Genealogical Record: John Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
John Chew

*1753
+1806 02 12

Interred at Masonic Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA, USA [findagrave.com; Dora C. Jett cf. RBC 14139]. Tombstone gives date of death and age (53) at death.

Jett adds that he was the first of four generations that held the post of clerk of the Hustings Court (a/k/a the General Court or Corporation Court) of Fredericksburg from 1787 to 1886. He was a vestryman in St. George's Church in 1803. His will dated 1805 mentions his wife ES 10068, his son RSC 10051, his daughter MBC 16260 and grandon JJC 11661 (who received "my gold watch and chain and gold seal in token of my love and affection for him").

The existence of a miniature portrait is mentioned in an article in the Free Lance-Post, which also mentions that he was clerk of the Fredericksburg Court 1787-1806.

USGenWeb mentions that he was succeeded as Clerk of the General Court on his death in 1806 by a Robert Hening.

Mentioned in S. Bassett French's biographical sketches.

A portrait, possibly the one mentioned above, can be found at findagrave.com, catalogued in the Frick Art Reference Library.

10067

Robert Chew

*1730 Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania Co., Virginia
+1778 04 28 Middlesex, VA, USA

From RLC 14093. LDS: 145V 0CN.

10069 <127:9

John Chew

*1701/1705 Spottsylvania Co., Virginia
+1756 06 26 Spottsylvania Co., Virginia

See USGenWeb pg139-140.txt for marriage data. LDS AFN 1G5J-VZ6 is source of month and day of death, but gives birthdate as "Abt. 1714" and date of marriage as 1749 06 26.

10073 <163:10

Larkin Chew
1676/1678-1728 05 11/1729
10301 <620:11
Joseph Chew
10303 <622:12 >22:17
Ruth Larkin
10304 <622:12 >2:1
Hannah Roy
1680-1734
10302 <620:11
John Roy
10305 >1:1
Dorothy Buckner
10306 >2:2
Margaret Beverley

*1704/1709

RLC 14093 says that her father was Robert.

W.G. Stanard, writing in 1893-01 in the William and Mary Colllege Quarterly Historical Papers, agrees, and says that MB 10078 was also the daughter of a Robert Beverley. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (p. 119) apparently supports the parentage shown.

Mentioned in father's will.

10074 <163:10

Henry (Harry) Beverley
1669-1730 11 30
10311 <271:11
Robert Beverley
10313 <273:12 >3:2
Margaret Boyd
10314 <273:12 >2:1
Elizabeth Smith
1670-17__
10312 <271:11
Robert Smith
10315 >3:2
?
Mary (Molly) Perrott

Possibly the Mary Perrott born 1733 08 18 to Henry Perrott and Rachel ?, christened 1733 09 23 at Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia, mentioned in an LDS IGI record. Or could be the one born to Henry Perrott in 1730 in Virginia, married to someone in 1752. Or the one born in 1731 to Henry Perrott in Middlesex, Virginia.

10070 <127:9

Henry Perrott

*1706
+1753

LDS IGI record gives christening at Christchurch, Middlesex, Virginia on 1706 02 25.

10075

Richard Perrott
1681 10 05-1734 01 11
10083
Richard Perrott
10337 >2:1
Sarah Curtis
10338 >2:1
Sarah Pitts
16__-17__
10084
Robert Pitts
10343
Catherine
10344
? ? ?
?
? ?
?

 

SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Elizabeth Smith

*1759
+1806 05 21

Interred at Masonic Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA, USA [findagrave.com; Dora C. Jett cf. RBC 14139]. Tombstone gives date of death and age (47) at death.

10068 <52:21


m. 1778
Mary Beverly Chew

From father's record at findagrave.com.

16260

Barton

From father-in-law's record at findagrave.com.

16261

Robert Smith Chew
Court Clerk

*1779 09 26 Spottsylvania Co., VA, USA
+1826 11 02

Succeeded his father as Clerk of the Hustings Court for the Town and Corporation of Fredericksburg, some of whose signed certificates 1812 07 14-1820 02 26 survive.

Is listed at LDS IGI 442426.35.25657.

Month and date of birth and death from findagrave.com, which lists interment at Masonic Cemetery, Fredericksburg VA, is source of father-in-law's profession and gives date of marriage as 1802-10-20.

S. Bassett French confirms career. but gives date of death as 1825-11-23.

Dora C. Jett (see RBC 14139) gives the text of his tombstone, confirms his date of death, says his will was dated 1821-10-17 and left property to his wife, his sister and his sons RSC 10043, JJC 11661 and an unknown son George French Chew. I would very much like to see this will.

RLC 14093 gives year of marriage as 1802.

10051

Elizabeth (Betsey) French
1783-1842

10052 <12524:79


m. 1805
George French Chew

110435

Ann E. Chew

110438

John James Chew

11661 >9:2

Robert Smith Chew

10043 >71:6

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