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Waldomore is a historic house that preserves items of historical and genealogical significance for Clarksburg, Harrison County, and North Central West Virginia. The genealogical materials include records and information for the eastern panhandle, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. [20]
John Mathews settled in Augusta County, Virginia around 1737 and held several local offices in the community. [8] [9] Several of his sons took part in patriot efforts during the American Revolutionary War; Sampson Mathews (c. 1737–1807) and George Mathews (1739–1812) were members of the Augusta County Committee of Safety, which drafted the Augusta Resolves and the Augusta Declaration. [10]
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Archer Mathews was born in 1744 in Augusta County, Virginia, to Ann (Archer) and John Mathews.His parents were among the first European settlers of Augusta County, likely having immigrated to America during the Scotch-Irish immigration of 1710–1775. [3]
The project was made possible due to a partnership between the Augusta County Office of Economic Development and Tourism, Augusta County Historical Society, Civil War Trails, Inc. and the Virginia ...
An 1869 London publication states that a branch of a prominent Welsh Mathew family "still exists in the north-west of Ireland," [6] leading some to suggest that John Mathews of Augusta County, Virginia was a relative of this family through a Theobald Mathew (d. 1699), whose father George Mathew moved from Radyr, Wales to Thurles, County ...