Genealogical Record: John Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
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 Whalley Parish, Lancashire ENG
+aft. 1639/40 01 16? Bewdley, Worcestershire ENG

1552: Christening recorded in parish register.

1575: Likely the John Chewe who inherited twenty pounds from his father-in-law John Broddyll in a will dated this year.

Listed erroneously in some sources as Joseph Chew.

One IGI record suggests that his parents were RC 15991 and E 15992 instead.

11603 <2385:16

Robert Chewe

*1525 Whalley Parish, Lancashire ENG
+1599 09 03 Billington, Lancashire ENG

1546: Marriage recorded in parish register.

1575: Received a bequest from John Broddyll 11807 in a will dated this year.

1599: death recorded in parish register. Gives father's name as Edward, which casts extreme doubt on lineage as hypothesized by RLC 14093.

geni.com gives full name as Robert Morris Chew.

11605

Richard Chewe
1500-1560/61 02 13
11607
William Chewe
11609 >12:12
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Elena
11608
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Ana Chatburne

*1525

One AWT source gives birth as 1529, "Lancaster".

11606

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Anne Broddyll

*1555 Whalley Parish, Lancashire ENG

11604 <2385:16

John Broddyll

Will dated 1575.

11807

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SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Sarah Bond/Gale

*1600 Virginia
+1651

10308


m. 1616/1620
John Chew

*1616 Whalley, Lancashire ENG
+1672 Flushing, Long Island

1623: Sailed with his mother and servants on the "Seaflower", to join his father in Jamestown, Virginia.

1644: Was sent with brother Nathaniel to New England in pursuit of three runaway servants. Met and married Ann.

1650-1666: Migrated with other English colonists to Long Island to found the first English settlement near Hempstead, had a 100-acre farm at Flushing.

Head of New Jersey branch of Chew family.

11767

Ann Gates
1620-

11770 <5:2


m. 1640 Hingham, Massachusetts
Richard Chew

11957 >1052:13

Benjamin Chew

11959

Margaret Gale

11768

Nathaniel Chew

*1620

1644: Searched for father's runaway servants in New England.

1653 06 27: witness for Capt. Underhill, capture of Dutch "House of Good Hope", Hartford, CT.

11771

Jonathan Chew

*1622

11773

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.

11775

Ann(e) Ayres
1635-1695 04 13

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

11776 <2:1

Samuel Chew

11819 >358:11

Sarah Chew

11842 >9:1

Joseph Chew

11869 >120:9

Nathaniel Chew

11919

William Chew

11923 >133:10

Benjamin Chew

11925 >68:7

Caleb Chew

11927

Anne Chew

14096

John Chew

11921

Anne Chew

11928

Joseph Chew

*1637 Jamestown, James City, Virginia
+1715/16 02 12 Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland

Head of Virginia branch of Chew family.

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Ruth Larkin
1637-1728

Named in son's will as Ruth Green, may have remarried?

10304 <2:1


m. 1670~1674
Larkin Chew

10301 >620:11

Joseph Chew

11805

Margaret
1630-

11764


m. 1669 12 27
Rachel Constable

11806

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