Benjamin Chambers (1749-1816)
MSA SC 3520-14992
Appendix A:
From John Chambers, “Autobiography of John Chambers,” Iowa Journal of History and Politics, Vol. 6 (1908), pp. 247-286. John Chambers (1780-1852) was an early governor of Iowa territory and was the nephew of Benjamin Chambers.
When your grandfather [Rowland] moved into NJ he took with him his youngest
brother Benjamin, then a youth. At the commencement of the War he procured
for him a Captns commission in the regular army [sic], in which he served
until the end of the war retiring with the rank of major (all the officers
having been promoted one grade before the discharge) – he then settled
in Maryland and married his cousin, a daughter of Mr Ezekiel Forman, one
of the sons of “uncle Josey.” He was for many years Clerk of the Superior
Court of Cecil County, & known as General Ben. Chambers. he was the
father of the present Judge of the Supreme Court of Maryland, General Ezekiel
Forman Chambers, who I first met with in the winter 1828 as a Senator in
Congress from his state, he was then a general of the state of Maryland.
he had several brothers and sisters whom I have never met with, two of
the former settled in Mississippi as cotton planters, one of whom died
there, but the other was alive the last time I heard of him.
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