Sampson Mathews
Sampson Mathews, Commissary of Col. Charles Lewis’s Regiment, was called “Master Drover of the Cattle.” In 1756, Deputy Sheriff Sampson Mathews assumed the functions of Chancellor of Augusta County. In 1764, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Augusta. In 1776, with Alexander St. Clair, he was appointed by the state of Virginia as trustee “to erect at public expense and superintend a manufactory at such place as they may think proper for the manufacture of sail duck,’ this preparatory for equipment of a Virginia fleet for Revolutionary service. He became Col. Sampson Mathews of the Revolution. In 1781, he commanded the regiment that repelled Arnold’s invasion of Virginia. He was one of a committee to draft instructions for the members of the Virginia Convention at Richmond, Feb. 22, 1775.
SOURCE: The Battle of Point Pleasant, A Battle of the Revolution, October 10th, 1774, Mrs. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarger, The State Gazette, Point Pleasant, W.V., 1909
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