Hello All, I have a bit of a mystery on my hands and am hoping that someone can help. I have been attempting to trace the lineage of William Merritt Chase, the artist. His grandfather, also William Chase, was apparently born in Virginiain 1776, and so I have been in Virginia doing research. Since I came to a bit of a dead-end on William Chase (the grandfather), I decided to see what other Chases I could find having settled in Virginia and discovered a William Chase (also spelled Chace) having arrived in Virginia in 1652. Now, in the Accomack County, Virginia Order Books there are four records of William's age and none of them agree. From a deposition of 22 May 1663, William is recorded as being 25 years old which would make his year of birth about 1638. Later on 18 August 1663, another deposition records him being "about 28 years," which would put his year of birth around 1636. Just a few months later on 13 December 1663 William is recorded as being "about 30 years." This would make his year of birth around1633. And later still William shows up in yet another deposition from 16 April 1673 as "aged about 50 years," which would put his year of birth around 1623. So, in any case, 1623 is the earliest he would have been born and 1638 the latest. But that is a 15 year difference! William Chase is recorded as having been "brought over" in 1652 by Mr. Tho. Purifye and Mrs. Temperence Reppitt. Perhaps he indentured himself to them to pay for his passage. But, where did he come from? It doesn't seem possible that he was from the family of William, the Elder, as William, the Younger, was born approximately 1622 and stayed in Massachusetts until his death as far as I know. William, the Younger, also had a son named William, but as far as I know, he married Sarah Sherman in Rhode Island in 1647 and William Chase of Accomack is recorded as having married Sarah Hewitt 16 October 1660 in Northampton County, Virginia. William of Accomack apparently could not have come from the Thomas or Aquila lines either, unless the records I found on the net recording Thomas Chase having had a first wife named Martha with whom he supposedly had a son name William in 1636 are true. Therefore, the only conclusion I can come up with is that William of Accomack was "brought over" from England making this a completely different Chase family than either William's or Aquila's and Thomas's. Having arrived in 1652, this also makes him a very early immigrant. And, as I have not found any other Chase families in Virginia from the time period of William's birth (William Merrit Chase's purported grandfather) in 1776, I would venture to say that William of Accomack is quite likely his ancestor. Here are the vital statistics I have on William of Accomack: - Born between 1623 and 1638 (talk about labor pains!!). - Arrived in Virginia 1652. - Married Sarah Hewitt 16 October 1660 in Northampton County, Virginia . - Later married Mary ________ before 3 February 1685/86. - William had three children as far as I can tell – John, William and Margaret. - William owned a considerable amount of land in Virginia. In 1663 he was granted 300 acres for transporting 6 people. In 1666 he was granted 650 acres for transporting 13 persons (so these two records taken together indicate that the grant for transporting people was 50 acres per person transported – where they were going to or coming from I have no idea.) - Most likely William was the father of Mary's daughter Margaret. - Had a son with either Sarah or Mary who he named William. - There is a John Chace who is named in a lawsuit along with William on 11 February 1684/85. - John Chace shows up in the tithable rolls for the first time in 1690, which if that means he was 21, this makes his likely year of birth 1669. - In 1685, Mary Chace request for passage to be granted to John Chace. - Therefore, I believe John was also William's child. - William Chase of Accomack died in 1685. - There is a William Chase who died in Accomack around 1737. This is most likely William of Accomack's son listed above. - If William Merritt Chase is indeed descended from William of Accomack, then he descends either through John or William. If his ancestor is William who died in 1737, then there is a gap of at least one generation between that William and