Jonathan Chase (colonel)

Jonathan Chase (December 6, 1732 - January 12, 1800) was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War.

Chase was born in Sutton, Massachusetts to Samual Chase and his wife, Mary Dudley. As a young man, he moved to Cornish, New Hampshire and married Thankful Sherman of Grafton, New Hampshire on November 28, 1759. Together they had five children. Thankful died at the age of 28 on November 25, 1765. Jonathan Chase remarried on October 22, 1770, to Sarah Hall; they had a daughter, also called Sarah.

In 1775, with the coming of the American Revolutionary War, Chase was appointed Colonel of the 13th New Hampshire Militia Regiment. Jonathan Chase led his regiment to Fort Ticonderoga in 1776 to support the Continental Army. His regiment served in Gen. William Whipple's Brigade of New Hampshire Militia during the Saratoga 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 the Royalton Raid in Vermont. 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]