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Samuel Chew (October 30, 1693 – June 16, 1743) was a physician who served as chief justice of colonial Delaware . Life. Samuel married Mary Galloway in 1715, and their son Benjamin Chew was later Chief Justice of Pennsylvania . His first wife died in 1734, and he married Mary Paca Galloway in 1736.
In 1660-1718, Samuel Chew, Jr. acquired the tract called Poppinjay. He represented Anne Arundel Co. in the Maryland Assembly in 1661 (Md. Arch., I. 396), was High Sheriff of the county in 1663 (ibid., III.481), and was one of its justices in 1665 and 1668 (ibid., III.534; V.30).
Chief Justice Benjamin Chew (1722-1810) was the only surviving son of Dr. Samuel Chew and his first wife, Mary Galloway. Born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, he would eventually serve as recorder of Philadelphia, attorney general, recorder-general, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania under the colonial government. After the
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The speech of Samuel Chew, Esq; Chief Justice ... delivered from the bench to the grand-jury of the county of New Castle, Nov. 21, 1741, and now published at...
Benjamin Chew became associated with the William Penn family in the early 1730s and later served as its representative in legal matters for the “Three Lower Counties,” now Delaware. With the Penn family’s encouragement and support, young Benjamin Chew moved to Philadelphia around 1736 to begin his study of the law, the first step in a ...
Benjamin Chew (November 19, 1722 – January 20, 1810) was a fifth-generation American, a Quaker -born legal scholar, prominent and successful Philadelphia lawyer, slaveowner, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Province of Pennsylvania and later the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Chew was known for precision and brevity in his legal ...
Samuel Chew (October 30, 1693 – June 16, 1743) was a physician who served as chief justice of colonial Delaware.
