Chase, Rev. Thomas, 1703-1779

Scope and Contents Photostatic copies of papers and letters to the Chase family of Maryland, particularly of Annapolis, spanning 1714-1855. Letters are to and from Reverend Richard Chase, Reverend Thomas Chase, Thomas Chase (1774-1826), Matilda Chase (d.1829), Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase (1748-1828), Judge Samuel Chase (1741-1811), and Ann Chase (1711-1852). There is also correspondence between Maryanne Caton, Robert G. Harper, and Miss Ann Chase and genealogical information on the Chase, Townley, and...

Abstract

This collection contains Reverend Thomas Chase's 1759 English translation of Silius Italius's epic poem, "The Punicks," the longest surviving Latin poem from antiquity about the Second Punic War.