Sampson Mathews
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
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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Great Britain
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American Revolutionary War
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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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Sampson II
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Two daughters
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1807-01-20
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Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
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Sampson Mathews
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Virginia State Senator from Au ...... andoah, and Pendleton counties
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Ann Mathews
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Merchant, soldier, politician
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"It [the Augusta Declaration] ...... the Magna Charta of the West."
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- Hugh Blair Grigsby, Washington and Lee University Historical Papers, Volumes 1–2
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--Robert Armistead Stewart, The History of Virginia's Navy of the Revolution .
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Mary Lockhart
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Mary Warwick
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Sampson Mathews (c. 1737 – Jan ...... the Articles of Confederation.
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