Found at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/12/aquila_chase_ta.html : Aquila Chase Tablet Returns to Newburyport Thanks to the generosity of George F. Sanborn Jr., a descendant of both Aquila and Thomas Chase, the Aquila Chase Tablet is now on display at the Newburyport Public Library. Carved from Caen stone, a cream-colored limestone, and highlighted with gold paint, the tablet commemorates Aquila Chase's settling in Hampton, N.H., in 1640 and Newbury in 1646. This is the first time the tablet has been on display to the public for more than 40 years. The tablet was carved in 1924 to honor one of the first settlers of Newburyport, Aquila Chase. The tablet was first donated to the New England Genealogical Society in Boston by John Carrol Chase in 1924 to honor his ancestor. It was on display at the Society until 1964 when it was placed in storage. In 1989 the Society gave the tablet to a society trustee who later gave it to a Chase descendant. Still later, it passed to another descendant and eventually ended in the possession of George F. Sanborn Jr., a descendant of both Aquila and Thomas Chase and a former employee of the New England Genealogical Society. Sanborn recently donated it to the Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury who, in turn, arranged for display in the local library. You can read much more about this story in the the <http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/05/ntstory.pl?-sec-News+fn-nstonereturns-20051220-+page_3>Daily News Online.

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This is a genealogy site. Let's keep it that way and not screw it up with miscellaneous unrelated garbage. Dick -----Original Message----- From: wjsmith@optonline.net [mailto:wjsmith@optonline.net] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 2:43 PM To: CHASE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CHASE-L] Happy Winter Solstice! Well, the holiday of xmas was stolen from previous cultures, and the pagans were often banned by the churches from celebrating their Winter Solstice, and other important holidays that were around for 50,000 years before the alleged birth of christ. What goes around, comes around. Happy Winter Solstice!

YOU CAN'T STEAL MY CHRISTMAS Poem by Sharon Steege I don't know who they are Saying I can't greet the crowd The way that I want to Can't say CHRISTMAS out loud. I walk into a business place See things that I rather not see But dare I not say CHRISTMAS And ask for a "holiday" tree. What happened to freedom of speech And living in the land of the free How can they take my CHRISTMAS money But can't say MERRY CHRISTMAS to me. Men and women have given their lives So we could still go free I wonder how they would feel At saying "HOLIDAY" TREE. Come on AMERICA let's wake up Don't let our freedom escape If they get by with doing this What else will they take. This is starting to get out of hand, And I've begun to keep track Well I've just about had enough I'M TAKING CHRISTMAS BACK. So MERRY CHRISTMAS AMERICA I hope this gets all over the net If we all stand united and take freedom back 'Twill be our best CHRISTMAS YET! MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY

