A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Pew, George
PEW. (Lieutenant, 1816. f-p., 8; h-p., 30.)
George Pew is brother of the late Major Pew.
This officer entered the Navy, 22 March, 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Pheasant 18, Capt. John Palmer, stationed in the Channel, where, during a servitude of three years and a half, he assisted at the capture of three privateers, carrying in the whole 25 guns and 155 men. Becoming Midshipman, in Sept. 1812, of the Surprise 38, Capt. Sir Thos. John Cochrane, he witnessed in that ship the capture, 16 Jan. 1813, of the Decatur American privateer of 12 guns and 82 men, and was in her during the attacks on Washington and Baltimore, and throughout the operations on the coast of Georgia. In July, 1816, after a servitude of nine months at Plymouth as Master’s Mate of the Spencer 74, Capt. Wm. Robt. Broughton, he removed in that capacity to the Beelzebub bomb, Capt. Wm. Kempthorne; and on 16 of the following Sept., as a reward for his services at the bombardment of Algiers, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant. He has since been on half-pay.
In 1817 Lieut. Pew obtained permission from the Admiralty to command a West Indiaman, in which he traded to Jamaica until 183S. He had frequently during the war had charge of a prize. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.