Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9383, Nathaniel Chew, Navy (Md.)

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Navy (Md.)  Chew, Nathaniel  W. 9383
Margaret M.

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[left page]
6419
Maryland 
Margaret Chew died
widow of Nathaniel Chew 
Md
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Lieut. in the Navy.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
360 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848. and 
End April 21st 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
11th day of March 1857
and sent to 
Hon, Thos F Bowie
H. R. 
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 200 Vol. H


[right page]
J[illegible]es A. Chew
May 24, 1857

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Margaret M. Chew
Memorial of 
Margaret M Chew

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To the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States.

The memorial of Margaret M Chew of Harford County and State of Maryland, respectfully sheweth that she is the (widow of Nathaniel Chew, late of Cecil County and state aforesaid) "who served during the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant in the Naval Service". He was captured by the British while acting as a Lieutenant on board of the Frigate Virginia, Capt. Nicholson commanding - and suffering a long and cruel imprisonment on board the Jersey Prison Ship, from which he finally escaped, and again entered into the service, and was present in several engagements with the enemy.

But from the lapse of time your memorialist does not remember the names of the different vessels in which he sailed. Your memorialist "further would state that during the year of 1823 & 24, her husband placed in the hands of the Honorable George Mitchell a representative in Congress, from Maryland, all the papers proving his service, but finding that it was necessary to declare himself in a destitute condition to entitle him to a pension, under the then existing law, (he therefore could not claim the pension) at that time, (He the said Nathaniel Chew, died in the year 1827 in the 69th year of his age. 

The said representative the Honorable George Mitchell is also since dead or deceased, and the before mentioned papers were never returned by him, but it is probable they were lost or otherwise destroyed. The companions and early friends of the said Nathaniel Chew are now all dead or have removed to places unknown to your memorialist," therefore she finds herself unable to furnish the proof necessary to obtain a pension under the existing law, and indeed your memorialist has not until recently been made acquainted with the existence of the said Law." Thus has your memorialist been deprived of the Pension, which she is in fact entitled to" by law and in equity," But her late husband was well known in the neighborhood in which he lived a great part of his life, (and where he died as a man without reproach) and she therefore prays that she may...

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receive the benefit of the Law of 1838 "And the pension to which she is entitled."

Being that of a widow of a Lieutenant in the Navy of the Revolution and your memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray and cite.

Havre De Grace
Harford County and State of Maryland, 8th day of May 1844

Margaret M. Chew

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Certificate of Marriage
no 5 (or s?)

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I do here by Certify, and am Willing to qualify that I have known Capt. Nathaniel Chew from early life, until death, and that I never have heard him charged with a dishonest or dishonorable act, that I have often heard him 
speak of his voyage and at one time the difficulty of getting clear of a vessel of a superior force while in the service of his country, and am strongly impressed with
the belief of his stating to me of his being a British prisoner. I am now verging on my 75th year, and I believe the only male acquaintance now living in this quarter that knew him in early life. I have a sister older than I am, that I think might throw a stronger light on the 
subject, and when I was in Baltimore I called to see her, but she was 15 or 20 miles out in the country, and my infirmities prevented me from seeing her. I have no personal views but to see justice done to the widow, and as ___ of a highly esteemed friend, now in a better world,
I have no doubt as he was a man of sterling worth and as true a patriot as ever lived. I further certify that I was present at his marriage with Margaret M. Rodgers, a sister of Commodore Rodgers, late of the United States Navy.

Harford County Court,
On this 6th day of May 1844 
Came personally before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for the County aforesaid [crossed out: and] 
Robert Gover 
and solemnly affirmed that the facts stated
in the above Certificate is the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.

Affirmed and Subscribed before me on the
day and year above written.

Geo. W. Hall

Reference can be had to the Honorable Jacob A. Preston of this District of George W. Hall, being a Justice of the peace for the said County of Harford and State of Maryland.

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Certificate
of
Robert Gover Sent. 
No 2.

[written upside down at the bottom of the page: Certificate of
Robert Gover Sent.]