http://www.sdearthtimes.com/cut_to_chase/ctc_103.html San Diego Earth Times From Ho-Ho-Ho to Hot-Hot-Hot By Carolyn Chase North Pole Gazette, Page 1-A limate scientists with the International Santa Impacts Taskforce (ISIT) reported today that the impacts of global warming are endangering Santa Claus, his elves, his reindeer and the entire operations at the North Pole. The Climate Risks and Impacts to Santa (CRIS) Report predicted that global warming trends will force changes in Santa's worldwide efforts. The report relies on recent scientific studies that document significant reductions in the thickness and extent of North Pole sea ice and find that the Arctic is warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the globe. The retreat and thinning of the sea ice means that Santa's home and sizable workshops at the North Pole sit on increasingly unstable and ever-thinning ice. Ultimately, global warming may force Santa to relocate. In particular, the CRIS Report identifies a number of likely changes to Santa's operations: Loss of Santa's Reindeer. Higher temperatures will prohibit the use of cold-loving reindeer to pull Santa's sleigh and threaten this cold-adapted species with extinction. The leading proposal for reindeer replacement is a team of eight "Christmas Camels," though due to regional sensitivities, Santa is also considering a mixed team including wildebeests, water buffaloes, llamas, yaks and kangaroos. A number of competing proposals from off-road motorcycle and Sport Utility Vehicle manufacturers may push Santa to adopt modern, mechanized transportation. Loss of Santa's Elves. A move from the North Pole is expected to create immigration problems and force a lowering in quality of life, as the elves seek to compete with local labor. These changes are expected to tempt senior elves into careers in toy consulting and product promotions. Advocates of free trade applauded these changes, claiming that Santa could realize significant economic gains by joining the global economy. Representatives of major toy manufacturers offered to dress developing country factory workers in elf outfits for the holidays. Christmas Carols Crossover. I'm Dreaming of a Light Christmas, Let it Flow, Let it Flow, Let it Flow, and Walking in a Summer Sunnyland are just a few titles hoping to adapt. Decreasing Use of Stockings. Due to increasing temperatures, fewer people will have large, heavy stockings and fireplaces. The Report predicts that children will substitute baseball caps and sandals and will hang the receptacle of their choice over air conditioning ducts and room air conditioners and from ceiling fans. Move to Virtual Christmas Trees. Higher temperatures are predicted to decrease Christmas Tree habitat and increase the number of tree fires, both indoors and out. Software companies are developing virtual Christmas Trees that family members may access from desktop computers at their convenience. These virtual trees are surrounded by images of Christmas presents that are links to electronic gift certificates from major catalogers. The programs automatically generate thank you letters, identifying selected gifts. Santa Makeover. To cope with higher temperatures and increased ultraviolet radiation, Santa is predicted to trim his beard, don a bright red Spandex body suit with white terrycloth sweat band trim, and sport sunglasses and green flip-flops with jingle bells. The fashion industry has proposed that Santa customize his attire to each family he visits and has offered to replace Santa's Elves with slinky elfin models wearing fashions selected for each family's consumer profile. Relocation of Santa's Workshops. The primary qualification for a new location is that it be remote and mysterious. Rumored possible locations include the Sahara Desert, Central Asia, the Australian Outback, Mount Everest, Siberia, a number of coral atolls, and the top of a new casino in Las Vegas. On a different front, Disney has proposed a joint venture with Santa, including an offer to construct Santa theme parks near major metropolitan areas world wide. The CRIS Report predicts that by 2075 the North Pole will be slushy in summer months, with possible uneven settling of Santa's home and workshops. It further predicts that by 2100 the North Pole will no longer provide a viable base of operations for Santa, forcing change on both Santa Claus and Christmas traditions worldwide. More alarmingly,the report warns that global warming could trigger a sudden breakup of the ice pack during warmer summer months, triggering a holiday catastrophe unparalleled in human history. In a recent interview Santa worried, "These forced changes will have severe impacts on my operations and may open the door to increased competition from network mascots. How would you like to receive your gifts from the Warner Christmas Frog?" He also complained that air conditioning ducts take more time than fireplaces, especially given rising world population. Asked to comment, a representative from a fossil fuel industry-backed lobbying group, the Coalition for the Ultimate Santa (CoalfortheUS), dismissed the impacts of both Santa and global warming. CoalfortheUS representative E. Stooge stated, "It's time that children, scientists and environmentalists accept that both Santa Claus and human-caused global warming are fantasy. Rather than limiting our so-called greenhouse gas emissions, we must adapt the cultural identity of Santa and Christmas to these natural changes." In a related development, the coal industry kicked off a barrage of pre-holiday ads, pushing parents to purchase lumps of coal for their children. The industry asserts that giving young children coal for the holidays promotes more rapid maturation and earlier productivity. PEople for Authentic Santas Everywhere, PEASE, a citizen's advocacy group working to support the traditional Santa via a grass roots "S.O.S. - Save Our Santa" campaign, stated, "If you need proof that industry is readying you for global warming-induced changes in Santa, watch this season's TV ads to see the corporate vision for the future: Santa in SUVs, Santa surrounded by fashion models, Santa in sunglasses, Santa using UPS, Santa on the internet. We can act now to curb global warming or we can lose the Santa we know and love." Save Our Santa was set in motion by recent news reports about the impacts of global warming on the Arctic (North Pole) ice cap. Scientists at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Norway found a 4.6 percent decline in ice extent and a 5.8 percent decline in actual ice area between 1978 and 1994. Further, scientists at the University of Washington, using data acquired by U.S. Navy submarines, discovered a "striking" reduction in the thickness of Arctic sea ice, including the ice under the North Pole, as compared with 20-40 years ago. The average draft of the sea ice (that is, its thickness from the ocean surface to the bottom of the ice pack) has declined on average by 4.3 feet (1.3 meters). This represents a reduction of about 40 percent as compared with the earlier period. Most of the reports on global warming focus on impacts to natural systems, but our culture is also intimately related to climate. Changes in snow and rainfall and temperature will affect how our families celebrate many seasonal holidays, as well as many recreational activities. Happy Holidays to all and best of luck to Santa!

