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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=beprice&id=I26600
ID: I26600
Name: Eliza Chase
Given Name: Eliza
Surname: Chase
Sex: F
_UID: 87471F4654A2D7119E320050BA49826B21CE
Change Date: 19 Jun 2003 1
Father: Sylvester Chase b: 7 JAN 1754
Mother: Elizabeth Eddy
Marriage 1 John A. Brackett
Married:
Sources:
Abbrev: Price, Barry
Title: Price Family Tree
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=beprice&id=I26600
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 1
1. Eliza Chase. She was the daughter of 2. Sylvester Chase and 3. Elizabeth Eddy. She married John A. Brackett.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2
2. Sylvester Chase was born 7 JAN 1754. He was the son of 4. Ichabod Chase and 5. Phebe Slade.
3. Elizabeth Eddy.
Children of Elizabeth Eddy and Sylvester Chase are:
i. Patience Chase was born 8 APR 1786. She married Jacob Brenenstahl.
ii. Mary Chase was born 9 JAN 1788. She married Rufus Gallup 1818.
iii. Sylvester Chase.
1. iv. Eliza Chase. She married John A. Brackett.
v. Betsey Chase was born 7 MAY 1794. She married Benjamin Brenenstahl.
vi. Phebe Chase was born 8 OCT 1796. She married Josiah Harrington 23 NOV 1820.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 3
4. Ichabod Chase was born 30 MAR 1731 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died JAN 1806 in Somerset, Bristol, MA. He was the son of 8. Job Chase and 9. Patience Bourne.
5. Phebe Slade was born 4 JUN 1737. She was the daughter of 10. Edward Slade and 11. Deborah.
Children of Phebe Slade and Ichabod Chase are:
2. i. Sylvester Chase was born 7 JAN 1754. He married Elizabeth Eddy 20 MAY 1784.
ii. Edward Chase was born 15 MAR 1756. He married Sybil Slade 17 APR 1779.
iii. Deborah Chase was born 1 MAY 1758. She married Stephen Bourne 10 AUG 1778.
iv. Francis Chase was born 19 OCT 1760, and died 2 SEP 1847. He married Carlwright. He married Anna Weaver 15 NOV 1787, daughter of Peter Weaver and Lydia. She was born 6 MAY 1765, and died 10 MAY 1835.
v. Mercy Chase was born 8 MAR 1763. She married John Eddy 20 MAY 1784.
vi. Antipas Chase was born 4 MAY 1765, and died 29 OCT 1818. He married Anna W. Mason 14 SEP 1791, daughter of Isaac Mason and Abigail Martin. She was born 20 JUN 1770, and died 3 APR 1806. He married Susanna Hicks 29 SEP 1813, daughter of Samuel Hicks and Patience Burrington. She was born 17 NOV 1784.
vii. Gideon Chase was born 25 OCT 1767, and died 15 JUN 1837. He married Mary Hale Apr 4 1793 or 24 1793, daughter of Job Hale and Mary Mason. She was born 25 JAN 1775, and died 10 JAN 1851.
viii. Patience Chase was born 21 OCT 1770.
ix. Gardener Chase was born 28 SEP 1772, and died in Fall River, Bristol, MA. He married Chloe Davis 9 JAN 1794.
x. Phebe Chase was born 22 DEC 1777, and died 21 NOV 1861.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 4
8. Job Chase was born 21 AUG 1698 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died BEF 26 DEC 1766 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He was the son of 16. Joseph Chase and 17. Sarah Sherman.
9. Patience Bourne. She was the daughter of 18. Jared Bourne.
Children of Patience Bourne and Job Chase are:
i. Job Chase was born 24 APR 1720 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died in Malta, Saratoga, NY. He married Hannah Law 13 SEP 1743.
ii. Susannah Chase was born OCT 1722 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
iii. Joseph Chase was born 13 SEP 1724 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died ABT 1752. He married Phebe Chase 23 JAN 1748 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Elisha Chase and Elizabeth Wheaton. She was born 11 OCT 1727 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died 4 NOV 1797.
iv. Ebenezer Chase was born 30 APR 1727 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Martha Robinson 16 JUL 1747 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of William Robinson and Martha Bourne.
v. Jonathan Chase was born 1 JUL 1729 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Mary Earle 13 MAY 1754 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Oliver Earle and Rebecca Sherman. She was born 24 JUN 1736 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
4. vi. Ichabod Chase was born 30 MAR 1731 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died JAN 1806 in Somerset, Bristol, MA. He married Phebe Slade 30 AUG 1753 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Edward Slade and Deborah. She was born 4 JUN 1737.
10. Edward Slade.
11. Deborah.
Child of Deborah and Edward Slade is:
5. i. Phebe Slade was born 4 JUN 1737. She married Ichabod Chase 30 AUG 1753 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, son of Job Chase and Patience Bourne. He was born 30 MAR 1731 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died JAN 1806 in Somerset, Bristol, MA.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 5
16. Joseph Chase was born ABT 1673 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA, and died in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He was the son of 32. William CHASE and 33. Unk 2nd.
17. Sarah Sherman was born 24 SEP 1667 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died 19 SEP 1748. She was the daughter of 34. Samson Sherman and 35. Isabel Tripp.
Children of Sarah Sherman and Joseph Chase are:
i. Abigail Chase was born 6 MAY 1695 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI. She married John Davis 27 AUG 1720.
ii. Lydia Chase was born 18 AUG 1696 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI. She married Thomas Davis 4 MAR 1716/17.
8. iii. Job Chase was born 21 AUG 1698 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died BEF 26 DEC 1766 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Patience Bourne 5 NOV 1718 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Jared Bourne.
iv. Alice Chase was born 16 JUL 1700 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI.
v. Ruth Chase was born 15 FEB 1702 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI.
vi. Samson Chase was born 1 FEB 1704 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI.
vii. Isabel Chase was born 6 AUG 1705 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI. She married Benjamin Buffington 8 AUG 1726, son of Benjamin BUFFINGTON and Hannah Buffum. He was born 9 APR 1701 in Lynn, Essex, MA, and died 9 APR 1760.
viii. Joseph Chase was born 11 MAY 1706 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI.
ix. Stephen Chase was born 2 MAR 1709 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died 23 JUN 1790 in Cornwallis, King's, NS. He married Esther Buffington 11 SEP 1728 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, daughter of Benjamin BUFFINGTON and Hannah Buffum. She was born 30 OCT 1712, and died 14 JUL 1750. He married Basheba Stafford 20 APR 1751 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Joseph Stafford and Sarah. She died ABT 1763. He married Abigail Porter 7 AUG 1764 in , , NS. He married Mary Bushnell 28 JAN 1776.
