When Joseph Ballard Chase was born on 26 November 1827, in Westford, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, his father, Isaac Chase Jr., was 29 and his mother, Elitha Miranda Ballard, was 24. He married Irena Thankful Drake on 20 March 1857, in Westford, Chittenden, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 28 March 1884, in Cambridge, Lamoille, Vermont, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, Westford, Chittenden, Vermont, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
The Anti-Slavery Society of Vermont was established in 1834. 100 people from different towns were at the first meeting, with the intent to abolish slavery.
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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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