James Mathews

Abt 1742 - Abt 1816

• Born	Abt 1742	Orange Co, New York, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1816	Elmira, Chemung Co, New York, USA
  Person ID	I3662	markhamchest
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Vincent Mathews,   b. Abt 1695, New York City, New York (city), New York, USA ,   d. 24 May 1784, Orange Co, New York, USA
  Mother	Catalina Abeel,   b. Oct 1698, New York, USA ,   d. Abt 1745, New York, USA
  Family ID	F1280	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Hannah Strong,   b. 17 Oct 1742, Brookhaven, Suffolk Co, New York, USA ,   d. 18 Feb 1816, New York, USA
  Married	18 Feb 1762	New York, USA
  Children	1. Selah Mathews,   b. 1762, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 9 Nov 1833, Elmira, Chemung Co, New York, USA   2. Catherine Mathews,   b. 1764, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 28 Oct 1830, Elmira, Chemung Co, New York, USA   3. Vincent Mathews,   b. 29 Jun 1766, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 23 Aug 1846, Rochester, Monroe Co, New York, USA   4. Hannah Mathews,   b. 1768, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 1854, Elmira, Chemung Co, New York, USA   5. Peter Mathews,   b. 1770, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 6 Jul 1849, Belvidere, Boone Co, Illinois, USA   6. Fletcher Mathews,   b. 1772, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 15 Feb 1814, Romulus, Seneca Co, New York, USA   7. Elizabeth Mathews,   b. 1 Oct 1773, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 20 Jul 1864, Saint Louis, Saint Louis (city), Missouri, USA   8. Juliana Strong Mathews,   b. 1 Oct 1773, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 22 Jun 1831, Hammondsport, Steuben Co, New York, USA   9. James Mathews,   b. 1776, Orange Co, New York, USA , Southport, Chemung Co, New York, USA   10. Nathaniel Strong Mathews,   b. 1778, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. Abt 1798   11. Sarah Mathews,   b. 18 May 1779, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 8 Nov 1830, Angelica, Allegany Co, New York, USA   12. Bridget Mathews,   b. 26 Dec 1780, Orange Co, New York, USA ,   d. 30 May 1853, Smithfield, Lincoln Co, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F1290	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sketches

  Sketch: An Account of the Mathews Family . . . The family [Mathews] is of Irish descent. His great grandfather, Peter Mathews, was a commissioned officer in the British army . . . The Rev Mr Ellison informed General Mathews that his coat of arms, probably a funeral escutcheon, was in the old St Peters Church in Albany . . .

  
  

• Notes

  James Mathews was probably the youngest child of Vincent Mathews and Catalina Abeel. He was born about 1742 in Orange county New York. We have few specific details of his childhood, but it seems likely that he had many advantages. The high percentage of lawyers, judges, representatives and doctors among Vincent Mathew's sons and sons-in-law suggests that they had access to more than a common education for the time. Unlike his brothers, who entered law and politics, James Mathews chose the life of the land. On the 18th of February 1762 he married Hannah Strong, daughter of Selah Strong and Hannah Woodhull. During America's Revolutionary War, James Mathews and his brothers (David Mathews and Fletcher Mathews) held Loyalist sympathies. All three were arrested in June of 1776 on suspicion of participating in a Tory plot. Susan Sayre Galsworth, in her 1922 book titled "Ancestry and descendants of Hannah Mathews Towar", gives interesting insights into James Mathews course of action: James Mathews, the other brother, was also suspected, but he came promptly forward and made public pledge of his loyalty to the colonial cause; he was fortunate in the fact that he had married the daughter of Selah Strong, of Long Island. Hannah Strong, whose brother Major Nathaniel, was making a record for himself by his activities against the Tories. With his wife's father and brother as well as his own father offering security for his good faith, he had no difficulties in impressing his judges with his innocence of any share in the plot, and he further displayed his devotion to the Revolutionary government by losing all his property in its service. He was acting as sub-contractor for supplies for the troops at West Point, and because of the failure of his principal in the contract was forced to sign away most of his land - and, like all the Mathewses, he was a large landholder - to meet his obligations to the government. Whether this had anything to do with his change of home is not known, but not long after, he moved into the "Far West," so called then, to a farm near what is now Elmira, New York, in 1816. Children of James Mathews and Hannah Strong: Selah Mathews (1762-1833); married Mary Strong Catherine Mathews (1764-1830); married Matthew Carpenter Vincent Mathews (1766-1846); married Juliana Strong Hannah Mathews (1768-1858); married Lebbeus Tubbs Peter Mathews (1770-1849) eventually removed to Illinois Fletcher Mathews (1772-1814); married Elizabeth Sayre Elizabeth Mathews (1773-1864); married John Garrison Christopher Juliana Strong Mathews (1773-1831); married Lazarus Hammond James Mathews (b.1776); married Hannah Hammond Nathaniel Strong Mathews (1778-1798), died as a young man Sarah Mathews (1779-1830); married Samuel S Haight Bridget Mathews (1780-1853); married William Lowe and Daniel Eastman James Mathews died in 1816, while living in Elmira, Chemung county New York. We do not have a date of death for Hannah Stong Mathews, neither do we know where either are buried. Notes for James Mathews; compiled by Pamela Hutchison Garrett, 2016; for Markham of Chesterfield website.