Ephraim married Mary Mathews on 12 Apr 1819 in Greene County, Georgia. Mary (daughter of John Mathews and Elizabeth Mathews) was born WFT est 1783-1805; died WFT est 1824-1892. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary Mathews married 12 April 1819, in Greene County, Georgia, Ephraim Alexander PHARR. They removed to Canton Bend, in Wilcox County, Alabama. Six children.

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John Mathews was born in Virginia, probably in Augusta County. His birth date is not known, but it was probably not too many years after 1762 as he was the oldest child, and that was the year of his parents' marriage. He resided at various times in Wilkes and Greene Counties, Georgia. He died in Greene County, Georgia, as is evidenced by data contained in the Deed from George G. Mathews et al, to Adaline Harrison, shown in the next chapter. The date of his death has not been ascertained, nor has a Will been located. He evidently died between the years 1794 and 1806. The last transactions involving him amongst the Deed records is dated in the former year, and he was deceased by the date of his father's Will in 1806. He married his first cousin, ELIZABETH MATHEWS (Archer2; John1), daughter of Archer MATHEWS and Letitia McCLANAHAN.

Gilmer [Gilmer, George R., Sketches of Some of the First Settlers of Upper Georgia, of the Cherokees and the Author, orig. publ. 1855, reprinted, Americus, Georgia, 1926.] has this to say about John Mathews:

"John Mathews, the eldest son of Gen. Mathews, whilst employed in learning Latin and Greek at an academy in Western Virginia, fell in love with a pretty cousin and married her. He returned to Georgia, and was authorized by an Act of the Legislature, to practice Law. There was some peculiarity in the Mathewses which prevented their success at the Bar. Many tried, not one ever succeeded. They were either too proud, too passionate, or too much devoted to other pursuits, to secure the confidence of those who wanted the aid of lawyers. John Mathews, getting along rather badly at the bar, procured, through his father, from President Adams, the office of supervisor of the revenue. The cousin whom he married, though a very pretty woman, did not prove a very good helpmate. They had a large family of children. They, as the children of cousins are apt to do, showed that whose who are so near akin ought not to marry if they can do otherwise; that crossing the breed is as important for man as other animals."

John Mathews had several children, the exact number unknown. His father's Will refers to his son John Mathews' three sons, George, Archer and John Mathews. Inasmuch as the only persons to claim the lands thus devised which were in Scioto County, Ohio, were George, Archer, and Charles Mathews, Jr., it is assumed that he (Charles) is who the General was referring to.

John married Elizabeth Mathews WFT est 1780-1806. Elizabeth (daughter of Archer Mathews and Letitia McClanahan) was born WFT est 1761-1785; died WFT est 1783-1869. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The amount of material available on General George Mathews exceeds the capacity of this program to store it in one place. To solve this problem, additional children have been created, named
"additional data on George" see the notes on these children for a continuation of the data on Gov. Mathews.


Brigadier General George Mathews was born 30 August 1739, in Augusta County, Virginia, and died in Augusta (Richmond County) Georgia, on his 73rd birthday, 30 August 1812. He is buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, in Augusta, Georgia. A book published many years ago on Georgia's landmarks, memorials, and legends, states that his monument is the most frequently visited in the churchyard. The inscription on his tomb is as follows: In memory of Genl. George Mathews, who died the 30th of August, 1812, in the 73rd year of his age. Great care has been taken to verify the date of death of General Mathews, as there has been considerable variation in the dates given in previously published histories, etc. He was married three times, his first wife being the mother of his eight children. He was married first in Augusta County, Virginia, 13 September 1762, to Anne PAUL, daughter of John PAUL and his wife Margaret LYNN.

