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Benjamin Chew was called to the Governor's Council in the period of wild excitement caused by the news of Indian massacres following Braddock's defeat. He was one of those added on the 2nd of Novem- ber, 1755, and he served at the Board until the Revolutionary War overturned its authority. He presided as Speaker over the Assembly of the Lower Counties in 1756, and, had the satisfaction of finding that body prompt in granting supplies. The Assembly further up the River maintained continual opposition to the Governor and the Pro- prietary family : and in the controversies Chew took an active part, very much as the Penns' legal adviser. During his term of office as Attorney-General, Recorder, and Member of the Council, the Colony was of such size that his duties were far from light. In 1760, Penn- sylvania had about the present population of Rhode Island with settle- ments as far inland as the Alleghanies ; and it was no little responsi-
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bility to be the law officer for the chief city and public prosecutor for the eight extensive counties, and member of the Governor's Cabinet. In 1765, in addition to all this, he was made Register-General of the Province, having charge of the probate business of Philadelphia County, while the Registers of Bucks, Chester, New Castle, &ct., were his deputies. The duties of the Philadelphia office he performed in person without an assistant. He was paid in fees, 12s. for granting letters of administration, 15s. for probate of a will, with some minor charges. After his resignation of the Attorney-Generalship, he became more actively engaged in private practice. Philadelphia was then the largest city on the Continent and the centre of extensive trade. The struggle between the Proprietary and the Quaker factions had devel- oped political talents, and the question of the "Stamp Act," "Tea Act," &ct. brought at least one name-that of John Dickinson-into trans-Atlantic eminence. In such a time, when, too, science had been carried forward by Logan and Bartram, and later by Franklin and Rittenhouse, and two Libraries, a Philosophical Society, and a College were affording opportunities for culture, great men arose in the juridi- cal forum, to quote Viner, Bulstrode, Siderfin, &ct. whom they had studied at the Inns in Westminster, or to reason out principles for a jurisprudence better adapted to a young nation. There is a MS. book of reports which gives us some cases of that time, now known to the bar through the first volume of Dallas, and shows us Chew and Tilgh- man generally contending against Galloway, Waln (afterwards Quaker preacher), and Dickinson. The reporter says in noting Haldane vs. Duffield, April Term, 1768, " The remainder of Mr. Chew's argument I did not hear nor did I wait Mr. Dickinson and Mr. Tilghman's conclusion, this case having continued twelve hours." Chew was one of the Commissioners appointed by the Assembly in 1761 to expend the money it had voted for putting Philadelphia in a state of defence, war with Spain being anticipated. He was also one of the Commis- sioners for settling the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, under whose superintendence was run the celebrated Mason & Dixon's Line.
The resignation of William Allen in 1774 made vacant the Chief Justiceship of the Supreme Court. Chew was appointed his successor on the 29th of April. This new dignity required him to lay down the Recordership, and also indeed imposed undeserved sufferings upon him during the civil war which came so soon afterwards-sufferings which were merely the result of his political importance, and not designed as
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punishment for obnoxious acts. The people had no complaint to make against him before Independence was determined upon, and but little afterwards. He signed the Non-Importation Agreement of 1763. Like Richard Penn, he hospitably entertained the members of the Continental Congress which assembled in Philadelphia in September, 1774. Washington, then the hero of the French and Indian War, and John Adams both mention dining with him on the 22nd of that month. Adams's diary says: "22 Thursday. Dined with Mr. Chew Chief Justice of the Province with all the gentlemen from Vir- ginia, Dr. Shippen, Mr. Tilghman, and many others. We were shown into a grand entry and staircase and into an elegant and magnificent chamber until dinner. About 4 o'clock we were called down to din- ner. The furniture was all rich. Turtle & every other thing, flum- mery, jellies, sweetmeats, of 20 sorts, trifles, whipped sillabubs, float- ing islands, fools, &ct., & then a dessert of fruits, raisins, almonds, pears, peaches. Wines most excellent & admirable. I drank Madeira at a great rate, & found no inconvenience in it." An anecdote by Miers Fisher makes Chief Justice Chew use the language of the strong- est Whigs in charging the Grand