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This is to certify, that Nathaniel Chew & Margaret
Rogers, both of Cecil County, in the State of Mary
land, were lawfully joined together in Holy Ma-
trimony on Thursday, the Twenty first day
of November, One thousand, seven hundred
and Ninety three by me
Jno. Ireland

Witnesses Present
Rich. S. Thomas.
T. R. Rodgers

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State of Maryland)
County of Howard). Ss-
I, W Baker Dorsy Chf. Judge of the
Orpahns Court of said county, the same being
a court of record proceeding according to the
course of the common law, with a jurisdiction
unlimited in point of amount, do hereby
certify that satisfactory evidence has been 
adduced to said Court that Nathaniel
Chew originally of Cecil County in said
State, by his own statements as remembered
as far back as the year 1810 and before,
entered into the Naval Service of Maryland
Pennsylvania, or the United Colonies soon after 
the commencement of the Revolutionary War, and
Served in some subordinate capacity on board
the Frigate Virginia until that vessel was
either captured or blockaded by the Enemy.-
after which he and the rest of the crew,
escaped to Land and after a fatiguing and 
dangerous march joined the army and 
fought a battle on land. Returning to the 
Sea soon after, they acted with turs vessel
as a protection to the coasting trade along
the waters of Pennsylvania and Maryland
for some considerable time; and during the
progress of the war, said Nathaniel Chew
was appointed a Lieutenant under Commodore
Nicholson, and served in this vaunt until
he was captured and imprisoned by the
Enemy - that he remained a prisoner for

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some twelve or eighteen months on board
the Enemy's prison Ships - that he was
at last released from prison somewhere 
near Philadelphia, and in a most destitute
and loathsome condition made his way on
foot to his Cousin Benjamin Chew's, and to 
the city of Philadelphia where Robert
Morris Kindly supplied him with clothing
and other necessanis before he could 
appear in public to return to his home
in Cecil County, Maryland - that the said
Chew was always reputed in his neighborhood
to have been a revolutionary officer of the
rank of Lieutenant in the Navy during 
that war, and that as far back as the
year 1820, and since to the day of his death 
he talked of it to his neighbors who never
doubted his statements, either as to his rank
or service, and it is still a report wherever
she said Nathaniel Chew was known, that
he served in the Navy at the time of the
revolutionary war, and was always known
to be a gentleman of the most undoubted
veracity. He constantly spoke of, and 
reiterated his Services under his gallant
Commander; Commondoro Nicholson who
went from the adjoining county with him=
self into the Service of his country - that 
Said Chew was from his early youth a 
Sea faring man, and spoke of being
in Service on board the Chestor, Virginia

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Trumbull and other vessels not remembered, as
well as can he recollect from his own
statements in his lifetime, and he was called
by his neighbors "Captain Chew."
And I do hereby further certify that
the original family Bible of the said
Nathaniel Chew, bearing date in 1764 was 
produced and exhibited for the inspection
of said court, in which is written in plain
and legible hand the following -
"Nathaniel Chew and Margaret Rogers
were married November, 21st 1793"
"Nathaniel Chew departed this life May
[crossed out: 27th] 1827"
"Margaret Chew departed this life
April 21st 1848"
and it appears to the satisfaction of said court
that John A Chew, the oldest child of
the said Nathaniel and Margaret Chew
was born on the 17th of September 1794,
and fromthe appearances of the said
John A Chew, who appeared in court, I
am satisfied of his age.
And I hereby further certify that Sat=
isfactory evidence has been adduced to the
court, that the said Margaret Chew 
died on the 21st April 1848, and left
Surviving her four children only whose
names are John A. Chew, Emeline R. Chew,
Henrietta M Huntington, and Washington
Chew, the latter of whom died in the

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month of March 1849, leaving children, and
that from the day of the death of the
said Nathaniel Chew on the [crossed out: 27th] of May
1827, the said Margaret Chew remained
a widow to the day of her death, and 
from my own personal knowledge the widowed
adduced, and the high respectability of
the persons concerned, I have no doubt of 
the facts herein stated, and that I have
no interest whatever in any claim said 
parties may have against any state or 
the United States.
In testimony whereof I have here=
unto set my hand and caused
to be affixed the seal of said
court this third day of
February Eighteen hundred
and fifty seven
W Baker Dorsy C.Judge

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State of Maryland }
County of Howard} SS.
ON this fourteenth day of February 1857, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, John A Chew, to me well known & Known in this cummunity to be a credible witness, and a gentleman of honer and veracity, and made oath in due form of law that he is the son of Nathaniel and Margaret Chew, deceased; that he was born on the 17th Sept 1794, and is now Sixty two years of age, and that he is well acquainted with the handwriting of his father, Nathaniel Chew, deceased, and that the old papers hereunto appended are in the hand-writing of his father the said Nathaniel Chew, and that said papers were found in an old law book bearing the date of 1811, which belonged to the said Nathaniel Chew, and now in the possession of the deponent.
[signed] Jno. A. Chew
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written}
[signed] Wm A Loder, Justice of the peace for the state of Maryland in and for Howard County

