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2. Mathews family - Wikipedia

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   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]

3. John Buchanan (Virginia colonist) - Wikipedia

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   John Buchanan (died 1769) was colonial Virginia landowner, magistrate, colonel in the Virginia Militia, deputy surveyor under Thomas Lewis, and Sheriff of Augusta County, Virginia. As a surveyor, Buchanan was able to locate and purchase some of the most desirable plots of land in western Virginia and quickly became wealthy and politically ...

4. John Howe Peyton - Wikipedia

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   John Howe Peyton (1778–1847), was a Virginia lawyer and planter who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, representing Prince William County (part-time) in the House of Delegates from 1808 through 1810, and Augusta and Rockbridge County senate seat in the Virginia from 1839 until his death.

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6. James Patton (Virginia colonist) - Wikipedia

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   James Lynn Patton, (1690 or 1692 – 30 July, 1755) was a merchant, pioneer frontiersman, and soldier who settled parts of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.Between his immigration to Virginia in 1740, and his death there in 1755, he was a prominent figure in the exploration, settlement, governance, and military leadership of the colony.

7. John Mathews (American pioneer) - Wikipedia

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   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 ...