Talk:Samuel Chase

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Does anyone have more information about Samuel Chase? Such as did he marry and have offspring?

First wife was Anne Baldwin. They married when Chase was 20, the same year he started his practice in Annapolis. They had seven children. Anne died during the Revolutionary War. Chase married again in 1784 to Hannah Kitty Giles (1758-1848), daughter of Samuel Giles and Mary Hart, and they had two children.

A daughter of the second marriage, Mary Elizabeth Chase (1785-1872) married William Bedford Barney, son of Commodore Joshua Barney (1759-1818), the U.S. Navy hero.

Samuel Chase is buried with his father and second wife Hannah at Old Saint Paul's Cemetery, Baltimore, Md.