The Matthews Connection . . .
On December 20, 1798, Silas Mathews, b. at Fishing Creek, NJ on September 17, 1777, married Eleanor Hughes, b. Cape May, NJ on August 7, 1776. Eleanor died in Cape May on October 5, 1818 and Silas on September 8 1830. Both are buried in Cold Spring Cemetery.
Eleanor was the daughter of Ellis Hughes and Eleanor Hurst both of Cape May, NJ
Children :
1. William Matthews, b. Cape May, March 9 1800 Married Elizaheth Izard, 1st Married Sarah Izard, 2nd
2. Thomas Matthews, b. Cape May, December 19, 1801 / d. young
3. Eleanor Matthews, b. Cape May, June 26, 1804 Married Mathias Lee
4.
Hanna Matthews, b. Cape May, September 25, 1806
Married Thomas Page Crowell 
5. Thomas Matthews, b. Cape May, October 4, 1808 / d. November 21, 1848 Married June 6, 1830 to Sarah Russell Clark, b. June 6, 1811 / d. October 8, 1882
Children
:
Theodore Matthews, b. July 2, 1831
Silas Matthews, b. November 9, 1833 / d. July 1853
Azubah Cornelia Matthews, b. March 10, 1835 married Schellinger
Ellen Hughes Matthews, b. January 22, 1839 married Robert Webb
1st , Preston Brearley 2nd.
Moses W. Matthews, b. April 16, 1841 / d. 1893
Anne Edmund Matthews, b. January 5, 1844 / d. 1893 married 1st Charles H. Weeks, b. July
21, 1838 / married 2nd Jehu C. Webb
Thomas B. Matthews, b. April 24, 1846 / d. May 16, 1846
Emily Rush Matthews , b. June 8, 1848 married Jonathan Cresse
Children : Alida & Fannie B. Cresse
Sarah
Clark later in life married second to Page Crowell b. about 1806 in New
Jersey.
Last will and Testament of Sarah Clark Webb Crowell
6. Silas Matthews, b. August 1, 1811 Married Charlotte Leaming
7. Isabella Matthews, b. October 9, 1811 Married Andrew H. Reeves
8. Charlotte Mathews, b. November 21, 1816 / d. November 114, 1847 unmarried
In the name of God Amen, I
Sarah Crowell do make this my last Will and testament.
I do order my executor after my decease to divide my personal property as
soon as the law allows. In the following
manner, if any should remain after my decease, namely I do order that Ellen H. Webb widow
of Robert G. Webb deceased, Anne E. Webb wife of John Webb, Moses W. Mathews, or their
children Alida Cresse and Fanne B. Cresse daughter of Jonathan Cresse and Emly R. Cresse
my sole heirs share and share alike only Alida and Fannie B. Cresse shall have but one
share equally with the rest of my heirs: If Alida or Fannie B. Cresse are deceased before
they come in possession which shall not be untill they are eighteen years of age, then the
next youngest shall have the said share. I
give my daughter Emly R. Cresse one dollar. Azubah C. Schellinger and Theadore Matthews
have been paid their full share.
Lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Moses W. Matthews my executor to this my
last will and testament all former wills previous to this date are disanuled and void.
In testimony whereof I have hereto put my hand, seal affixed in the year of our Lord one
thousand eighteen hundred and eighty.
Sarah Crowell
Signed published and declared to be my last will and testament in the presence of us as witnesses who subscribed our names as witnesses, in her presence this twentieth day of December.
Wilfred F. McKean
Page Crowell
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