Brief Life History of Thankful
When Thankful Chase was born on 22 September 1762, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, her father, David Wing, was 30 and her mother, Temperance Kelley, was 20. She married Jeremiah Chase on 11 August 1789, in Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. She died in 1812, in her hometown, at the age of 50, and was buried in Massachusetts, United States.
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- Thankfull Chase, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Thankful in entry for Tamzen Buffinton, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
- Thankful in entry for Dean Chase, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
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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."""""""
1789
George Washington elected first president of United States.
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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