Accounts includes receipts, bills, checks, records of household expenses, bank books, records related to the accounts of the Wayne County Land Trust, estimates of Samuel Chew's estate, and other accounts. Samuel Chew's correspondence pertains primarily to legal cases and the management of the Wayne Land Trust, while a significant portion of the correspondence in this subseries is from Samuel's brothers, some of the most interesting being from Benjamin Chew III. Most of his letters center on land sales and issues with the management of various tracts of land and the tenants on those tracts. The legal subseries consists primarily of case files, but also includes records of legal fees, notes, correspondence, deeds, and leases. Archivists made every attempt to keep cases together during the arrangement process, but due to the way the papers were stored, much of the order that exists in this subseries was imposed during processing. Many of the cases in these files are interrelated. Miscellaneous materials include Samuel Chew's diploma from the University of Pennsylvania, school books, poems and other writings, a pocket diary from the year of his death, ephemera, a commission to the Pennsylvania Militia, and miscellaneous estate papers. The Ship Kensington subseries contains many invoices from merchants for supplies related to the Kensington. These documents, along with an inventory of the ship that was prepared, provide a great deal of information about the types of goods and materials that went into the Kensington. The correspondence documents the legal and financial trouble that befell Samuel Chew. Most of the correspondents are either Mexican officials or merchants and suppliers attempting to collect payment. Related materials can be found in Series 5 and 7.
