Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Chase was born on 21 September 1781, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Benjamin Chase, was 19 and his mother, Phebe Buck, was 21. He married Betsey Ladd on 2 February 1802, in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 25 February 1841, in his hometown, at the age of 59.
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- Benjamin Chase, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Benjamin Chase in entry for John J. Chase, "Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910"
- Benjamin Chase in entry for John J. Chase, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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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.
1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
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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