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Table of contents :
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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