Individual Details

Benjamin Mathewes Jr.

(Abt 1745/46 - 18 Feb 1801)

Mary Mathewes was a cousin of Benjamin. They lived at Mullet Hall. He served as a lieutenant and captain in the John's Island Company of the Colleton County Regiment of Militia from late 1779 until May 1780. After being taken prisoner at the fall of Charleston, he was held thirteen months before being exchanged. Yearbook, 1893; S.C.H.&G.,ii, Council of Safety, 2 December, 1775. Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution by Bobby Gilmer Moss.
He enlisted in the Fourth Regiment on December 1, 1776. N.A. 853 (Ibid) He served 229 days in the militia. From April 15 to August 20, 1781, he served 127 days under Captain Joseph Johnson. In addition, he was under Captain Frederick Wommack. (A.A. 4842 V168 (Ibid)]
Was tax collector in 1778 for St. Johns, Colleton County, Johns Island (Vol IV Statutes at Large of State of SC -pg 413 Acts of State Legislature, 1778, edited by Thomas Cooper, M.D., published in the S.C. Magazine of Ancestral Research, Vol 5 pg 26-27)


From Lois Mathewes will of 1752 - Grandson Benjamin Mathewes Junr., the negro slave boy named Prince which I did heretofore promise him.

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Mathewes, Benjamin of John's Island and
Edith Mathewes, of Charles Town, widow
November 18, 1778; Daniel Hall, wit.
Mar Set. 1:147-148


South Carolina Census, 1790-1890
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Year Surname Given Name (s) County State Page Township or Other Info Record Type Database ID#
1778 MATHEWES BENJAMIN Charleston dis SC No Township Listed SC Early Census Index SCS1a2083722

Events

BirthAbt 1745/46Charlestown, South Carolina Province
Marriage16 Mar 1770Sarah "Sally" Sams
MarriageNov 1778South Carolina, British America - Martha / Mary Mathewes
Marriage5 Aug 1790South Carolina, United States - Mary Mathewes
Death18 Feb 1801Johns Island, Charleston, South Carolina, United States

Families

SpouseSarah "Sally" Sams (1750 - )
ChildBenjamin Mathewes (1770 - )
ChildMary Mathewes (1771 - 1813)
SpouseMartha / Mary Mathewes ( - )
SpouseMary Mathewes (1771 - 1813)
ChildMaria Mathewes ( - )
ChildBenjamin Mathewes III (1795 - 1830)
FatherBenjamin Mathewes (1723 - 1754)
MotherAnne Holmes (1724 - 1795)
SiblingAnne Mathewes (1748 - 1763)
SiblingIsaac Mathewes (1750 - )
SiblingJohn Raven Mathewes (1753 - 1783)
SiblingLieut. George A. Mathews (1754 - 1815)

Notes

Marriage

Marriages. Capt. Benjamin Mathews to Miss Mary Mathews, daughter of the deceased William Mathews, Esq (Thursday, November 26, 1778) (Salley 32).

Marriage

Mathews, Benjamin of Johns Island and Mary Mathews, daughter of Edith Mathews, widow, August 5, 1790; John Ward, Joshua Ward, wit. Mar Set 1: 506-507

Death

February 20, 1801 - Death Notice:"Died on Wednesday last at his plantaion on John's Island, Benjamin Mathewes, Esq."[Charleston Times]

Endnotes

1. Jean Ann Lemon, "Descendants of Anthony Mathewes," complied records from (San Carlos, CA) to Nancy Prouty, 4/20/2006.

2. Trice, Fletcher, Rootsweb World Connect genealogy tree of Mathews from South Carolina. ( Mar 24 2002.).

3. Jean Ann Lemon, "Descendants of Anthony Mathewes," complied records from (San Carlos, CA) to Nancy Prouty, 4/20/2006, South Carolina Historical & Genealogical Magazine,Vol XX, No 4, Oct. 1919, Vol XI No. 3, July 1910, p 167..

4. Salley, A. S., Jr., compiled and edited, Marriage notices in the South-Carolina and American General Gazette from May 30, 1766, to February 28, 1781 and its successor The Royal Gazette (1781-1782) (Columbia, S. C.: The State Company for The Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1914), 32; digital images, DMK Heritage (http://www.dmkheritage.com/store/ : accessed 14 September 2009.

5. Jean Ann Lemon, "Descendants of Anthony Mathewes," complied records from (San Carlos, CA) to Nancy Prouty, 4/20/2006, SCIway Marriages.

6. Jean Ann Lemon, "Descendants of Anthony Mathewes," complied records from (San Carlos, CA) to Nancy Prouty, 4/20/2006.