| 词条 | Samuel Chew (justice) |
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Samuel Chew (October 30, 1693 – June 16, 1743) was a physician who served as Chief Justice of colonial Delaware. LifeSamuel 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. Originally he lived on his family's estate of Maidstone in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The manor house still stands although, since borders have changed, it is now in Calvert County, Maryland.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} In 1738, he moved to build an estate known as Whitehall in Kent County, Delaware. Pennsylvania Governor John Penn appointed him Chief Justice of the lower counties (or Delaware) in 1741.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} He was influential among the Quakers, but provoked criticism by an address to the grand jury of Newcastle on the lawfulness of resistance to an armed enemy (printed 1741, reprinted in 1775).{{sfn|Wilson & Fiske|1900}} NotesAttribution
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