x. Sarah Chase was born 14 AUG 1711 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. She married George Shove 20 NOV 1730.
xi. Silas Chase was born ABT 1713 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Hannah Buffington 20 DEC 1733 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Benjamin BUFFINGTON and Hannah Buffum. She was born 1 MAY 1713, and died ABT 1771. He married Sarah Tucker 27 MAY 1774 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Moses Tucker and Sarah. She was born 16 JUL 1727 in Westerly, Washington, RI.
xii. George Chase was born ABT 1715 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died BEF 1790 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Lydia Shove 8 FEB 1736 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Edward Shove and Lydia Wetherell. She was born 31 JUL 1707. He married Sarah Cornell.
xiii. Ebenezer Chase was born ABT 1717 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
xiv. Moses Chace was born ABT 1718 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Alice Sherman 25 MAR 1742 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, daughter of Samuel Sherman and Martha Tripp.
18. Jared Bourne.
Child of Jared Bourne is:
9. i. Patience Bourne. She married Job Chase 5 NOV 1718 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, son of Joseph Chase and Sarah Sherman. He was born 21 AUG 1698 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died BEF 26 DEC 1766 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
Ahnentafel, Generation No. 6
32. William CHASE was born 15 JUN 1621 in Rogate Parish, Sussex, , England, and died 27 FEB 1684/85 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA. He was the son of 64. William CHASE and 65. Mary.
33. Unk 2nd.
Children of Unk 2nd and William CHASE are:
i. Abraham Chase was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA, and died BEF 17 OCT 1738 in Tiverton, MA/RI. He married Living.
16. ii. Joseph Chase was born ABT 1673 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA, and died in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Sarah Sherman 28 FEB 1693/94 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, daughter of Samson Sherman and Isabel Tripp. She was born 24 SEP 1667 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died 19 SEP 1748.
iii. Benjamin Chase was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA, and died ABT 1716 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI. He married Amy Borden 21 NOV 1696 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, daughter of John Borden and Mary Earle. She was born 30 MAY 1678 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died ABT 1716 in Freetown, Bristol, MA.
iv. Samuel Chase was born in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA, and died BEF 4 APR 1758 in Swansea, Bristol, MA. He married Sarah Sherman 1699, daughter of Samuel Sherman and Martha Tripp. She was born 10 APR 1682 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI.
34. Samson Sherman was born APR 1642, and died 27 JUN 1718. He was the son of 68. Philip Sherman and 69. Sarah Odding.
35. Isabel Tripp was born ABT 1651, and died BEF 1716. She was the daughter of 70. John Tripp and 71. Mary Paine.
Children of Isabel Tripp and Samson Sherman are:
i. Phillip Sherman.
17. ii. Sarah Sherman was born 24 SEP 1667 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, and died 19 SEP 1748. She married Joseph Chase 28 FEB 1693/94 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, son of William CHASE and Unk 2nd. He was born ABT 1673 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA, and died in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
iii. Alice Sherman was born 12 JAN 1680 in Swansea, Bristol, MA, and died AFT 14 JUL 1718 in , , RI. She married James STRANGE. He was born ABT 1674.
iv. Samson Sherman.
v. Abiel Sherman.
vi. Job Sherman.
vii. Isabel Sherman was born 1686. She married Joseph BAKER 1711, son of Daniel BAKER and Elizabeth Chase. He died 1729 in Swansea, Bristol, MA.
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=beprice&id=I18385
ID: I18385
Name: Joseph Chase
Given Name: Joseph
Surname: Chase
Sex: M
_UID: 70271F4654A2D7119E320050BA49826BEA7E
Change Date: 30 Oct 2007 1 2
Birth: ABT 1673 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Death: in Swansea, Bristol, MA
Probate: 30 MAR 1725 Swansea, Bristol, MA
Will: 8 NOV 1724 Swansea, Bristol, MA
Note:
The Last will & testament of Joseph Chase of Showomock Purchase in the County of Bristol in the Province of the Massachusits Bay in New England yeoman: as followeth altho often attended with weakness of body yet of a perfect and sound mind & memory and Desirous to dispose & settle that Little Estate that it hath Pleased God to bestow & afford unto me in this world to & amongst my wife and children is as followeth.
Item - I give and bequeath unto my Eldest son Job Chase all my Land on the east side the way that Leads from Isaac Chases to John Perses excepting what is here after Disposed of, also sixteen acors of Land lying at the Lower end of the uper Lot. The whole bredth of sd sixteen acors to be no wider then it buts on to Perses hed of his lot which is to Run??? over the brook, allways alowing a Driftway threw sd Land to his brothers as it now Goes and a Convinent landing at both sides the way at the River, and all my Right in the ??? (above) to him the sd Job Chase his heirs and Assigns forever.
Item - I give and bequeath unto my four sons Stephen Chase, Silas Chase, George Chase and Ebenezer Chase all my Land Lying to the westard of sd way that Leads from Isaac Chases to John Perses excepting what is already Disposed of and one acor more to be Disposed of always allowing a driftway through sd Land as it now Lead to sd River to them and their brothers the sd Stephen Chase his heirs & Assigns shall have the westardly fourth Part across sd Land and to Silas Chase his heirs & Assigns shall have the next fourth Part across sd Land, and to George Chase his heirs & Assigns shall have the next fourth Part across sd Land and to Ebenezer Chase his heirs and Assigns shall have the other fourth Part across next to the sd way. Furthermore, my will is that if either of my four sons dye before they come to the age of twenty one years or without issue that their Portion shall be Divided amongst the survivers of sd four brothers.
Item - I give and bequeath unto my youngest son Moses Chase his heirs and assigns my new dwelling house and orchard so far Northard as the old orchard extends where there is an ofset, and from sd corner of the orchard downward untill ten Rods below the barn and from thence southardly on a strate line to Perses Land allways alowing a convinent driftway by Gates as the way now goes Gates well being for the use of his brothers and also one Acor of Land above the Road which is called the Little Meddow furthermore my will is that if my son Moses Chase dye before he comes of age of twenty one years or without issue then the sd house and Land shall Return to my son Job Chase his heirs and Assigns upon condition the sd Job shall deliver the A sd sixteen acors land & one acor of meddow above the way my four sons above named to them their heirs and assigns.
Item - I Give and bequeath to my Daugter Abigail Davis five pound in money
Item - I Give and bequeath to my Daugter Lidya Davis five pound in money
Item - I Give and bequeath to my Daugter Alice Chase one Good feather bed and furniture belonging to it and a Good Chest of Drawers a cow & teen sheep & five pound in money.
