Sarah MATTHEWS

18 May 1779 - 8 Nov 1830

• BIRTH: 18 May 1779
• DEATH: 8 Nov 1830, Angelica, Allegany, NY

• MARRIAGE: 20 Jan 1799

                                       _Peter MATTHEWS _____
                   _Vincent MATTHEWS _|
                  |                   |_Bridget ____________
 _James MATTHEWS _|
|                 |                    _Johannes ABEEL _____+
|                 |_Catalina ABEEL ___|
|                                     |_Catharina SCHUYLER _+
|
|--Sarah MATTHEWS 
|
|                                      _Selah STRONG _______+
|                  _Selah STRONG Jr___|
|                 |                   |_Abigail TERRY ______+
|_Hannah STRONG __|
                  |                    _Nathaniel WOODHULL _+
                  |_Hannah WOODHULL __|
                                      |_Sarah SMITH ________+

[428] "Genealogy of the Matthews Family"
Previously unpublished, undated family memoir
William Fletcher Lowe

"The Family of Richard Smith of Smithtown, Long Island"
Frederick Kinsman Smith
Smithtown Historical Society, Smithtown, NY, 1967
"Hannah, b. 17 Oct 1742, m. 18 Feb 1762, James Mathews (General), born 1742, died 1816, son of
Vincent and ----- (Abeel) Mathews. They removed, about 1791, from Mathewsfield to Newtown, now
Elmira, N.Y. Children (Mathews - 6 sons, 6 daughters):
(x) Sarah, b. 18 May 1779, d. 8 Nov 1830, at Angelica, N.Y., m. 20 Jan 1799, Samuel S. Haight
b. 17 Sep 1778, died 1864, son of Stephen and Margaret (Cooke) Haight."

"The Descendants of Rev. Benjamin Woolsey of Dosoris, LI"
Benjamin W. Dwight
NYGBR v5 p82 (Apr 1874)
"Judge Henry Welles, b. at Kinderhook, Sept. 2, 1794... He m. Jan. 11, 1819, Margaret Haight,
b. Aug. 15, 1801 (dau. of Gen. Samuel S. Haight, of Cuba, N. Y., and Sarah Mathews)."

"The Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant"
Emily Warren Roebling
JB Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA, 1903
p21: "James Mathews, born at Mathewsfield, 1742; died at Elmira, 1816, married,
18 February, 1762, Hannah, daughter of Selah Strong by his wife Hannah Woodhull.
He had...Sarah, who married General Samuel Haight, several of whose children
carried on the traditions of the Mathews family, her son Fletcher Mathews Haight
being United States judge for the District of California, and her grandson also
filled the same office, as well as that of governor of the State of California,
1867-71"