Jury at the last session of the Su- preme Court under Royal authority. He was defining the crimes of which it was their duty to present indictments, and had laid down the law of High Treason, when one of the jurors asked what was to be- come of them, opposing the arbitrary acts of the British Ministry. The Chief Justice immediately resumed, "I have stated * * * but in the moment when the King or his Ministers shall exceed the constitutional authority vested in them by the Constitution submission to their mandate becomes Treason." By the Declaration of Independ- ence, all Chew's official positions fell with the Royal authority from which they were derived. No provision, however, being made by the new government for the probate of wills and granting of letters of ad- ministration, Chew continued to act as Register-General, and his depu- ties in the various counties continued to perform their duties, until the Legislature by Act of March 14, 1777, provided for the appointment of a Register of Wills in each county. The year following, an Act was passed validating and confirming what had been done by Chew and his deputies, as having been necessary for the public good. On July 31, 1777, the prospects of the American cause being very gloomy, the Continental Congress recommended to the government of Pennsyl- vania forthwith to make prisoners of such of the late Crown and Pro- prietary officers and such other persons in and near Philadelphia as
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were disaffected or might be dangerous to the public liberty, and send them back into the country, there to be confined or enlarged on parole as their characters and behavior might require. Accordingly, a war- rant was made out for the apprehension of Chew among others. Two members of the City Troop charged with this duty made the arrest on August 6th. He was allowed to remain a prisoner in his own house. On August 12, some of the Troop reported that the arrest had been made, and that the Hon. John Penn, who had also been secured, and Benjamin Chew, Esq., would be at the house of Mr. Allen that day at 12 noon. Chew refused to sign a parole, but afterwards communi- cated to the Revolutionary authorities through Dr. Ewing an explana- tion that he desired the warrant to specify the cause of his arrest, so as to show that he was charged with no crime, but was arrested as an officer of the late government. The Supreme Executive Council had intended sending him to Fredericksburg, Va., and had applied to Congress for a guard to escort Messrs. Penn and Chew thither. Finally, however, a parole was signed by Chew agreeing to repair to the Union Iron Works, partly owned by his wife's uncle, and there remain until otherwise ordered, and meanwhile give no aid or comfort to the enemy. Penn and Chew resided at the Works throughout the next ten months, although after the British had taken Philadelphia, a proposition was made to permit their return to the City. The danger from their being at liberty was over, and no overt act could be alleged against them to justify enforced exile from their homes, and that, moreover, in the season of Winter. Finally, on May 15, 1778, Con- gress resolved that they be conveyed without delay into the state of Pennsylvania, and there discharged from their parole. On June 29th, Major Stout, appointed for that purpose by Gov. Livingston of New Jersey, in pursuance of the resolution of Congress removed Chew from the Union Iron Works to Pennsylvania. Crossing the Delaware, they landed at the house of Henry Lot in Bucks Co. at 7 o'clock in the evening. Chew made his way to Philadelphia, which the British had by this time evacuated, and remained quiet during the rest of the war. At the battle of Germantown, his country-house had been occupied by a detachment of British troops, who found it a sufficient stronghold to resist the cannonading of the Americans ; but its doors and windows. were shattered, and its floors stained with blood. In the Fall of 1779, Chew sold the property to Blair McClenachan for 2500l., repurchas- ing it, however, for 8500l. in April, 1797. After the departure of John Penn for England, Chew with Tench Francis (see Shippen) was
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attorney for the Penns, and as such received the money voted to them in exchange for the quit-rents.
By two commissions dated respectively the 3rd and 4th day of October, 1791, Chew was appointed Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals of Pennsylvania. He held this position until the abolition of the Court in 1808.
He d. at his house on Third St. Jany. 20, 1810, and was bu. in St. Peter's Church-yard. He m., 1st, June 13, 1747 Mary, dau. of John Galloway by his w. Mary Thomas. She d. Nov. 9, 1755, aged 26 yrs., bu. Xt. Ch. He m., 2nd, Sep. 12, 1757 Elizabeth, bapt. Xt. Ch. Oct. 6, 1735 aged 3 yrs. 5 mos., dau. of James Oswald by his w. Mary, sister of Joseph Turner the Councillor. Mrs. Chew d. May, 1819.