the man who is purported to be William Merritt Chase's Great Grandfather, James Chase. - There is a James Chase who died in Louisa County Virginia around 1790. James was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was married to Annis ________ and they had at least three children. One of which is purportedly William Chase the purported grandfather of William Merritt Chase. - There is a Will Chase who married Patience Goodrich in Louisa Countyin 1790. If this is William Chase, William Merritt's purported Grandfather, then he got married when he was 14, which I find unlikely. - William Merritt Chase's parents were David Chase and Sarah Swaim. Can anybody add anything to this? I have never found anything of significance written or published about the family of William Chase of Accomack. Is his indeed a completely "new" Chase family? Did he arrived in Virginia from England in 1652 or from another colony in North America? If he came from England, from where in England? Oh, yes, and by the way, there was also a Huedy Chase who showed up in Virginia in 1652 and was brought over by Tho. Cartwright of Lower Norfolk Co. Virginia. Perhaps I need to look into that as well. Sources: - Abstracts of Lousia County, Virginia Will Books 1743-1801 Nancy Chappelear and Kate Binford Hatch 1964 - A History of Louisa County, Virginia by Malcolm M. Harris, M.D. 1936 - Douglas Register of record book of Parson Dauglas - Louisa County, Virginia Deed books E&F - Louisa County, Virginia, 1734-1814: Where have all the Children Gone? Abstracted and Compiled by Rosalie Edith Davis, Manchester, Missouri 1980. - Marriages of Some Virginia Residents 1607-1800 Dorothy Ford Wulfeck Reprinted 2003 - 1743-1785 Louisa County Virginia Tithables and Census - Louisa Historical Magazine vol 8 no. 1 page 29 - Accomack County Virginia Court Orders Abstracts Volumes 1-11 - Hungars Parish Records for 1660-1661. Northampton County, Virginia. Communicated by Thomas B. Roberston, Eastville, Va. - 1623-1666 Early Virginia Immigrants by George Cabell Greer Clerk, Virginia State Land Office, 1960 Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

Can anyone verify that Moses Chase and Sarah Greenlaw are parents of Levi, William, Mary, Sarah and Elmira? They hailed from NY state. If correct I would like info on their ancesters.

Jeffrey, according to the "Seven Generations" book, Thomas was only married once. His wife married two more times after his death. Many Chases were named Thomas and one of them may have slipped into the wrong slot in someone's genealogy. It is not known when Thomas was born but since Aquila was born in 1618 it is thought that Thomas, who was older, might have been born about 1616 or 1617. Lonnie

Hi All, Does anyone know if there is any truth to the assertion I have found at some websites that Thomas Chase, husband of Elizabeth Philbrick, had been married earlier to a Martha and with whom he had a few children one of whom being William supposedly born in 1636 or thereabouts? Cheers, Jeffrey -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

Hello to all the Hills out there, I am giving this one more try to find any Hills related to Abner C. Hill! Once I found an Abner C. Hillmentioned in a will of Benjamin Joy in Weymouth, MA and figured there must be a connection but-----! I hadn't seen any Hills from New England and had about given up on mine. Actually my husband is a Hill and I can only find them back to his gr gr grandfather. I sure need help! Here is only what I have: Abner C. Hill -His gr gr grandfather - (no date of b.) m Jane Joy on March 23, 1834 in Weymouth, Ma they had 2 children: (1) Anna Newell Hill b. 12/16/1834 in Abington, MA who m Jessie Davis on 10/08/1855 in Abnington, MA. (Jessie was born in N.H.) and (2) Thomas Joy Hill - His gr grandfather - b. 8/19/1836 in Randolph, MA and d. 10/04/1918 in Holbrook, MA. Thomas m Ellen Jewett Orcutt on12/31/1861 in Abington, MA. (She was the daughter of John Ocrutt and Deborah Hollis & I have quite a lot of info on them is anyone needs that). They had 6 children: 1-Thomas Chandler Hill b. 10/16/1862 in Abnington, MA m Jennie Lincoln Burns 10/18/1882 in Weymouth, MA 2- Mary Ellen Hill - b. 7/03/1866 in Abington, MA (nothing further) 3- Hannah H. Hill - b January 1870 (nothing further) 