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Samuel Chew (October 30 1693 – June 16 1743) was a physician who served as Chief Justice of colonial Delaware.Samuel married Mary Galloway in 1715 and their son Benjamin Chew was later Chief Justice of Pennsylvania.His first wife died in 1734 and he married Mary Paca Galloway in 1736.Originally he lived on his family’s estate of Maidstone in Anne Arundel County Maryland.The manor house still stands although since borders have changed it is now in Calvert County Maryland.[citation needed]In 1738 he moved to build an estate known as Whitehall in Kent County Delaware.Pennsylvania Governor John Penn appointed him Chief Justice of the lower counties (or Delaware) in 1741.[citation needed]He was influential among the Quakers but provoked criticism by an address to the grand jury of Newcastle on the lawfulness of resistance to an armed enemy (printed 1741 reprinted in 1775).