Anne Baldwin Chase
(1743-1776)
BIRTH
1743
PLACE
NAME
Ann Baldwin
DEATH
1776
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Samuel Chase
(1741-1811)
CHILDREN
Matilda Chase Ridgely
(1763-1835)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Anne Baldwin Chase was the first wife of Maryland lawyer Samuel Chase, marrying him in May 1762. Her father Thomas had recently died after financial troubles, and her mother kept a tavern. Anne and Samuel had seven children, three of whom died in infancy. Their Annapolis household saw Chase enter colonial politics and the Continental Congress. Anne died in 1776, before his judicial career; Charles Willson Peale painted her portrait.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Anne Baldwin Chase’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Anne Baldwin Chase is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Anne Baldwin Chase died in 1776. Anne Baldwin Chase was the first wife of Maryland lawyer Samuel Chase, marrying him in May 1762. Her father Thomas had recently died after financial troubles, and her mother kept a tavern. Anne and Samuel had seven children, three of whom died in infancy. Their Annapolis household saw Chase enter colonial politics and the Continental Congress. Anne died in 1776, before his judicial career; Charles Willson Peale painted her portrait. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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