When Phebe Elizabeth Chase was born in 1831, in Lakeville Corner, Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, Douglas John Chase, was 26 and her mother, Elizabeth Lawson, was 20. She married James P. Chase on 27 December 1848, in New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 2 January 1908, in Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Old Community Graveyard, Lakeville Corner, Sheffield, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada.
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On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
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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