4- Jane (J or S) Hill - b. 9/27/1873 in Abington, MA d. 1899 m. C. T. Marble (both buried in Abington) 5- Charles Everett Hill - His grandfather - b. 10/22/1876 in Abington, MA , a twin, m Effie Mary Brewster 12/24/1897 in Holbrook, MA. She was b in Nova Scotia & d.3/26/1956 in Brockton, MA. Charles Everett d. 4/30/1959 in Brockton, MA 6- John Henry Hill - twin to Charles Everett - b.10/22/1876 d. 10/23/1876 in Abington, MA (3) - children of Charles Everett Hill & Effie Brewster are: 1- Gladys Florence Hill b.1898 in Holbrook, MA d. 1976 2- Maynard Melvin Hill b. 12/09/1899 in Holbrook, MA 3- Hanley Hill b. 10/20/1902 in Holbrook, MA d. 2/09/1973 4- Esther May Hill b.7/21/1904 in Holbrook, MA 5- Abner Curtis Hill (His father) - b. 8 24/1906 in Holbrook,MA d. 1/21/1966 6- Vera Effie Winifred Hill b.2/21/1910 in Holbrook, MA d.10/29/1989 7- Leon Bradford Hill b. 10/29.1914 in Stoughton, MA (4) Abner Curtis Hill m. Florence Reardon May 16, 1929 in Brockton, MA and had one child: 1- Abner Curtis Hill b. 12/10/ 1929 in Brockton, Mass. m. Ruth Chase (me!) b.12/07/1928 in Brockton, Mass.

Jeffery, this doesn't answer your question but maybe there is something here you can use. *********************************************** . MOSES4 CHASE (Joseph,3 William,2 William1), of Swansea, born at Swansea about 1718, died there before 1790. He married at Swansea, 25 Mar. 1742, ALICE SHERMAN, daughter of Samuel and Martha (Tripp) Sherman. They were members of the Society of Friends at Swansea. Children (order of births uncertain), born at Swansea: 141. i. SAMUEL.5 142. ii. WILLIAM. iii. ELIZABETH, b. 17 Sept. 1746; m. 3 Nov. 1778 CARY SPENCER. iv. GRISSEL, b. 28 Aug. 1749; m. 29 Nov. 1772 JONATHAN BAKER. 143. v. MOSES. 144. vi. JOSEPH, b. in 1762. vii. SARAH, b. in 1763; d. unm. 16 July 1853, aged 90 years. viii. MARY, m. 22 Dec. 1791, as his second wife, her second cousin, DAVID5 CHASE (69), q. v. ix. ALICE, m. 10 Dec. 1807 NATHANIEL SHOVE.

Hello All, I was wondering if anyone would happen to have information about the burial location(s) of Moses Chase and Alice Sherman, his wife. Moses was the son of Joseph Chase, who was the son of William Chase, who was the son of William, the immigrant who arrived in 1630. All I really know about Moses is that he married Alice Sherman on March 25, 1742, in Swansea, Mass. Other than that, information on him is sparse. Perhaps there is someone out there who knows a bit more about Moses and Alice? Cheers, Jeffrey Chace -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

Ancestry in a Drop of Blood Tribes and would-be members are turning to DNA tests. But the hunt for genetic truth has some asking: What does it mean to be Indian?By Karen Kaplan LA Times Staff Writer August 30, 2005 TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Marilyn Vann can trace her Cherokee roots back more than 200 years through generations of Native Americans and the descendants of black slaves who lived among them. She has mountains of paper — birth certificates, tribal enrollment cards, land deeds, affidavits, yellowing photographs — documenting her family's life within the tribe. But when the engineer from Oklahoma City asked to join the 250,000-strong Cherokee Nation four years ago, she was rejected by tribal officials here who declared her black, not Indian. The truth, she believes, is in her blood. Vann turned to a technology that is roiling Indian tribes nationwide — DNA testing. From California to Connecticut, tribes and would-be members are grappling with the ramifications of a science that is able to demystify someone's genes for as little as a few hundred dollars. Modern genetic tests can detect traces of ancestors by looking for mutations that pass from generation to generation in specific racial groups. More than half a dozen companies have sprung up in the last five years. Many report their most eager customers are people seeking to prove Indian heritage. Some tribes are welcoming the new science. The Meskwaki Nation in Tama, Iowa, began requiring DNA testing this spring to screen out pretenders seeking to cash in on the tribe's casino profits. "It was something we needed to be in place to protect the tribe," said tribal council member Keith Davenport. "People are looking for an easy ride." But the DNA tests