. Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . ns and fourdaughters ; the youngest of whom was only two weeks Thursday, the third of September, 1774, he was againunited in marriage, by the reverend Joseph Montgomery, toMiss Sarah Armitage, of Newcastle, in Delaware : fivechildren were the offspring of this union. At length, loaded with honours, this venerable patriot ar-rived at the ultima linea rerum, and departed to ^the gene-ration of his fathers, on the twenty-fourth of June, 1817,aged eighty-three years, two months, and sixteen days. Hisremains were interred in the
. Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . ns and fourdaughters ; the youngest of whom was only two weeks Thursday, the third of September, 1774, he was againunited in marriage, by the reverend Joseph Montgomery, toMiss Sarah Armitage, of Newcastle, in Delaware : fivechildren were the offspring of this union. At length, loaded with honours, this venerable patriot ar-rived at the ultima linea rerum, and departed to ^the gene-ration of his fathers, on the twenty-fourth of June, 1817,aged eighty-three years, two months, and sixteen days. Hisremains were interred in the burial ground of the first pres-byterian church, in Market street, Philadelphia. e2 MKEAN. Thomas MKeaii outlived all the enmities which an activeand conspicous part in public affairs had, in the nature ofthings, created, and posterity v^^ill continue to cherish hismemory, as one among the most useful, and able, and virtu-ous fathers of a mighty republic : Conscia mens recti, famx mendacu ridet, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A8T0R, LENOX AMDTILDEN ^£^2^z3m^ (mKs^mo Jjigiarrsafeimi allxaiMEng-iT IBJjm^cxe after a raivrtm^Tjv Jarvis. SAMUEL CHASE. The signers of the Declaration of Independence on belialfof the state of Maryland were four; Samuel Chase, Wil-liam Paca, Thomas Stone, and Charles Carroll ofCarrollton. Among the patriots of the revolution, none were more ac-tively engaged during its most trying scenes, and few moredistinguished in after life, than Samuel Chase. He was born on the seventeenth of April 1741, in Somersetcounty, Maryland, and was the child of the Reverend Tho-mas Chase, a very learned clergyman of the protestant epis-copal church, who emigrated from England, and marriedMatilda Walker, the daughter of a respectable farmer. The Rev. Mr. Chase having lost his wife, and succeedingat nearly the same time to the pastoral charge of St. Paulsparish, in Baltimore, removed with his son to that town inthe year 1743. Baltimore was, at that period, merel
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