Issue by 1st wife :
MARY, b. March 10, 1747-8, m. Alexander Wilcocks, see below,
ANNA MARIA, b. Nov. 27, 1749 ; d. unm. in Maryland Nov. -, 1812,
ELIZABETH, b. Sep. 10, 1751, m. Edward Tilghman, see p. 336,
SARAH, b. Nov. 15, 1753, m. John Galloway, see p. 339,
HENRIETTA, b. Sep., 1755, d. y. June, 1756,
Issue by 2nd wife :
BENJAMIN, b. Sept. 30, 1758, m. Katherine Banning, see p. 340,
PEGGY OSWALD, b. Dec. 17, 1760, m. John E. Howard, see p. 343,
JOSEPH, b. March 9, 1763, d. y. Sep., 1764,
JULIANNA, b. April 8, 1765, m. Philip Nicklin, see p. 351,
HENRIETTA, b. Aug. 15, 1767, d. unm. March 8, 1848, SOPHIA, b. Nov. 13, 1769, m. Henry Phillips, see p. 355, MARIA, b. Dec. 22, 1771, d. unm. March 27, 1840,
HARRIET, b. Oct. 22, 1775, m. Charles Carroll, see p. 357, CATHERINE, b. May 3, 1779, d. unm. May 28, 1831.
MARY CHEW, b. Mch. 10, 1747-8, dau. of the Councillor, d. July 22, 1794, m. May 18, 1768, Alexander Wilcocks, s. of John Wilcocks by his w. Elizabeth, dau. of Alexander Wooddrop, Common Council- man of Phila. Alexander Wilcocks graduated at the College of Phila. in 1761, and studied law. On Mch. 4, 1774, he was appointed by
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Gov. John Penn one of the Justices for Phila. Co. He was one of those added in October, 1775 to the Committee of Safety. After the Revolution he was Recorder of Philadelphia, holding that office until his death. He died July 22, 1801, and was bu. with his wife at St. Peter's.
Issue (surname WILCOCKS) :
JOHN, b. Dec. 25, 1769, d. y.,
MARY, b. Oct. 5, 1771, d. y.,
ELIZABETH, b. July 9, 1773, d. y.,
ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 27, 1774, d. unm. March 11, 1864, BENJAMIN CHEW, b. Dec. 13, 1776, m. Sarah Waln, see below, ANN, b. Nov. 13, 1781, m. Joseph R. Ingersoll, see below, MARY, b. Jany. 2, 1784, m. Charles J. Ingersoll, see p. 333, SAMUEL, b. Mch. 1, 1786, m. Harriet Manigault, see p. 335.
BENJAMIN CHEW WILCOCKS, b. Dec. 13, 1776, gr'dson of the Councillor, as above, resided in Phila., d. Dec. 1, 1845, m. Phila. Oct. 10, 1842, Sarah, dau. of William Waln by his wife Mary, dau. of John Wilcocks, who was uncle of Benj. C. Wilcocks.
Issue (surname WILCOCKS) :
MARY WALN, m. Alexander Dallas Campbell, of the Phila. bar,
Issue (surname Campbell) : Helen, Elizabeth Mason,
HELEN JULIA, d. s. p. May 5, 1868, m. Chandler Robbins, of N. Y.
ANN WILCOCKS, b. Nov. 13, 1781, grddau. of the Councillor, as above, d. May 28, 1831, m. Phila. Sept. 22, 1813, Joseph Reed Ingersoll (brother of Charles J. Ingersoll who married her sister, see below), b. June 14, 1786, grad. A. B. (Princ.) 1804, and studied law, was admitted to practice in the Supreme Ct. of Penna. Mch. 20, 1809, publishing in that year a translation of Roccus's tracts De Navibus et Naulo and De Assecuratione, and afterwards rising to the front rank in his profession. He was a trustee for various estates and senior counsel for the City of Phila. in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Al- burger, which vindicated the City's title to the public squares. He was Member of Congress from 1835 to 1837 and also from 1842 to 1849, and was some time Chmn. of the Judiciary Comm. of the House.
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On Aug. 21, 1852, he was appointed U. S. Minister to the Court of St. James. He was Pres. of the Amer. Philos. Soc., of the Academy of Fine Arts at Phila., and of the Hist. Soc. of Penna., delivering before the latter a Memoir of Samuel Breck, which has been printed. He d. Phila. Feb. 20, 1868, and was bu. with his wife and children, at St. Peter's.
Issue (surname INGERSOLL) :
JAMES, b. Oct. 7, 1814, d. y. Jany. 17, 1820,
MARY WILCOCKS, b. Feb. 2, 1816, d. unm. Jany. 30, 1842, JOSEPH, b. Sept. 28, 1823, d. inf. Jany. 27, 1825.