Item - I Give and bequeath to my Daugter Isabel Chase one Good feather bed and furniture belonging to it and a Good trunk and one Good cow & ten sheep & five pound in money.
Item - I Give and bequeath to my Daugter Sarah Chase one Good feather bed and furniture belonging to it and a Good Chest of Drawers and one Good cow ten sheep and five pound in money.
Item - I Give and bequeath to my Daugter Ruth chase one Good feather bed and furniture belonging to it and a Good Chest of Drawers one Good cow ten sheep & five pound in money.
Item - I Give and bequeath to my well beloved Wife Sarah Chase one Good feather bed and furniture belonging to it one table and table linnin belonging to it one case of Drawers my Riding mare and side saddle at her disposing, and for her comfortable maintainance during her widdowhood my Dwelling house with the Priviliges belonging to it the Garden & well twenty Apple trees ten sheep two cows sd stock to be kept on sd farm and firewood cut and brought home as much as she hath occasion of for her particular use, it to be done by my sons. Furthermore my will is that my wife shall take care of my Daugter Ruth and shall Recive her Portion and take care of it for her also my will is that my son Stephen Chase shall have my Gun, also my will is that all my sons shall have my woodden and Iron working geer and my tools ?? belon in farming work and carpentry work Equally Divided Amonst them also I constitute make and ordain my well beloved wife Sarah Chase to be my executrix of this my Last will & testament and my well beloved son Job Chase to be my executor of this my last will & testament, and further my will is that my executrix and executor Pay all my Just Debts and legesees out of the movables? estate and what Remains to be Divided among my children equally after my wifes disceas or widdowhood In Witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and fixed my seal this eighth Day of the nint month Called November and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred twenty four 1724
Signed Sealed Pronounsed and Declared to be my Last will & testament in the Presents off
Isaac Chase Samuell Chase and Unknown signature
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Religion: Quaker
Residence: BET 1688 AND 1709 Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Residence: 1709-1724/25
_SDATE: 24 709 Swansea, Bristol, MA
Father: William CHASE b: 15 JUN 1621 in Rogate Parish, Sussex, , England
Mother: Unk 2nd
Marriage 1 Sarah Sherman b: 24 SEP 1667 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Married: 28 FEB 1693/94 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Children
Abigail Chase b: 6 MAY 1695 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Lydia Chase b: 18 AUG 1696 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Job Chase b: 21 AUG 1698 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Alice Chase b: 16 JUL 1700 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Ruth Chase b: 15 FEB 1702 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Samson Chase b: 1 FEB 1704 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Isabel Chase b: 6 AUG 1705 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Joseph Chase b: 11 MAY 1706 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Stephen Chase b: 2 MAR 1709 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
Sarah Chase b: 14 AUG 1711 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
Silas Chase b: ABT 1713 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
George Chase b: ABT 1715 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
Ebenezer Chase b: ABT 1717 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
Moses Chace b: ABT 1718 in Swansea, Bristol, MA
Sources:
Abbrev: Price, Barry
Title: Price Family Tree
Abbrev: "Genealogy of the Ancestrors and Descendants of Joseph Chase Who Died in Swanzey
Title: Oliver Chase
1874 Fall River, Bristol, MA
Quality: 2
Abbrev: Chace, Jeffrey
Title: j.b.chace@amaze.nl
<u>www.chace.demon.nl</u>
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=beprice&id=I2878
ID: I2878
Name: William CHASE
Given Name: William
Surname: CHASE
Sex: M
_UID: DDEA1E4654A2D7119E320050BA49826B19AD
Change Date: 7 Jun 2006 1
Birth: 15 JUN 1621 in Rogate Parish, Sussex, , England
Death: 27 FEB 1684/85
_SDATE: 27 FEB 1684 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Probate: 2 JUN 1685 Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Note: It was ordered by a General Court held at Plymouth "that Capt. John Thacher & Mr. Barnabas Lothropp [are] to setle the estate of William Chase, of Yarmouth, deceased." 2
Residence: Near Herring River east side of Bass River Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Event: Military AUG 1643 Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Note:
List to bear arms.
Drummer Aug 24 -Sep 2 1645 recived 5 s for services.
3 4
Event: Violence Crim 6 MAR 1654/55
_SDATE: 6 MAR 1654 General Court, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
Note: "William Chase Junr. for goeing into the house of Richard Berry, and taking away by violence a p'cell of flax and a smale p'cell of hose yarne, was sentanced to sitt in the stockes an houre on a training day att Yarmouth." 5
Father: William CHASE b: ABT 1600 in , , , England
Mother: Mary b: ABT 1600 in , , , England
Marriage 1 Elizabeth
Married: ABT 1644
Children
William CHASE b: ABT 1645 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Jacob Chase b: ABT 1647 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
John CHASE b: 6 APR 1649 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Elizabeth Chase b: ABT 1653 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Marriage 2 Unk 2nd
Married:
Children
Abraham Chase b: in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Joseph Chase b: ABT 1673 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Benjamin Chase b: in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Samuel Chase b: in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Sources:
Abbrev: Price, Barry
Title: Price Family Tree
Abbrev: Plymouth Colony Records
Title: Vol 3 p 172
Page: Vol 6 pp170
Abbrev: Plymouth Colony Records
Title: Vol 3 p 172
Page: Vol 8 pp194
Abbrev: Plymouth Colony Records
Title: Vol 3 p 172
Page: Vol 2 pp91
Abbrev: Plymouth Colony Records
Title: Vol 3 p 172
Page: Vol 3 pp74
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http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=beprice&id=I15
ID: I15
Name: William CHASE
Given Name: William
Surname: CHASE
Sex: M
_UID: AEDF1E4654A2D7119E320050BA49826BDF18
Change Date: 7 Jun 2006
Note:
William CHASE
Born
Died wp 13 My 1659
English Origin Wivenhoe, Essex
Came to New England 1630
With Winthrop fleet
Resided, Roxbury; Yarmouth 1638
Freeman of MBC My 1634
Occupation carpenter
First Spouse Mary (d 1659)
Children: William, Mary, Benjamin,
William Chase and his family lived at Roxbury from 1630 to 1638; and the following information about them has been copied from the records of the church at Roxbury kept by Rev. John Eliot:
"William Chase, he came with the first company, 1630; he brought one child his son william a child of ill qualitys, & a sore affliction to his parents: he was much afflicted by the long & tedious affliction of his wife; after his wives recovery she bare him a daughter, wch they named mary borne aboute the modle of the 3d month [May], 1637. he did after yt remove (intending) to Situate, but after went with a company who maide a new plantation at yarmouth." (Roxbury Church Records. pp. 73-74.)
