed by Colonel John Carter, to draw up resolutions asserting the Assembly's power and proposing ways for " the settling the present affaires of the country and government." (27) This committee, after a study of the records, concluded that final authority in the Colony rested in the "Burgesses (the representatives of the people) who are not dissolveable by any power now extant in Virginia, but the House of Burgesses." The committee then recommended that Mathews remain governor, "with full powers of that trust," and that the Burgesses, with the aid of the Governor, appoint a Council. The Burgesses accepted the recommendations of their committee and embodied them in an appropriate Declaration stating their authority, declaring the offices of governor and Councilors vacant, reappointing Mathews governor, and making provision for the choosing of Councilors by the House, upon the Governor's recommendation. In the preamble to the Declaration, the Burgesses gave as their reason for this action "the many letts and obstruction in the affaires of this Assembly and conceiveing that some persons of the present Councell endeavor by setting up their own power to destroy the apparent power resident only in the Burgesses, representatives of the people, as is manifest by the records of the Assembly." (28) On April 3, 1658, the Burgesses ordered Governor Mathews and the Councilors before the House to take the prescribed oath of office. (29) Then they showed their tolerant spirit in reappointing the secretary of state and all the Councilors, in spite of their opinion that some of these had improperly advised the Governor. (30) The Assembly then adjourned to meet again on the second Monday in March 1659. When the Assembly convened again, it received official notice from the Council of State of England of the death of Oliver Cromwell on September 3, 1658, and of the accession of his eldest son, Richard, to the office of Protector. The next day the Speaker informed the House that Governor Mathews and the Council had expressed a desire to assist the Assembly in drawing up an address to the Protector asking for a confirmation of the privilege granted the Colony in choosing its own officers. At the request of the House, the Governor came before that body in person, acknowledged the power of the House in choosing officers, and offered "his best assistance" not only in securing from the Protector a confirmation of this privilege but also in requesting that it be made permanent. A committee including both Burgesses and Councilors was accordingly appointed to address His Highness. (31) The General Assembly which met in March 1659 was apparently an emergency session to consider the change of administration in England. The regular session began on March 7, 1659 and completed the work of the special session while beginning its program. (32) The differences between the House and the Governor and Council seemed ended for a time at least, for Mathews was re-appointed for two years and the Councilors for life, subject to removal by the Assembly for high misdemeanors. At the same time, however, the Assembly passed an act providing for a meeting of the Assembly every two years on the tenth of March, regardless of whether the Governor or secretary should issue the required summons to the Burgesses. (33) But the peace did not last between the Governor and Council and the House of Burgesses,for at its next meeting in March 1660, the Assembly passed "An Act for the Annihilation of the Councellors": Whereas it was enacted the last Assembly, that Colonel Samuel Mathewes should be Governour for two yeares, and the Councill of State fixt during life, It is thought fitt and enacted, That in regard the then Governour and Council dissolved the said Assembly and expressely declined the said act, That the said act be repealed and the priviledge and power of the Secretarie and Council of State annihilated made void and null. (34) But death had taken Colonel Mathews, and Berkeley was appointed Governor. From a transcript of the Council Minutes in Norfolk County records, Berkeley was acting as governor as early as March 9, 1660. This then puts the death of Governor Samuel Mathews some short time before March 9, 1660. Samuel Mathews (Governor) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search bSamuel Mathews/b (1630 1660), of Warwick County in the British Colony of Virginia, was a member of the House of Burgesses, the Governor's Council, and served as Royal Governor of Virginia from 1656 to 1660. bContents /b[u hide /u] tabu1 Biography /u utab2 Legacy /u utab3 Additional reading /u utab4 References /u utab5 External links /u [u edit /u] Biography Samuel Mathews (Jr.) was the elder son of Samuel Mathews (Sr.) (1572-1657) and Frances Grevill West