Source: Paul Tyson research: NC records show that Mathias & Mary in Bath County area about 1700. History of Pitt County shows that in 1704 a number of persons living in Wickham in the Bath area petitioned for a court to be established in their vicinity. Among the petitioners were Mathias and his eldest son, John. Mathias will is of record in the Archive Section, State History and Archives, Raleigh, NC. It is dated April 5, 1710. On February 20, 1693/94 Mathias bought 300 acres of land in Accomack County, Virginia, for 7000 pounds of tobacco from Catherine BOWMAN, widow of Edmund BOWMAN, late of Accomac dec'd. and Daniel ESHAM and Gertrude his wife of Accomac, executors of Edmund BOWMAN. In 1694 Mathias listed one tithe in Balley's Precinct, Accomack County, Virginia, and did the same again in 1695. Mathias was still in Accomack County, as late a November 20, 1702, when he signed a power of attorney to Tully ROBINSON. On February 2, 1703, ROBINSON sold for Mathias the 300 acres he bought from the executors of Edmund BOWMAN in 1693 for 4,000 pounds of tobacco to Robert HAMILTON (his stepfather). Mathais appears to have left Virginia and his name appears later, mistakenly, in the 1704 Bally Precinct Quit Rent Roll (land tax list) as still being the non-resident owner of the 300 acres. The list under the heading "The following lands of which Quit Rents may possibly be recovered, though the owner lives out of the County". gives his location with the word "Southerd", meaning "gone south". The area where Mathias settled in North Carolina, and where his sons grew up is in modern day Hyde County. He lived along Slades Creek, on the Matchepungo (Pungo) River, in what was known as Bath County. The earliest known record of Mathias in North Carolina is the mention of land "patented by my father Mathew TISON in the year 1708" in the 1739/40 sale of land by Edmond TYSON. This date must be incorrect since Mathias did apply for a land patent from the "Duke of Beaufort, Palatine", but did not receive it until after his death in 1710.