When Joshua Chase was born on 30 January 1771, in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, Joseph Chase, was 28 and his mother, Hannah Ells, was 28. He married Esther Terry on 26 June 1799, in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia, British North America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He died in his hometown.
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In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
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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