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Captain Samuel Matthews[1] (died January 1659)[2] was a British Colonial Governor of Virginia. Matthews came to Virginia in 1622[2] and was chosen as governor by the House of Burgesses in 1656[1] and again in March 1658.[3] As a member of the House of Burgesses, Matthews was viewed as an "honest, energetic and faithful servant of the Colony" whose death was "universally lamented."[4] However, he has been criticized for his persecution of the Puritans.[1]
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- ^ a b c Cooke, John Esten (1883). Virginia: A History of the People. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 205.
- ^ a b Bruce, Philip Alexander (1893). The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Virginia Historical Society, 91.
- ^ Arthur, Timothy Shay (1852). The History of Virginia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 14.
- ^ Waters, Henry Fitz-Gilbert (1885). Genealogical Gleanings in England. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101.