General Mathews married for the second time, in Staunton (Augusta County), Virginia, 29 September 1790, Margaret CUNNINGHAM, who was the widow of Robert REED, and the daughter of John Cunningham. This marriage ended in a divorce on 13 February 1797. General Mathews married a third time in Mississippi, in 1804, Mrs. Mary CARPENTER, a widow, whose maiden name was probably FLOWERS. Some sources state that his third wife was Mrs. Flowers, but it is evident from other data that Mrs. Flowers and the widow Carpenter were one and the same person. Other sources intimate that the General was married four times, which accounts probably stem from the confusion over Mary Flowers and Mary Carpenter. Still other sources contend that the General was contemplating a fourth marriage when he died, but this can be rejected out of hand inasmuch as the last two years of his life were spent in almost total preoccupation with the secret mission he had undertaken for the President, all of which is fully documented in the late Dr. Rembert W. Patrick's book, Florida Fiasco, accounts from which will be quoted later in this text. General Mathews and his first wife had eight children.

We turn, now, to various authorities for more explicit accounts of the life of General Mathews, who by any standard was a most extraordinary person. One of the prime sources for a characterization of General Mathews is to be found in the late Dr. Patrick's book, Florida Fiasco. Dr. Patrick was a noted historian and spent nearly ten years in researching the material used in this book, which concerns the abortive attempt by the administration of President Madison to annex Florida to the United States some few years before it was finally purchased from Spain. The following paragraphs are direct quotes from the book alluded to:

""for years after his birth, George played and explored in the woods surrounding his father's home. While still a youth he took over his father's farm, and before the American Revolution, he claimed to have amassed a sizable fortune.

"Mathews first received public notice soon after the opening of the First Continental Congress when he distinguished himself in the bloody battle of Point Pleasant. On October 10, 1774, Cornstalk, the able leader of the Shawnee Indians, with nearly a thousand braves attacked the colonial forces of General Andrew Lewis when ensconced on the promontory between the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers. Among the motley colonial army of raw recruits and woodsmen, dressed in hunting shirts and wearing moccasins, was George Mathews.

"It was a typical Indian battle where every man found a tree, and military discipline in the English sense was unknown. In the battle ensuing, Mathews shot nine Indians, and escaped with no more than scratches made by the protecting branches.

"This first pleasant taste of victory and his inherited Irish hatred of Great Britain led him into the Revolutionary War. He recruited a company, and later, as Colonel of the Ninth Regiment of the Virginia line, joined Washington's Army. He was wounded in the Battle of Germantown, and his men, retreating before the advancing British, failed to see him as he lay on the field. An English soldier lifted his bayonet to stab him, but his commander caught the weapon and angrily demanded, "Would you murder a wounded officer?" Turning painfully on his back, Mathews asked, "To whom, sar, do I owe my life?"

"If you call it an obligation, sir, to me," replied the British officer.

"Mathews eyed the British uniform above him and muttered, "Well, sar, I'll have you know I scorn a life saved by a damn Briton."

"Fortunately, his wounds were not fatal. After his recovery, he experienced almost two years of living hell as a captive on board a prison ship in New York harbor; but he was exchanged in time to participate in the southern campaigns under General Nathaniel Greene, and to glory in the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.

"Mathews was a natural storyteller and the war was the source of some of his tallest stories. His own part in it grew with the years. During his lifetime he was known to acknowledge but two superiors: General George Washington, and the Lord Almighty. And as time passed, he questioned the high standing of Washington. Mathews never forgot that he "blead from five wounds in his Countrys service" and sustained a loss in his private interest of twenty thousand pounds by "depreciation of our money" during the war.

"While fighting in the South he bought a large tract of land on the Broad River and established himself and family there in Georgia in 1785. On his plantation at Goose Pond he built a one room log cabin in which he and his wife slept. Their daughters used the attic as a boudoir and their sons occupied another but smaller loghouse in the yard. Despite his later affluence and his high place in Georgia politics, he steadfastly refused to waste money for a more suitable house. It remained for his son, after the father's death, to build a magnificent plantation home.

