Display Patriot - P-242983 - William MATHEWS/MATTHEWS

William MATHEWS/MATTHEWS

SAR Patriot #: P-242983

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State of Service: PA Qualifying Service: Private

DAR #: A075594

Birth: 14 Feb 1751 Ulster / / Ireland
Death: 14 Apr 1834 Kinsman / Trumbull / OH

Qualifying Service Description:

Private, Capt Owry and Brady's Companies, Colonel Mackey and Broadhead's PA Regiments
Enlisted 01 Oct, 1776. Served for 3 years and was in several skirmishes
Private, Capt Brody, Curry's Companies, Eighth PA Regiment

Additional References:

Official roster III: Soldiers of the American Revolution who lived in the State of Ohio. Wilbur R. Branthoover, compiler. V eterans Affairs, Ohio. Reprinted by the Ohio Society Daughters of the American Revolution (OHSDAR). 1959
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ, 2002) plus data to 2004
NSDAR #796575 cites: Rev War Pension *S41805
NARA, RW Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files
Official Roster Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in OH, pg 251

Spouse: Rachel Gordon
Children: William; Elizabeth; George; Levi; Rachel; Prudence; Isaac;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child
1994-10-17	PA	208502	Donald Brooks Hoffman (142740)	Rachel
1997-11-05	AZ	200900	Donald William Braddock (149136)	William
2007-01-24	IN	27258	Stephen Charles Clark (168429)	William
2019-05-24	VA	86608	Rhett Leroy Wade (211671)	William

Burial:

Kinsman Presbyterian Cemetery_(C-0167700)

Location:

Kinsman / Trumbull / OH / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2350197

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

33909015

Marker Type:

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

Photo used with permission of Michael B. Gunn, Cincinnati Chapter, OHSSAR
Kinsman Presbyterian Cemetery is sometimes known as Old Cemetery Kinsman.Original founders memorials are in Kinsman Presbyterian Cemetery.

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

The cemetery is West of the old Congregational Presbyterian Church on Church St.The still-active, and newer Kinsman Cemetery is to the East of the Church.

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Mark Andrew Davis

William Mathews/Matthews was born about 1751 in Ireland.

He married Rachel Gordon, about 1772. Their known children were:

George E. was born on 29 December 1773.
Prudence was born about 1776.
William Samuel was born on 28 December 1779.
Isaac was born on 30 September 1781.
Levi was born on 31 March 1789.
Thomas was born on 24 July 1791.
Rachel was born in 1794.

He enlisted on 1 October 1776, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as a Private in the Company of Captain Wendel Oury of the Eighth Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line under the command of Colonel Aeneas Mackay. The officers were later replaced by Captain Samuel Brady and Colonel Daniel Brodhead after Mackay died in 1777. William continued his service until October 1779, when he was discharged at Pittsburgh after three years of service.

The family moved from Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to Trumbull County, Ohio, about 1804. It is said of his life that he maintained a small farm and was a deacon in his church. By the time he applied for a pension, he lost most of his assets and was unable to farm.

He died on 14 April 1834 at Kinsman, Trumbull County, Ohio, and was buried at Kinsman Presbyterian graveyard. His epitaph reads “Wm Mathews DIED Apr. 14, 1834 aged 84 years - - Rachel Mathews DIED Apr. 8, 1827, Aged 72 Years.”

Sources:

Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files. Micropublication M804, roll 1652. Washington: National Archives. S41805.
McKitrick, May Donaldson, A Genealogical Record of One Branch of the Donaldson Family in America, Ohio. Columbus: Press of the F.J. Heer Printing Company, 1976.
Winter, Nevin Otto, A History of Northwest Ohio. A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress and Development from the First European Exploration of the Maumee and Sandusky Valleys and the Adjacent Shores of Lake Erie, down to the Present Time, Vol. II, Illinois. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1917.
Find a Grave.com, digital record, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com: accessed 14 July 2020), memorial for William Mathews, Find A Grave Memorial # 33909015, Kinsman, Ohio.
Sons of the American Revolution, National Society, Louisville, Kentucky. Primary application of Donald William Braddock, National Number 149136.

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