File:The magazine of American history with notes and queries (1877) (14582709887).jpg

Identifier: magazineofamericv4stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
Subjects:
Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
cestor, John Chew : He was settled in Virginia in 164^ atwhich time Sir William Berkeley was Governor of that colony, and hada particular regard for hini, as I find from some papers I have seen.The family afterwards removed to Maryland, from whence the Chewsin that province and those in Philadelphia are descended. The writerof this letter, being a Tory, became, after the revolution, a citizen f^iMontrerd, and was in the Indian Bureau with Sir William Johnson.His name is am(mg the signatures to the Indian treaty, now at Indepen-dence Hail. He was a great-grandson of Joseph, second son 01 John andSarah Chew, whose grandson, Thomas Chew, married a daughter ofColonel James Taylor of Virginia, and lived in that province. AhceChew, a daughter of this union, married l^er cousin, Zachary Taylor,and settled in Kentuckv- Her g -andson, General Zachary Taylor, wasthe distinguished soldier of the Florida and Mexican wars, and Presidentof the United States. Another daughter of Colonel James Taylor
Text Appearing After Image:
THE CHEWS OF PENNSYLVANIA I93 married Ambrose Madison, and was the grandmother of PresidentMadison. John Chew, the founder of the family in America, is saidto have been a cadet of the Chews of Chewton, in Somersetshire,England. He is styled in a Virginia land-grant of the year 1623, John Chew,merchant. Neills history of the Virginia Company of London containsa curious petition of the General Assembly of the company, in the year1622, that the people should not be again placed under the crewellyoke of Sir Thomas C. Smiths government. In the list of signaturesthe name of John Chew follows that of John Ute, who came over fromEngland about the same time as the Chews in the Francis Bona-ventura, and probably accompanied them to Maryland, as the will ofone of their descendants, John Chew, batchelor, bequeaths, in 1696, to Mary Utie, widdow, Baltimore County, one dozen calves leatherchairs, and four pounds sterling of money. In the Land Office Records of Virginia is a quaint old deed of theye

Note About Images