have opened fresh wounds throughout Indian country, unmasking complicated family relationships and turning the unspoken bonds of community into impersonal laboratory results. Inevitably, DNA raises a delicate question: What does it mean to be Indian? "What is up for grabs is how we define race," said Jenny Reardon, who studies genome sciences and policy at Duke University in North Carolina. "Tribes are dealing with these issues first, but it doesn't mean that every American might not have to deal with these issues in one way or another." ------------------------------ Vann has never been uncertain about who she is. She spent much of her childhood surrounded by Cherokees in eastern Oklahoma and enrolled in programs for Indian students at school. Her late father, George Musgrove Vann, grew up in Cherokee country attending stomp dances and speaking some Tsalagi, the official Cherokee language. He received 110 acres from the federal government in compensation for lands confiscated from the tribe when it was forcibly relocated to Oklahoma from Georgia on the Trail of Tears in the late 1830s. It was only later in her adult life, after her daughter was nearly done with school and her career as a petroleum engineer was well established, that she contemplated a way to give back to the tribe that loomed so large when she was a girl. In 2001, Vann applied for membership. She got a letter back stating that her father was listed on the crucial 1907 tribal roll not as Cherokee but as Freedmen — a descendant of the former slaves who came to Oklahoma with the tribe. Under the rules of the Cherokee Nation, Vann could become a member only if she was directly descended from someone listed on the 1907 rolls with a fraction to denote the proportion of their blood that came from Cherokee ancestors. According to this racial accounting, Vann's father was 1/64 Cherokee. But the record-keeping of the time wasn't terribly precise, and he was listed only as a Freedman. "My ancestors helped build this tribe," Vann said. "My father and my grandfather enjoyed Cherokee citizenship. I've been kicked out, with no say-so in the matter." The rules for tribal membership vary with each of the 562 federally recognized tribes. In some cases, all it takes is having a parent who is a member of the tribe. Other tribes allow only mothers or fathers to pass down membership to their children. Sometimes applicants must have a full-blood Indian ancestor within four or five generations, but many don't care if their members are blond and blue-eyed with the tiniest fraction of Indian blood. Overall tribal enrollment has been rising steadily for at least a decade. In 1995, when the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs began keeping an official tally, tribes had 1.4 million members listed on their rolls. By 2001, the most recent year for which statistics are available, that number had topped 1.8 million. The growth has prompted some tribes to tighten their membership rules, especially when casino money is at stake. The Meskwaki Nation has been flooded with applications for tribal enrollment since 1994, the year the casino in Tama began sharing its profits with members, said council member Davenport. Membership swelled from 1,000 to more than 1,300. The tribe didn't change its enrollment criteria — membership is still passed down from father to child. In simpler times, all it took was a signature to vouch for paternity. Now the tribe requires a 16-factor DNA paternity test, Davenport said. At the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, which operates the lucrative Foxwoods Resort Casino near Norwich, Conn., enrollment clerk Joyce Walker regularly fields inquiries from people who say DNA tests prove they are Native Americans. "People say, 'I just found out I'm Indian and I want to know how I can start receiving my profits,' " Walker said. She tells them to take another DNA test to prove they are the offspring of a tribal member. The news is rarely welcome. Casino profits aren't the only reason people want to join tribes. Card-carrying members qualify for care from the federal Indian Health Service. Some tribes offer allowances for school clothing, vocational training, aid for the elderly and other services. Vann neither wants nor needs any of those