MARY WILCOCKS, b. Jany. 2, 1784, see preceding page, grddau. of the Councillor, d. Aug. - , 1862, bu. Woodlands, m. Oct. 18, 1804, Charles Jared Ingersoll, gr'dson of Jared Ingersoll of Conn., Agent of that Colony in London, and Commissary of the Admiralty for Penn- sylvania and other Provinces, whose son Jared Ingersoll, LL.D., the father of Charles J. Ingersoll, practised law in Phila., was a member of the Continental Congress, Attorney-General of Penna., and Judge of U. S. District Court as also the Federal candidate for Vice Presi- dent of the United States in 1812, and m. 1st Presbyt. Dec. 6, 1781 Elizabeth, dau. of Charles Pettit of Phila., merchant, Secretary of the Province of New Jersey under Gov. William Franklin, and a Mem- ber of the Continental Congress. Charles J. Ingersoll was b. in Phila. Oct. 3, 1782. He received a liberal education, and in early life wrote a poem entitled " Cheomora," published in 1800 in the Portfolio, and a tragedy in 5 acts, "Edwy and Elgiva," which appeared in 1801, also "Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters on American Literature and Politics," published in 1810. He was admitted to the bar, and prac- tised law in Phila. He was Member of Congress from 1813 to 1815, and U. S. District Attorney for Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1829. He was again in Congress from 1841 to 1847, serving as Chmn. of the Comm. on Foreign Affairs. In the latter year President Polk nomi- nated him as Minister to France, but the Senate failed to confirm the appointment. He wrote a "History of the Second American War with Great Britain." He d. Phila. May 14, 1862, bu. Woodlands. Issue (surname INGERSOLL) :
CHARLES, grad. A. B. (U. of P.) 1822, of Phila., attorney-at- law, author of " Fears for Democracy," m. Susan Catherine, dau. of Gen. Brown, of Tenn.,
Issue (surname Ingersoll) :
E
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Frances Maria, d. y. Mch. 18, 1846,
Adele Catherine, m. John Moylan Thomas of Phila., attorney-at-law, Issue (surname Thomas) : Helen Ringgold, Charles Ingersoll, d. y. Mch. 6, 1882, Mary Georgina Lee,
Ann Wilcocks, m. James Howell Hutchinson, M. D., see Shippen,
Elizabeth Wilcocks, m. Arthur Amory of N. Y., mer- chant,
Issue (surname Amory) : Arthur, Ingersoll, Susan Ingersoll,
Ethel, Sullivan,
Katherine Margaret Preston, d. Apr. 1, 1879, m. Fran- cis Fontaine Maury, M. D., Prof. in Jefferson Med. College, surgeon of First City Troop, d. June 4, 1879, Issue (surname Maury) : Charles Ingersoll, Francis Fontaine,
ALEXANDER WILCOCKS, grad. A. B. (U. of P.) 1824,
HARRY, of Phila., m. Sarah E. Roberts,
Issue (surname Ingersoll) :
George Roberts, grad. A. B. (U. of P.) 1855, d. s. p. Aug. 29, 1855,
JOHN, d. Sept., 1859, m., 1st, Margaretta Smith and, 2nd, Sarah (Starr) Griffin,
Issue by 1st wife (surname Ingersoll) :
Charles,
William Kelty,
Helen, m. L. Saunders King of Mo.,
Issue by 2nd wife (surname Ingersoll) :
Mary, d. y. 1865, Caroline Grayson,
BENJAMIN WILCOCKS, grad. A. B. (U. of P.) 1831, d. unm. Rome, Italy, Jany., 1859,
ELIZABETH, d. May 27, 1872, m. Sydney George Fisher of Phila., see LOGAN,
EDWARD, grad. A. B. (U. of P.) 1835, of Phila., attorney-at- law, m. Anna C. Warren, of Troy, N. Y.,
Issue (surname Ingersoll) :
Stephen Warren, of Phila.,
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Mary Wilcocks,
Phoebe Warren, m. her cousin Harry W. McCall, see next page,
Anna Warren, m. Chas. Morton Smith, see Logan,
Charles Edward, grad. A. B. (U. of P. 1882),
Henry Mckean, grad. A. B. (U. of P. 1882), Jane Hobart,
ANN WILCOCKS, d. Dec. 30, 1856, m. John Forsyth Meigs of Phila., M. D., son of Charles D. Meigs, M. D., by his wife Mary Montgomery,
Issue (surname Meigs) :
Emily, d. y.
Harry Ingersoll, grad. A. B. (U. of P.), studied law, now Rector of St. Thomas's, Whitemarsh, Pa.,
John Forsyth, Lieut. U. S. N., m. Jane Perry Rodgers, Arthur Vincent, grad. A. B. and M. D. (U. of P.), now physician in Phila., m. Mary R., dau. of Edward Browning of Phila., Issue (surname Meigs) : Edward Browning, John Forsyth,
William Montgomery, grad. A. B. and M. D. (U. of P.), now of the Phila. bar, Alexander Wilcocks, Ann Ingersoll, Mary Hope, d. inf., SAMUEL, d. inf. Feb. 23, 1827.