Well, the holiday of xmas was stolen from previous cultures, and the pagans were often banned by the churches from celebrating their Winter Solstice, and other important holidays that were around for 50,000 years before the alleged birth of christ. What goes around, comes around. Happy Winter Solstice! ----- Original Message ----- From: Dee Jarden <deejarden@hotmail.com> Date: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:36 am Subject: [CHASE-L] Unidentified subject! > > > > > YOU CAN'T STEAL MY CHRISTMAS > > > > > > Poem by Sharon Steege > > I don't know who they are > Saying I can't greet the crowd > The way that I want to > Can't say CHRISTMAS out loud. > > I walk into a business place > See things that I rather not see > But dare I not say CHRISTMAS > And ask for a "holiday" tree. > > What happened to freedom of speech > And living in the land of the free > How can they take my CHRISTMAS money > But can't say MERRY CHRISTMAS to me. > > Men and women have given their lives > So we could still go free > I wonder how they would feel > At saying "HOLIDAY" TREE. > Come on AMERICA let's wake up > Don't let our freedom escape > If they get by with doing this > What else will they take. > > This is starting to get out of hand, > And I've begun to keep track > Well I've just about had enough > I'M TAKING CHRISTMAS BACK. > > So MERRY CHRISTMAS AMERICA > I hope this gets all over the net > If we all stand united and take freedom back > 'Twill be our best CHRISTMAS YET! > > MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY

Please, let's not start in on this. There is enough of it on television and in the papers. Anybody have some genealogy to post? How about a Chase or Chace who was born on December 25? Or, has there ever been a Kris Kringle Chase or a Santa Chase? What about Rudolph Chase? Has there ever been a Chase or Chace who has gone to the North Pole? I know that there are some Chaces in Alaska. -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

Marvan b 29 may 1962 in Valdez Alaska married 21 march 1987 in Anchorage to Julie Lynette BLATCHFORD b 14 jan 1966 in Portland Oregon. keep on-keeping on-never quit. Roger http://community.webtv.net/zgordo/GORDOSGENEALOGY

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20030820/03 Martha Chase dies With Alfred D. Hershey, she established DNA as the genetic material By Milly Dawson Martha Chase, renowned for her part in the pivotal "blender experiment," which firmly established DNA as the substance that transmits genetic information, died of pneumonia on August 8 in Lorain, Ohio. She was 75. In 1952, Chase participated in what came to be known as the Hershey-Chase experiment in her capacity as a laboratory assistant to Alfred D. Hershey. He won a Nobel Prize for his insights into the nature of viruses in 1969, along with Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria. Peter Sherwood, a spokesman for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where the work took place, described the Hershey-Chase study as "one of the most simple and elegant experiments in the early days of the emerging field of molecular biology." "Her name would always be associated with that experiment, so she is some sort of monument," said her longtime friend Waclaw Szybalski, who met her when he joined Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1951 and who is now a professor of oncology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Szybalski attended the first staff presentation of the Hershey-Chase experiment and was so impressed that he invited Chase for dinner and dancing the same evening. "I had an impression that she did not realize what an important piece of work that she did, but I think that I convinced her that evening," he said. "Before, she was thinking that she was just an underpaid technician." In fact, said Szybalski, "Experimentally, she contributed very much. The laboratory of Alfred Hershey was very unusual. At that time there were just the two of them, and when you entered the laboratory there was absolute silence and just Al directing the experiments by pointing with his finger to Martha, always with a minimum of words. She was perfectly fitted to work with Hershey." Martha Chase went to work in Hershey's lab at Cold Spring Harbor in 1950, having recently graduated from the College of Wooster in Ohio. In the early 1950s, research on bacteriophages—protein-shrouded DNA viruses that infect bacteria—laid the foundation for the field of molecular biology. Leading researchers believed that by studying how a single "phage" multiplies within a host bacterium, they were essentially studying stripped-down genes in action. A key question revolved around which element of the bacteriophage conveyed the genetic information—the protein coat or the DNA within. An experiment done at the Rockefeller Institute in 1944 by Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty had pointed to DNA, but it was the Hershey-Chase experiment that helped to convince the world. Hershey and Chase added marked bacteriophages to a fresh bacterial culture, allowing the phages to infect the bacteria by injecting their genetic material into the host cell. But then at the crucial moment, they whirled the bacteria in a Waring Blendor, which Hershey had determined produced just the right shearing force to tear the phage particles from the bacterial walls without rupturing the bacteria. Upon examining the bacteria, Hershey and Chase found that only phage DNA, and no detectable protein, had been inserted into the bacteria, confirming the 1944 findings of Avery's group. Norton Zinder, a professor of molecular genetics at Rockefeller University, has noted that this experiment "supported the role of DNA [as opposed to protein] and… helped to stimulate Watson and Crick to go on to reveal the structure" of DNA. James Watson said as much himself in a 1997 memoriam, writing that "the Hershey-Chase experiment had a much broader impact than most confirmatory announcements and made me ever more certain that finding the three-dimensional structure of DNA was biology's next important objective. The finding of the double helix by Francis Crick and me came only 11 months after my receipt of a long Hershey letter describing his blender experiment results." In 1953, Martha Chase left Cold Spring Harbor to work first at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and then at the University of Rochester. Each summer, though, she returned to Cold Spring Harbor for annual gatherings of the highly respected Phage Group. In 1959, she began work on her PhD at the University of Southern California, earning the degree in 1964. In the late 1950s in California, she had met and married a fellow scientist, Richard Epstein, but they soon divorced. Chase suffered several other personal setbacks, including a job loss, in the late 1960s, a period that saw the end of her scientific career. Later, she experienced decades of dementia, with long-term but no short-term memory. Szybalski remembered his friend as "a remarkable but tragic person." Chase, who was born and raised in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is survived by her sister Ruth Daziel of Milford, Conn. Martha Chase liked to travel and visited many of the national parks, Daziel recalled. "She especially loved going out in the desert after a rain when the flowers were blooming." Chase also enjoyed photography, sewing, and knitting. "The harder the pattern the better she liked it," said Daziel. "All the fancy knitting stitches, like those for argyle socks, were self-taught. She was always interested in anything that was a challenge." Links for this article Diagram of Hershey-Chase blender experiment http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/pictures/hers heychase-experiment.html Martha Chase http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/people/chase. html Alfred D. Hershey http://www.cshl.edu/History/hershey.html R.E. Peterson, "Al's pals reminisce," American Scientist, January–February 2001. http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/14294 ;jsessionid=aaa6YOeEW208kv Can Matter Store Active Information? Landmarks in the History of Genetics http://cogweb.ucla.edu/ep/DNA_history.html Oswald Avery http://osulibrary.orst.edu/specialcollections/coll/pauling/dna/people/avery. html J.D. Watson, "Alfred Day Hershey 1908–1997," Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Annual Report 1997, November 10, 1997. http://www.cshl.edu/AnnualReport/hershey.html

