Benjamin Chew, 1722-1810 : Head of the Pennsylvania Judiciary System Under Colony and Commonwealth / Burton Alva Konkle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Konkle, Burton Alva, Author.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.) : 45 illus.

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Benjamin Chew, 1722-1810".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

I. Character and Antecedents

II. Childhood and Education in Maryland, 1722

III. His Great Preceptor, Andrew Hamilton, about 1736

IV. With His Father, Chief Justice Samuel Chew, in Dover, 1741

V. In the Middle Temple, 1743

VI. A Delaware Lawyer and Statesman, 1744

VII. A Delaware Lawyer and Statesman (Continued), 1750

VIII. Proprietary and Personal Leader in Both Pennsylvania and Delaware, 1755

IX. Proprietary and Personal Leader in Pennsylvania, 1757

X. Benjamin Chew, the Leading Lawyer in Pennsylvania, 1759

XI. Leading the Council in Wise Resistance to the Crown, 1762

XII. Register-General of Pennsylvania and Delaware and Resignation from the Attorney-Generalship, 1765

XIII. Chief Justice Benjamin Chew of Pennsylvania, 1774

XIV. Congressional Prisoner as Crown Official, July 31, 1777

XV. The Fall of Philadelphia and the Conflict at Cliveden, October 4, 1777

XVI. Peggy Chew, Major André, and the Mischianza, May 18, 1778

XVII. Ex-Chief Justice Chew and a Decade of Reorganization, 1779

XVIII. President of The High Court of Errors and Appeals of Pennsylvania, 1791

XIX. President of The High Court of Errors and Appeals (Continued), 1791

XX. President of The High Court of Errors and Appeals (Continued), 1793

XXI. President of The High Court of Errors and Appeals (Continued), 1794

XXII. President Chew Returns to Cliveden, 1797

XXIII. President Chew and the Closing Years of The High Court of Errors and Appeals, 1800

XXIV. Evening, Saturday, January 20, 1810

XXV. President Chew as seen by Dennie's Port Folio, the Leading American Literary Periodical, February, 1811

Index

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ISBN:

9781512803457

1512803456

OCLC:

979954677