"Mary Chase, the wife of William Chase. she had a paralitik humor wch fell into her backbone, so yt she could not stir her body, but as she was lifted, and filled her wth great torture, & caused her back bone to goe out of joynt, & bunch out from the begining to the end of wch infirmity she lay 4 years & a halfe, & a great pt of the time a sad spectakle of misery: But it pleasd God to raise her againe, & she bore children after it." (Ib, p. 75.)
William Chase was named, 19 Oct. 1630, among those "who desire to be made freeman;" and he was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on 14 May 1634. (REGISTER, vol. 3, pp. 90, 92.) In 1639 he moved to Yarmouth on Cape Cod, was appointed constable for the town of Yarmouth by the General Court of the Plymouth Colony, 5 Mar. 1638/9, and took the oath of office 4 June 1639. (Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 1, pp. 116, 125.)
His life at Yarmouth was not a peaceful one. Trouble with Marduke Mathewes brought him before the Court almost immediately, on 1 Sept. 1640 he was censured for his "miscarriages" against Mr. Mathewes and desturbance of the proceedings of the church, Court, and "contrey," and he gave the General Court bond for L20 for his appearance at the next Court, 2 MAr. 1640/1. (Ib., vol. 1, pp. 135, 162, vol. 2, p. 9.) In 1641 he was again in Court on account of a disagreement with Nicholas Sympkins concerning a fence. (Ib., vol. 2, p. 20.)
A carpenter by trade, he made an agreement in 1639 to build a house for Dr. Thomas Starr, which was sold to Andrew Hallet. (Swift's History of Yarmouth, p. 29.) On 8 June 1642 he mortgaged to Stephen Hopkins, as security for a debt of L5, "his house and lands in Yarmouth containeing Eight acrees of upland and six acres more lying at the Stony cove with all & singular the app'tences therunto belonging." (Plymouth Colony Deeds, vol. 1, p. 83.) In August 1643 he and his son, William Chase, Jr., were among the Yarmouth men "able to beare Armes from XVI Yeares old to 60 Yeares." (Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 8, p. 194.)
On 7 Mar. 1647/8 the Plymouth Colony Court authorized Capt. Myles Standish to go to Yarmouth and put an end to the differences in that town; and Captian Standish went there and settled the troubles, 13 May 1648. The following records relate to William Chase and his lands:
"Also yt Mr. Hawes shall enjoy 8 acres of upland or thereabouts, in the west field [in Yarmouth] which hee bought of Goodman Chase. "Item, it is graunted to John Darby to have six acares of meadow in the Eastern Swan Pond Meadowe, in lewe of 4 acars dew to William Chase, for a debt the town owed him. "It is lickwise granted yt Mr. Howes shall have . . . eight acares of meadow, late William Chases, lyeing next vnto Edward Sturges meadow, between the river and Mr. Simkins necke." (Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 2. pp. 128-130.)
At the General Court held at Plymouth, 6 June 1654, the "Grand Enquest" presented "William Chase, Senr. of Yarmouth for driveing one paire of oxen in the yoke vpon the Lords day, in time of exercise, about five miles." (Ib., vol. 3, p. 52.)
In the records of the General Court held at Plymouth, 3 Oct. 1654, is the following entry:
"Robert Dennis, in the behalfe of William Chase, of Yarmouth, tendereth to make satisfaction for the debt demanded upon bill by John Hoare, in the behalfe of William Francklin, of Boston. Upon the ballancing of the account betwixt the said Francklin ant the said Chase, the said Robert Dennis is willing to enter bond to answare what soeuer shall bee due to the said Francklin from William Chase aforesaid." (Ib., vol. 7, p. 72.)
The estate of John Derby of Yarmouth was indebted to William Chase, 22 Feb. 1655. (The Mayflower Descendant, vol. 14, p. 112.) William Chase was one of twenty-two Yarmouth men who took the oath of fidelity in the year 1657 (ib., vol. 8, pp. 185, 186), and William Chase, Sr., was one of the surveyors of highways in Yarmouth, 3 June 1657 (ib., vol. 3, p. 116.)
The witnesses to this will deposed before Gov. Thomas Prence of the Plymouth Colony 13 MAy 1659. The inventory of the personal estate of the deceased, taken 14 Sept. 1659, is as follows:
An Inventory of the goods and chattles of William Chase late of Yarmouth deceased, taken and prised by us Robert Dennis, Richard Taylor and Edmond Hawes the 14th of September 1659.
Division of the estate of William Chase, deceased, was ordered at a General Court held at Plymouth, 6 Oct. 1659, as the following entries in the records of the Plymouth Colony show:
These are to signify vnto you, Robert Dennis that the Court requireth you, according to the last will and testament of William Chase deceased, that you make devision of his estate according to the tenure thereof, viz: to Benjamine Chase, son of the said William Chase, two ptes of three thereof, and the other remaining third pte to William Chase, Junier, the eldest sonne of the said William Chase, deceased. The Courts order pr me Nathaneell Morton, Clarke. October, 1659. Mr. Thomas Hinckley is appointed and deputed by the Court to adminnester an oath to the witnesses of the will and inventory of the late deceased William Chase. (Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 3, p. 172.)
Mary Chase, wife of William Chase, who was living when her husband made his will, 4 May 1659, died on or before 6 Oct. 1659, for she is not mentioned in the division of her husband's estate that was ordered on that day, and on the same day the following report of the inquest held to inquire into the cause of her death was made:
6 Oct. 1659. Wee, whose names are vnderwritten, haveing made serch and enquiry, according to our best light and vnderstanding, into the cause of the death of Mary Chase, viz, of our towne of Yarmouth, doe with joynt consent p'sent, the day and yeare above said, that wee can find noe other but that shee died a natural death through inward sickness, as is evident to all men naturally.
Anthony Thacher, Samuel Ryder, Richard Tayler,
Rob: Dennis, Richard Hore, John Crow,
John Joyce, John Miller, William Hedge,
John Hall, Andrew Hallott, Edward Sturgis,
(Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 3, p. 172.)
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Birth: ABT 1600 in , , , England
Death: BET 4 MAY 1659 AND 13 MAY 1659 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA 2
Probate: 1659 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA 3
Probate: 14 SEP 1659 Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Note:
The witnesses to this will deposed before Gov. Thomas Prence of the Plymouth Colony 13 MAy 1659. The inventory of the personal estate of the deceased, taken 14 Sept. 1659, is as follows:
An Inventory of the goods and chattles of William Chase late of Yarmouth deceased, taken and prised by us Robert Dennis, Richard Taylor and Edmond Hawes the 14th of September 1659.
