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» For the U.S. HEW secretary, see F. David Mathews; for a similar name, see David Matthews
David Mathews (d. 1800) was a lawyer and politician from
New York City. He was a
Loyalist during the
American Revolutionary War and was
Mayor of New York from 1776 until 1783.
Mathews lived in
Flatbush and was mayor, in 1776, when he was implicated in a plot to kidnap
George Washington, then
Commander in Chief of the
Continental Army. Mathews and
William Tryon, the
governor of
Province of New York, were implicated in the plot, as was a member of
Washington's Life Guard,
Thomas Hickey, who was eventually executed. The
New York Provincial Congress ordered Mathews's arrest for "being Engaged in a Conspiracy against the Authority of the Congress and the Liberties of America." The charges were never proven, and he was briefly imprisoned, and then either escaped or was paroled and returned to New York.
When British forces occupied the city in August 1776, Mathews resumed his office as mayor. When the British evacuated on
November 10,
1783, he left with other loyalists to
Nova Scotia. He was appointed attorney general and a member of the Executive Council by Lieutenant Governor
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres. Although an elected house of assembly was to have been established, this didn't occur.
The remainder of Mathews life would be spent enmeshed in the particular political struggles of a colony without a house of assembly. Having held a respectable elected office in the United States, he'd difficulty adjusting to the British colonial restrictions.
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