"Undoubtedly Mathews' frontier frugality caused some of his domestic troubles.....after some years in Georgia, his Virginia born wife (his second wife, that is) wished to visit her relatives and friends. But Mathews would not have it. Evidently she had a will and temper of her own for she took her hoarded money and departed. When in time the joys of her Virginia sojourn palled, she wrote to him to come for her since she had experienced one journey alone and did not want another. Mathews quickly replied, "I didn't take you to Virginia, and I'm not going to trouble myself to go there to bring you back." After remaining separated for a few years the state legislature granted them a final divorce, whereupon each remarried."
An excellent account of the details of General Mathews' second marriage and his divorce may be found in WADDELL's Annals of Augusta County, Virginia -
"The main incidents in the life of George Mathews have been given already. He is one of the most unique and interesting of the natives of Augusta County. The life of his second wife is also full of interest.

"The maiden name of Mrs. Mathews was Margaret Cunningham. She was the daughter of John Cunningham..... Margaret Cunningham was born in, or a little before, 1747, having been baptized by the Rev. John Craig in that year. Nothing is known of her early life, except that, according to tradition, on one occasion of an alarm about Indians, she mounted a horse, and, doubtless with others, fled across the Blue Ridge.

"After attaining womanhood, she became the wife of Robert Reed, at what date is not known, but it was after 1765. Mr. Reed was the son of "John Reed of the Kingdom of Ireland," as he is described in the papers of an old suit to be mentioned. Like many other residents of Staunton in his day, he was a tavern keeper. He was also the owner of 740 acres of land adjoining the town and a house and lot in town.

".....Mr. Reed died in October, 1787, intestate and without issue. Having no heirs-at-law capable of inheriting his real estate, it escheated to the Commonwealth, subject to the widow's dower interest; but in 1789, the Legislature passed an act granting the property to Mrs. Reed. Mr. Reed, however, had a brother John and two half-sisters, Mrs. William Reed and Mrs. William Buchanan, and the descendants of one or more of these relatives, after Mrs. Reed's second marriage, instituted proceedings to obtain the property, but did not succeed.

"Up to the time of her second marriage, Mrs. Reed seems to have led a quiet and happy life. Her troubles began when she became the wife of Gen. George Mathews. At the time of the marriage, General Mathews was a member of Congress, then holding its sessions in Philadelphia. He had been Governor of Georgia, and afterwards held that office for another term. The marriage took place in Staunton, September 29, 1790, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Archibald Scott.

"When married the second time, Mrs. Mathews was at least 43 years of age. She accompanied the General to Philadelphia, and from there to Georgia; and by the year 1793, serious trouble had arisen between the couple. The General was notoriously irritable and imperious, and his wife was probably not without a will of her own. There is incidental proof that General Mathews got up some feeling of jealousy, but from Mrs. Mathews' well-known high character, there was, doubtless, no just cause for it. Col. John Stuart, of Greenbrier, was a half-brother of General Mathews' first wife, and in a letter written by him to his sister, Mrs. Woods of Albemarle, he speaks of trouble brewing in Georgia.

"In September 1793, Mrs. Mathews, her two step-daughters, and a step-son, came to Staunton on a visit. One of the daughters was Mrs. Ann Blackburn, who was married in Staunton to Gen. Samuel Blackburn by Mr. Scott on August 28, 1785. The party traveled in a carriage, and while passing through Botetourt County, one of Mrs. Mathews' ribs was broken by a jolt. For many weeks she was laid up at the house of her sister, Mrs. Smith, in Augusta. When able to travel she went to the house of her niece, Mrs. Waterman, in Harrisonburg, mainly to receive the attention from Dr. Waterman as a physician, and there she was confined to her bed for several months. During all this time no letter passed between her and her husband, although he had written to various friends in Augusta. He had assumed control of all her property, collecting rents through his agent, Major Grattan, a merchant in Staunton. He, however, instructed Major Grattan to supply his wife with whatever necessities she might need.

