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Chew, Benjamin 1722-
Jurist; born in West River, Md., Nov. 29, 1722; settled in Philadelphia in 1745; was recorder in 1755-72; and became chief-justice of Pennsylvania in 1774.
During the Revolutionary War he sided with the royalist party, and in 1777 he was imprisoned in Fredericksburg, Va., because he had refused to give a parole.
On Oct. 4, 1777, during the battle of Germantown, a British outpost took refuge in his large stone mansion, and the Americans, in order to drive them out, fired on the building with muskets and cannon.
The building, however, was too strongly built to be demolished by the 3 and 6 pounder field-pieces of that time.
A brigade commanded by Maxwell was left to surround the house, while the main American force pushed on. This incident gave the British time to prepare for the American attack.
From 1790 to 1806, when the High Court of Errors and Appeals was abandoned, he was president of that court.
He died Jan. 20, 1810.
See Germantown, battle of.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Galloway , Joseph 1803 (search)
Galloway, Joseph -1803
Loyalist; born near West River, Anne Arundel co., Md., about 1730; was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1764, and at one time speaker and, with Franklin, advocated a change of the government of Pennsylvania from the proprietary to the royal form.
A member of the first Continental Congress, he was conservative in his views, yet his line of argument in his first debates tended towards political independence.
He proposed a plan of colonial government, which was rejected.
It contemplated a government with a president-general appointed by the King, and a grand council, chosen every three years by the colonial assemblies, who were to be authorized to act jointly with Parliament in the regulation of the affairs of the colonies.
Parliament was to have superior authority, with a right to revise all acts of the grand council, which, in turn, was to have a negative in British statutes relating to the colonies.
This plan was, at first, favorably considered