- Jonathan Chase (colonel)
Jonathan Chase (
December 6 ,1732 -January 12 ,1800 ) was a soldier in theAmerican Revolutionary War .Chase was born in
Sutton, Massachusetts to Samual Chase and his wife, Mary Dudley. As a young man, he moved toCornish, New Hampshire and married Thankful Sherman ofGrafton, New Hampshire onNovember 28 ,1759 . Together they had five children. Thankful died at the age of 28 onNovember 25 ,1765 . Jonathan Chase remarried onOctober 22 ,1770 , to Sarah Hall; they had a daughter, also called Sarah.In 1775, with the coming of the
American Revolutionary War , Chase was appointedColonel of the 13th New Hampshire Militia Regiment. Jonathan Chase led his regiment toFort Ticonderoga in 1776 to support theContinental Army . His regiment served in Gen. William Whipple's Brigade ofNew Hampshire Militia during theSaratoga Campaign of 1777. At the surrender of Gen.John Burgoyne , Col. Chase drew up the Articles of Convention for the Surrender of General Burgoyne's Army for Gen.Horatio Gates . His regiment was also called up in 1780 in response to theRoyalton Raid inVermont . Chase was promoted to Brigadier General of militia.He died at his home in Cornish,
New Hampshire .ources
*"A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H." by Samuel Carroll Derby Press of Spahr & Glenn, Columbus, Ohio 1901
* [http://www.archive.org/details/rangerservice00batcrich 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]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=XSDnxlK1sMUC&printsec=titlepage&source=gbs_summary_r State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire. State Builers Publishing Manchester, NH 1903]
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