Division of the estate of William Chase, deceased, was ordered at a General Court held at Plymouth, 6 Oct. 1659, as the following entries in the records of the Plymouth Colony show:
These are to signify vnto you, Robert Dennis that the Court requireth you, according to the last will and testament of William Chase deceased, that you make devision of his estate according to the tenure thereof, viz: to Benjamine Chase, son of the said William Chase, two ptes of three thereof, and the other remaining third pte to William Chase, Junier, the eldest sonne of the said William Chase, deceased. The Courts order pr me Nathaneell Morton, Clarke. October, 1659. Mr. Thomas Hinckley is appointed and deputed by the Court to adminnester an oath to the witnesses of the will and inventory of the late deceased William Chase. (Plymouth Colony Records, vol. 3, p. 172.)
An Inventory of the goods and chattles of Willa Chase late of Yarmouth deceased taken and prised by us Robert Dennis, Richard Taylor and Edmond Hawes the 14th of September 1659.
œ s. d.
Impr 3 Calves 2 0 0
It 4 steers of 4 years old and vantage 18 0 0
It 2 oxen 11 0 0
It 3 yearlings 4 0 0
It two 2 yearlings 4 10 0
It 5 cowes 15 0 0
It 1 bull and a steer of three yeares old
and vantage 5 0 0
It 1 paire of cart wheeles and a chaine
and other thinges belonging thereto 1 10 0
It 1 saw and three wedges 11 0
It old axes 1 hand saw 1 paire of hinges
and old Iron thinges0 11 04
It 1 Iron pot and skillett & hookes 0 10 0
It 1 old brasse kIt tle and spIt t and hangers 0 08 0
It 2 Iron kIt tles 0 14 0
It 7 trayes and other wooden thinges 0 10 0
It 5 peeces of pewter 0 09 0
It in earthen thinges 0 03 06
It in old baggs and basketts 0 02 0
It in barrells and ferkins 0 07 0
It in smoothen Iron 0 01 0
It 1 paire of wooden scales 0 01 0
It 2 paire of sheets1 04 0
It 1 smale Table Cloth 0 02 0
It in New Linnine cloth 0 12 0
It 3 pillow beers 0 16 0
It 6 Changes 0 16 0
It 2 pillow beers 0 03 0
It in several peeces of linnine 0 16 0
It 1 old skarfe 0 4 0 Page 48
It 2 petty coates 2 10 0
It 1 wastcoate 0 08 0
It 1 Green apron and old petty coate
and other old thinges 0 11 0
It 2 hatts 2 pillowes 0 18 0
It 2 bolster teekes 0 06 0
It 1 Indian coate and an old blankett 0 12 0
It 1 old fflocke bed 0 04 0
It in woolen yarne 0 03 0
It 2 chists and old chaires 0 16 0
It 1 paire of tonges 0 01 06
It 3 shootes 01 10 0 FTMPage 4
Edmond Hawes Robert Dennis (Plymouth Colony Probate Records.)
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Will: 4 MAY 1659 Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Note:
In his will, dated 4 May 1659 and witnessed by Richard Hoar and Mary Dennis, "William Chase of Yarmouth the elder; being aged," made the following bequests and provisions:
To "my son Benjamine . . . one heifer Calfe and two steer Calves of a yeare old and upwards." To "my son William whoe hath had of mee alreddy a good portion; the sume of five shillings . . . if he Demand it. All the rest of my goods, Cattles and Chattles I give . . . unto Mary my wife together with this my Dwelling house the land and all appurtenances thereunto belonging; as alsoe halfe of my lott of land att the Basse pond which I bought of William Palmer a middle line made and that halfe next to Darbeyes I give unto her . . . alsoe my orchyard and land I bought of goodman White . . . all unto her use and Disposing During her natural life; if shee continew a widdow; and when shee Dies to Dispose a third pte of that estate God shall leave her as shee shall thinke goode; the other two ptes to our son Benjamine aforesaid. I Doe appoint my Naighbors Robert Dennis and Richard Tayler overseers of this my last will." [The mark of William Chase.] (Plymouth Colony Probate Records.)
Occupation: Carpenter
Event: HIS BET 1624 AND 1630 , , MA
Note:
Note from the Chronicles- July 1928
Coming of the 1st Chase to Mass.
** Punctuation and spelling, verbatim, as appeared in the article.
THE TERCENTENARY OF MASSACHUSETTS
AND THE COMING OF THE FIRST CHASE
Address Given by the Rev. Glenn Tilley Morse, B.D.
Chaplain of the Society of the Governor and Company of
Massachusetts Bay in New England
We hear a great deal now about American tercentenaries and it is natural
that we should: for the permanent settlement of our country began in the
seventeenth century.
Virginia settled in 1607, was almost a generation ahead of New England.
Of course there had been explorers in New England from time to time for several centuries and, from the beginning of the sixteenth century, there had been a number of attempts at settlement by individuals and small groups.
But no permanent settlement had been made nor government established.
The year 1930 has been set as the tercentenary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Of course the Plymouth Colony was settled in 1620. Before 1627, there may have been fifty white, of both sexes and all ages, dwelling
in seven separate settlements on the shores of Boston Bay, according to the estimate of Charles Francis Adams. The heads of the various plantations held a counsel for common safety against Indians and outlaws; but there was
no settled government.
The world was ready for great migrations. It was a time of great national movement and of change in the life and government of the people. The century 1528 to 1628 was one of marked transition and advancement. A new spirit of liberty was abroad and would not be subdued. Great elements of learning, aspiration, individuality, and independence were at work. The Bible in English was read and studied everywhere and by people of all classes. It gave rise to new theories of government, of religion, and of social duty: it invested man himself with a new dignity and power. It instructed and directed the condition, government, and personal life of all, from the king to the humblest peasant, and, while making demands, it also
held out blessed promises.
Knowledge was spread as never before, through the perfecting of the printing-press, and brought self-confidence, the love of adventure, and interest in trade and colonization. England was the leading land of
freedom. Common schools spread learning everywhere. The greatest ancient authors were translated into English and published before 1600. Classical learning was general. English youths traveled abroad for study and culture.
It was a period of great English literature.. Shakespeare, Bacon, and their contemporaries, writers in every field flourished.
Bloody Mary's persecutions scattered non-romanists abroad into every protestant centre and they brought back protestant ideas.