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State of Maryland,
Howard County Sct:
I hereby certify that William A. Loder Esquire before whom the two aforegoing affidavits were made and whose genuine signature appears thereto, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Howard County duly Commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the Circuit court for Howard County this fourteenth day of February Eighteen hundred and fifty-seven
[signed] W. H. Worthington Clk

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Margaret Chew - deceased. Widow of Nathaniel Chew Maryland. Howard Co. 
Acts July 7, 1838 & subsequent 
Admitted Lieutenant in the Navy - 2 years commanding sloop Washington [at crossed out] 8 guns - [illegible crossed out]
at $360 per annum. from March 4th, 1836 to April 21st 1848, when she died - excepting two years.
Certificate payable to Cyrus Huntington, her administrator for the benefit of - John A. Chew Emeline R. Chew & Henrietta M. Huntington, her only surviving children.
to be sent to 
Hon. Thomas F. Bowie
House of Rep's

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State of Maryland}
County of Howard} Sct
Know all me by these presents, That we Cyrus Huntington and Henrietta May his wife, and Emeline R. Chew children and heirs at Law of Nathaniel Chew, late of Harford County, deceased, who was a Lieutenant in the Navy of the United States in the War of the Revolution, Do hereby constitute, name and appoint George G. Brewer, of the City of Baltimore, our true and lawfull Attorney, for in, and in our names, to present our claim for a Revolutionary pension, and to examine all papers on file at the pension office or elsewhere in reference thereto, and to file all evidence and arguments and to do any and all other things necessary to be done for the purpose of establishing the same, and to receive the certificate when issued for us, and We hereby delegate to our said Attorney as full and ample powers in the premeses, as we ourselves could exercise, were we personally present, And further, we hereby formerly cancel, annull and revoke, any and all powers by us given heretofore to any and all persons whomsoever, and we hereby declare and intend that this power Shall be irrevocable. Witness our hands and Seals this thirteenth day of December, 1853. . . 
[signed] Cyrus Huntington [seal surrounded by squiggles]
[signed] Henrietta M Huntington [seal surrounded by squiggles]
[signed] Emeline R. Chew [seal surrounded by squiggles]
Sealed and delivered in presence of [signed] Annie H. Garett [signed] El Lyons
acknowledged and Subscribed before me da Justice of the Peace, this Twelvth day of December, 1853.
[signed] El Lyons

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Baltimore May 5th 1857
Mr J. P. Tuskin
Sir: 
At the suggestion of your Father I take the liberty of addressing you a few lines, in regard to a Pension. Lately received by the three Hiers of Captain Nathaniel Chew of the Revolutionary War. I wish to know if my two Brothers and myself, children of Washington P. Chew (deceased) son of said Captain Nathaniel Chew are entitled to his part of said Pension. It is thought by some that we are, I thought perhaps you could inform me in the matter. If so, you will [illegible] a great favour by so doin.
Very Respecfully,
[signed] James W. Chew
(Direct)
Care Tho Spicer Clk
Circuit & District Court
Baltimore
(stamp enclosed)

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State of Maryland}
County of Howard} S S.
ON this tenth day of February in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven personally appeared, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, Rev. Cyrus Huntington, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of said County, to me well Known, and whom I certify to be a gentleman of undoubted integrity and veracity, and made oath in due form of law that he is the duly qualified Administrator of Margaret Chew, deceased, formerly of Harford County in said state, and that he has entered into bond as such with approved security in the sum of Six thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of his duties as administrator aforesaid - that John A. Chew, Emeline R. Chew, and Henrietta M. Huntington, to him well Known, are the only living children of the said Margaret Chew, deceased, and that they all reside in said county of Howard and State of Maryland, and that no portion of the family now reside in Harford County - that ever since his acquaintance with the Chew family he always heard that Nathaniel Chew and Margaret his wife always since their marriage lived together as man and wife and he has never heared the legality of

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their marriage questioned or doubted - that the said Margaret Chew, remained a widow from the death of her husband in May 1827 to the day of her death and never married - that the said Margaret Chew died on the 21st April 1848 as appears of record in an old Bible Known to me to be the Family Bible of the said Nathaniel and Margaret Chew - and said deponent prays that the Government of the United States may extend to him as Administrator of Margaret Chew deceased, the provisions of the Acts of Congress approved 7th July 1838, 3rd March 1843 17 June 1844, and 2nd February 1848, for the benefit of her surviving children as aforesaid.
[signed] Cyrus Huntington
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year herein before mentioned}
[signed] Wm. A. Loder J. P. for the State of Maryland in & for Howard County

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April 18, 1938
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BA-J/EEL
Nathaniel Chew-W.9383

Mrs. W.W. Wood
3015-56th Avenue
Oakland, California

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to you letter in which you request in-
formation in regard to Nathaniel Chew, who served on the sloop,
"Washington", Revolutionary War and whose wife was Ann Gibbons 
Chew.