All, I am a new subscriber. I need any information relating to Joseph P. CHASE b. abt 1792 NH, who m. Sabrina M. UNKNOWN, and had the following children: Samuel M. b. abt 1826 NH, Israel M. b. Abt 1829 NH, dorothy M. b. Abt 1831 NH and Frank P. CHASE b. abt 1831 NH. Joseph P. CHASE was a resident of Sutton, Merrimack Co, NH. Frank P. CHASE b. Abt 1831 NH, m. Addie E. UNKNOWN and they had at least one son, George W. CHASE b. Oct 1871 in NH. Frank P. CHASE was a resident of first Sutton, and then Danbury, NH. George W. CHASE b. Oct 1871 NH m. Delette L. UNKNOWN. Abt 1896. they had two children: a daughter Marion A. CHASE b. Dec 1899 and a son Kendrick F. CHASE b. abt 1903. Marion A. CHASE m. Walter Philip JACKMAN Abt 1921. Any information would be appreciated, and I will share everything that I have. v/r, Beverly Alexander Culpeper, VA I hear ethereal voices, persuasive, soft and still Daughter, if you don't remember us, who will? alexlary@crosslink.net

Beverly, my source does not mention a son, Israel. Source: "The Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase" compiled by John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain. JOSEPH PHILBRICK 6 CHASE (Aaron,5 Capt. Jonathan,4 Daniel,3 Daniel2 ), born m Lempster, N. H., 5 Nov. 1791; died in Sutton, N. H., 6 Feb 1881. He married 29 Sept. 1825, SABRINA MORRILL, daughter of Israel and Rosanna (Parsons) Morrill of Warner N H She died in Sutton, 1 July 1863. They lived in the south village of Sutton. Children, born in Sutton: SAMUEL M.7 b. 3 May 1826; m. (1) Clarissa Green; m. (2) Sarah P. Getchell; d. 9 Oct. 1858; captain; thirteen children; removed to Lewiston, Me. FRANK, b. 15 Oct. 1828; m. 6 May 1853, Emily J. Clark of Manchester, N. H. DOROTHY, b. 19 Mar. 1831; m. (1) 29 Mar. 1855, Samuel Straw; m. (2) 8 May 1879, Nathan B. Bly; Newbury, N. H. ********************* > -----Original Message----- > From: alexlary@crosslink.net [mailto:alexlary@crosslink.net] > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 6:42 PM > To: CHASE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CHASE-L] Joseph P. CHASE (Abt 1792 - ?) + Sabrina M. UNKNOWN > of Merrimack Co, NH > > > All, > > I am a new subscriber. > > I need any information relating to Joseph P. CHASE b. abt 1792 > NH, who m. Sabrina M. UNKNOWN, and had the following children: > Samuel M. b. abt 1826 NH, Israel M. b. Abt 1829 NH, dorothy M. b. > Abt 1831 NH and Frank P. CHASE b. abt 1831 NH. Joseph P. CHASE > was a resident of Sutton, Merrimack Co, NH. > > Frank P. CHASE b. Abt 1831 NH, m. Addie E. UNKNOWN and they had > at least one son, George W. CHASE b. Oct 1871 in NH. Frank P. > CHASE was a resident of first Sutton, and then Danbury, NH. > > George W. CHASE b. Oct 1871 NH m. Delette L. UNKNOWN. Abt 1896. > they had two children: a daughter Marion A. CHASE b. Dec 1899 > and a son Kendrick F. CHASE b. abt 1903. Marion A. CHASE m. > Walter Philip JACKMAN Abt 1921. > > Any information would be appreciated, and I will share everything > that I have. > > v/r, > Beverly Alexander > Culpeper, VA > I hear ethereal voices, persuasive, soft and still > Daughter, if you don't remember us, who will? > alexlary@crosslink.net > > > ==== CHASE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send a request here > Chase-L-request@rootsweb.com and put the word unsubscribe ONLY in the > subject and message boxes. >

