MATHEWS, John, a Delegate from South
Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., in 1744; commissioned ensign on September
20, 1760, and lieutenant November 16, 1760, in the South Carolina Provincial
Regiment in the Cherokee expedition; passed the Middle Temple, London, England,
as a barrister in 1764; returned to South Carolina and was elected to the
commons house of assembly in 1772; appointed by the convention of 1774 a member
of the “general committee of ninety-nine”; member of the First and Second
Provincial Congresses of South Carolina in 1775 and 1776; associate judge of the
circuit court of the State in 1776; during the Revolutionary War served as a
captain in the Colleton County regiment; member of the State house of
representatives 1776-1780 and served as speaker in 1777 and 1778; Member of the
Continental Congress 1778-1781; Governor of South Carolina in 1782 and 1783;
elected judge of the court of chancery in March 1784; again elected to the State
house of representatives in November 1784; elected judge of the court of equity
in 1791 and served until 1797, when he resigned; died in Charleston, S.C.,
November 17, 1802.. - -Biographical
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