Matthew GASTON
1748 - 1799 (~ 51 years)-
Name Matthew GASTON Birth CA 1748 Ireland 
[1] Gender Male Death 9 Dec 1799 Greene Co, GA [2] Burial Macedonia Cemetery, Butts Co, GA [2] Notes - Received a land grant in present-day Chester Co, SC, but moved soon thereafter to Rowan Co, NC, where he married his cousin, Ann Simonton. Her mother, Margaret Gaston, had lived and been married in Lancaster Co, PA, moving to North Carolina about 1755. [Per Edward H. Couey, Scotts Mills, OR] (Note: Margaret Gaston's presumed connection to other Gastons in this genealogy is not known. Ann Simonton's parentage and other personalia as enumerated here is from the Reid Genealogy and is considered more reliable than other conflicting info.)
Person ID I3782 Doddridge County Roots Last Modified 25 Oct 1996
Father Alexander GASTON, b. 5 Feb 1702, County Antrim, Ireland d. Ireland Mother Jane HARPER Family ID F1349 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 
Ann SIMONTON, b. 1746, Pennsylvania d. 13 Dec 1793, Greene Co, GA (Age 47 years)Marriage 12 Aug 1768 Lancaster Co, PA [2] Children + 1. Robert GASTON, b. 1774, Greene Co, GA d. 6 Apr 1829, Autauga Co, AL (Age 55 years)+ 2. Jane GASTON, b. 8 Jan 1777, Greene Co, GA d. 1860 (Age 82 years)+ 3. Alexander GASTON, b. 1780, Rowan Co, NC d. 1837, Greene Co, GA (Age 57 years)+ 4. Matthew GASTON, Jr., b. 1785 d. Jackson, Butts Co, GA Family ID F1350 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Rebeckah HARDIN Marriage 12 Dec 1793 [2] Family ID F3411 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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