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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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Capt. John Ashby of the 3rd Va. Reg., Continental Line, 1775-1783. As a courier, he carried messages to Williamsburg from Fort Loudoun (Winchester) telling of Braddock's defeat in 1756. He was a member of the militia in dunmore's War, 1774. He was Captain in Culpeper Minute Men 1775, and was in the battle at Great Bridge, near Norfolk. In February, 1776, he was commissioned Captain, 3rd Virginia Regiment, serving through the campaigns of 1776 and 1777, resigning his commission Oct 30, 1777.
Richard Ambler, "the old Colonial treasurer, ancestor of all the Virginia Amblers".
Isaac Allerton, merchant taylor of London, who emigrated to Massachusetts on the "Mayflower", 1620. He was a freeman of the "Merchant Tylor's Company", London. He was a wealthy and influential member of the Plymouth Colony, the ancestor of the Lee's of "Ditchley", Virginia, and his descendants intermarried with the Travers, Cookes, Colstons, Corbins, Willoughbys, Newtons, etc. of Virginia. (N.E. His. Gen. Reg. XLIV, 290).
Elder William Brewster of Mass. (N.E. Hist. Reg. 44, 290)