Mathias PAINTER

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Pulaski County Virginia

For many years the American settlements were confined to the coast regions, but as population increased they extended into the interior; but it was not until the year 1716 that the first white men stood upon the summit of the Blue Ridge. In 1732 the first settlement was made in the Shenandoah valley, near where Winchester now stands, and a year later, 1733, John Lewis and others located near where Staunton has since been built. Thus was the valley region west of the Blue Ridge opened to settlement, and the next three decades witnessed the settlement of many hardy pioneers, many of whom had bourne the king's arms against the French during Braddock's War, and who now came to found a home for themselves and their posterity upon the lands which a distant monarch beyond the seas had granted them for that service.

Southward, around the head waters of the James, along Jacksons, Cowpasture and Roanoke rivers and on to the southwest these settlements extended and increased in numbers until, in 1772, the county of Fincastle was formed and embraced within its limits all of Southwestern Virginia, including the present State of Kentucky. Five years later (1777) it was by an act of the general assembly extinguished, and from its territory three counties were created, viz.: Kentucky, Washington and Montgomery.

Of the latter what is now Pulaski County continued to be a part until 1830, when it began its existence as an integral factor of the Old Dominion.
Among its earliest settlers, all of whom have long since passed away, were John FLOYD, once a governor of Virginia; John PAYTON, James WYSOR, Thomas CLOYD, Richard RAINES, Robert MARTIN, Joseph CLOYD, Hugh PATRICK, Jerry PATRICK, William GRAYSON, Isaac RUNION, James SMITH, Andrew BOYD, Peter RIFE, Major William PRESTON, Thomas PATTON, Henry DAVIS, Wilson DAVIS, Roger ROOP, William CALFEE, S.W. CECIL, a Mr. PEPPER, who came in 1760, Joseph MONTGOMERY, James MONTGOMERY, and a Mr. WOOD in 1765; John W. HOGE in 1773; Sebastian WYGAL in 1780; Henry WYSOR, John CARPER, John CADDALL, John JORDAN, James RANKIN and Robert MARTIN, all of whom came in 1785, and Samuel CECIL in 1790.

Mathias married Mary Ann PETERS, daughter of John PETERS and Catherine RADER, on 4 Jan 1791 in Shenandoah, VA. (Mary Ann PETERS was born on 15 Apr 1771 in Augusta County, Virginia, USA, died on 20 May 1827 in Wythe, VA and was buried in Painter Cem, Cripple Creek, Wythe, VA.)

Mathias next married Catherine SURFACE on 18 Jul 1831 in Montgomery Co., VA. (Catherine SURFACE was born before 1818.)