"The long silence between the husband and wife was broken by a notice served on her that he intended to apply to the legislature of Georgia for an Act of divorce. Then the letters between Staunton and Georgia flew fast and thick..... Whether any charge other than desertion was preferred, is not stated in any of the letters or papers on file. The General required her to return, acknowledge her error, and perform her duties as his wife; and thereupon, he would not Press his application for divorce. She charged him with cruelty, and was not willing to trust her life in his hands. He subscribed himself, "Your persecuted husband," and she styled herself "Your afflicted wife." He reminded her of her marriage vow and the love she professed for him the night he escorted her "from the ball at the courthouse;" and over and over protested his innocence of any wrong. He charged that she, while living in Georgia, had poisoned the minds of his servants, so that he was afraid to take food from their hands. She intimated that he wished to get rid of her in order to marry another woman. Many other persons were drawn into the correspondence.....

"Mrs. Mathews employed John Coalter, afterwards the Judge, as her Counsel. By his advice, she applied to Major Grattan for money to defend herself, but he was not authorized to furnish her money "to prosecute a suit against her husband," and refused her request. By the benevolence of friends, she procured the means to send Mr. Coalter to Georgia to protect her interests. He had interviews with General Mathews, who refused to appoint any time for bringing the matter before the Legislature. Thereupon, Mr. Coalter petitioned the Legislature, as a Court having jurisdiction, to require the General to furnish alimony to his wife, An Act divorcing the couple was passed by the Georgia Legislature February 13, 1797. At one time, Mrs. Blackburn called on her stepmother, in Staunton, and by her father's direction demanded and received a pair of silver spoons and a breastpin Mrs. Mathews had brought from Georgia. She complained that his children had not treated her with respect, and he, that she had neglected the children...., General Blackburn was sent in a carriage to escort Mrs. Mathews to Georgia, but she refused to go..... In one of his letters, General Mathews wrote that she knew why he could not come to Virginia, implying a physical disability.

"Finally, Mrs. Mathews brought suit in the County Court of Augusta to obtain possession of her estate, and from papers filed in the case, (Mathews vs. Mathews) we have obtained most of the foregoing facts.

"The depositions of many witnesses were taken, chiefly to show that Mrs. Mathews could not have returned to Georgia, on account of the condition of her health. Among the witnesses was Mrs. Ann Nelson, a daughter of Sampson Mathews, and niece of General Mathews, who testified that she had heard her cousin, Ann Blackburn, declare that her stepmother was "capable of any wickedness." On the other hand, a paper was filed, signed by thirty persons, including all the Presbyterian ministers in the county, testifying that Mrs. Mathews was, and always had been, eminently respectable..... Evidently the sympathy of the community was in behalf of the lady. But as far as the correspondence goes, General Mathews cannot be convicted of wrong-doing. She misconstrued some of his expressions, and in one or two instances unjustly accused him. He charged that she had excited the hostility of his servants against him, and yet, strangely, wished her to return and resume her proper relations with him.

"It would seem that General Mathews did not defend the suit. At any rate, a judgment or decree was entered in her favor, in 1796. She resumed her former name and lived till 1827, her will being proved in the County Court at December term of that year..... No one was more respected by the best people of Staunton than Mrs. Reed. Many persons not related to her testified their respect and affection by calling her Aunt Reed."
Dr. Patrick has this to say about General Mathews' political career:-
"Family disagreements did not prevent a meteoric rise in politics. His experience in the Revolutionary War gained him the rank of Brigadier General in the Georgia State Militia and forever after the title of "General." In 1787 he became governor and on the completion of his term was elected along with Abraham Baldwin and James Jackson as the Georgia representatives to the first Congress of the United States. In 1793 he was again inaugurated as governor, but his second term was his political nemesis. He unwisely signed the infamous Yazoo land grab act, and although he made no personal profits from this notorious fraud, he never recovered from the odium attached to it. So the following years in his political career were lean ones.