As the literature of the age was the fruit of the time, so were the men, who, in 1628, determined, in the service of civil and religious freedom, to reform England beyond the Atlantic. The struggle was to determine whether the English people should live under an absolute or a liberal monarchy.
English kings still claimed the right to tax without Parliament, to persecute non-conformity, to force loans, to determine the franchise, and unlawfully to imprison. But in the third Parliament of Charles I., March 1628, the king was startled by the courageous spirit of the people. He was obliged to give assent to the famous Bill of Rights, the second greater charter of English liberty.
And it was at this time that the first grant was given to Massachusetts.
The "Great Patent of New England" had been granted by James I., on Nov. 3, 1620, to the Council established at Plymouth in Devonshire, incorporated for planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England. Other grants had
been given as well. Several attempts had been made for settlements.
In 1622, Edward Winslow was sent by the Pilgrims at Plymouth to England to report about the colony and the procure supplies. In London, he conferred with Robert Cushman, who had been at Plymouth. They aroused interest in
England. Among those interested were Rev. John White of Dorchester, England, and Edmond, Lord Sheffield, a prominent member of the Council of New England.
A charter, made Jan. 1, 1623, between Lord Sheffield and Robert Cushman and Edmond Winslow for themselves and their Associates at Plymouth in New England gave them a certain "Tract of Ground commonly called Cape Anne" and
free liberty to fish, fowle, &c. and trade thereabout and in all other places in New England "whereof the said Lord Sheffield is or hath been possessed", to be allotted for every person that shall come and dwell there within seven years. After seven years, they are to pay a rental of twelve pence for every thirty acres.
The Rev. John White saw the advantages of such a settlement and he was a leader in forming the Dorchester Fishing Company in England. They resolved to make the experiment of planting a small colony on the coast of New
England; so that fishing vessels might leave there the spare men not requires to navigate their vessels home, who might employ themselves in building, planting, &c. and be ready to join the ships on their return next year. They had felt the need of it in their fishing ventures, as the
slow-going vessels had been late in arriving on the fishing grounds in the spring and had reached the markets of England and Spain too late in the season, on their return, to sell their fish to advantage. The colony of
fisherman settled in New England might get the early spring catch and have it ready.
Cape Anne was selected as the site of this experiment. The company sent over a band of men in the winter 1623-1624, who settled at Stage Point, which is now Gloucester. John Smith, in his "General History", written in 1624, says, "by Cape Anne, there is a plantation by the Dorchester men, which they hold of those at New Plymouth, who have set up a fishing work."
We have undoubted evidence that the Cape Anne planters settled there by right of the charter granted by Lord Sheffield to Winslow and Cushman.
They immediately organized, with Mr. Thomas Gardner overseer of the plantation, who was thus the first man in authority on the territory which later became the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Mr. John Tilley had charge of
the fisheries. Gardner and Tilley had the title of Mr. and were evidently not used to pioneer work. The lack of fertility of the soil made the plantation unsuccessful. In 1625, Roger Conant, having been recommended, was invited to come from Nantucket "for the management and government of all affairs at Cape Anne." He was engaged by the officers of the company and informed "that they had chosen him to be their governor in that place."
Roger Conant found out the cause of the failure was poor soil. He explored and discovered a more commodious place, on the other side of the creek, called Naumkeag.
The settlement broke up in 1626 and most of the men returned to England.
The Rev. John White wrote to Conant that. if he would induce John Woodbury, John Balch, and Peter Palfrey to stay with him and send him whatever he needed "either men or provisions of goods wherewith to trade with the
Indians."
Conant, with a few men, went to work at Naumkeag (Salem), erected houses, and tilled the soil, using fish as fertilizer. He conferred with the Indians and received from them "free leave to build and plant, where we have
taken up their lands." He sent John Woodbury back to England to appeal for more men and supplies.
In England things were progressing. The Council, established at Plymouth, England, "for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England,"
sold to Sir Henry Roswell, Sir John Humphrey, John Endicott, and Silas Whitcomb that part of New England, three miles north of the Merrimac and three miles south of the Charles River, in "the Bottom of Massachusetts Bay," from the Atlantic Ocean to the "South Sea."
The Council that sold the land had been incorporated the third of November, 1620, under the patent of King James. The men mentioned in the new grant formed the "Company of Massachusetts Bay." They chose Mr. Matthew Craddock for Governor in England. The Great Council of Plymouth, on March 19, 1628, thus granted the land to those five men, in a patent which is not known to be in existence now, but the substance of which is recited in the charter obtained the following year. This grant extinguished the claim of the Council of Plymouth to this territory and enabled the patentees, if their enterprise proved successful, to procure the Royal Charter of 1629.
The patentees were in earnest and at once organized an expedition. John Endicott. who was the only one of the patentees to come over to America at that time, manifested such willingness to embark that he gave great encouragement to all interested. He was selected to be governor in Massachusetts. Endicott and about fifty men sailed on the ship Abigail from Weymouth, June 20, 1628, and landed at Salem, September 18, 1628.
Dr. Palfrey, the Historian, thus describes the landing: "When the vessel which bore the first Governor of Massachusetts was entering the harbor of Salem, she was anxiously watched from the beach by four individuals, styled in the quaint chronicles of the time as 'Roger Conant and three sober men' .
The vessel swung to her moorings and flung the red cross of St. George to the breeze, a boat put off for the shore, and, that the Governor might land dry shod, Roger Conant and 'his three sober men' rolled up their pantaloons,
waded into the water, and bore him on their shoulders to the dry land." In behalf of the patentees, Endicott took possession of the territory described in the Patent.
Thus the permanent settlement was established legally and effectively. The Colony of Massachusetts then and there began her career and a firm and settled authority has ever since existed here. This settlement was made under the authority of the Company of Massachusetts Bay in London, which had bought out the right of the Dorchester Company in New England. So Endicott and his companions had the authority to take all possessions of all the rights of the old planters under the Dorchester Company.
These former planters were not altogether satisfied with the advent of a new company in which they had no part. But the new company was careful to give the old planters equal rights with themselves. They confirmed to the old
planters their cultivated lands and gave them every privilege enjoyed by themselves, even a place in the government. The old planters were requested to name from their own number two members of the Governing Council. All
differences were adjusted and, as if to commemorate the happy settlement and as typical of the peace that followed, the Indian name of Naumkeag was changed to Salem. They were careful to give the Indians fair dealings and purchased land from them if there was any question.
The first year was one of hardship and many died. But Endicott and his band kept up their courage and perseverance, He sent back home reports that encouraged others to come.