material things. "I have a respectable job. I have three homes, and two of them are paid off," she said in her lakefront house in Oklahoma City. "I did not go to the Cherokees to get anything. I went to offer my services." ------------------------------ Last year, an opportunity presented itself to prove what Vann thought was obvious — that after 200 years, Cherokee and Freedmen blood had become inextricably mixed. Rick Kittles, a genetic anthropologist, was interested in comparing the DNA of African Americans from different parts of the country. He offered to swab cells from inside the cheeks of about 150 Freedmen free of charge and tell them what proportion of their genes came from Indian ancestors. Such tests are being offered by private companies with names like GeneTree and Family Tree DNA. Their home testing kits promise to reveal the secrets of ancestry for $200 to $400. The genes can be examined in several ways. The most straightforward tests compare the DNA of a parent and child to confirm a biological link. When the question is racial heritage, other tests can find clues in DNA. Of the roughly 30,000 genes spelled out in the human genome, ancestry tests focus on about 225 mutations called single nucleotide polymorphisms that arose thousands of years ago and tend to be linked to specific continents. By examining what kind of mutations a person has, scientists can get an idea of whether one's ancestors came from Africa, Europe, Asia or North America. "These sequences provide a record of the history of those populations," said Kittles, an associate professor at Ohio State University and scientific director of African Ancestry Inc., a Washington, D.C., company. "They run in families, which run in communities, which run in different geographic regions." But genetic and genealogical ancestry aren't in perfect sync. Although every person has four grandparents, their DNA isn't passed down in equal proportions. As many as 35% of one's genes can be traced to a maternal grandfather, for example, while as few as 15% may come from the other grandfather, said Tony Frudakis, chief scientific officer of DNAPrint genomics Inc., a Florida company that offers genetic testing products. Nor are the results foolproof. Some legitimate descendants of Native Americans may not have enough Native American genes to show up on a test, especially if their last Indian ancestor was five or more generations back. On the flip side, some people could acquire a telltale mutation through random chance. Even those who do have Native American genes can't tie them to the Sioux, Navajo or any specific tribe, said Ripan Malhi, a molecular anthropologist at UC Davis who specializes in Native American DNA. Tribes haven't spent enough time in isolation to develop unique mutations. "We've had a couple of tribes come to us and ask if we can come up with a genetic signature of a tribe that they could use for tribal enrollment," said Malhi, co-founder of Trace Genetics Inc. in Richmond, Calif. "The answer is no, you can't do that." Indians are quick to point out that traditional tribal records are rife with flaws. Government census takers often glanced at a person's skin tone and guessed whether he was 25%, 50% or 100% Indian. Siblings who shared the same parents were recorded as having different degrees of Indian blood. Indians often told federal officials they were white because they feared their land would be confiscated. Sometimes, even the unreliable documents are out of reach. "One of the courthouses burned down, and they had all the records from the 1880s," said Kenn Davin, a member of the United Eastern Lenape tribe in eastern Tennessee. "A lot of this stuff we can't check out." The search for genetic truth, however, has some Indians worried about the consequences. "If tribes started accepting DNA, they'd want to DNA test everybody, and everybody with a card is not going to come back positive," said Vicky Spits Fire Garland, a Cherokee who is vice president of the Tennessee chapter of the Trail of Tears Assn. "Are they going to throw those people out?" DNA testing could also reveal some unexpected family relationships. "There's a huge queasiness … because of the social structure of Indian country," said Laura Wass, a member of the Mountain Maidu tribe near