SAMUEL WILCOCKS, b. Mch. 1, 1786, see p. 332, gr'dson of the Councillor, grad. A. B. (U. of P.), was of Phila., atty .- at-law, d. Mch. 22, 1824, bu. St. Peter's, m. Harriet Manigault, b. Dec. 25, 1793, d. Apr. 30, 1835, dau. of Gabriel Manigault of South Carolina by his wife Margaret Izard.
Issue (surname WILCOCKS) :
ALEXANDER, of Phila., M. D., author of dissertations on vari- ous scientific subjects, and Pres. of the Philadelphia Club, d. Nov. 10, 1880,
MARY MARGARET, m. Kirk B. Wells of Phila., merchant,
BENJAMIN CHEW, d. y. Nov. 10, 1838,
CHARLOTTE MANIGAULT, d. Trouville, France, May 21, 1875, m. Harry McCall,
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Issue (surname McCall) : Margaret, m. Count Alphonse de Diessbach of Austria, Issue (surname de Diessbach) : Ladislas Alphonse, Alice de Lancey, d. inf., Harry Wilcocks, m. his cousin Phoebe W. Ingersoll, SAMUEL, d. inf. June 13, 1824.
ELIZABETH CHEW, b. Sep. 10, 1751, dau. of the Councillor, d. Apr. 4, 1842, bu. Xt. Ch. m. May 26, 1774 Edward Tilghman, b. at Wye, Maryland, Dec. 11, 1750, son of Col. Edward Tilghman of Wye by his 2nd w. Elizabeth, sister of Benjamin Chew the Council- lor. The Edward Tilghman who married the Councillor's daughter grad. at the College of Phila. in 1767, studied law at the Middle Tem- ple in London, and, returning to Philadelphia in the early part of 1774, was admitted to practise before the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania in April of that year. "He was a talented advocate," says Blake's Biog. Dict., "always familiar with the facts and the law relat- ing to his cases, highly accomplished in the use of language, a clear- headed logician, fluent without the least volubility, and comprehended by almost the lowest order of understanding while he was dealing with the most exalted topics." He was perhaps the head of the profession in that generation which came between Benjamin Chew and Horace Binney, and as he was the son-in-law of the former, so also was he the patron of the latter, who in " The Leaders of the Old Bar " says, "He launched me in my profession." Mr. Binney there relates how the President of the Philadelphia Ins. Co., at Tilghman's suggestion, employed him, quite a young man, to defend the case of Gibson v8. the Company (1 Binn.) and would retain no other counsel, although James Gibson and Jared Ingersoll were for the plaintiff: Mr. Tilgh- man having said, " Put it all on his shoulders, and make him carry it. It will do him good." Judge Duncan says that his attention to young men in the profession was one among the many honorable traits that distinguished him at the bar.
Edward Tilghman was offered the Chief Justiceship of Pennsyl- vania on the resignation of Edward Shippen, but declined it, recom- mending his cousin William (see TILGHMAN), whom Gov. Mckean thereupon appointed. Tilghman was counsel for the company which undertook the purchase of the Bush Hill estate (see Hamilton), and he advised the proceeding by common recovery. After his death, in the case of Lyle vs. Richards, its efficacy was brought into question, and it was deemed a considerable argument in its favor that he had
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advised it ; the Supreme Court declared it valid, and that, the entails and contingent remainders being destroyed, a fee simple title had been conveyed to the company. Judge Duncan, in his opinion, passed this eulogium upon Tilghman : "Of him I can truly say that I never knew any man who had this intricate branch of the law so much at his finger's end. With all others with whom I have had professional intercourse, it was the work of time and consideration to comprehend, but he took in, with one glance, all the beauties of the most obscure and difficult limitations. With him it was intuitive, and he could untie the knots of a contingent remainder or executory devise as famili- arly as he could his garter." He resided on Chestnut St., Phila. He d. Nov. 1, 1815, bu. Xt. Ch.
Issue (surname TILGHMAN) :
EDWARD, b. Feb. 27, 1779, m. Rebecca Waln, see below,
ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 27, 1782, m. William Cooke, see p. 338, BENJAMIN, b. Jan. 6, 1785, m. Anna M. McMurtrie, see p. 338, MARY ANNA, b. Feb. 25, 1795, d. Feb. 2, 1878, m. William Rawle, see SHOEMAKER,
RICHARD, d. y.,
eight others, d. inf.
