Individual Details
John Raven Mathewes I
(Abt 1720 - 13 May 1759)
Brother George's will - John (son of John) Mathewes; John Mathewes, Lois Hall, wife of George Hall, Ann, Jr. and Elizabeth, Jr., son and daus. of John Mathewes
MATHEWES, JOHN (D. 1759)* Father of John Mathewes; brother of Anthony Mathewes, Benjamin Mathewes, and William Mathewes; son-in-law of John Gibbes (1696-1764); father-in-law of Godin Guerard, George Abbott Hall, and Thomas Heyward, Jr. (1746-1808); brother-in-law of Robert Gibbes (1732-1794)
John Mathewes, the son of Anthony and Lois Mathewes, was born in South Carolina and was still under age when his father died in 1735. He became a planter with plantations in St. John Colleton and St. Bartholomew parishes. He also had a town house in Charleston. He and his brother William owned the schooner Friendly Adventure (1752). At his death, his estate included 101 slaves and had a value of more than & 25,000 currency, & 440 of which he bequeathed to the Independent (Congregational) Church.
The voters of St. Bartholomew Parish elected Mathewes in special elections to the Thirteenth(1742-1745) and Nineteenth (1749-1751) Royal Assemblies, but he declined to serve in each instance. He did serve, however, when St. Bartholomew elected him to the Twentieth Royal Assembly (1751-1754). His only other public office was that of justice of the peace for Colleton County (1756).
On November 19, 1741, John Mathewes married Sarah Gibbes, daughter of Colonel John Gibbes and Mary Woodward. They had four children: John, Lois (married George Abbott Hall), Ann (m. Godin Guerard), and Elizabeth (m. Thomas Heyward, Jr.). John Mathewes died* on 13 May 1759 and was survived by his widow and children.(From Biog. Drcty of SC House of Rep. Vol 2 1692-1775)
Interred in Circular Churchyard - Stone reads "John Mathewes, born 1720, died
November 19th ...in memory of Mr. John Mathewes who died in the 60th year of his age."*
* Note- Records of the Circular Church give Nov. 19, 1780. This is no doubt the correct date, since he was 60 years old. JAL
Print of miniature from the Gibbes Art Gallery in Betty L. Brenner's file and xerox copy in Mathewes Collaterals file of JAL)
Events
| Birth | Abt 1720 | Charlestown, South Carolina Province | |||
| Marriage | 10 Nov 1741 | Sarah Gibbes |  | ||
| Death | 13 May 1759 | Charleston, South Carolina, British America |  | | |
| Burial | Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Gibbes (1724 - 1760) |
| Child | Lois Mathewes (1742 - 1781) |
| Child | Gov. John Mathewes (1744 - 1802) |
| Child | Elizabeth Mathewes (1753 - 1782) |
| Child | Nancy Anne Mathewes (1752 - 1793) |
| Father | Captain Anthony Mathewes (1661 - 1735) |
| Mother | Lois (1679 - 1752) |
| Sibling | Anthony Mathewes Jr. (1697 - 1756) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Mathewes (1698 - 1720) |
| Sibling | James Mathewes (1700 - 1745) |
| Sibling | Amy / Anne Mathewes (1700 - 1767) |
| Sibling | Sarah Mathewes (1705 - 1768) |
| Sibling | William Mathewes (1715 - 1768) |
| Sibling | George Mathewes (1717 - 1768) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Mathewes (1723 - 1754) |
Notes
Death
And on Sunday last died Mr. John Matthewes. (Saturday, May 19, 1759) (Salley 27).Endnotes
1. Jean Ann Lemon, "Descendants of Anthony Mathewes," complied records from
2. Trice, Fletcher, Rootsweb World Connect genealogy tree of Mathews from South Carolina. (
3. Ross, Martha Plant Ellis, Genealogical supplement to the House of Plant (Macon, Ga.: Southern Press, 1963, 122 pgs.), p 81 chart I.
4. Alexander Samuel Salley, South Carolina gazette, Charleston, Death Notices in the South-Carolina Gazette, 1731-1775: 1731-1775, Original from Harvard University (Printed for the Historical Commission of South Carolina by the State company, 1917), ; digital images, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books : accessed 2 July 2009.
5. Jean Ann Lemon, "Descendants of Anthony Mathewes," complied records from