Genealogical Record: Samuel Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
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

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.

10307 <2379:15

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
1525-1599 09 03
11605
Richard Chewe
11607 >13:13
Elena
11608
Ana Chatburne
1525-
11606
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Anne Broddyll

*1555 Whalley Parish, Lancashire ENG

11604 <2385:16

John Broddyll
11807
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Sarah Bond/Gale

*1600 Virginia
+1651

10308 <2379:15

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SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Ann(e) Ayres

*1635 Nansemond, Virginia
+1695 04 13 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

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

11776 <2:1

Samuel Chew
Merchant

*1660 Herring Bay, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
+1718 10 10 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

His will, dated 1718 07 16 and probated 1718 10 31 survies (Annapolis, Liber 14, folio 669).

11819

Ann Taylor
1661-1702 04 04

11820


m. 1682 04 14 Maryland
Samuel Chew

11829 >100:9

Ann Chew

11832

John Chew

11833 >96:10

Joseph Chew

11835

Benjamin Chew

11837

Nathaniel Chew

11839 >152:10

Joseph Chew

11841 >3:1

Elizabeth Sparrow
1680-1709/10 02 27

No children.

11822


m. 1704 06 29
Sarah Chew

*1662 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
+1740 05 12 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

11842

Edward Burgess
1655 08 29-1722/23 03 04

Date of birth from JH 18295.

LAM 15470: father's name was William.

Some sources give year of birth as 1651.

11843


m. 1685/86 01 24 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
William Burgess

11845

Anne Burgess

11846

Edward Burgess

11849

Elizabeth Burgess

11852

Sarah Chew Burgess

11854

John Burgess

11857

Samuel Burgess

11861

Margaret Burgess

11864

Susanna Burgess

11866

Joseph Chew

*aft. 1662
+1704/05 02 01 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

Maryland Historical Magazine Vol 1 975.2 M369 V.1 p. 258: inherited 450 acres of land called "Sanetley", will probated 1705 06 07, some lands bequeathed to stepson Samuel.

11869

Elizabeth Hanslap
1670-1716 05 27?

Maryland Genealogies 975.2 M369 V.1: will probated 1716 05 27, buried in Herring Creek graveyard.

11872

Joseph Chew

11877 >101:8

Henry Chew

11881 >17:4

Mary Smith
1665-1714/15 02 12

11870


m. 1685 11 17
Nathaniel Chew

*1666
+aft. 1695/96 02 20

Inherited 500-acre "Poppinjay" in Calvert Co., Maryland.

11919

William Chew

*1671 04 12 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
+1709/10 02 28 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

longislandgenealogy.com lists additional children: Sarah (b. 1695?), Phinehas (b. 1697?), Mary (b. 1699?), Henrietta (1701?).

11923

Sydney Wynne
1666-1709

Death information from BT 18190, who gives birth in 1664 in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Wales.

11924 <18:9


m. 1690 12 20 Home of William Richardson, West River, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
Elizabeth Chew

11930

Margaret Chew

12446 >9:8

Sydney Chew

12448

William Chew

12451

Johanna Chew

12452

Benjamin Chew

12453 >108:9

Anne Chew

12456 >9:8

Benjamin Chew

*1671 04 12 Anne Arundel Co., MD
+1699/00 03 03 Anne Arundel Co., MD

RLC 14093: lived at Maidstone.

11925

Elizabeth Benson
1677-1725

Daughter of John Benson of Calvert Co., Maryland and Elizabeth Smith.

11926


m. 1692 12 08
Samuel Chew

12075 >64:6

Elizabeth Benson Chew

12526

Ann Chew

12528

Mary Chew

12530

Caleb Chew

*1672 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
+1698 05 08 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

11927

Anne Chew

*1672 Anne Arundel Co., Maryland

Not the same person as her sister Anne 11928. From RLN 15963 and other sources.

14096

John Chew

*1672 04 08
+1695/96 02 17

Some sources give dates as 1668-1696/97.

RLC 14093 thinks it unlikely that he married or had issue, as there is no mention of a wife in his will. One source lists a wife, Elizabeth Harrison, but this may be confusion with JC 11833 and EH 11834.

11921

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11922

Anne Chew

*1675 Herring Creek, Anne Arundel Co., Maryland
+1699/00 01 28

11928

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