Anne Ayres

• General Notes
  • 1. Maryland Genealogies - A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine, Vol. I, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1980, 1997, pg. 254-272
    
    Chew Family, by Francis B. Culver, from Vol. XXX (1935), 157-175.
    
    2. COLONIAL FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
    
    IN WHICH IS GIVEN THE HISTORY, GENEALOGY AND ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF THE COLONIAL FAMILIES WHO SETTLED IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES FROM THE TIME OF THE SETTLEMENT OF JAMESTOWN, 13TH MAY, 1607 TO THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON, 19TH APRIL, 1775
    
    Edited by, George Norbury MacKenzie, LL.B., American Historical Association, National Genealogical Society, Old North-West Genealogical Society, Member of the Committee on Heraldry and Genealogy of the Maryland Historical Society
    
    Volume I
    
    Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1912, 1966, 1995
    
    3. Some genealogies list her as being born in Virginia
    
    She was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, and their monthly meetings were long held at her house on Herring Bay. She had 9 children
    
    A. Many of the kinsmen of Thomas Ayers, doubtless, came to Virginia. In Lower Norfolk County records we learn that "John Custis married the relict of Robert Eyres,  dec'd" (1652, Feb. 16), and that "Sam. Chew, of Herrington, in Maryland, Esq.," married Anne, "daughter and sole heir of William Ayres, late of Nancemond" (12 Sept.,  1672). ---------- ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY RECORDS 207
    
    B. 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)
    
    4. Will Anne Arundel County 7.61
    
    Chew, Ann
    
    20 Feb 1694
    5 May 1695
    
    To son Samuel and his wife Ann and their child., viz., Samuel, John and Nathaniel, at 21 yrs. of age, to sons Joseph, William, Benjamin, John and Caleb, and to dau. Sarah Burgess, personalty
    
    Exs.: Rich'd Johns, Nehemiah Brickland
    
    Test: Robt. Stone, Jno. Christian, Edw. Thorley