In April, 1629, six vessels sailed from England for Salem. John Smith, writing that same year, calls those who came in them " a great company of people of good rank, zeal, means, and quality. He gives the following lists of the ships' names and armament: "The George Bonaventure, of 20 pieces of ordnance, the Talbot 19, the Lion's Whelp 8, the Mayflower 14, the Four Sisters 14, the Pilgrim 4, with 350 men, women, and children; also an hundred and fifteen head of cattle, as horse, mares, and neat beast, 140 goats, some conies, with all provision for household and apparell; 6 pieces of great ordnance for a fort, with muskets, pikes, corslets, drums, colours, with all provisions necessary for a plantation, for the good of men."
Among the colonists who came in 1629 were four ministers, Rev. Francis Higginson and Rev. John Skelton, who became leaders in Salem, and the Rev. Francis Bright and Rev. Ralph Smith, who soon went to Charlestown. Other prominent men were Mr. Samuel Sharp, "by us entertained to be master-gunner of our ordnance"; Mr. Thomas Graves, an engineer; Lambert Wilson, a surgeon; there were carpenters, shipwrights, wheelwrights, shoemakers, hunters, and others especially valuable in establishing a permanent settlement. There were 60 women and 26 children.
The Rev. Francis Higginson wrote an account of the voyage in a daily journal, which is most interesting: "Previous to this embarkment, a charter was granted. It was dated March 4, 1629, and granted and confirmed to the former patentees, named in the patent, and twenty associates the same territory, to hold by the same tenure and made them 'a body corporate and politic, in fact and in name', by the name of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England. That this government was at the time
intended to be permanent, there seems to be no doubt. This large grant of power to a subordinate government shows the purpose of establishing a state independent and complete in itself, owing no duty to the crown of England, except so far as the Charter compelled it to pay one-fifth part of all precious metals found in the soil to the King and forbade them to make laws repugnant to England." This was the construction put upon the Charter by the founders of Massachusetts.
These people were churchmen. They were puritans, but not separatists. In the year 1628-29, the puritans expected to remain in the Communion of the Church of England and to reform, within the Church, what they considered faults.
The Rev. Francis Higginson said, on leaving England, "We will not say, as the separatists were won't to say at their leaving England, 'Farewell Babylon, farewell Rome', but we will say, farewell dear England, farewell the Church of God in England, and all our Christian friends there! We do not go to New England as separatists from the Church of England; though we cannot but separate from the corruptions in it; but we go to practice the positive part of Church reformation and propagate the Gospel in America".
And so he concluded with a fervent prayer for the King and Church and State in England.
At the meeting of the Company in England on April 30, 1629, John Endicott was confirmed as Governor, with Mess'rs Higginson, Skelton, Bright, John and Samuel Brown, Thomas Graves, and Samuel Sharp as members of the Council.
The Governor and Council were to choose three more and the Planters (former settlers) two in addition. The official name of this governing body of thirteen men was the "Governor and Council of London's Plantation in the
Massachusetts Bay in New England".
It appears that Endicott's administration held courts, councils, and elections, decided who were to have the franchise, granted lands, made laws, and regulated the civil and religious affairs of the Colony, under his
appointment by the Company, until he was superseded by Winthrop in 1630.His administration, in spite of perplexities and hardships, was successful.
The removal of the Charter of New England was repeatedly advocated. Several meetings of the Court of Proprietors were held in London and at one on Oct. 16, 1629, it was thought "fit that Captain Endicott continue the government
there, unless just cause to the contrary." Four days later, however, they decided to erect a new Governor, Deputy, and Assistants, and John Winthrop was chosen Governor, John Humphrey, Deputy Governor, and Sir Richard
Saltonstall, Matthew Craddock, John Endicott, and fifteen others as a board of Assistants. The home governor, Matthew Craddock, had given way when the new governor, who was to take the Charter and the whole government to New
England, was elected. The last meeting of the Great and General Court in England was held Feb. 10, 1630.
Great preparations were made. Seventeen vessels, bearing Winthrop and more than a thousand passengers, sailed from England. Winthrop sailed March 29, in the Arbella, and arrived in Salem, June 12, 1630, with the new government
and Charter.
When Winthrop arrived in Salem harbor, Endicott, with full knowledge that he was to be superseded, went on board the Arbella to welcome him and offered the hospitalities of his own house to the new governor and his friends.
The transfer of the Charter and government from London to New England made the colony of Massachusetts Bay practically independent of English control.
The first meeting on American soil of the Massachusetts Bay Company was that of the Court of Assistants at Charlestown on Aug. 13, 1630. The next Court of Assistants, held at Charlestown on Sept. 7, 1630, "ordered that Trimountain shall be called Boston". Governor Winthrop summoned the meeting of the Great and General Court at Boston on Oct. 19, 1630.
Now the Tercentenary Committee and many historians consider 1930 the tercentenary of Massachusetts. But I cannot help feeling that this colony and government were established when John Endicott came in 1628.
Dr. Frank A. Gardner, President of the Old Planters Society, who does not agree with me in regard to the date of the tercentenary, has written an
excellent essay on the "Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony". At the end he gives a summary of conclusions from his study of the beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1. That this colony in 1630 was made up of
several sets of men who came at various times during the preceding decade.
2. That some of these men of each of the separate parties which came, and some who came independently, lived many years in the colony and became powerful in making the laws of the Commonwealth. 3. That of all these men who shared in the glory of laying this foundation, the individuals who were first connected with any orderly government in the district which later became Massachusetts Bay Colony were the Cape Anne men of 1623-24, who had Thomas Gardner at their head as overseer of the plantation until 1625, with John Tilley in charge of the fisheries. 4. That the first man in charge of the entire enterprise there was Roger Conant, who was variously styled Governor and Superintendent at Cape Anne, 1625-26, and at Salem, 1626-28.
5. That in 1628, Roger Conant was supplanted by John Endicott, who had been chosen by the "Company of the Massachusetts Bay', to take charge of affairs on this side of the water, the company sending him having "bought out the rights of the Dorchester Company" in England. 6. That in 1629, John Endicott was informed, in a letter from the home company, written April 17, that a government called "The Council of the Massachusetts Bay' had been
authorized and formed and that he had been confirmed "Governor of the Plantations". 7. That John Endicott held this office until John Winthrop
came in 1630.
So 1930 will be a great Tercentenary anyway; for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which was conceived and developed in England, the mother country, came forth then a separate and complete, and, we trust, a creditable offspring.
