Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Chase was born on 13 September 1724, in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Job Chase, was 25 and his mother, Patience Bourne, was 38. He married Phoebe Chase on 23 February 1748, in Rhode Island, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died about 1752, in his hometown, at the age of 29.
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- Marriage Record of Joseph Chase and Phebe Chase
- Job Chase, Will, Bristol. Probate Records 1767–1774
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Chase -
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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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