Meet the Ancestors

The stories of the people who shaped St. Anne’s Parish and Annapolis.

Meet the Ancestors: Jeremiah Townley Chase
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Meet the Ancestors: Jeremiah Townley Chase

Jeremiah Townley Chase (1748-1828)

Jeremiah’s parents died when he was 9 at which time he was adopted by his uncle, Rev. Thomas Chase, who raised him with his own son, Samuel Chase.

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Meet the Ancestors: Charles Wallace
Claire Miller Claire Miller

Meet the Ancestors: Charles Wallace

Charles Wallace was born in Annapolis in 1727, and he, along with his sister Mary Wallace, symbolizes the entrepreneurial spirit of many Americans before and after the Revolutionary War.

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