When John Chase was born on 13 July 1788, in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, David Prince Chase, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Greenwood, was 33. He married Polly Baylies on 30 March 1821, in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 28 July 1833, in Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in East Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
Originally comprising seven articles, the United States Constitution is the backbone of the law in the Nation. The first three articles talk about the separation of powers, dividing the government into three branches: the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. Articles Four, Five and Six describe the what each state governments have rights to do, how the states and the federal government should act in their relationship, and how the constitutional amendments are shared between all states. The Seventh Article explains and establishes the procedure used by the thirteen States to ratify it. It is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force. Since the Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended 27 times, including an amendment to repeal a previous one.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
English (southern): metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or perhaps a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
History: Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset County, MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the US Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a US senator, and secretary of the US Treasury during the Civil War.
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