Person:Matthew Howard (5)

Notes for MATHEW HOWARD: From Anne Arundel Gentry:

             Mathew Howard 

Mathew Howard, son of Gideon Howard by his first wife, Hannah, was born about 1727 in Anne Arundel County. As early as the year 1748 he had married his kinswoman, Catherine, the daughter of Benjamin and Catherine (Buck) Howard. Her father, Captain Benjamin Howard, had died intestate in 1737, leaving two proved children. In 1748 "Mathew Howard who had intermarried with Catherine one of the daughters of Benjamin Howard, deceased", requested that citation be issued against John Howard, the administrator of Catherine Howard, widow of Benjamin, to show cause why he had not filed an inventory of her estate. One was ultimately submitted on March 14, 1748, with the signatures of her brothers uterine, Edward Kitten and Theophilus Kitten, as the kinsmen.

He settled in Frederick County, where on June 20, 1758, he purchased from Solomon Sparks, of that county, "Cold Friday" on the draft of the Linganore called Beaver Dam Branch. Sarah, wife of Solomon Sparks, consented to the conveyance. On the same day he sold "Cold Harbor" to Edward Dorsey, of Annapolis, Gent., for #25. On August 27, 1753, he bought livestock from William Howard, at which time Rezin Howard and Richard Coombs witnessed the sale.

On March 28, 1754, he bought "Fair Forrest" of 50 acres and "Good Range" of 125 acres and personal property from John Howard of Gideon in order that the latter might meet a judgement obtained by Joseph Bankson and his wife in an act of trespass.'

On March 21, 1759, styled of Frederick County, he sold "Good Range" to Adam Marckel. No wife waived dower. On September 24, 1759, he assigned personalty to Thomas Maynard. On November 20, 1764, he purchased negroes from John Howard of Rowan County, North Carolina, which were in Anne Arundel County, in the possession of Lydia Howard, placed as their stepmother.

At court held in Frederick County on November 1, 1764, Matthew Howard recorded a bill of sale from John Howard in the Province of North Carolina of "one negro Man named Toby which I left in the Hands of Lydia Howard of Anne Arundel County". John Howard signed the chattel deed. The witnesses were William Nassory and Nathan Maynard.

After having disposed of his property in Maryland and after November 1764, he removed to Rowan County, North Carolina ,and joined his brother and other kinsmen along the Yadkin. His son, Benjamin, in later years stated that his father removed from Frederick County to North Carolina when he was a small boy. He died shortly after his arrival, leaving a widow and young children. In July 1768 his brother, John Howard, leased his widow, Catharine Howard Sr. and her sons, Gideon, John and Benjamin land on the west side of the Yadkin.

Three of his children--(Gideon, Elizabeth and Catharine Howard- were made heirs in the will of their paternal grandfather in 1752. Six children have been proved. That there were others is possible.