Notes for: Matthew Gaston

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.)