Brief Life History of Reuben
When Reuben Chase was born on 12 August 1774, in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, Jethro Chase, was 28 and his mother, Dorothy Cone, was 27. He married Rebecca Lawrence on 23 October 1806, in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. He died on 19 December 1853, in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Four Corners Burying Ground, Upper Sackville, Sackville Town, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- Reuben Chace, "Canada, Marriages, 1661-1949"
- Reuben Chase, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- Iestro or Jethro in entry for Reuben Chase, "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"
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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."""
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
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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