When Elias S. Chase was born in 1806, in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Edward Chase, was 40 and his mother, Permela Durfee, was 35. He married Clarissa Doty in 1831. He lived in Marion, Marion, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1850 and Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died in 1874, at the age of 68, and was buried in Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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.
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