Mt. Lassen in Northern California. "It's going to open a lot of deep closets. A lot of children were raised by other families…. You bring in DNA and now a child finds out, 'Well, I'm not who I thought I was.' " For some, the idea of analyzing blood to distinguish some Indians from others threatens to undermine the fabric of the community. "To define someone by blood quantum is the very definition of racism," said David Cornsilk, a member of the Cherokee Nation. Among the Mashantucket Pequot in Connecticut, a few tribal members have bristled at the tribe's required genetic testing of all newborns. "They say, 'You've seen me pregnant, and suddenly I have a baby in my arms. Why should I have to take this test?' " said Walker, the enrollment clerk. "We say we're only trying to be consistent." For all the precision of the technology, sometimes it leaves more questions. Kay Yellow Horse, who was adopted nearly 50 years ago and raised by white parents, ordered a DNA test from Seattle-based Genelex Corp. after seeing an ad at a powwow last year. The Denver writer hoped the results would tell her if there was a genetic basis for her affinity for Native Americans. Ten weeks later, a fat enveloped arrived in the mail, confirming her Native American heritage. She burst into tears. "My entire life I had felt like a mutt from the pound," said Yellow Horse, who changed her last name after a divorce. "After getting those results, now I feel like a pedigreed show dog. It's given me a feeling of authenticity." Though she was grateful to learn something about her roots, the results have left her wondering about her past. "Do I have my father's eyes?" she asked. "The hair color from my mom? Am I the product of a rape, the product of an illicit affair, or who knows what?" ------------------------------ Marilyn Vann's genes told her everything she wanted to know about her ancestors. It turns out that 3% of her genes come from Native Americans. Another 39% are from Europeans, who likely intermarried with Indians over hundreds of years; 58% of her genes originated in Africa. The numbers roughly matched the facts in her stacks of paper. An 1835 tribal roll shows that Rider Fields, her great-great-great-grandfather, was 25% Cherokee. Other rolls from the 1800s list her great-great-grandmother and great-grandmother with Cherokee blood. Vann has made the three-hour drive to the Cherokee Nation headquarters in Tahlequah to argue that if only her father had been properly listed on the key 1907 census, she would have her membership card and the right to vote in tribal elections. Cherokee spokesman Mike Miller acknowledged the 1907 rolls weren't perfect, but said it wasn't practical for the tribe to tinker with it 100 years after the fact. As for her genetic test, Miller said it had nothing to do with the criteria for membership. Vann has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs to enforce her tribal voting rights. She remains hurt and indignant that the Cherokee Nation will not acknowledge her roots. On a recent visit to Tahlequah, she stopped by tribal headquarters, a concrete building emblazoned with the words "Welcome to Your Cherokee Nation" in English and Tsalagi. Although it was closed, she was wary. "I don't want to get spotted by the security camera," she said, shooting glances over her shoulder — still an outsider in a world she has known all her life. -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

This site has a history of his life. As you will note, he held a number of offices in RI, which no doubt accounts for his being referred to as "Honorable" http://sherman-roots.com/sherman/bio/07-sherm-philip.html -----Original Message----- From: barbara thompson [mailto:ace3399@msn.com] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 4:27 PM To: CHASE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CHASE-L] Hon. Philip Sherman Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knows what the Honorable title was for. He was b. abt. 1610, had dt. Sarah Sherman, if I remember correctly,........ who m. a Chase. Thanks, Barb ==== CHASE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from the Digest send a request here Chase-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word unsubscribe ONLY in the subject and message box.

