Genealogical Record: Abigail Hortense (Abby) Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Abigail Hortense (Abby) Chew

*1823 CT, USA

From LDS AFN W054-8C, which lists children: Hortense Hallam (b. 1843), Louisa Walker (b. 1845), Elizabeth Chew [Swift] (b. 1847), Alexander Joseph, Lawrence Chew [Swift] (b. 1852), Thomas Delano (b. 1854 02 10), Jonathan Williams (1856-1862), Josephine Richards (b. 1859), Robert Hallam (1863-1865) and Mary Lewis (b. 1865).

EMM 14525 lists birth year as 1822.

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Thomas John Chew
Naval officer

*1777 01 28 New Haven, CT, USA
+1846

1790-1832: served in U.S. Navy.

1812 04 25: Commissioned Purser.

1813 06 01: captured aboard the USS "Chesapeake" by the HMS "Shannon", held Captain James Lawrence in his arms as he spoke his dying words, "Don't give up the ship" (now the USN motto).

1819: Purser aboard the 74-gun "Washington".

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Samuel Chew

*1743 Virginia
+1778 03 04 Connecticut

Commissioned in U.S. Navy 1777 06 17, died in action in Revolutionary War, commanding the Resistance against a British privateer off Boston. The USS Chew (DD 106, 1918-45) was named for him.

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Thomas Chew
1698-1782
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Larkin Chew
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Hannah Roy
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Martha Thompson Taylor
1701/02 01 27-1762 11 19
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James Taylor
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Martha Thompson
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Lucy Miller

*1750?

Daughter of a Captain Miller.

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Abby Hortense Hallam

*1777-1785

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McKee Swift

*1819 04 15
+1842 09 15

From LDS AFN W054-76, which lists parents Joseph Gardner Swift and Louisa Margaret Walker.

TLC 13551 and EMM 14525 give name as McCree Swift.

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m. 1842 09 15

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