"In or out of politics, anecdotes which became a part of the folklore of Georgia clung to Mathews. According to one, President Madison appointed him governor of the Mississippi territory, but withdrew the nomination in the fact of Senatorial opposition. When Mathews heard of it, he hurried to Washington on horseback, tethered his horse on the White House grounds, and gave a thundering knock on the door. A responding servant reported the president busy, but Mathews stormed at him and demanded an audience. The frightened servant ran to Madison, "There's a fellow dressed in a mighty funny suit. Calls himself Governor Mathews, and demands to see you."show him in at once," ordered Madison. "Heedless of all social courtesies, Mathews immediately exploded: "Sar, if you had known me, you wouldn't have taken the nomination back; if you didn't know me, you should not have nominated me to such an important office. Now, sar, unless you can satisfy me, even though you are president of these United States, you won't be free from my ravange ."

"Madison appeased the angry general by making his son John supervisor of revenues for Georgia, and his second son, George, Chief Justice of Mississippi. Thus overwhelmed by Madison's generosity, Mathews calmed down and departed a warm friend of the president.

"The story is apocryphal, but with an element of truth in it. In 1798 President John Adams appointed Mathews governor of the newly created territory of Mississippi. Secretary of War James McHenry objected because Mathews was interested in the New England Mississippi Land Company, the claimant of extensive acreage in the territory. After Adams withdrew the nomination, Mathews expressed his disappointment in a letter to the secretary of state, but it was 1805 before he received an appointment. In that year, under orders of Jefferson, Secretary of State Madison commissioned him Judge of the Mississippi Territory. It was only a recess appointment, but in the following year he assumed the judgeship of the Orleans territory.

"Mathews long residence in Georgia, his experience in Mississippi and New Orleans, and his frequent trips along the Florida border, qualified him as an authority on the Southeast. Thus Senator Crawford recommended Mathews in the summer of 1810 when Madison was seeking a confidential agent to investigate and report on conditions in the Floridas, and again in January of 1811, for a more important mission.....

"The final important conference with President Madison was held late in January. Although Mathews was in his seventy-second year his stride was quick and firm. He was dressed as usual without regard for fashion - only his boots were more polished and his clothes brushed more carefully. These amenities were the extent of his concessions. In one hand he held his old three-cornered cocked hat; he had on worn knee breeches, high-topped boots, and a shirt with little ruffles at the bosom and wrists. A sword, the symbol of his military valor, dangled at his side. He was short, thick-set, with stout muscular legs; he stood straight with his head thrown back, his red hair wind-blown, and his dark blue eyes framed by a weathered face.

"Mathews' eyes were on a level with those of the five-foot six-inch president. Other than in height there was no similarity in the men....."
For complete details of the events that followed, up until the General's death in Augusta, Georgia, while on his way to Washington to administer a personal beating to the president, it is recommended that one obtain a copy of the aforementioned Florida Fiasco, by Dr. Rembert W. Patrick. It is thoroughly researched, completely documented and a fascinating study of this little-known incident in our Country's history. Briefly, the secret mission undertaken by General Mathews for the President was to attempt to annex Florida to the United States. The then Spanish Governor of Florida had indicated that he could be bribed to surrender the territory to the United States, General Mathews was to have explored this possibility, and failing same, to look into ways and means of acquiring Florida by other means. The Spanish Governor, it developed, could not be bought, so the General accompanied by an Indian Agent, John McKee, attempted to foment a rebellion among the numerous Americans then residing in Florida. The General and McKee made many arduous journeys along the Florida Frontier. Dr. Patrick speaks of one such trip from Washington to Fort Stoddert in the Mississippi Territory, by way of St. Mary's, Georgia:

