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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1932
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 45 illus.
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Table of 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