Brief Life History of Rachel
When Rachel Chase was born on 7 September 1760, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Chase, was 32 and her mother, Martha Rogers, was 36. She married Elisha Rogers on 16 June 1780, in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 2 January 1848, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 87.
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- Rachel Chase, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Rachal Chase, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Rachal Rogers, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1783 · A Free America
The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
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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