Genealogical Record: Benjamin Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Benjamin Chew

*1671 04 12 Anne Arundel Co., MD
+1699/00 03 03 Anne Arundel Co., MD

RLC 14093: lived at Maidstone.

11925

Samuel Chew
Judge, Colonel

*1630 Jamestown, Virginia
+1676/77 03 15 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

<1659: Moved to Maryland, owned 400 acres in Anne Arundel County and neighbouring Sanetly County.

1661: Represented A.A. County in Maryland Assembly.

1663: Was High Sheriff of A.A. Co.

1665 and 1668: was an A.A. County Justice

1669 07 23: Member of the Council of Maryland and Justice of the Provincial Court.

1675: Colonel of A.A. County Militia.

1676 07 20: Member of Council of War

Head of Maryland (via sons Samuel, Joseph and William) and Pennsylvania branches (via Benjamin) of Chew family.

LAM 15470 gives birth year 1625.

Subject of an article entitled "Digging up the past" by Andrea F. Siegel in the Baltimore Sun, 2006-06-16.

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John Chew
Merchant, Colonist

*1587 07 16 Whalley, Lancashire ENG
+1668 08 24 York Co., VA

1587: Birth recorded in parish register.

1607: Might have sailed to Jamestown with Capt. John Smith.

1618 11 18: Granted land by Sir John Harvey. Location uncertain.

1621/22: Sailed to Virginia on the "Charitie".

1623: His wife Sarah followed on the "Sea Flower".

1623-1624 Burgess of Hogg Island.

1624: Lived at Hog(g) Island, opposite Jamestown, granted one rood, nine poles near his house in James City, was York County Justice. Is mentioned in the 1624 Jamestown census entry for his servant Roger Delk, who came aboard the Southampton and was recorded on 1624-02-04.

1636: Granted 1200 acres in Charles River (later York) County.

1639/40 01 17: Mentioned in father's will.

1642-1644: Burgess of York County.

1644-1650: Moved for a while to Anne Arundel Co., Maryland following a Puritan massacre.

1652: York County Justice.

geni.com records death as 1640 01 17.

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John Chew
1552 05 14-aft. 1639/40 01 16?
11603 <2385:16
Robert Chewe
11605 >15:14
Ana Chatburne
11606
Anne Broddyll
1555-
11604 <2385:16
John Broddyll
11807
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Sarah Bond/Gale

*1600 Virginia
+1651

10308 <2379:15

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Ann(e) Ayres

*1635 Nansemond, Virginia
+1695 04 13 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

Prominent member of Society of Friends (Quakers), hosted meetings at her house on Herring Bay.

11776 <698:12

William Ayres

+1676/77 03 15 Nansemond County, Virginia?

1652: Had come to Maryland with his family by June.

1653 10 05: Applied for lands for transporting himself, his deceased wife Sarah, his daughter Ann, his new wife Martha and ten servants.

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Sarah Marsh

+bef. 1653 10

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SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Elizabeth Benson

*1677
+1725

Daughter of John Benson of Calvert Co., Maryland and Elizabeth Smith.

11926


m. 1692 12 08
Samuel Chew
Judge

*1693 10 30
+1743 06 16

LAM 15470: resided at Maidstone, was a judge, died 1745?

12075

Mary Galloway
1697 05 04-1734 05 25

12076 <4:2


m. 1715 10 22
Sarah Chew

13398

Ann Chew

13400

Elizabeth Chew

12074 >1:1

Benjamin Chew

13401 >51:5

Ann Chew

12106

Mary Chew

12114

Samuel Chew

13731

Samuel Chew

13733

Henrietta Chew

13736

Mary Paca
1710-

12078 <1:1

Samuel Chew

13737

Mary Chew

13740

John Chew

13741

Elizabeth Benson Chew

*1694/95 03 13
+1726/27 02 09

ELM 14110 gives middle name and a son Kensey Johns, m. Susanna Galloway.

12526

Kensey Johns
1689-1729

12527 <5:2


m. 1710 12 22
Ann Chew

*1696 10 14 Anne Arundel Co., MD

12528

Mary Chew

*1698 12

12530

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