Sampson Mathews
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Sampson Mathews (c. 1737 – January 20, 1807) was an American merchant, soldier, and legislator in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia. A son of John and Ann (Archer) Mathews, Mathews was an early merchant in the Shenandoah Valley region, where he and his brother George Mathews ran a series of stores across the valley with contacts extending to Atlantic trade networks. Mathews also took part in the Indian Wars and colonial revolutionary efforts. He was a member of the Augusta County Committee of Safety that drafted the Augusta Resolves, a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, and the Augusta Declaration, a precursor to the Articles of Confederation.
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Sampson Mathews
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Sampson Mathews
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Sampson Mathews
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Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
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1807-01-20
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1778
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Sampson Mathews signature, library of congress.png
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right
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Great Britain
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United States
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American Revolutionary War
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French and Indian War
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Siege of Yorktown
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Battle of Green Spring
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Battle of Point Pleasant
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Braddock expedition
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Dunmore's War
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Raid of Richmond
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c. 1737
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Virginia militia
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Silhouette of Sampson Mathews, 1756
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John
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Martha
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Two daughters
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Sampson II
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1807-01-20
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Virginia State Senator from Augusta, Rockingham, Rockbridge, Shenandoah, and Pendleton counties
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Ann Mathews
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Merchant, soldier, politician
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"It [the Augusta Declaration] is the first deliberate expression of the policy of establishing an independent state government and a permanent confederation of the States which our parliamentary journals contain. . .This memorial from Augusta . . .deserves to be stereotyped as the Magna Charta of the West."
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Of the public rope-walks, manufactories of ducking, sail-cloth, etc, the most important was that at Warwick on the James, five miles south of Richmond. Skilled sail-makers were probably drawn from the Ulster settlement in the Valley of Virginia, some of whose members had doubtless served an apprenticeship in Ireland. The assignment of Col. Sampson Mathews, of August County, to a committee on the supervision of naval equipment is not without significance.
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--Robert Armistead Stewart, The History of Virginia's Navy of the Revolution .
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- Hugh Blair Grigsby, Washington and Lee University Historical Papers, Volumes 1–2
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Mary Warwick
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Mary Lockhart
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Sampson Mathews (c. 1737 – January 20, 1807) was an American merchant, soldier, and legislator in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia. A son of John and Ann (Archer) Mathews, Mathews was an early merchant in the Shenandoah Valley region, where he and his brother George Mathews ran a series of stores across the valley with contacts extending to Atlantic trade networks. Mathews also took part in the Indian Wars and colonial revolutionary efforts. He was a member of the Augusta County Committee of Safety that drafted the Augusta Resolves, a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, and the Augusta Declaration, a precursor to the Articles of Confederation. Mathews was elected to the inaugural Virginia State Senate in 1776. During the American Revolution, he toured the western frontier to fortify the colonial border from Indian attacks, and oversaw sail manufacture for the Continental Navy's Virginia fleet. When turncoat Benedict Arnold enacted a surprise raid on Richmond in January 1781, Mathews led Virginia militia forces in defense. Mathews was an original trustee of Liberty Hall (later Washington and Lee University), when it was made into a college in 1776. This is the nation's ninth-oldest institution of higher education. Mathews was a member of the Mathews political family, which saw numerous members take part in state and national affairs over successive generations.
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