Mathew Ross (c1757-)
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Mathew Ross | |
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| Born | Mathew Ross |
| Residence | Farr, Sutherland, Scotland |
| Family | Rosses of Farr |
| Father | John Ross the Immigrant (c1727-) |
Mathew Ross is the candidate that Cathy Brewer, in Granddaddy was a Patriot, proposes as the sixth of John Ross the Immigrant's emigrating sons, in place of the traditionally listed Benjamin Ross. Almost nothing beyond his approximate birth is currently documented about him; his page exists primarily to record the case for his inclusion in this family. The source report flags Mathew Ross's birth details with a caution marker, indicating the compiler regarded them as not fully documented.
DNA evidence
Y-DNA
No documented direct male-line descendant of Mathew Ross has been identified, and no Y-DNA test has been taken toward confirming or refuting his place in this family. See John Ross the Immigrant for the status of Y-DNA testing within this family cluster generally.
Autosomal DNA
Biography
Early life
Mathew Ross was born about 1757 in Farr, Sutherland, Scotland, per the sole source located for him.[1] No marriage, residence, or death record has been identified for him in the sources reviewed for this article.
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Ancestors
| John Ross the Immigrant | |||||||||
| Mathew Ross (c1757-) | |||||||||
- Mathew Ross (c1757-)
Mathew Ross is proposed, though not documented, as a son of John Ross the Immigrant. See Disputed origins below.
Marriage and children
Occupation
Military
Death & burial
Timeline
- April 20, 1781 - Mathew Ross listed in Division No. 3 on the roll of Affective Men in the Beaufort Regiment of Militia, returned by Colonel William Brown.[2]
Research notes
Disputed origins
Mathew Ross is not among the six sons "widely accepted by reputable Ross researchers" as children of John Ross the Immigrant (traditionally Benjamin, Elijah, Francis, William, John, and Martin).[3] Cathy Brewer proposes substituting Mathew for Benjamin, primarily on the grounds that Benjamin's documented birth year (1746, per his gravestone) makes him too old to fit the 1774 customs record's description of six sons aged 5 to 20, and that a 1912 sworn Sons of the American Revolution application states Benjamin was born in Beaufort County, North Carolina — not Scotland (see Benjamin Ross).[4]
This substitution has a significant weakness of its own: unlike Benjamin, Elijah, and Francis Ross — who are repeatedly documented together in Beaufort County as neighbors, land-deed chain bearers and witnesses, and co-defendants in the 1779 misprision of treason case — Mathew Ross does not appear in any of the Beaufort County land, tax, or court records reviewed for this family. His candidacy currently rests solely on a Scottish birth record giving an age consistent with the 1774 customs list, with no corroborating American documentation of any kind. Resolving whether Mathew or Benjamin (or neither) belongs among the six sons is a primary goal of the Y-DNA testing described at John Ross the Immigrant and Benjamin Ross.
Common discrepancies
See also
Sources
- ↑ Brewer 2022, p. [7].
- ↑ Brown 1781, p. 2.
- ↑ Brewer 2022, p. [9].
- ↑ Brewer 2022, p. [12].
Bibliography
- Brewer, Cathy (2022). Granddaddy was a Patriot. Self-published family history.
Further reading
External links
Disclaimer
It is admittedly impossible that we have been able to evaluate every piece of evidence available for every person included on this site. What you often find on the internet, though, are trees with no sources attached at all. Many of these trees were created pre-internet & have been passed down, uploaded & copied to multiple sites without details of the original sources they were based on. Now, with the advent of DNA testing, we're finding that they don't always match up with what the DNA is telling us. In order to reevaluate these trees in conjunction with the DNA evidence, we need to have available the sources that they might've originally been based on. This site, then, is intended as a repository for these sources and an opportunity to share what the DNA is telling us so that we can work collectively to correct these trees. Over time, more of the old records will be able to be combed through, and the sources cited here will grow.