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Fellow researchers,
I do not think the Samuel Mathewe mentioned in the second link ' http://www.geocities.com/awoodlief/mathews.html '
refers to a son of Archbishop Tobias Matthew and his wife Frances Barlow. Ms. Woodlief's source was probably page 989 of the 3rd volume of 'Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1500 - 1714: Their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees' - published in 1891 and viewable on Google Books.
The exact entry is: Mathewe, Samuel, of Middlesex, cler. fil. MAGDALEN HALL, matric. entry under date 25 Feb 1580/1, aged 17; B.A. from ST. EDMUND HALL, 13 May 1585 (s. Toby, Bishop of Durham); buried in St. Mary Minor, Cambridge, 17 June 1601; brother of Toby 1590.
Both entries for Sir Tobie Mathew and John Matthew have 'Samuel 1581' listed as brother.
This Samuel would have been born around 1563 if he entered college at age 17 in 1580, so it seems impossible that he was the son of Archbishop Tobias and Frances Barlow.
From 'The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker' written by John Strype in 1711, we learn the First Archbishop of Canterbury Matthew Parker Sr.'s second son, Matthew, died in December 1574, aged 23, and left a pregnant wife, the former Frances Barlow. Their infant died some months later.
The sources are clear that Frances married Tobias soon after Parker's death and had children,
1. Sir Tobie, b Oct 3, 1577, d. 1655
2. John, b. Dec 6, 1580, -m- Jane Toothby
3. Samuel, b. Feb 1, 1583, d. 1601
4. Mary born and died in 1583
(source - 'The Life of Sir Tobie Matthew: Bacon's Alter Ego' written in 1908 by Arnold Harris Mathew (1852-1919)who was the great-grandson of Francis Mathew, the 1st Earl of Llandaff.
From this book we learn Frances Matthew allocated 200 pounds in her will (written in 1628) to be left to Peter House in Cambridge "where her beloven son, Samuel, was a scholar, and died there." The money was a scholarship for 2 poor students.
Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge.
Another clue: Jan 17, 1601 - Samuel Mathew, ye sonne of Toby, Bishop of Durham, buried. taken from Cambridge parish records. (also in 'The East Anglian' 1866).
And a final source: 'The Banner Display'd: or, An Abridgement of Guillam' written in 1726 by John Guillam, lists Samuel, 3rd son of Tobias and Frances, 'born at Oxford and died at Cambridge 1601.'
In short, Samuel died in 1601 while studying at Cambridge.
He did not go to America. The parentage of Capt. Samuel Matthews of early Jamestown, VA is unknown at this point.
If there was a Samuel born in 1563 and student at Magdalen Hall and St Edmund Hall during the 1580s, it is likely that the compiler of 'Alumni Oxonienses' erroneously attached him to the family of Tobias. This man most likely did not die in 1601, but was a different person.
An alumni book of early Cambridge students does exist, but it is not available on Google Books. Perhaps it could teach us more about Samuel Matthew (1583-1601).
Regarding the letter from Thomas Young to Sir Toby Matthew in 1634.. it can be read on page 285 of 'Papers Relating to the Early History of Maryland' - published in 1876 and available to read at Google Books. In fact, every single source I have mentioned here can be read free of charge at Google Books.
Young's 1634 letter to Toby Matthew contains several vivid accounts of Capt. Samuel Matthews of VA, and it is clear he is not refering to any relation of Sir Toby.
Kind regards,
Adam Matthews
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