Jonathan Chase (colonel), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American soldier
Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1732
Date of Death: 12-Jan-1800
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Jonathan Chase (colonel)
- Jonathan Chase (December 6, 1732 – January 12, 1800) was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. Chase was born in Sutton, Province of Massachusetts Bay to Samuel 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 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 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 in the State Militia of New Hampshire. He died at his home in Cornish, New Hampshire.
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