"On this exhausting Journey the forty-year-old McKee came to know the man who was his senior by more than thirty years. His first impressions were unfavorable. To hear Mathews speak on his personal affairs, his talented children, his "bastardly" detractors, and his past services brought to mind the inevitable comparison to a puff of wind attempting to blow itself into a cyclone. The remnants of an Irish brogue, a unique pronunciation of the simplest words, and the accenting of the "ed" in words such as drowned, learned, named and returned, as well as his laborious writing and spelling of coffee as "kaughphy" sack as "sac," and knock as "nok", and laugh as "laf" caused the more literate McKee to question Mathews ability. But not for long. His adroit handling of innkeepers and tradesmen along the way (it was said of Mathews that he never made an unprofitable deal or a poor investment), his woodslore, his information about the frontier, and his understanding of men soon drew the respect of McKee."
General Mathews was successful in organizing an insurrection among the Americans residing in Florida and actually succeeded in capturing Amelia Island (Fernandina). At this point, the President found it politically expedient to repudiate General Mathews completely and order him to cease his activities, and in fact, disclaimed having given him any such instructions in the first place.

The following letter was dispatched to General Mathews:
"JAMES MONROE, SECRETARY OF STATE, TO
GEORGE MATHEWS

Department of State

April 4, 1812
"Gen. George Mathews

"Sir,

"I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 14th of March, and have now to communicate to you the sentiments of the President on the very interesting subject to which it relates. I am sorry to have to state that the measures which you appear to have adopted for obtaining possession of Amelia Island and other parts of East Florida, are not authorized by the law of the United States under which you have acted. You were authorized by the law, a copy of which was communicated, and by your instructions which are strictly conformable to it, to take possession of East Florida only in case one of the following contingencies should happen: either that the Governor, or other existing local authority, should be disposed to place it amicably in the hands of the United States, or that an attempt should be made to take possession of it by a foreign power. Should the first contingency happen, it would follow that the arrangement being amicable would require no force on the part of the United States to carry it into effect. It was only in case of an attempt to take it by a foreign power that force could be necessary in which event only were you authorized to avail yourself of it,

"In neither of these contingencies was it the policy of the law, or purpose of the Executive, to wrest the province forcibly from Spain, but only to occupy it with a view to prevent its falling into the hands of any foreign power and to hold that pledge under the existing peculiarity of the circumstances of the Spanish monarchy for a just result in an amicable negotiation with Spain.

"Had the U. S. been disposed to proceed otherwise, that intention would have been manifested by a change of the law and suitable measures to carry it into effect, and as it was in their power to take possession whenever they might think that circumstances authorize and require it, it would be the more to be regretted if possession should be effected by any means irregular in themselves and subjecting the Government of the U. S. to unmerited censure.

"The views of the Executive respecting East Florida are further illustrated by your instructions as to West Florida. Although the U. S. have thought they had a good title to the latter Province they did not take possession until after the Spanish authority had been subverted by a revolutionary proceeding, and the contingency of the country being thrown into foreign hands had forced itself into view, nor did they then, nor have they since, dispossessed the Spanish Troops of the Post which they occupied. If they did not think proper to take possession by force of a Province to which they thought they were justly entitled, it could not be presumed that they should intend to act differently in, respect to one due sensibility has been always felt for the injuries which were received from the Spanish government in the war, the present situation of Spain has been a motive for moderate and pacific policy towards her.

"In communicating to you these sentiments of the Executive on the measures you have lately adopted for taking possession of East Florida, I add with pleasure that the utmost confidence is reposed in your integrity and zeal to promote the welfare of your country. To that zeal, the error into which you have fallen, is imputed. But in consideration of the part you have taken which differs so essentially from that contemplated and authorized by the Government and contradicts so entirely the principles on which it has uniformly and sincerely acted, you will be sensible of the necessity of discontinuing the service in which you have been employed. You will, therefore, consider your powers as revoked on the receipt of this letter. The new duties to be performed will be transferred to the Governor of Georgia, to whom instructions will be given on all the circumstances to which it may be proper at the present juncture to call his attention.