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone knows what the Honorable title was for. He was b. abt. 1610, had dt. Sarah Sherman, if I remember correctly,........ who m. a Chase. Thanks, Barb

> URL: <http://www.ctrcreations.com/genealogy/family_index.asp> > TITLE: Turnbull - Eades Genealogy > DESCRIPTION: This genealogy covers some of the first colonist in > America from Scotland, Ireland, England, New Zealand, Australia, > Germany, and Prussia. Turnbull and Eades are the baseline families > with approximately 75,000 database entries. From "What's New On Cyndi's List" recently; there are two CHASEs listed. Happy hunting! Slán, Mo! (Hanrahan) Langdon IBSSG

Great Marlow Return. The House taking Notice, That, by the Book of Returns, there is a Return for the Borough of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks, in Manner following; viz. James Chase, Esquire,By one Indenture, first brought in by the Under-Sheriff, Fourth March. Sir Wm. Whitlock, Knight, James Chase, Esquire,By another Indenture added after by the High Sheriff, Eighteenth March. Ralph Bucknall, Esquire, And a Debate arising in the House, touching the said Return; The Question was put, That the said Return be a Double Return: And it passed in the Negative. Ordered, That the Indenture by which Mr. Bucknall is returned to serve as a Burgess for the said Borough of Great Marlow, be taken off the File. Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown do attend this House, upon Monday Morning next, at Ten of the Clock, to give an Account concerning the said Return of Members to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 22 March 1690', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 348-50. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28989&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. ******************************************************** MANORS The history of Bundish in the 17th century is not clear, but at the end of the century it was apparently in dual ownership. In 1681 Henry Herbert and his wife Anne conveyed half of the manor to Joseph and Thomas Cffley. (Footnote 86) In 1690 Sir William Boughton and his wife Mary, daughter of John Ramsey, alderman of the city of London, conveyed half the manor to Matthew and Robert Skinner. (Footnote 87) It may be that Lady Boughton and Anne Herbert were granddaughters of William Ramsey and had inherited Bundish as coheiresses of their father John Ramsey. Subsequently the manor came into the undivided ownership of John Lingard, common serjeant of the City of London, who died in 1729 leaving several daughters as coheiresses. (Footnote 88) In 1740 Elizabeth, Sarah, Anne, and Frances Lingard conveyed the manor to Samuel Brackley, merchant. (Footnote 89) In 1753 Sarah and Anne Lingard and Robert Chase and his wife Frances, daughter of John Lingard, conveyed it to Francis Capper. (Footnote 90) In 1775 the estate was still described as a manor. (Footnote 91) In all later documents and histories it was described merely as a farm. In 1840 the farm consisted of 166 acres of which 107 acres lay in Moreton and 59 acres in Shelley; at that time the estate was held by Thomas Chaplin, trustee of John Chaplin, deceased. (Footnote 92) From: 'Moreton: Manors', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956), pp. 131-34. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15605&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005.

The parish of Chelsea Communications Ferries The right to operate the ferry was leased out by the owners. In 1665 Thomasina Cootes, widow of a waterman, left the ferry and boats to her father Laurence Chase, (Footnote 5) and in 1668 the lessee was Samuel Chase. (Footnote 6) In 1696 and 1704 Bartholomew Nutt paid rates for the ferry; John Medley paid in 1735, and George Ludlow in 1750. (Footnote 7) By statute the Corporation of the City of London appointed watermen to oversee all wherrymen and watermen on the Thames as far as Windsor, and in 1668 Sir Walter St John and Samuel Chase brought a suit against the City's appointees and about 34 watermen of Chelsea, who claimed that the plaintiffs' exclusive rights to operate the ferry from Chelsea's 'Ferry Place', opposite Danvers Street, to Battersea only extended to the horseboat and not to footboats. They also claimed that the ancient ferry was near the Crown on the Chelsea side, and that long before the ferry there was a dock for dredging and trimming boats used by watermen, perhaps referring to the public draw dock at the east end of Cheyne Walk. The charges at that time were 1d. for every horse or beast and horseman in the horseboat, and ½d. for everyone on foot. (Footnote 1) A ferrymen's petition in 1726 for compensation for loss of business to the proposed Putney Bridge was rejected. (Footnote 2) In 1808 and 1812 plying places on the river where watermen could pick up passengers included a stretch under the trees opposite the Yorkshire Grey by Manor Street, where there were wooden stairs and a good causeway, opposite Lawrence Street where there were small stairs, and the original ferry place opposite Danvers Street and the White Hart, where there were 8-ft wide brick stairs alongside a brick wall and a 20-ft wide dock. (Footnote 3) From: 'The parish of Chelsea: Communications', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 2-13. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28685&strquery=Chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. **************************************************** Marlow Election. A Petition of Ralph Bucknall, Esquire, was read; setting forth, That James Chase, Esquire, and the Petitioner were duly elected for the Borough of Great Marlow; and were accordingly proclaimed by Two of the Constables, who are the proper Officers there; and were also returned by their Indentures, joined in by many of the Inhabitants: After the doing whereof, the said Constables, and divers of the Inhabitants were called out of their Beds, and were unduly prevailed upon to execute another indenture; wherein the said Mr. Chase, with Sir Wm. Whitlock, are returned, in Prejudice of the Petitioner's Right: And praying the Consideration of the House in the Premises. Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Petition be referred to the Committee of Privileges and Elections: Who are to examine the Matters thereof; and report the same, with their Opinions therein, to the House. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 6 October 1690', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 426-29. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=29047&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. ******************************************************* Persons sent for. RESOLVED, &c. That Mr. Alexander Thaine, Mr. Wm. Davies, Mr. Stephen Chase, Mr. Tho. Bagley, Cleve Ven, Gilb. Meese, James Weaver, Jo. Miller, be forthwith sent for, as Delinquents, for refusing to pay the weekly Assessments; and for abusing the Collectors when they came to demand it. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 3: 11 April 1643', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 3: 1643-1644 (1802), pp. 38-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=8393&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005.

