The Chew-Ayres families fled from Virginia with the pursecution of the Quakers.. They Migrated to the area of Herring Bay in Anne Arundel County. The Quaker records show the children of Anne Ayres and Samuel Chew. They produced a large family. The Chews of Philadelphia are of this line. I am sure you know that John Chew was a founding member of the Jamestown Settlement. They were not puritan but Quaker. Look in the Quaker records of Southern Maryland. ========Original Message======== Subj: [BALTGEN-L] Chew-Ayres Date: 7/25/02 9:07:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: fzsaund@ix.netcom.com (Fredric Z. Saunders) Reply-to: BALTGEN-L@rootsweb.com To: BALTGEN-L@rootsweb.com CHEW is one of my lines on which I haven't done much personal reseach. Robert L. CHEW published a book called *A Genealogy of the Chew Family,* in 1982. Allegedly John CHEW of VA is the same as baptised 16 Dec. 1587 at Whally, Lancashire, England, and named in his father's will in 1640 (when he was 88 years old). It has been a few years since I looked at his book, but he had also listed a number of children other than Samuel and Joseph as children of John, and had the family running up and down the east coast from New England to VA. It may be true, but I would be very wary of accepting everything he has written. Some of it seemed to stretch believability in my mind, and as I recall, there was little documentation. As I recall there was nothing to list how he connected John CHEW of VA as being identical to the one bap. in 1587 above. I have seen too many instances of where a researcher has taken a name from the IGI parish extraction program, and assumed a name found there that seems to be about the right age is the same person in the Colonies. In my own ancestry, I can think of at least 3 instances from the early 1600s where someone has done that, where the connection has later been proved to be incorrect. There are at least a couple others, not including CHEW, that are in the category of "possible" but not proved or disproved either way whether the person in England is the same person in the Colonies. Someday I hope to investigate this CHEW branch of my ancestry more, and see whether I agree with his findings. Allegedly John's wife Sarah was Sarah GALE or Sarah BOND (was one a maiden name and the other a first marriage?), but I have never seen documentation for either. If someone can cite an original source for that information, I would be interested. John's son Samuel married Ann AYRES, the only daughter of William AYRES and wife Sarah. This I have researched. I'll list a few notes about AYRES. The scans of these patents can be downloaded from the Library of VA site at: http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/ Just type in "eyres, william" The first record I find of him is 30 June 1635 William HEIRES (EYRES) received 250 acres in Warrosquoiacke Co., VA (named changed in Isle of Wight Co. in 1637). He had a number of other patents in VA as can be downloaded above. On 29 Oct. 1651 William AYRES had 600 acres *Ayres* survyed in Anne Arundel Co., MD (Patents Q:99) William AYRES on 5 Oct. 1653 demanded 950 acres of 1550 assigned to him by Caprt. BRENT and Mr. Edward LLOYD, and assinged 600 acres of the 950 to MR. Richard WELLS. He then demanded the 350 left plus 1300 more for transporting himself, Sarah his deceased wife, Ann AYRES his daughter and 9 servants [named] before June 1652, and Martha his now wife and a servant [named] since June 1652 for a total of 1650 acres. He then assigned 500 of the 1650 to Tho: MARSH. (Patents ABH:347-348) At the Battle of the Severn on 25 March 1655, William AYRES was allegedly the Standard Bearer for the Puritans, and at the beginning of the battle the Standard was fired on, and he was killed. [John Bennett Boddie, *Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia,* (Chicago: Chicago Law Printing Company, 1938).] From various accounts I have seen, there were apparently contemporary documents describing the battle, but I have not seen the location and/or source of these. If anyone knows, I would be interested, in verifying Boddie's account of William AYRES. On 20 April 1653 Thomas MARSH had sold to William AYRES 500 acres of 1000 acres due him by warrant dated 25 Oct. 1651. "Samuel CHEW and Ann CHEW the Daughter and Sole heir of Mr. William AYRES" had sold the 500 acres on 4 July 1657 to Anthony SALWAY. At the same time Anthony SALWAY sold 300 acres of land due William AYRES upon his right entered 5 Oct. 1653. Mr. Anthony SALWAY had married the widow of Mr. William AYRES, and she relinquished all her interest in the same. (Patents Q:195-196) On 27 Aug. 1658 the 600 acres surveyed on 29 Oct. 1651 was granted to "Ann the Daughter and Heire of the said Will. AYRES and now wife to Samuel CHEW." (Patents Q:99-100) Note that Donna Valley Russell, *First Families of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, 1649-1658,* Vol 1, The Landowners, (New Market, MD: Catoctin Press, 1999), incorrectly made statements that William AYRES widow was Sarah MARSH. As noted above, William's first wife was Sarah -?-, who predeceased him, and his second wife was Martha -?-, who secondly married Anthony SALWAY. Her information will be corrected in her second volume which is to be out shortly (or already out?). 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