Jeremiah Townley Chase (May 23, 1748 – May 11, 1828) was an American lawyer, jurist, and land speculator from Annapolis, Maryland.

He served as a delegate for Maryland in the Continental Congress of 1783 and 1784, and for many years was chief justice of the state’s court of appeals.

When both his parents died in 1757 he was adopted by his uncle Reverend Thomas Chase, who was the Anglican rector of St. Paul's parish in Annapolis.

That same year he was named a member of Maryland's Executive Council, which functioned as the upper house of the legislature, and he would serve there until 1783, and later from 1785 to 1788.

When the Bill of Rights was formally adopted by Congress in 1789, Chase generally became a supporter of the Federalist Party.

[1] Jeremiah Chase and his cousin, John Francis Mercer vehemently opposed the Federal Constitution's ratification.

Despite his opposition to the Constitution, Chase was named as a justice in the state's General Court in 1789, serving for six years.

As tax commissioner, together with Charles Ridgely and his cousin Samuel, he speculated in ex-Tory lands in Annapolis and the port of Baltimore.

In 1811 he purchased the Hammond-Harwood House for his eldest daughter Frances Lookcerman to live in with her husband Richard Loockerman.

[1][3] The Hammond-Harwood House still stands on Maryland Avenue at King George Street in Annapolis.