Samuel Mathews (colonial Virginia governor)

Samuel Mathews
Governor of the Virginia Colony
In office
1657-1660
Preceded byEdward Digges
Succeeded byWilliam Berkeley
Member of the Virginia Governor's Council
In office
1656-1660
Member of the House of Burgesses for Warwick County, Virginia
In office
1651-1654
Preceded byThomas Harwood
Succeeded byThomas Davis
Personal details
Born1630
Mathews Manor plantation, Warwick County, Colony of Virginia
DiedJanuary 1660
, Virginia Colony, British America
SpouseMary Plumley
Children5
Parent(s)Samuel Mathews Sr., Frances Grenville
ProfessionGovernor, military officer, planter

Lt. Col. Samuel Mathews[1] (1630–1660), Commonwealth Governor of Virginia,[2][3] of Warwick County in the English Colony of Virginia, was a member of the House of Burgesses, the Governor's Council, and served as Commonwealth Governor of Virginia from 1656 until he died in office in January 1660 (1659 A.S.). There was no Royal Governorship at the time of the "Protectorate", and the Governor technically answered to the Cromwellian Parliament, although Royalist sentiment was prevalent in the colony of Virginia at this time. The former Royalist governor Berkeley arrived to replace him on March 13, 1660.

  1. ^ Cooke, John Esten (1883). Virginia: A History of the People. Houghton, Mifflin and Co. pp. 205.
  2. ^ Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, ed. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. Volume 1. New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915. OCLC 229136302. Retrieved February 16, 2013. p. 119.
  3. ^ Bruce, Philip Alexander (1893). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society. pp. 91.