Jonathan Chase (December 6, 1732 – January 12, 1800) was a soldier in the

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. Chase was born in

Sutton Sutton (''south settlement'' or ''south town'' in Old English) may refer to: Places United Kingdom England In alphabetical order by county: * Sutton, Bedfordshire * Sutton, Berkshire, a List of United Kingdom locations: Stu-Sz#Su, location * S ...

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to Samuel Chase and his wife, Mary Dudley. As a young man, he moved to

Cornish, New Hampshire Cornish is a town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,616 at the 2020 census. Cornish has four covered bridges. Each August, it is home to the Cornish Fair. History The town was granted in 1763 and contained a ...

and married Thankful Sherman of

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on November 28, 1759. Together they had three children; Prudence, Elizabeth, and Mary. Born July 21, 1739; Thankful died at the age of 28 on November 25, 1768. Jonathan Chase remarried on October 22, 1770, to Sarah Hall; born December 15, 1742, and died October 13, 1806. Jonathan and Sarah had six children, Jonathan, 1771; David Hall, 1773; Sarah Hall, 1775; son Lebbeus Hall, 1779; Pamelia, 1780; and Gratia, 1782. He was a farmer, a surveyor, a store keeper and a miller in the new township of Cornish. In 1775, with the coming of the

, Chase was appointed

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of the 13th New Hampshire Militia Regiment. Jonathan Chase led his regiment to

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in 1776 to support the

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. His regiment served in Gen. William Whipple's Brigade of

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during the

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of 1777. At the surrender of Gen.

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, Col. Chase drew up the Articles of Convention for the Surrender of General Burgoyne's Army for Gen.

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. His regiment was also called up in 1780 in response to the

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. Chase was promoted to brigadier general in the State Militia of New Hampshire. He died at his home in Cornish,

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References

*''A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H.'' by Samuel Carroll Derby Press of Spahr & Glenn, Columbus, Ohio 1901
The ranger service in the upper valley of the Connecticut, and the most northerly regiment of the New Hampshire militia in the period of the revolution : an address delivered before the New Hampshire Society of Sons of the American Revolution at Concord, N.H., April 26, 1900
page 19 *''History of the town of Cornish, New Hampshire, with genealogical record, 1763-1910.'' by William H. Child, Concord, N.H.: Rumford Press
State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire. State Builders Publishing Manchester, NH 1903

External links

Jonathan Chase Papers
at the William L. Clements Library 1732 births 1800 deaths People from Sutton, Massachusetts New Hampshire militiamen in the American Revolution People of colonial Massachusetts People from Cornish, New Hampshire {{US-mil-bio-stub