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John Mathews (Augusta County)
John Mathews (died 1757) was an 18th-century settler of the Shenandoah Valley. He was among the first residents of Augusta County, Virginia, in which he served in a variety of public offices until his death in 1757. He was the progenitor of the Mathews political family from Augusta County.
== Life ==
John Mathews settled in Augusta County, Virginia by 1737,〔Waddell, Joseph A (1902) "Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 (Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 ), Retrieved October 20, 2012〕 and in 1742 received a 1,600 acre land grant from George II under patent of governor Robert Dinwiddie,〔Orange County Virginia Deed Book 10, Dorman, pg. 54〕 near Natural Bridge (Virginia), in what is now Rockbridge County.〔 He bought an additional 297 acres in a nearby area called Borden's tract, a 100,000 acre tract parceled and sold almost exclusively to immigrants of the Scotch-Irish immigration.〔〔"...summer of 1717...", Fischer, David Hackett, ''Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America'', Oxford University Press, USA (March 14, 1989), pg. 606; "...early immigration was small,...but it began to surge in 1717.", Blethen, H.T. & Wood, C.W., ''From Ulster to Carolina'', North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 2005, pg. 22; "Between 1718 and 1775", Griffin, Patrick, ''The People with No Name'', Princeton University Press, 2001, pg 1; etc.〕
He ran a plantation on his property and incurred raiding from local Native American tribes on at least one occasion.〔Chalkley, Lyman (1912) Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745-1800 (Washington, D.C.: Daughters of the American Revolution, 1912).〕 He was commissioned captain of a company of infantry in the Augusta County militia in 1742, and served as an ensign in the French and Indian War. He, along with several of his sons, accompanied George Washington under British General Edward Braddock to the French Fort Duquesne in what is modern-day downtown Pittsburgh, for Braddock's Expedition.〔Withers, Alexander S. (2009). "Chronicles of Border Warfare." Applewood Books, 2009. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29244/29244-h/29244-h.htm Retrieved December 29, 2012.〕
In 1746, in the first election in county history, he was elected to the vestry of the Anglican Church for the Augusta Parish. As an ecclesiastic officer his duties included processioning lands and tending to the poor, among other local needs. In 1751 he was elected a justice of the Magistrate's Court for Augusta County, and as such he issued warrants and reviewed arrests. At this time he also served as a surveyor and oversaw road construction in the county. In the year of his death, 1757, he had become a warden for the county.〔
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