Ruth, There was a replica made of the Arbella in 1930 and you can see a photo of it here http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/mhr/6/images/bremer_fig12b.jpg You should checkout www.winthropsociety.org Here is what they have to say: *FAQ:* Was my ancestor aboard the *Arbella?* *ANSWER:* From Winthrop's journal<http://www.winthropsociety.org/journal.php>, we know only that Gov. John Winthrop and Rev. George Phillips took passage aboard the *Arbella*. By other reliable sources, we think Sir Richard Saltonstall, William Hathorne, Rev. John Wilson and their families, and probably Increase Nowell and Thomas Dudley crossed the Atlantic in the * Arbella* as well. All who came with the fleet of 1630 are equally honored by the Winthrop Society. There is no indication that William and Mary Chase and their son were on the Arbella, only that they were with the fleet - there were other ships. I was just in Plymouth, Mass, and toured the replica of the Mayflower and I have some photos of it if you would like them. It is typical of the ships of that era. Cheers, Jeffrey Chace On 11/22/05, Ruth <abner10@alltel.net> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I wonder if anyone out there would know if there is a picture of the > Arabella that came over from England in 1630 out there somewhere so I could > copy it for my scrapbook. > > I am correct that William did come over on that ship, right? > > You folks have been such a great help to me. I wish that I knew half of > what you all do so that I could be a help to someone else. You are the > greatest group of people around. > > Fondly, Ruth Hill in FL > (where we expect a frost tonight!!?) > > > > ==== CHASE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list send a request here > Chase-L-request@rootsweb.com and put the word unsubscribe ONLY in the > subject and message boxes. > > -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

Hello all, I wonder if anyone out there would know if there is a picture of the Arabella that came over from England in 1630 out there somewhere so I could copy it for my scrapbook. I am correct that William did come over on that ship, right? You folks have been such a great help to me. I wish that I knew half of what you all do so that I could be a help to someone else. You are the greatest group of people around. Fondly, Ruth Hill in FL (where we expect a frost tonight!!?)

Hello, if Martha Story Foisy is still a member of this list, would you mind contacting me at my email address? I have a very interesting story for you. Cheers, Jeffrey Chace j.b.chace@amaze.nl -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

Hello All, I mentioned a while back that I had found out while reading the Quaker Records of Swansea that Oliver Chace Sr, Oliver Chace Jr, and Palmer Chace, (and I can now add Miller Chace as well as others) were all denied their membership in the Swansea Society of Friends December 30th of 1824. I posted a message here asking if anyone could shed light on the reason why this may have occurred. Well, I found some other records from the Swansea Monthly Meeting at the Rhode Island Historical Society which had a matrix of many of the members and showed the Olivers, Palmer, and Miller as having been "Seperatists" [sic] and that their membership was denied them. The term "Seperatist" as well as the date indicate that the members who were disowned adhered to the beliefs of the Wilburites while the largest part of the American Quakers became Gurneyites and were part of the bitter split in the New England Yearly Meeting of 1844/1845. Mystery solved. Cheers, Jeffrey -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

Hello All, I was wondering if anyone knows about the Last Will and Testament of William Chase, the Younger, who died 27 February 1684/5 in Yarmouth? Cheers, Jeffrey Chace -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

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The Chase-Chace Family Association was organized at Hartford, Conn. July 6, 1899. The first reunion was at Newburyport, Mass. August 30, 1900.

