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Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 2 P36 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | 338 CHASE SAMUEL Chase was born April 17 1741 in Somerset County Maryland. His father Thomas Chase was a British-born clergyman of the Church of England. His mother Matilda Walker Chase died at Chase s birth. In 1744 the family moved to Baltimore where Chase grew up and received a classical education under his father s supervision. Chase studied law in Annapolis Maryland at the office of Attorney John Hall from 1759 until he was admitted to the bar in 1763. In 1762 Chase married Ann Baldwin. They had seven children three of them dying in infancy. Ann died sometime between 1776 and 1779 and in 1784 Chase married Hannah Kitty Giles with whom he had two daughters. Chase established a successful law practice in Annapolis the colonial capital and later the state capital of Maryland. He also became prominent in colonial politics. In 1764 he was elected to the lower house of Maryland s colonial legislature as a representative of Annapolis and by the early 1770s he had become well-known as a skillful legislator and outstanding leader earning the nickname the Maryland Demosthenes after the ancient Greek orator and politician. He represented Maryland in the Continental Congresses from 1774 to 1778 and 1784 to 1785 and in 1778 served on as many as 30 committees in his tireless efforts to advance the cause of independence from Britain. He advocated a BOYCOTT of Britain and a political confederation of the colonies. He denounced those who opposed such policies as despicable tools of power emerged from obscurity and basking in proprietary sunshine. Together with benjamin franklin and Charles Carroll Chase traveled in 1776 to Montreal in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade Canada to join the American colonies in their revolt against England. He signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and worked for its acceptance in Maryland. Chase helped draft the Maryland Constitution in 1776. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates for all but a year and a half between 1777 and .