Samuel Chew (justice)
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Samuel Chew ( – ) was a physician who served as chief justice of colonial
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Life

Samuel was the third of a line of sons to bear the name. Samuel (III) was the son of Samuel Chew (II) who married Henrietta Maria Lloyd with later relation to
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. The first Samuel (I) "of Herrington" was the son of John Chew, a burgess who emigrated to Virginia in 1622 aboard the '' Seaflower''. Samuel married Mary Galloway in 1715, and their son
Benjamin Chew Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...
was later Chief Justice of
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. His first wife died in 1734, and he married Mary Paca Galloway in 1736. Originally he lived on his family's estate of
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in
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. The manor house still stands although, since borders have changed, it is now in
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. In 1738, he moved to build an estate known as Whitehall in
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. Pennsylvania Governor John Penn appointed him Chief Justice of the lower counties (or Delaware) in 1741. Chew was influential among the
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s, but provoked criticism by an address to the grand jury of
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on the lawfulness of resistance to an armed enemy (printed 1741, reprinted in 1775).


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The Maidstone Manor's history

Biography at Virtualology.com
(based on older edition of Appletons' — 1891?) 1693 births 1743 deaths Chew family Chief justices of Delaware People from colonial Delaware 18th-century American physicians People from Anne Arundel County, Maryland People from Kent County, Delaware {{Delaware-state-judge-stub