Hello All, Here is a narrative I wrote about an investigatory journey I took to Oskaloosa, Iowa, earlier this year to verify some facts about the Chace Family's presence there in the mid-1800s. My trip was very rewarding and I was able to discover some surprising material that I had not anticipated. Anyone who has ever thought that genealogy consists of a boring set of birthdates and deathdates has never had such an exhilarating experience as I encountered while doing research in Oskaloosa. Getting my hands dirty in a cemetery stood as the pinnacle of an awesomely rewarding trip. Cheers, Jeffrey Chace -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl Our family records traditionally show that Burgess Thomas Chace, who was born 22 July 1785 in Swansea, Massachusetts, died 6 September 1858 and was buried in Providence, Rhode Island, but I have had a bit of trouble tracking down his grave there. Little did I suspect that I would discover he wasn't where we always thought he was. I had known for quite some time, having heard stories from my Grandfather, that the Chaces had lived in Oskaloosa, Iowa, before heading southwest from there and ending up in Shawnee, Kansas. Once, about 15 years ago, I had stopped through Oskaloosa naively believing that I would be able to find some information about the Chaces. However, not really knowing anything about the nature of our family, I had not a clue as where to begin. To my credit, I at least had enough sense to go to the library there. The Librarian suggested that I look at old newspapers, but having only a vague idea about the timeframe in which the Chaces had lived in Oskaloosa, I had no idea where to begin. I asked for the Oskaloosa newspapers from the late 1800s. The Librarian helped me with microfilm from 1898. Although there were entertaining articles about what would occur at the end of the century and how the world may be coming to and end, and advertisements touting the benefits of electro-shock treatments, I could find nothing of the Chaces. And, no wonder, considering that I now know they had largely immigrated to Iowa from Rhode Island in 1852 and all had emigrated to Shawnee, Kansas, by 1863! Furthermore, the fact that they were Quakers would typically have precluded any mention of them in the newspapers. Well, having spent the last five years studying the history of our family in depth and laying the foundation for proper research, I headed back to Oskaloosa in August of this year. Armed with local contact information for the Mahaska County Genealogical Society and again for the Public Library, I ventured into town. Finding the Genealogical Society, I entered, was greeted by Mabel, and paid my four dollar usage fee. I quickly discerned that most of the information in their library would be of little use in my peculiar pursuits, but I did find two pieces of information of importance – The 1856 Mahaska County Census and the WPA Iowa Cemetery listing. In the Census records as spelled by the recorder, I found many familiar Chases. Alonzo - age 40, Amasa - age 33, Lydia M age - 32, Phebe M - age 6, Henry V - age 4, Burges T - age 70, Burges - age 40, Edward - age 15, Joseph B - age 28, Amanda M - age 20, and Alice E - age 0. Whoops, there's Burgess Thomas Chace at age 70 happily nestled in amongst his progeny when he was supposed to have lived out his life and to have died in Providence. Hmmmmm. Next, I examined the WPA Iowa Cemetery listing. Lo and behold, again I found Burgess. But this time listed as Burgess I. Chase. According to the WPA record, Burgess was buried in Lincoln Township in the Center Grove Cemetery. I asked Mabel if she was familiar with the cemetery and indeed she was. However, she warned me that half of the cemetery was gone, a victim of the construction of 63 Highway. And, the WPA list showed Burgess's headstone as "broken." But, who knew? Perhaps he was still there. Mabel gave me directions to find the cemetery and off I went. But first a stop at the library before it closed. Walking into the Oskaloosa Public Library, I had a vague memory of the building from 15 years prior. However, it had been refurbished and was now a fine, modern library in stark contrast to the drab, dungeon-like experience I had previously encountered so many years before. Furthermore, the Genealogy section had been recently moved to its own room in the library on the main floor and was quite expansive. In Lydia Meader Chace's autobiography, she states that the family had been members of the Spring Creek Monthly Meeting and the Pleasant Plain Quarterly Meeting, so this time I came with a printout of card catalog record showing the Spring Creek Monthly Meeting Minutes contained on Microfilm. Loading the film, I begin my perusal of the Quaker Meeting Minutes of Spring Creek. Slowly, page after page, the dates kept climbing and no Chaces were found. Into 1866, I decided to stop as I knew that the Chaces had long since removed to Shawnee by this time. A bit deflated at yet another defeat at the Oskaloosa Public Library, I went to return the microfilm to its proper location. I had been so sure that I would find them this time. I had prepared. I had corroborating material pointing me in exactly the right direction. And yet, no, it seemed not to be. Placing the microfilm amongst the other rolls, I happened to notice a roll entitled "Center Grove Preparative Meeting of Friends" and