Genealogical Record: Maria Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Maria Chew

*1771 12 22 Pennsylvania
+1840 03 27

13726

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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