Brief Life History of Hannah
When Hannah Chase was born on 11 January 1736, in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Daniel Chase, was 26 and her mother, Hannah Tuttle, was 33. She married Eliakim Garfield in 1758, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1768, at the age of 32.
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- Hannah Chase, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Hannah Chase, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Hannah Chase, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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