"I am, Sir
James Monroe."
This rejection and repudiation from Washington so infuriated the General that he immediately set out for Washington with the avowed intention of administering a personal beating to the President. Unfortunately he did not make it to Washington, for he fe]l sick of a fever and died in Augusta, Georgia on his 73rd birthday.

"Late in August (1812) the General reached Augusta. Once there he crawled into bed. By morning his fever had mounted - he could not rise. The hot, humid air of the river The hot, humid air of the river town pressed on him from every side.... His fever continued unabated, and his once strong muscles could barely move his emaciated body. On Sunday, August 30, he would be seventy-three years of age. Sunday came and Mathews still lived, but as though that birthday were a goal of major importance, he achieved it and could go no further. Hot-tempered General George Mathews was dead.

"The funeral procession formed on Monday afternoon. At its head the Independent Blues walked by their horses and the Rangers with guns reversed followed. Behind them came Charles Mathews, John Forsyth, Ralph Isaacs, and Freeman Walker. City officials, citizens of Augusta, and a company of artillery completed the procession. Minute guns were fired as the mourners paced the distance to St. Paul's Church; in the churchyard, as the body of Mathews rested in the grave, three shots were fired by artillerymen and three volleys by the infantry.

"The militia of Augusta agreed on the propriety of wearing crepe bands and Governor Mitchell issued a call from Milledgeville for all military officers in the state to wear black crepe armbands for thirty days as a mark of respect to the memory of Mathews. In commenting on the General, Mitchell stated: "By this demise, another hero of the Revolution is gone. Whatever political errors he may have fallen into, in the course of a long public life, let them rest in oblivion. He has carried with him to the grave, many scars from wounds he received fighting battles of the Revolution - let us, therefore, pay that respect which is due to the memory of a soldier, who often braved death to establish the independence of our country."



Data continued - see Gov George Mathews' Child #9 - additional data

George married Anne Paul on 13 Sep 1762 in Augusta County, Virginia. Anne (daughter of John Paul and Margaret Lynn) was born about 1741 in Ireland; died on 21 Sep 1788 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia; was buried in Goosepond Cemeetery, Oglethorpe County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Anne Paul was the sister of Audley Paul, who married General Mathews' sister, Jane Mathews. Anne Paul Mathews was born c1741 in Ireland and died in Oglethorpe County, Georgia 21 September 1788. She is buried at the "Goosepond," in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Her tombstone reads In memory of Ann P. Mathews, wife of Genl. George Mathews, who departed this life Sept. 21st 1788, in the 48th year of her age.

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Archer Mathews, a Soldier of the Revolution, was born in 1744, in Augusta County, Virginia, and died 13 August 1786, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. He married Letitia McCLANAHAN, daughter of Robert McCLANAHAN, Sr. After the death of Archer Mathews his widow married Joseph KAYSER (KEYSER), who died before March, 1815. Augusta Court Records, Deed Book 15, Page 190, 16 November 1768, Archer Mathews deeded to William Mathews for 100 pounds, his part of 299 acres willed by John Mathews, Sr. deceased, in Forks of the James, on Mill Creek. In Deed Record XVII, page 69, 7 July 1770, Archer Mathews and Lettice, deeded to Sampson Mathews 15 acres northwest of Staunton and one half lot 5 in Staunton. Archer and Letitia had six children of whom we have a record.

Thus far it has not been possible to reconstruct much about the life of Archer Mathews, but all available data seems to indicate that he was a very prominent and influential citizen of Greenbrier County, West Virginia and seems to have been one of the founders of the town of Lewisburg, West Virginia.

[Pettigrew, Marion Dewoody, Marks-Barnett Families and Their Kin, Macon, Georgia: The J. W. Burke Co., 1939]

Archer married Letitia McClanahan WFT est 1761-1783. Letitia (daughter of Robert McClanahan, Sr.) was born WFT est 1739-1760; died WFT est 1783-1848. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]