having seen the WPA listing for Burgess Thomas Chace in Center Grove Cemetery, I figured I would give the roll a look. Within a couple of minutes of loading the roll and beginning my perusal I discovered recorded on 1st Mo. 3rd 1861, "The Overseers informed that Elijah Chace has accomplished his marriage contrary to our Discipline which information is forwarded to the Mo. Meeting." Oh my, now this was interesting. Elijah Chace was the son of Thomas Chace Sr., who was the eldest son of Burgess Thomas Chace. Little had I known that Elijah, the Quaker man who had built such a beautiful house in Prairie Village, Kansas, and who had worked so diligently at the Quaker Indian Mission in Shawnee teaching the Shawnee Indian boys farming, had fallen afoul of the discipline of the Monthly Meeting. Had he eventually been disowned as so many other Quakers had who had married against the advice of the Friends Meeting as Elijah's uncle Ezra Cornell had? Further investigation is definitely warranted. Why had Abigail, Elijah's wife, not been an appropriate bride for him in the opinion of the Quakers? Abigail was also Quaker. And I have evidence that her parents, Levi Ellis and Sarah Frazer were married at Newbery Friends meeting in Indiana in 1830. Perhaps they were Hicksites? Orthodox Quakers considered Hicksites, a sect of the Society of Friends, to be heretical since they denied the divinity of Christ. I was intrigued by this morsel of information in the Cedar Grove Preparative Meeting Minutes. What else would I find? It didn't take long to discover another interesting entry. A few pages later was listed: "At Center Grove Prep. Meeting of Frds held 7 Mo. 4th 1861 … Also that Joseph B. Chase has neglected the attendance of our meetings & has joined the Methodist Society, which information the clerk is directed to forward to the Monthly Meeting." What? What was going on here? A virtual melt-down of the Quaker Meeting with regard to the Chaces. Two Disciplinary Cases within 6 months! Further, in the meeting minutes of 8 Mo. 1861, "Amos Hiatt, Wm P. Picknell, David Wilson & Amasa Chace are appointed to set a value on the stone on our meeting house lot, & dispose of them if opportunity offers & report to next meeting." Phew! At least Amasa was staying out of trouble. Finally, the last record I could find of the Chaces in the Center Grove Preparative Meeting Minutes was "A List of Apportionment for the Members of the Center Grove Preparative Meeting" which listed Amasa, Alonzo, Edward, Elijah and Burgess (son of Burgess Thomas Chace). I found no further record of the Chaces in the Meeting Minutes except more mention of Amasa diligently working to get rid of the stone on the meeting house lot. The few entries I had found were quite provocative – better than advertisements for electro-shock therapy, and certainly shocking. I left the Library after having been there a couple of hours and travelled just north of the Oskaloosa town center on 63 highway. As Mabel had instructed me, I passed William Penn University, and immediately past the University on the left-hand (west) side of the highway appeared a cemetery – quite large with about 300 gravestones. Surely this must be the cemetery to which Mabel was referring, but she had told me it would be on the right-hand (east) side of the highway. I pulled into the driveway of the graveyard and got out and began walking every one of the gravestones looking for Burgess T Chace. Julie, a friend of mine, was along with me that day and helped by walking about half of the stones while I looked at the others. After about an hour, we had finished. But, alack and anon, no Burgess T Chace nor were there any Chaces or Chases at all. Hmmmmm. I decided to try a little further down the highway and look on the right-hand side as Mabel had indicated. Into my car, we drove up 63 Highway travelling a bit farther from the University, and within about a mile, bingo! A wooden sign declared "Cedar Grove Cemetary" [sic]. Excitement welled up within me as I saw the tall grass and small, tooth-like gravestones hidden in its midst. Would Burgess T. Chace's headstone still be here? Had it been destroyed and the grave desecrated with the building of 63 Highway? Was the gravestone, if it did still exist, broken as recorded in the WPA list? Wandering into the small graveyard, I saw that my search would be succinct as there were merely thirty or so gravestones most of which were no longer legible due to weather wear. Looking at some of the larger and still legible headstones revealed no Burgess T. Getting down on my hands and knees to peer at some of the smaller weather-worn stones I began to think that my quest was doomed. Even if his stone was still here, I probably would not be able to read it due to erosion of the stone over the last 147 years. After about twenty minutes, my attention kept being brought back to a simple, small stone about one and a half feet tall and about ten inches wide and a couple of inches think. Something caught my eye, I think it was merely a pattern of letters that looked as if they might be long enough and in the right sequence to spell "BURGESS T CHACE." But, my naked eye could not discern it definitively. I asked Julie if she could make anything out and she shook her head and said, "I can't see anything on it." I was not absolutely sure, but my excitement had returned and I decided there was only one way