No claim for pension or bounty land has been found based
upon service of a Nathaniel Chew identical to the one described
by you.  The record has been found, however, of a Nathaniel
Chew, who served in the United States Navy, Revolutionary War.
He was from Cecil County, Maryland and married Margaret M. Rogers,
also of said Cecil County.  His record is furnished you herein
as it my be of interest to you.

The date and place of birth and names of the parents of
Nathaniel Chew are not shown.

While residing in Cecil County, Maryland, Nathaniel Chew
entered the naval service of the United States Navy very early in
the Revolutionary War and served at various times at least three
and one-half years in all.  He was appointed 1" lieutenant and
served as such officer on board the frigate "Virginia," [The following note 
written in left margin: in Navy book that this ship was captured
& Capt. & 10 others managed to escape] Captain
or Commodore Nicholson, was on said ship when it was captured by
the British but managed to make his escape.  It was stated that
he served, also, on the ships, "Folker", "Chester", and "Trumball",
and was captured several times.  He was held on board the prison
ship "Jersey", and was a prisoner of war between twelve and eighteen
months.  After his release, he made his way on foot to the home
of his cousin, Benjamin Chew, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were
he was supplied with clothing and other necessities in order that
he might return to his home in Cecil County, Maryland.

Nathaniel Chew died in May, 1827, at his residence, "Chesapeake
near Havre de Grace, Maryland." in the sixty-ninth year of his age.
He was referred to as Captain Nathaniel Chew.

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Nathaniel Chew married November 21, 1793, Margaret M.
Rodgers or Rogers, date and place of her birth and names
of her parents not shown.  Both were then of Cecil County,
Maryland.  It was stated that Margaret was a sister of Com-
modore John Rodgers or Rogers.

Pension was allowed on the application of Margaret M.
Chew, which application was executed May 8, 1844, while she
residing in Harford County, Maryland.

Margaret M. Chew died April 21, 1848, at her home in
Cecil County, Maryland.

She was survived by four children, as follows:

John A. Chew . . . . . . . . . . born September 17, 1794, in 1857, residing in
Howard County, Maryland.

Henrietta Mary Chew . . . . date of birth not given, married, date not given,
Reverend Cyrus Huntington, in 1857, they reside-
ed in Howard County, Maryland, where he was the
pastor of a Presbyterian Church.

Emeline R. Chew . . . . . . . date of birth not shown, in 1857, residing in
Howard County, Maryland.

Washington P. Chew . . . . date of birth not given, he died in March,1849.

In 1857, James W. Chew, of Baltimore, Maryland, stated that he was
a son of Washington P. Chew, deceased, and that he had two brothers but
did not give their names, nor is the name of his mother stated.

in 1827, one George W. Rodgers, of NewLondon, state not given,
referred to his sisters Chew and Goldsborough.  One T.R.Rodgers was
present at the wedding of Nathaniel Chew and Margaret M. Rogers or Rodgers.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

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CHEW, NATHANIEL
(NAVY, MD.) W9383  [Circular seal: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]

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By Cash & Supplies recd. of [illegible]
for Prisoners at New York
[illegible] C.G. of Prisoners [English pound sign]62.15

By [illegible] of [remainder illegible]
Prisoners [English pound sign]143.11.g [illegible] Equal to } 358.87

By my order on Abram Skinner Esqr. [illegible] Gen. }
Prisoner for my board from the 22d May, 1779 to the }
31 Decem 1780 84 weeks 2 days at 2 dol. p. week } 166.51

1781.