EDWARD TILGHMAN, b. Feb. 27, 1779, gr'dson of the Councillor, grad. A. B. (U. of P.), for some time was a merchant at No. 59 So. Wharves, Phila., also practised law in Phila., d. Jany. 17, 1826, m. Rebecca, dau. of Jesse Waln of Phila.
Issue (surname TILGHMAN) :
EDWARD, of Luzerne Co., Pa., d. Feb. 26, 1881, m. Fanny Hans, Issue (surname Tilghman) :
Edward,
Morgan, d. y. Dec., 1879,
ANN REBECCA, d. y. June 28, 1828,
ELIZABETH, unm.,
ANN REBECCA, unm.,
JANE GRAHAM, m. William Poyntell Johnston, d. 1856, of Phila. also of Wilmington, Del., M. D. (U. of P.), member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, grandson of Col. Francis Johnston of the Revolutionary Army,
Issue (surname Johnston) :
Rebecca Tilghman, m. Edward Canby, of Wilmington, Del., Maj. U. S. Vols.,
Y
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Issue (surname Canby) : Edward, Alice, May, Jane, Caroline, Ethel, William Poyntell,
William Poyntell, of Wilmington, Del., and Phila., grad. M. D. (U. of P.), Lieut. U. S. Vols., member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, d. s. p. Phila., Oct. 4, 1872, m. Lucy, only dau. of Joseph Swift Keen, of Phila.,
William, d. s. p., Ann, d. s. p.,
Howard, d. s. p.,
Caroline, of Wilmington, Del.,
Tilghman, of Wilmington, Del., member of the Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania, m. Frances Silli- man of Pottsville, Pa., Issue (surname Johnston) : Margaret, William Poyntell, Alice Erwin, of Wilmington, Del.
ELIZABETH TILGHMAN, b. Aug. 27, 1782, see p. 337, grddau. of the Councillor, dec'd, m. William Cooke of Baltimore.
Issue (surname COOKE) :
WILLIAM, of Balt., merchant, d. unm.,
EDWARD, d. y.,
GEORGE, of Balt., merchant, d. unm.,
JAMES, of Balt., d. unm.,
FRANCIS, m. Helen Gatchell, Issue (surname Cooke) : Ann, m. Thomas F. Sigourney, Mary, ELIZABETH, d. unm., MARY, of Balt., unm., SOPHIA, d. unm., ANNA MARIA, d. unm.
BENJAMIN TILGHMAN, b. Jany. 6, 1785, see p. 337, gr'dson of the Councillor, practised law in Phila., d. May 30, 1850, m. Anna Maria, dau. of William McMurtrie of Phila., d. April, 1872.
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Issue (surname TILGHMAN) :
MARIA, of Phila., unm.,
ELIZABETH, of Phila., unm., EDWARD, of Phila.,
WILLIAM McMURTRIE, of the Phila. bar, m. Katherine Inger- soll, who d. Sep. 19, 1861,
Issue (surname Tilghman) : Emily, Alice, d. y. Feb. 26, 1874,
Richard, d. inf.,
ANNA MARIA, of Phila., unm.,
BENJAMIN CHEW, grad. A. B. (U. of P.), of the Phila. bar, served as Col. and Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols.,
RICHARD ALBERT, grad. A. B. (U. of P.), of Phila., m. Susan, dau. of Robert Toland of Phila.,
Issue (surname Tilghman) :
Benjamin Chew, grad. B. S. (U. of P.), Edith, Susan Toland, Richard Albert, Agnes, Angela, EMILY, d. inf.
SARAH CHEW, b. Nov. 15, 1753, dau. of the Councillor, dec'd, m. Oct. 23, 1796 her cousin-germain John Galloway, son of Samuel Gallo- way by his wife Ann, sister of the Councillor. He d. June, 1810. Issue (surname GALLOWAY) :
MARY, m. Virgil Maxcy, see below,
ANN, d. y.
MARY GALLOWAY, as above, grddau. of the Councillor, m. Virgil Maxcy, a native of Mass., practised law in Maryland, and was member of the Legislature of that State, Solicitor of the U. S. Treasury, and chargé d'affaires in Belgium, compiler of the " Laws of Maryland from 1692 to 1809," killed by an explosion of a gun on the U. S. frigate " Princeton " Feb. 28, 1844.
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