But there is absolutely no question about 1930 as the tercentenary of the coming of the Chases to New England. For William Chase, his wife Mary, and is son William were among those who came with Governor Winthrop in 1630.
John Carroll Chase says he can find no certain authority for William Chase's ancestry or his relationship to Thomas and Aquila.
All agree, however, that William Chase was the first of the Chases to come to New England. He was one of that company who came with Governor Winthrop in 1630 and landed at Salem.
He did not remain in Salem long. He is found at Roxbury in 1634. He applied for admission as a freeman on Oct. 19, 1630 and took the oath May 14, 1634. On the records of the First Church of Roxbury, in the hand-writing of the pastor, Rev. John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, we
find: "William Chase, he came with the first Company, 1630, he brought one child, his son William, a child of ill qualities, and a sore affliction to his parents: he was much afflicted by the long and tedious affliction of his wife; after his wife's recovery, she bare him a daughter, which they named Mary, born about the middle of the third month, 1637, he did after that remove (intending) to Situate, but after went with company who made a new plantation at Yarmouth."
William Chase was one of the Stephen Bachilor's company who spent the winter of 1637-38 at Mattacheese (Yarmouth) and was the only one who remained there after that unfortunate incident was abandoned. He was made constable
in Yarmouth in 1639 and resided there until his death in 1659.
The Roxbury Church records give an account of the affliction of William's wife: "Mary Chase, the wife of William Chase, she had a paralytic humor which fell into her back-bone, so that she could not stir her body, but as
she was lifted, and filled her with great torture, and caused her back-bone to go out of joint, and bunch out from the beginning to the end, of which infirmity she lay four years and a half, and a great part of the time a sad
spectacle of misery. But it pleased God to raise her again and she bore children after it."
At a meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Association in Boston, June 1881, the Rev. George E. Ellis read the foregoing extract from the church records, stating that he had submitted the case professionally to Dr. Oliver Wendall
Holmes and had received the following reply: "My dear Dr. Ellis; A consultation without seeing the patient is like a murder trial without the corpus delicti being in evidence..... So I should say, carry us to the bedside of Mary Chase; but she has been under green bedclothes so long I am afraid she would be hard to wake up. We must guess as well as we can under the circumstances. The question is whether she had angular curvature,
lateral curvature, or no curvature at all....I doubt whether Mary Chase had
any real curvature at all. Her case looks to me like one of those mimoses, as Marshall Hall called certain forms of hysteria which imitate different diseases, among them rest paralysis. The body of a hysteric patient will take on the look of all sorts of more serious affections. As for mental and moral manifestations, a hysteric girl will lie so that Sapphira would blush for her, and she could give lessons to a professional pickpocket in the art of stealing. Hysteria might well be described as possession .. possession by seven devils, except that this number is quite insufficient to account for all the pranks played by the subjects of this extraordinary malady. I
do not want to say anything against Mary Chase, but I suspect that, getting nervous and tired and hysteric, she got into bed, which she found rather agreeable after so much housework and perhaps too much going to meeting,
liked it better and better, curled herself up into a bunch which made her look as if her back was distorted, found she was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of, and so lay quiet until a false paralysis caught hold of her legs and held her there. If someone had "hollered" Fire!
it is not unlikely that she would have jumped out of bed, as many other paralytics have done under such circumstances. She could have moves, probably enough, if anyone could have made her believe that she had the
power of doing it. She had played possum so long that at last it become non possum. Yours very truly, O.W. Holmes, M.D."
The William Line had their trials and the territory where they lived abounds in the history of hideous warfare. Almost every town has its story of Indian and outlaw outrages, the most brutal, and of defense, the most
heroic.
In 1645, William Chase enlisted as a drummer in the expedition against the Narragansett Indians and received five shillings extra pay. Swift's history of old Yarmouth has some accounts of William Chase. There is one record of him that parallels the arrest of Aquila for picking pease on the Lord's Day. "He was presented by the grand jury in 1654 for driving a yoke of oxen five miles on the Lord's day, during the time of service." He was a carpenter by trade. He had trouble and was censured by the court for
opposing and criticizing the minister, Mr. Matthews. He seems to have been too broad-minded to accord with the sentiments of the time.
William and Mary Chase died in Yarmouth in 1659 and are buried there. They had three children. The oldest, William, was born in England in 1622 and came to New England with his parents. He lived in Yarmouth and died there Feb. 27, 1685. He left eight children. The second child, Mary, born in 1637, died in 1652.
The youngest child, Benjamin, was born in Yarmouth in 1639 and was baptized there April 18, 1652. He became a freeman at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in 1674. He married Phillippa Sherman, daughter of Philip and Sarah (Odding) Sherman, in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He removed to Freetown in 1685, was selectman that year and, also, in 1698, 1699, and 1705, was constable in 1688, and assessor in 1691. He had six children: Mary, who married Thomas Makepeace, Sarah, who married a Hathaway, Phillippa, who married Jacob
Hathaway, Benjamin, who married Mercy Simmons, Walter, who married Deliverance Simmons, and Barthiah, who married Joseph Dunham.
Benjamin Chase's will is dated Sept. 6, 1730, and proved July 20, 1731, which indicates that he lived to be over ninety. Some of his descendants are very long-lived. Whenever I feel that I am growing old, I console myself that I am descended from two of Benjamin Chase's children, Philippa Chase Hathaway and Walter Chase, and hope to live to the traditional old age and be able to accomplish some of the tasks before me and to enjoy many more reunions of the Chase Family.
***By Rev. Glenn Tilley Morse, B.D.
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Father: Benajmin Chase b: ABT 1570
Mother: Helen Harvie b: ABT 1570
Marriage 1 Mary b: ABT 1600 in , , , England
Children
William CHASE b: 15 JUN 1621 in Rogate Parish, Sussex, , England
Mary Chase b: MAY 1637 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Benjamin CHASE b: 1639 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, MA
Sources:
Abbrev: Price, Barry
Title: Price Family Tree
Abbrev: Chase, William Some Descendants
Title: John Carroll Chase and Gerorge Walter Chamberlain, Some Descendants of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth Mass. (NEHGS 1933/34)illiam Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth Mass.illiam Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth Mass. NEHGS 1933/34.
Page: pp 44
Abbrev: Plymouth Colonial Wills
Title: 5 N.E. Rg 388; 2 Plym. Col. Wills 63:Barn. Probate Office recopied wills 296, 297s 296, 297s 296, 297.
Abbrev: Plymouth Colony Records
Title: Vol 3 p 172
Abbrev: Chase Chronicles
Title: Rev. Glenn Tilley Morse (1928)
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