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No. 10928
Margaret Chew
Act July 7. 1838.
Maryland

let to Hon. J. A. Preston
May 18 1844. Same May 25.
1844-Hon M. Forney 9 Jany/54

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Washington - Sloop 8 guns 15 men N. Chew Pa Date 9
Same 8g 6 [illegible] 20 men J. Burrows Md 8
_______________________________________
Sold at auction in Philada in 1779

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Congress sent blank
commissions to Naval Board
at Boston -(24) 1778
No. 37-p 125

Capt. Nicholson at Boston
Sept 29/79. p 145

List of officers of the navy
with dates of commissions &
p 473-Chew not on

Memorial to Cong. of Jas
Nicholson Commr of Trumbull
& officers - Jona Maltbie
Jeb Saltonstull, David Morrow
Jno Fanning Apl 28 1781
p 475

Blank Commissions were sent to [illegible]
p 495-not known who held them

Lewis Pintard agent for supplying 
the Contl. Prisors.  of war at N.Y. 6 Oct 1780
p 322-[illegible] of Admlty Bd that he
also supply [begin underline] Naval [end underline] prisoners

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Capt Jas Nicholson
to Virginia of 28 guns
lost her in 1778 in
Chesapeake Bay

In '80 in command
of Trumbull 28 guns

8th of August '81
sailed from the Delaware
Immediately engaged
& captured by the Iris &
2 other British repels

Lt Nathl Chew

"[illegible] of the Marine
Committee and Board of
Admiralty 1776 to 1780."

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Washington City March 13 1857

I declare upon honor that I am authorized by the Hon
T. F. Bowie to receive the certificate issued for his con-
stituent in the name of Margaret Chew.

A. J. Markland

Satisfactory
S. Cole
CC

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Jno. Nicholson
_____________

CHEW, NATHANIEL
NAVY, MD
W-9383

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Jno. Nicholson
_____________
[Circular stamp: 
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]

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CHEW, NATHANIEL
(NAVY, MD.)
W-9383  [Circular stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]

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[illegible] from 22 May 1779 to
1 Jany 1784[?] Not printed

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Nathaniel Chew
W. F. 9383
Navy - Md.

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[Two columns]
[Left column]

[3 columnar headings:]
No. Names Rank

1 Rich Butler Colonel

2 Jno R.B. Rodgers Surgeon

3 Geo. Bush Captain

4 Eckwins Beatty Lieut.

5 Andrew Lytle Lieut.

6 Francis Thornbury Lieut.

7 Stewart Herbert Lieut.

8 John McKinney Lieut.

9 David McKnight Lieut.

10 Pratt Lt.

11 Montgomery Captain

Jno Wilkins [illegible] Mate

Wm Alexander Major 3rd Regt. }
[illegible] 1st Jany 1783 }

Wm Butler L. Col. [illegible] 4th Regt. }
[illegible] 1st Jany 1783 }

Thos. Butler [illegible] Capt. 3rd Regt. }
[illegible] the 1st Jany. 17[illegible]

[Right column]
[3 columnar headings:]
No. Names Rank

[checkmark] Wm. Alexander Capt
4th Regt. [illegible] 1781

Robt. Tickles Lieut.

[illegible] Lieut

Robt. Allison Lieut.

J. Grier Maj. 3rd [illegible]

James McMichael Lieut.

Nat. Chew Lt. Navy 3 1/2 yrs.
1778-80-81

Robert Darlington Lt. Pa.
Flying Camp [illegible]

Barnabas Bonney [illegible]
entered May 1 1776 now in
service decomd. 6th 1783

Thos. Bonds Surveyor entd. in
Aug 1776 & now in Service Dec 6. 1783

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May 8, 1940
xxxxxxxxxxx
[illegible]

NATHANIEL CHEW
W. 9383
BA-J/MHF:MLB

Mrs. W. W. Wood
3015 - 56th Avenue
Oakland, California

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request the Revolutionary War record of Nathaniel Chew,
whose widow petitioned Congress for pension for his
service as Captain in the Navy,

This office has no further information in regard
to Captain Nathaniel Chew of the Navy than was furnished
you April 18, 1938, as shown in the claim for pension,
Widow File No. 9383.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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3015-56th Avenue
Oakland, California
April 3, 1940

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:  I have been completing my own and the line of my uncle,
Dr. Wesley Wilbur Beckett of Washington D.C.  In the Sons of the
Revolution magazine I find the following (dated 1915);

"Nathaniel Chew, Captain of privateer Washington,Penn.Navy Sept.
1779; [begin underline ]his widow petitioned 28th Congress for pension [end underline] for Revolution
services of Nathaniel Chew; list of private claims of U.S. Congress
vol. 1, page 318."

I would deeply appreciate if if you would would copy off everything
which appears in said claim, name of wife and children, and everything
which may help me make a complete and accurate account of that family.

