Chapter Seven

   This chapter is about my grandmother's family, her name was Sarah Hannah Boies.  She was the daughter of Jeremiah Smith Hubbard Boies and Mary Frances Caroline Thomas. Maryland was the state she was born in.

  Her father was the son of Judge William Hubbard, when he passed away her father was adopted by an uncle, Jeremiah Smith Boies who was a wealthy merchant in Boston.

  The Judge was the son of William Hubbard, who was one of the first to graduate Harvard in 1642. The Judge married into the Clarke/Woodbridge family. The Honorable Dudley Woodbridge is a great grandfather plus (meaning he is a great great great grandfather but i do not know how many greats). Dudley graduated Harvard in 1696 became the director-general of the Royal Asciento Company of England and agent of the South Sea Company in Barbadoes and judge-advocate-general of the island.

  We are related to Captain Roger Dudley of the English Army and descended from the Barons of Dudley. Roger's son Thomas  was born in Northhampton, England in 1576. At age 20 he was commissioned captain by Queen Elizabeth & led his company 'of the Northhampton gallants over to the siege of Amiens, in Picardy.' He was a steward for the 4th Earl of Lincoln.

  Thomas became the Governor of Massachusetts, when he did not serve as governor then he served as deputy-governor till his death in 1653.

  Now the Boies are related to King John and Llywelyn the Great. The Boies name is passed down in each generation, and as you can tell my grandmother named 3 of her children Boies. My uncle gave his son the name Boies and I was given the name Boies as my middle name.  And somewhere in this mix, we are related to Mary, mother of Jesus.  Before, anyone freaks out. Mary had other children, it seems everyone wants to forget that Jesus had family, brothers, sisters. I think you get my drift.

  Now on to my grandmother's mother. This side of the family has the Honorable Philip Thomas, he was a member of the Governor's Council of Maryland. On this council was Colonel Samuel Chew who is also an ancestor. Samuel's ancestor was Chief Justice Benjamin Chew of Pennsylvania.  The Chew's are from England where they owned Chew Manor in Somerset, England.  They sold the manor to the Baber's and came to America, the manor has been in the Baber family since. The Baber's, Penrose's & Chew's were doctors to the Royal Crown and were Knight Templar's.  These 3 families were intertwined with friendship & loyalty and it would not be till 1959 when the Baber family would come to the aid of the Penrose/Chew family again.