Genealogical Record: Sophia Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Sophia Chew

*1769 11 13 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
+1848 03 08

13724

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
Henry Philips

*1767 Bank Hall, Heaton Norris, near Manchester GBR
+1800

From NH 100335, who says that he was the third of his parents' 13 children, three of whom died in infancy.

13725 <8:4


m. 1796 10 03 Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Henrietta Philips

From NH 100335, who says she was an only child, and has no record of any children that she may have had.

100346

J. C. Montgomery

From NH 100335, who says he was from Eglinton, NY, USA.

100347

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