I cannot tell you how much I would appreciate this.

Sincerely yours,

(Mrs. W.W.) Stella I. Wood

[Note in left margin:]
Complete list
furn. Apri 18, 1938

[Circular time and date stamp]
Arrow pointing to 3
RECEIVED
APR 8 1840
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader Mo. 32
VETS ADM

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3015-56th Avenue
Oakland, California
March 30, 1938

U.S.Veteren's Administration
Revolutionary War Section
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:  I am searching for information regarding Nathaniel Chew
and his wife Ann Gibbons Chew.  Nathaniel Chew served on the sloop
Washington Sept.20, 1779,  (From Penn. Archives F 146 p4 Ser.5, vol 1
page 617.  Have you any other record for him?

Did his wife receive a pension after the war?  If she did I would
appreciate any facts that you may uncover.

In other words I am looking for Nathaniel's birth and death dates
also the birth and death dates for his wife Ann.  And I am anxious to
secure the list of their children.

Thanking you very kindly, I am

Sincerely yours,

(Mrs. W.W.) Stella I Wood

P.S. Have you anything more in regard
to his war record?

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[handwritten on pre-printed form]
1938 - Apr. 18 - Hist to Mrs. W. W. Wood - Eb
1940, May 8 - Mrs. W. W. Wood [illegible] no further data than [illegible]

WIDOW, & C.
File No. 9383
Margaret Chew. Wid of Nathaniel Chew Lieut, in Navy
Act: Feby 2/48
Index: - Vol A, Page 129
[Arrangement of 1870]

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An original letter form Geo W. Rodgers to Emiline R. Chew - Dated and postmarked New London Ct 16 May 1827 - describing himself as her uncle - and speaking of her father's desperate illness & c and consoling his "dear sister".
The above papers, excepting the last two, are proved by the testimony of John A. Chew to have been in his father's handwriting, and to have been found in an old law book belonging to him.
In the published register of the navy [crossed out Na] N. Chew is set down as having been in command of the Sloop Washington in 1779 - 
It is alleged that chew was created a Lieut of the Navy under Capt James Nicholson - in Vol NO 37 - State Dept - it appears that blank commissions were sent to France, one of which was this same Nicholsons - Many of them were given to persons unknown - and as Chew was at the time of this correspondence probably a prisoner or discharged - the inclusion of his name as one thus commissioned is natural. 
See also pencil memoranda

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Margaret Chew
1838 Md.
suspd.
Let this case to acts on at once & Hon. Tho F. Bowie advise
[illegible signature]

thus commissioned is natural. 
See also pencil memoranda

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Margaret Chew - wid of Nathaniel 
Documents &c

Return of Penna [question mark above Penn] Officers - apparently in their
own hand writings - contains among others -
"Nat.Chew Lt Navy 3 1/2 yrs 1778-80-81."

Mem [of-struck out]

"Board from 22 May 1779 to Jany 1781. not Paroled"
[sentence struck out]

Portion of an account with Lewis Pintard
and Abram Skinner [illegible] Genl of Prisoners
one item of which is

"By my order on Abram Skinner Esqr. Comm. Gen.
Prisoners for my Board from the 22d May, 1779 to the
31 Decem 1780.  84 weeks 2 days a 2 dol. p. week
$168.51". This appears to be in the
same hand writing (a peculiarly neat and
clerkly one) with the writing in the above return.

An Autograph of
"Jno Nicholson"

An original certificate of the marriage of
Nathaniel Chew & Margaret Rogers Nov. 21. 1793.

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Margaret Chew - deceased widow of Nathaniel.
1838 &c
Brief

Dodge

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[handwritten on pre-printed form]
Brief in the case of Margaret Chew - deceased - widow of Nathaniel.
Howard County and State of Maryland
act July 7, 1838 - and subsequent acts - 

Claim, ("original," [or "for increase" crossed out]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Service - More than 3 years Lieutenant in the Navy - about 19 1/2 months of which he was a prisoner - proved by tradition - documents - the navy register & correspondence between the traditional evidence and the documentary history of the naval service - 
Marriage - Novr 21, 1793 - proved by original marriage certificate - and sworn copy of family register - certified by court of record. 

[crossed out (If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? if so, what?]

