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Miscellaneous Tax/Will/Deed Records for Larkin/Joseph/John/Mary/Sarah Chew
Posted by: Marcia McKee (ID *****7238) Date: May 09, 2008 at 08:47:18
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I found this information in several books in the library and wanted to post in case it can help someone else.

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Virginia Will Records
From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly and Tyler’s Quarterly
Genealogical Publishing Co. 1982

Records extracted from “Extracts from records of Caroline County, VMHB, XX (1912), 202-205, 318-320, 422-425.

Page 68

13-June-1734. Zachary Lewis, Gent., qualified as attorney action for dower by Hannah Chew, relict of Larkin Chew, deceased, vs. Thomas Buckner, Gent.

*Notes from the Records of York County

Page 507

John Chew’s deed for Rachel Constable, whom he intends to make his wife. Wtn. Tho. Bushrod, Nicholas Betts, Rich Gorsar.

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Virginia Tax Records
From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly and Tyler’s Quarterly
Genealogical Publishing Co. 1982

Page 507
Chew, Larkin       300 Acres

I also have a notation for page 64 but am not positive that this is the correct publication. The note was: Larkin Chew, died in Spotsylvania County, 1729, md. Hannah Roy (d. 1743).

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Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Vol. I by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
© 1915, Reprint 1998 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 97-77441

Page 208

Chew, John, said to have been from Somersetshire, England, came to Virginia in 1620 and was one of the leading merchants. In 1625 he had a lot ion Jamestown. He was burgess for Hog Island in 1623, 1624 and 1629. Afterward he moved to York County and was burgess for that county in 1642, 1643 and 1644. About 1649 removed to Maryland and settled in Ann Arundel County. Ancestor of Chief Justice Benjamin Chew of Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Chew, Larkin, son of Joseph Chew of Maryland and grandson of John Chew, the immigrant to Virginia, settled in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and was a justice of that county in 1722, sheriff in 1727 and burgess for Spotsylvania County from 1723 – 1726. He married Hannah Roy and left issue.

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Early Families Along the James River
James City County – Surrey County, Virginia
Vol. II
Compiled by Louise Pledge Heath Foley
© 1990 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 90-82761

Page 24

John Chew, Gent., 350 asc. James City Co. 22 Feb. 1638, p 616. E. upon a Cr, next to the Gleab land and S.E. upon the Maine Cr., &c. Due by assignment from Alexander Stomer.

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I again did not make a note of which publication the following information is located.

A List of Tithables in my Precinct [Henry Rice, Constable]

Page 296
Larkin Chew       5

Page 351
Slave Owners in Spotsylvania Co., VA
Mary Chew       9
Jos. Chew       3

Page 361

A list of Tythables taken by me (I apologize for not noting the name of the Constable)

Subscribed ye 10th June 1668
Thos. Chew and Tho. Wicks       02


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