Genealogical Record: Benjamin Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Benjamin Chew
Lawyer

*1758 09 30 Philadephia, Pennsylvania
+1844 04 30 PA, USA?

1786: Admitted to the bar, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Author of LC F1412 .C58 1971 and LC F1413 .C52.

13415

Benjamin Chew
Judge

*1722 11 29 Maidstone, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
+1810 01 20 Philadelphia, PA, USA

Studied law at Philadephia.

1741: Entered Middle Temple, Inns of Court, London.

1743?: Returned to America after father's death.

1746: Admitted to bar, practised at Dover, Delaware.

1753-1758: Speaker of the House, Delaware.

1754: Moved to Philadelphia

1754-1769: Attorney-General of Pennsylvania.

1761-1767: Built "Cliveden", 6401 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19144.

1765-1776: Register of General Wills.

1774-1776: Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

1774 09 22: George Washington notes in his diary: "Dined with Mr. Chew the Chief Justice".

1791-1806: Judge and President of High Court of Errors and Appeals.

Author of record for LC KFD30 1752 .A218.

Buried at St. Peter's Churchyard, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

13401 <51:5

Samuel Chew
Judge

*1693 10 30
+1743 06 16

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

12075 <64:6

Benjamin Chew
1671 04 12-1699/00 03 03
11925 <68:7
Samuel Chew
11775 <698:12 >22:17
Ann(e) Ayres
11776 <698:12 >2:1
Elizabeth Benson
1677-1725
11926 <68:7
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Mary Galloway

*1697 05 04
+1734 05 25

12076 <61:6

Samuel Galloway
1659 10 07-1719
12079 <79:7
Richard Galloway
12115 <81:8
Hannah
12116 <81:8
Anne Webb
-1722/23 03 20
12080 <79:7
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Elizabeth Oswald

*1732
+1819

Daughter of James Oswald.

13414 <46:5

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SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Katherine Banning

*1770
+1855

Daughter of Anthony Banning and Anna Calder of Talbot, Maryland.

13416


m. 1788 12 11
Samuel Chew

*1789 12 08 Philadelphia, PA, USA
+1795 03 21

13629

Elizabeth Chew

*1791 05 04
+1795 03 21

13632

Benjamin Chew

*1793 12 05 Philadelphia, PA, USA
+1864 08 17

From RLC 14093. 1815: Admitted to the Philadelphia bar.

13635

Margaret Elizabeth Tilghman
-1817

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m. 1816 07 11
William T. Chew

18207

Samuel Chew
Lawyer

*1795 06 19
+1841 08 21

1816: Admitted to the bar at Philadelphia.

Died unmarried.

13637

John Chew
Midshipman, USN

*1797 01 23 Philadelphia, PA, USA
+1815 08 Lost at sea

13639

Elizabeth Margaretta Chew

*1798 11 19 Cliveden, Germantown, PA, USA
+1874 02 11 "Clarens", Fairfax Co., VA, USA

Children: Anna Maria (1825 01 31-1863 08 17, m. John Ambler 1847 08 05, "Selma", Winchester VA, USA), Benjamin Chew [Mason] (1826-1847), Catherine Chew [Mason] (1828 03 24-1893 04 28, m. John Thomas Beale Dorsey 1856 10 29), George (1830 04 16 VA, USA - 1895 02 03 Galveston TX, USA, m. Eleanor Sophia Wallace, 1856 04 03 TX, USA), Virginia (1833 12 12-1920 10 11), Eliza Ida Oswald (1836 08 10-1885 12 16), James Murray (1839 08 24 Winchester VA, USA - 1923 01 10, m. Eliza Hill 1863 01 12) and John A. (1841 11 17-1925 06 06 Leesburg, Loudon Co., VA, USA, m. Fanny Edward Fox, 1888 08 15).

Buried with her husband at Christ Church, Arlington Co., VA, USA.

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James Murray Mason
1798 11 03-1871 04 28

Son of John Mason and Ann Maria Murray.

1820: Moved to Winchester VA to start law practice.

1826: Represented Frederick Co. in VA House of Delegates.

1845: Congressman.

1847: Senator.

13641


m. 1822 07 25 Germantown, PA, USA
Henry Banning Chew

*1800 12 11
+1866 12 12

Information gathered by RFU 14107 from www.cliveden.org 1998 05 25, no longer posted there.

13643

Harriet Ridgely
1802-1835

From RFU 14107 via TLC 13551. Daughter of Charles Ridgely

13644


m. 1822 05 14
Catherine Chew

13648

Priscilla Ridgely Chew

13650

Charles Ridgely Chew

13651 >1:1

Benjamin Chew

13657

Benjamin Chew

13659

Samuel Chew

13661 >13:2

Achsal Carroll Chew

13697

Henry Banning Chew

13699

Elizabeth Ann Ralston
-1862

13646


m. 1839 03 20
William White Chew
Secretary to the American Legation to Russia

*1803 04 12
+1851 11 12

13701

Ann Sophia Penn Chew

*1805 03 18
+1892 05 09

1880: Listed in Philadelphia PA, USA census p. 478A together with a vast number of relations.

RLC 14093 gives name as Anna Sophia Penn Chew, says that she died unmarried and was listed in the 1850 census of Germantown, PA, USA.

13704

Joseph Turner Chew

*1806 12 12
+1835

13705

Anthony Banning Chew

*1809 01 24 Philadelphia, PA, USA
+1854 02

From RLC 14093.

13707

Catherine Maria Chew

*1811 05 12 Philadelphia, PA, USA
+1811 10 26

From RLC 14093.

13710

Oswald Chew

*1813 05 23
+1824 06 08 Schuylkill River

Drowned.

13713

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