Death of Nathl., May 1827 and widowhood and death of widow - April 21st, 1848 - proved by parol and family register.
Children Surviving - John A. Chew - Emeline R. Chew, and Henrietta M. Huntington - proved by parol & certified.
Administrator - Cyrus Huntington. & sufficiency of bond, duly certified.
[signed} S. G. Dodge Examining Clerk.
Name and residence of Agent
Hon Thomas F. Bowie 
House of Rep's.

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[illegible writing at top of page]

[Circular mail stamp:]
NEWLONDON CT.
MAY
28

18 3/4

Miss Emiline R Chew
Chesapeake near
Havre de Grace
Maryland.

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New London 26 May 1827

My dear Emiline

I received your letter
and really and truly emphathize
with you all in the illness of your
dear and inestimable father, yet I
hope your fear and anxiety have
led you to believe him worse than
he really is. It however must be a
pleasing reflection to you to know
that should your fears of seperation
be verifyd your father will leave 
a world of care and anxiety for one
of eternal happiness, a more guileless
kind and blameless a man never exis-
ted than he was.  My dear sister will
feel his transition very sensibly, but then
she will have the aid of religion to
console her and the prospect of their
being reacquainted in happiness here
after. I regret that it is not in my

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power to visit you at this time and offer
my services, but I have had and still have
a sick family.  Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Rodgers have
both been of late unwell.  Mrs. Rodgers is still
very feeble.  My two younger children
have been both dangerously ill but are
getting quite well again.  Mrs. Perry and
my wife request me present their love
to your mother and my sister Goldsborough.
And all the family my dear Emiline say
to your dear and beloved mother that any
thing I can do for any of you, and any ser-
vice that I can be of to command me.  Give
my unattainable love to my sisters Chew
and Goldsborough and Mrs. Gray if she is with
you.  May the Almighty in his mercy take 
all of you into his safe and holy keeping
is the prayer of my beloved niece of
your sincerely affectionate uncle

Geo W Rodgers

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Affidavit of William
Pinkney of Baltimore,
State of Maryland.
No 4

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I hereby certify that I was well acquainted with
Nathaniel Chew a resident of Cecil County, State of
Maryland, & that the said Nathaniel Chew
intermarried with Margaret M. Rodgers of Maryland.
The said Nathaniel Chew has been deceased
some years, and I further certify that I have
heard the said Nathaniel Chew frequently
mention that he served as Lieutenant on board
the Frigate Virginia during the war of the
revolution & was taken prisoner by the British
& was imprisoned in the "Jersey" prison ship.

Witness my hand & seal
this 3d May 1844.
Wm. Pinkney

Sworn & subrscribed
to before me 
the day as mentioned

Samuel Keplinger } Justice Peace
  } for City of Baltimore

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11,852
_____

Maryland

Margaret Chew decd.
widow of Nathaniel,
who died on the [blank]
of [blank] in the State of [blank]
who was a Lieut in the Navy commanded
by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded
by [blank] in the Revolution
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Baltimore
at the rate of 360 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day
March 1857, and Sent to
Hon T. F. Bowie
H. R.

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi annual allowance ending [blank]
double underline
double underline

{ Revolutionary Claim, }
{ Act July 7, 1838. }

Recorded by G. T. Getty, Clerk
Book H, Vol. 1 Page 188

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Margaret M. Chew

Petition for paying a pension
on account of the services of
her husband Nathaniel Chew
as a lieutenant in the Navy
during the revolutionary war

Jan 10 1845 Referred to the
Committee on Revolutionary
Pensions

February 26, 1846 Referred to
the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions


Ramsay
Rev Pensions

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9687

Maryland

Margaret Chew, decd.
widow of Nathaniel
who was a Lieut. in the Navy
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 360 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of March 1857 and
sent to
Hon Thos. F. Bowie.
H. R.

[ Acts of March 3, 1843, & June
17, 1844. ]

Recorded in Book H
Vol. 1 Page 194

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House of Representatives.
May 22d 1844.

J. L. Edwards Esqr.

Sir,

As the papers furnished in the case
of Mrs. Margaret Chew are not sufficient
in the opinion of the Commr. of Pensions to entitle
her to a pension under existing Laws, I must
ask the favour, that the papers be returned
to me, that I may seek relief for
Mrs. Chew by a special act.

It is well known to
all who knew the late Capt. Chew, that
he did serve on [the-struck out] Board of U.S. Frigate
Virginia & was a prisoner on board
the [word struck out] "Jersey" prison ship, & it
will be a bad case, if she cannot
get relief.

