Individual Details
William Mathewes
(Abt 1767 - 5 Sep 1793)
Shortly after John and Mary Wragg Mathewes marriage they moved to the 600-acre "Uxbridge" plantation on the Ashley River owned by Mary's father William Wragg. There their only son, William was born.
William attended the grammar school at Nassau Hall, graduated in the fall of 1786, and entered the freshman class of the college. He became a member of the American Whig Society, and his college career appears to have been uneventful until the June evening in 1790 when he joined some of his college friends in a drinking bout a David Hamilton's tavern. The group was disciplined for this escapade, which included placing a calf in the pulpit in Nassau Hall and overturning the College necessary. Four of the worst offenders were asked to leave the College, but the faculty mintues do not record how Mathewes's part in the case was resolved. He graduated with his class and at the commencement exercises took part in the last disputation of the afternoon: "Is common swearing consistent with the character of a polite scholar more than of a religious man?"
[this next does not seem correct, Mary Frampton married Anthony Mathewes prior to her marriage to Winburn Lawton]
After his return to Charleston Mathewes probably studied law. He married Mary Frampton, daughter of Jonathan Frampton, and had a son who was also named William Mathewes. He died on September 5, 1793. In 1809 his widow married Winburn Lawton of Edisto, South Carolina.
William attended the grammar school at Nassau Hall, graduated in the fall of 1786, and entered the freshman class of the college. He became a member of the American Whig Society, and his college career appears to have been uneventful until the June evening in 1790 when he joined some of his college friends in a drinking bout a David Hamilton's tavern. The group was disciplined for this escapade, which included placing a calf in the pulpit in Nassau Hall and overturning the College necessary. Four of the worst offenders were asked to leave the College, but the faculty mintues do not record how Mathewes's part in the case was resolved. He graduated with his class and at the commencement exercises took part in the last disputation of the afternoon: "Is common swearing consistent with the character of a polite scholar more than of a religious man?"
[this next does not seem correct, Mary Frampton married Anthony Mathewes prior to her marriage to Winburn Lawton]
After his return to Charleston Mathewes probably studied law. He married Mary Frampton, daughter of Jonathan Frampton, and had a son who was also named William Mathewes. He died on September 5, 1793. In 1809 his widow married Winburn Lawton of Edisto, South Carolina.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1767 |  | |||
| Death | 5 Sep 1793 |
Families
| Father | Gov. John Mathewes (1744 - 1802) |
| Mother | Mary Wragg (1745 - 1799) |
Endnotes
1. Jean Ann Lemon, "Descendants of Anthony Mathewes," complied records from