Margaret "Peggy" Oswald Chew Howard (1760-1824)
MSA SC 3520-2232
First Lady of Maryland 1788-1791
Notes
1. Francis B. Culver, "Chew Family." Maryland Historical Magazine 30 (March 1935), 169.
2. Dumas Malone and Allen Johnson, eds., The Dictionary of American Biography, vol. V (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), 279.
3. Francis Sims McGrath, Pillars of Maryland (Virginia: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1950), 150.
4. Ibid., 188.
5. James Thomas Flexner, The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John André. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1953), 156.
6. McGrath, 69.
7. McGrath, 461.
8. Flexner, 208.
9. Flexner, 210.
10. McGrath, 69.
11. Flexner, 280-281. Captain André attempted to involve the Peggy Chew in his spying. However, Arnold drew the line at involving women in the nefarious deeds and put a stop the the correspondence between the Captain André and Peggy Chew.
12. Brantz Mayer, Baltimore: Past and Present with Biographical Sketches of the Representative Men (Baltimore: Richardson and Bennett, 1971), 305.
13. McGrath, 69.
14. McGrath, 70. Even though Peggy had agreed to marry him, John Eager Howard was sensitive about his wife's previous relationship with Major John André. At a party when Peggy was speaking warmly of the Major, calling him "a most witty and cultivated gentleman," John immediately broke in and claimed that André "was a damned spy."
15. McGrath, 182. Washington wrote that he "Dined at Mr. Chew's with the wedding guests. Drank tea there in a very large circle of ladies."
16. Malone and Johnson, eds., 64. White, 27.
17. McGrath, 188. White, 26-27. As a declared Federalist, Howard became the first governor to belong to a political party.
18. P.H. Magruder, The Colonial Government House of Maryland (Annapolis: U.S. Naval Institute, 1935), 1450.
19. White, 26-27.
20. Culver, Francis B. "Chew Family." Maryland Historical Magazine 30 (March 1935), 169. White, 27.
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