Yours very
Respectfully
Jacob A Preston

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House of Representatives
Washington,
May 14th 1844

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Comr. Pensions

Sir,

Enclosed you will find sundry
papers in relation to a claim for a Pension in favour
of Mrs. "Margaret [Rodgers-struck out] Chew" formerly of Cecil (now of Harford)
County Md.  She [was-struck out] is the Sister of the late Commodore
Jno Rodgers & [begin underline]widow[end underline] of the late Capt. Nathaniel
Chew-who served on board the U.S. Frigate Virginia 
during the Revolutionary Was as first Lieutenant.

--I hope you will make an exam-
ination of her claim under existing Laws
as soon as possible & communicate the
result to me.

I have the honour
to be Yr. Most Obt. Servt. [illegible]
Jacob A. Preston

P.S.-When you have done with the papers, please
return them, if proper, so to [illegible]
J.P.

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Pension Office,
July 31. 1844

Madam,

I have received your letter of
the 27th inst. and I am sorry that it is not
in my power to admit your claim without such
proof as the rules require.  I have no doubt
that upon a petition to Congress, a special act
might be obtained in your favor.

I am respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
J L. Edwards



Mrs. Margaret M. Chew,
Havre de Grace,
Maryland.

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Maryland Sct

The State of Maryland, to
all whom these presents shall come greeting,

Know Ye that on the third day of
February in the year of our Lord Eighteen hun-
dred and fifty seven before the Register of
Wills for Howard County in the State of Mary-
land duly thereto constituted and appoin-
ted according to the directions of the act of
assembly in that case made and provided
Letters of Administration of all [illegible]
[illegible] goods chattels and credits which
were of Margaret Chew late of Cecil County in
said State deceased was granted and Com-
mitted unto Cyrus Huntingdon of the County
first aforesaid he having first entered
into Bond in the sum of One thousand
dollars with sufficient sureties for the
due performance thereof and also taken
an oath well and truly to administer the 
same according to Law.

In testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed the
seal of my office this 3rd day of
February 1857

Test. Thomas B Hobbs
Register of Wills for Howard County

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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore, to wit

Be it remembered, that on this third day of may, in the year of our Lord
eighteen hundred and forty four, personally appeared before the undersigned,
a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of
Baltimore, Frederick Pinkney, of the said City and State, and
made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, in due form of law,
that he was acquainted with the late Captain Nathaniel Chew,
of Cecil County in the State aforesaid.  That sometime in the year
eighteen hundred and twenty three, this deponent held several conversa-
tons with the said Captain Chew at his residence in Cecil County,
concerning his revolutionary services, who informed him, among other
things, that he was a lieutenant on board the frigate Virginia, at the
time of her capture by the English, she having, as he stated to this
deponent, been purposely run aground by the pilot.  That the said
Captain Chew described the abovementioned captain, and also several
naval actions in which he stated that he was present during the revolutionary war, with many minute
circumstances, to this deponent, but deponent after such a lapse of time,
has but an indistinct memory on the subject, and cannot specify
the names of the vessels engaged although he thinks the name of one
vessel was the Folkar.  That the said Captain Chew also mentioned
to this deponent that he was a prisoner on board the Jersey prison ship,
and gave this deponent many particulars of his imprisonment and of
the sufferings of the prisoners on board said vessel and also mentioned
that he was twice captured by the English upon other occasions, one of
which was on board a merchant vessel, giving the deponent the names of
the vessels and the particulars of the captures, but that deponent cannot
be more precise for the reason already stated.  That this deponent

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has always believed the said Captain Chew to have been a person of
strict veracity, and has no doubt that all his abovementioned
communications to this deponent were strictly true.

Thos. Hanson Bett

State of Maryland
Baltimore County, to wit:

I, Thomas Kell, Clerk of Baltimore County Court, hereby certify
that Thomas Hanson Bett, Esquire, who appears to have taken, certified,
and signed the foregoing affidavit, was, at the time of his so doing,
a Justice of the Peace of [Baltimore--struck out] the State of Maryland in and
for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn; and that
to all acts by him done in that capacity, full faith and credit are
due and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In witness whereof I hereunto subscribe
my name and affix the seal of
Baltimore County Court aforesaid,
on this third day of May, in the year
of our Lord eighteen hundred and
forty four.

Thos Kell Clk of
Balto Coty Cot

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Chew, Richard

GRADE Private

LINE New Jersey

WARRANT
NUMBER 8175

ACREAGE 100

ISSUED May 27, 1790
to ?--- book torn ---

_____

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse-
quent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.