When Dorcas Chase was born on 9 April 1777, in Pittstown, Rensselaer, New York, United States, her father, James Chase, was 27 and her mother, Olive Farnum, was 23. She married William Allen about 1792, in Pittstown, Rensselaer, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Floyd, Oneida, New York, United States in 1850. She died on 11 February 1855, in Floyd, Floyd, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 77.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1791: Rensselaer, New York, United States
Historical Boundaries 1798: Oneida, New York, United States
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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