Peirsey Mathews (1590-1635). He was born at his father's plantation, Mathews Manor, later known as Denbigh, which was located on the north side of the James River at Blunt Point, the confluence of the Warwick and the James rivers in the area which later became Warwick County, Virginia (and which is now within the city limits of Newport News). The elder Samuel Mathews was the first of the Mathews family to emigrate from England to Virginia, arriving at Jamestown by 1619. He eventually had several other land holdings, including one near Henricus and another at Old Point Comfort. Known as Colonel Mathews, the elder Samuel became one of the most prominent men in the colony. He was a member of the Governor's Council and was actively involved in conflicts with the Native Americans. In 1635, he was one of the leaders of the popular mutiny that ousted Royal Governor Sir John Harvey. Upon returning to England, the elder Mathews was eventually cleared of any charges; upon returning to Virginia, he resumed service on the Governor's Council until 1644.sup[1]/sup Frances Grevill was one of four women who arrived at Jamestown from Bristol, England in September 1620 aboard the ship, iSupply/i. She was first married to Captain Nathaniel West, brother of Thomas West, the third Lord Delaware, who had been governor of Virginia beginning in 1610. After West's death several years later, Grevill married Abraham Peirsey, a wealthy man who had purchased Sir George Yeardley's Flowerdew Hundred Plantation after his death. Peirsey died several years later. Twice widowed, but with considerable legacies, she next married Samuel Mathews. The younger Samuel Mathews, as an adult, was known as Lt. Colonel Samuel Mathews, reflecting his standing in the local militia. In 1652, he was named to the representative House of Burgesses, which was the lower house of the legislature, on behalf of Warwick County. In 1656, he was appointed to the upper house, the Governor's Council, and later that year, became the Royal Governor of Virginia, a position held until his death in January 1660.sup[2]/sup His brother Francis (1632-1673) outlived him. Governor Mathews married about 1655, but little information is known about his wife, other than some sources state she was of the Cole-Digges family. They had one son, John (b. 1659 - May 1, 1706) who married Elizabeth Tavernor on March 24, 1684. John also made his home at the Denbigh Plantation in Warwick County. [u edit /u] Legacy Governor Samuel Mathews was an ancestor of Virginia's Brigadier General Thomas Mathews, who was the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates for whom Mathews County, Virginia was named when it was formed by an Act of Assembly on May 1, 1791. The site of Mathews Manor, located within the independent city of Newport News, Virginia, was the subject of an archeological study led by Colonial Williamsburg's Ivor Noel Hume in the 1960s, and was placed on the National Park Service's National Register of Historic Places.sup[3]/sup [u edit /u] Additional reading ANTIQUES, Dec 1966, Mathews Manor, Ivor Noel Hume, p 832. Adventures of Purse and Person, 1607-1624/5, Revised and Edited by Virginia M Meyer (1974-1981), John Frederick Dorman, F.A.S.G. 1981-1987, Pub by Order of First Families of Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 3rd Edition, 1987, Dietz Press, Inc, Richmond, VA. Brochure advertising Denbigh Plantation, a housing development by L B Weber of Newport News, VA. Found in the Public Library, Williamsburg, VA. Genealogies of Virginia Families For the William & Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Vol III, Gen Pub Co, Baltimore. Biographical Directory of American Colonial and Revolutionary Governors 1607-1789, John W Raimo, Meckler Books, A Division of Microform Review, 520 Riverside Ave., Westport, CT 06880 Gone to Texas, W Wayne Rogers, Bloomington, Ill, 1978 [u edit /u] References b^/b http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/a/l/Jerry-M-Palmer/GENE9-0001.html b^/b http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~marylove/Mathews/Mathews.html b^/b http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/jamesriver/mat.htm [u edit /u] External links tab Mathews Manor site Government officesPreceded by uEdward Digges b Colonial Governor of Virginia /u/b 1656-1660Succeeded by uWilliam Berkeley /u
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  Family	Mary Frances Hinton,   b. 1628, Virginia d. 1660, New Kent, Virginia (Age 32 years)
  Marriage	1650	Virginia   [1, 4]
  Children	1. John Matthews,   b. 1661, Denbeigh, Warwick, Chesterfield, Virginia d. 1702, Warwick, Chesterfield, Virginia (Age 41 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
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