Vincent MATTHEWS

ABT 1695 - 1784

• BIRTH: ABT 1695, Goshen, Orange, NY
• DEATH: 1784

• MARRIAGE: BY 1746, NY

1.  Peter MATTHEWS
2.  Fletcher MATTHEWS
3.  Catalina MATTHEWS
4. +James MATTHEWS
5.  Bridget MATTHEWS
6.  Elizabeth MATTHEWS
7.  David MATTHEWS

• MARRIAGE: 24 Jan 1754

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[3058] "Colonial Albany Social History Project:
Biographies: Vincent Matthews"
Stefan Bielinski
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/bios/m/vimatthews.html

Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature Collection
"Abstract of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office,
City of New York (Volume III. 1730-1744)"
http://historical.library.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.nys/nys056
In Dec 1735, Elizabeth Denne leaves land to Vincent Matthews of
"Matthews field, in Orange County".

Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature Collection
"Abstract of Wills on File in the Surrogate's Office,
City of New York (Volume XII. Jun 17, 1782-Sept 11, 1784)"
http://historical.library.cornell.edu:80/Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/cul.nys/nys076
Will of Vincent Matthews, dated 12 Mar 1783; proved 21 June 1784.

"New York Wills, 1626-1836" from"
"Calendar of Wills", Berthold Fernow; New York, NY, 1896.
http://www.ancestry.com/
"Mathews, Vincent, of Mathewsfield, Cornwall Prect., Orange Co., esquire.
Children Fletcher, James, Bridget Jones, Elizabeth Beekman, children
of son David. Wife's name was Elizabeth, first wife was Catalina Abeel.
Land in Westenhook Patent, do. in Connecticut and "elsewhere";
personal property. Executors son James and son-in-law Theophilus
Beekman. Witnesses William Hudson, Richard Goldsmith and Thomas Moffat.
Number: 1204 (M 96) Executed: 12 Mar 1783 Proved: 21 Jun 1784"

"General Daniel Bissell : his ancestors and descendants..."
Edith Newbold Jessop
New York, NY, 1927.
p100: "Vincent Mathews became one of the patentees of a tract of land of
seven hundred acres near New Windsor, Orange County, New York, which he
called "Mathewsfield." He was taxed at Newburgh in 1718; was made by
Royal Patent, Clerk of Orange County from 1726 to 1763; member of the
Assembly from that county from 1729 to 1739; Judge from 1733 to 1737;
and was commissioned Colonel of the Orange County Regiment of Foot, June
20, 1738. He married, first, Catalina, daughter of John Abeel (Mayor of
Albany in 1694-95, 1709-10), by his wife Catalina Schuyler; and second,
Elizabeth Wileman. He died in June, 1784, at the age of eighty-four, when
in New York on a visit."

"Notes and Queries"
NYGBR v13 p143 (July 1882)
"This Vincent Mathews, born about 1700, became one of the patentees of a
tract of land near New Windsor, Orange County, where he settled, naming
the settlement "Mathewsfield", held various offices of public trust in
Orange County 1726-1770. He died in New York in June, 1784; was twice
married, both wives dying before him. His children were Peter, Fletcher,
David, Mayor of New York during the Revolution; James, Bridget, who
married ---- Jones, and Elizabeth, who married Theophilus Beekman."