to know whether this was indeed Burgess Thomas Chace's final resting place. We got back in the car and sped off to Wal-Mart to buy tracing paper and some crayons. Returning to the cemetery, I hurried to the grave and the paper just fit the on the front of the headstone. I began to rub across the top with a purple crayon and within a minute the name "BURGESS T CHACE" came into view! What my eyes could not see, the crayon had revealed! Hurriedly, but with caution not to mark the gravestone with the crayon, to keep the paper flat and in place, and not to tear it, I completed my rubbing and what to my wondrous eyes should appear, but the following epitaph: BURGESS T CHACE D i e d 9 m o & 6 d y 1858 A g e d 73 Y r 1 m o & 15 d y Beaming with satisfaction at having been able to fill in a missing piece to a long ago forgotten puzzle, I asked Julie to hold up the paper next to the gravestone so I could take a photograph. Indeed, the crayon had done the trick as the photo which can be found here http://www.chace.demon.nl/BurgessTChaceGravestone.jpg now testifies. No inkling of the secrets contained on the face of the stone could be discerned and yet the rubbing stood out next to it as proof of the grave of my ancestor. Before leaving the small graveyard, I took photos of some of the other gravestones and of the sign at the entry stating: "Center Grove Cemetery , Restored by Stephen P. Allison, Boy Scout Troop 71 Oskaloosa, Ia. as his Eagle Scout Project. Rededicated July 8th, 2000 by the College Avenue Friends Church. For Information on Pioneer Cemeteries contact: The Mahaska County Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Cemeteries at (641) 673-8122." My thanks go out to Stephen P. Allison for all of his hard work. What a triumphant return to Oskaloosa! I now had Quaker Records, Census Records and a rubbing of my Great Great Great Great Grandfather's gravestone. These were but small remnants of the lives my family had led and yet, they were tangible pieces with which to understand them better and further build the story of their existence, journeys and hardships. Burgess Thomas Chace travelled to Oskaloosa, Iowa, near the end of his life to be with his family. Burgess only had about 3 years to call Iowa his new home before passing on to his ultimate reward. A few years after his death, all of his family members had left Iowa. Julia, his wife, and Achsah, their daughter appear to have returned to Providence, Rhode Island, and during Civil War hostilities in 1863 his sons Amasa, Burgess, Alonzo, and Joseph and their families all left for Shawnee where they lived out the rest of their lives. Burgess's grandsons Elijah and Thomas Jr. joined the rest of the family in moving to Shawnee. But Thomas Jr. first spent a stint in the Rhode Island 10th Regiment Infantry Artillery, Company L, from May 1, 1862, to August 30, 1862, fighting for the Union during the War Between the States. Burgess's grandson Edward ended up moving to Washington DC to be with his twin brother Albert where they eventually went into the upholstery and carpet cleaning business together as AH Chace & Bro. To my knowledge, only Thomas Chace Jr. ever returned to Iowa for any significant period of time. After joining the rest of the family in Iowa after his military enlistment and then moving in 1863 to Shawnee, Thomas returned to Iowa matriculating at Iowa College in Grinnell (now Grinnell University) from 1865-1867 and studied in the Preparatory and English Department preparing himself to enter medical school. While he was in Iowa, I wonder if Thomas ever took the time to visit his grandfather's grave from time to time? Eventually, Thomas too lived out his life in and died in Shawnee, Kansas, leaving Burgess Thomas Chace alone in his grave in Iowa, the only member of the Chace family left behind there lonely and forlorn. As I stood looking at his headstone, I felt a strange sense of melancholy having discovered the forgotten grave. I wondered if Grandpa Burgess could see me from beyond the grave and knew that I had come to find him, rejoin him to our family, and erase the century of error which had mistakenly placed him in Providence at his death all the while he languished on the Iowa prairie waiting for someone to come visit him? http://www.chace.demon.nl

Sometime before the Chase reunion in Salt Lake City, William Chase, the host, wrote to the Chase Manhattan Bank. I have not seen that letter but below is the bank's answer to it. Quite informative for all of us who always have wondered which Chase founded the bank. (; >) Dear Mr. Chase: Thank you for your invitation and your interest in the Chase Manhattan Bank. The origin of the word Chase in our name dates back to the founding of the Chase National Bank in 1877 when John Thompson, founder of the Chase National Bank, decided to name his bank after his respected colleague, Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Abraham Lincoln. John Thompson and Salmon P. Chase worked together to bring into effect many of the banking laws that exist today. For that, John Thompson named his bank after Salmon P. Chase several years after Chase's death. There is no other connection to the name and/or family other than that. Salmon P. Chase never worked at the bank, and nor did any of his relatives. If you have any other questions, please let us know. Good luck with your event. Sincerely, Jean Elliott Archivist