(From Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Volume II- The Commons House of Assembly 1692-1775)
MATHEWES,ANTHONY JR. the son of the immigrant merchant Anthony Mathewes and his wife Lois, was born in South Carolina in 1697. He was able to appropriate for himself 5,615 acres of land in royal grants in Colleton and Granville counties. One of the owners of the Friendly Society, the first fire insurance company, Mathewes was active in politics in South Carolina. St. Bartholomew Parish first elected him to the Eleventh Royal Assembly(1736-1739) and re-elected him in a special election to the Twelfth Royal Assembly (1730-1742), an assembly for which he qualified 29 January, 1740. He represented St Johns Colleton Parish in the Fifteenth (1746-1747) and the Sixteenth(1747) Royal Assemblies. On May 5, 1749, he qualified for the Nineteenth Royal Assembly(1749-1751) for that same parish. Elected again by St. Johns Colleton to the Twentieth Royal Assembly (1751-1754), he declined to serve. Other offices held by him included militia captain (1725), tax inquirer for Charleston(1725); commissioner for regulating street boundaries (1734), commisioner for building a bridge over the Pon Pon River (1734)
, commissioner for cleaning Newtown Cut (1738), and Commisioner of Streets for St. Philips Parish (1725-1753). Like his father, Anthony Mathewes was a member of the Independent (Congregational) Church in Charleston. He was one of the early members of the Charleston Library Society (1750).
MATHEWES,ANTHONY JR. the son of the immigrant merchant Anthony Mathewes and his wife Lois, was born in South Carolina in 1697. He was able to appropriate for himself 5,615 acres of land in royal grants in Colleton and Granville counties. One of the owners of the Friendly Society, the first fire insurance company, Mathewes was active in politics in South Carolina. St. Bartholomew Parish first elected him to the Eleventh Royal Assembly(1736-1739) and re-elected him in a special election to the Twelfth Royal Assembly (1730-1742), an assembly for which he qualified 29 January, 1740. He represented St Johns Colleton Parish in the Fifteenth (1746-1747) and the Sixteenth(1747) Royal Assemblies. On May 5, 1749, he qualified for the Nineteenth Royal Assembly(1749-1751) for that same parish. Elected again by St. Johns Colleton to the Twentieth Royal Assembly (1751-1754), he declined to serve. Other offices held by him included militia captain (1725), tax inquirer for Charleston(1725); commissioner for regulating street boundaries (1734), commisioner for building a bridge over the Pon Pon River (1734)
, commissioner for cleaning Newtown Cut (1738), and Commisioner of Streets for St. Philips Parish (1725-1753). Like his father, Anthony Mathewes was a member of the Independent (Congregational) Church in Charleston. He was one of the early members of the Charleston Library Society (1750).
(From Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Volume II- The Commons House of Assembly 1692-1775)
MATHEWES,ANTHONY JR. the son of the immigrant merchant Anthony Mathewes and his wife Lois, was born in South Carolina in 1697. He was able to appropriate for himself 5,615 acres of land in royal grants in Colleton and Granville counties. One of the owners of the Friendly Society, the first fire insurance company, Mathewes was active in politics in South Carolina. St. Bartholomew Parish first elected him to the Eleventh Royal Assembly(1736-1739) and re-elected him in a special election to the Twelfth Royal Assembly (1730-1742), an assembly for which he qualified 29 January, 1740. He represented St Johns Colleton Parish in the Fifteenth (1746-1747) and the Sixteenth(1747) Royal Assemblies. On May 5, 1749, he qualified for the Nineteenth Royal Assembly(1749-1751) for that same parish. Elected again by St. Johns Colleton to the Twentieth Royal Assembly (1751-1754), he declined to serve. Other offices held by him included militia captain (1725), tax inquirer for Charleston(1725); commissioner for regulating street boundaries (1734), commisioner for building a bridge over the Pon Pon River (1734)
, commissioner for cleaning Newtown Cut (1738), and Commisioner of Streets for St. Philips Parish (1725-1753). Like his father, Anthony Mathewes was a member of the Independent (Congregational) Church in Charleston. He was one of the early members of the Charleston Library Society (1750).
MATHEWES,ANTHONY JR. the son of the immigrant merchant Anthony Mathewes and his wife Lois, was born in South Carolina in 1697. He was able to appropriate for himself 5,615 acres of land in royal grants in Colleton and Granville counties. One of the owners of the Friendly Society, the first fire insurance company, Mathewes was active in politics in South Carolina. St. Bartholomew Parish first elected him to the Eleventh Royal Assembly(1736-1739) and re-elected him in a special election to the Twelfth Royal Assembly (1730-1742), an assembly for which he qualified 29 January, 1740. He represented St Johns Colleton Parish in the Fifteenth (1746-1747) and the Sixteenth(1747) Royal Assemblies. On May 5, 1749, he qualified for the Nineteenth Royal Assembly(1749-1751) for that same parish. Elected again by St. Johns Colleton to the Twentieth Royal Assembly (1751-1754), he declined to serve. Other offices held by him included militia captain (1725), tax inquirer for Charleston(1725); commissioner for regulating street boundaries (1734), commisioner for building a bridge over the Pon Pon River (1734)
, commissioner for cleaning Newtown Cut (1738), and Commisioner of Streets for St. Philips Parish (1725-1753). Like his father, Anthony Mathewes was a member of the Independent (Congregational) Church in Charleston. He was one of the early members of the Charleston Library Society (1750).
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