When Edward Chase was born in June 1742, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Captain George Bedford Chase, was 23 and his mother, Mary Strange, was 16. He married Abigail Strange Paine on 17 December 1763, in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 29 May 1815, in Hamden, Delaware, New York, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Brisack Cemetery, Hamden, Delaware, New York, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
New York is the 11th state.
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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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