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.
