Samuel Chase (1741–1811)
Samuel Chase was a U.S. Supreme Court colleague of Bushrod Washington.
Samuel Chase, early American statesman and justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, was born on 17 April 1741 in Somerset County, Maryland. An only child, he received a private education before leaving home at the age of eighteen to read law. He was admitted to the bar in 1761 and opened a practice in Annapolis. The following year Chase married Anne Baldwin (1740–1776/9), with whom he would have seven children, four of whom reached maturity.
Stephen B. Presser, "Chase, Samuel," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005).
"Chase, Samuel." West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edited by Shirelle Phelps and Jeffrey Lehman, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2005, pp. 325-330. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3437700800/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=10f5bda5. Accessed 1 Sept. 2023.
Samuel Chase at Federal Judicial Center.
Samuel Chase at Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
Samuel Chase at Find a Grave.
Samuel Chase at FamilySearch.