House of Commons Journal Volume 8 24 March 1662 Privilege. Ordered, That one Richard Chase, who was committed for a Breach of Privilege in seizing and detaining Mr. Whorwood, a Member of this House, shall upon Security given to the Serjeant at Arms for his Appearance the First Day of the next Sitting of this House, have his Liberty in the mean Time. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 24 March 1662', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 393-94. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26487&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. ***************************************************** List of the Servants for the King's Children. "Pankeeper,Samuel Vance, Anne Chase,vi l. xiii s. iiii d. From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 6: 19 March 1644', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 6: 1643 (1802), pp. 474-76. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37477&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. ******************************************************* Settlement and building From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Village or Great Chelsea In 1695 there were four houses rated on the western side of Lawrence Street, followed by two on the eastern side. In 1704 John Lawrence leased to Samuel Chase of St Giles-in-the-Fields, bricklayer, two pieces of land at the northern end of the Lawrence property adjoining the glebe, presumably the site of the four houses which closed off Lawrence Street on the north and were later collectively known as Monmouth House. Chase also leased some glebe land in 1704 on the north side to create gardens for the two central houses, which were larger than the rest and faced down Lawrence Street, with a passage between them to the garden, hidden behind a pair of doors with a pedimented doorcase. (Footnote 5) They were first rated in 1705-6 as two houses at £28 each and two at £18. The centre house on the east was let from 1715 to Anne, duchess of Buccleuch (d. 1732), widow of James Scott, duke of Monmouth (d. 1685), and from 1718 she also took the adjoining house at right angles: (Footnote 6) her residency there gave the house its popular name of Monmouth House, but that led later writers to assume that the block had originally been built as a single mansion. The duchess was in Chelsea from at least 1714, and entertained royalty there in 1716, but spent her later years in Scotland. (Footnote 7) The house was rated to her daughter, Lady Isabella Scott, in 1735. (Footnote 8) The westernmost house of the group, occupied by Alexander Reid in 1722 and empty in 1735, was rated to Nicholas Sprimont in 1751 when the next house, presumably the western central house, was rated to Tobias Smollett, and the Duchess of Buccleuch's former house to Sprimont as a house and outbuildings, which he used as a showroom for the Chelsea Porcelain works. (Footnote 9) Smollett lived in Chelsea from 1750 to 1763, though he never identified his house in his letters. (Footnote 10) Nos 23 and 24 Lawrence Street, facing Justice Walk and still standing in 2003, had twin doorways in a single doorcase, similar to the arrangement shown on Monmouth House c. 1833, (Footnote 1) and probably date from the development of c. 1690, which has otherwise left no trace, except for the stuccoed remains of Church Row at nos 62 and 63 Cheyne Walk. (Footnote 2) Perhaps because of lack of demand, not all the site was built over in the late 17th century. A factory was built for the Chelsea Porcelain works in 1750 on the west side of Lawrence Street on an empty site between the house at the corner of Justice Walk and Chase's houses at the top of the street, (Footnote 3) while a plot of land opposite at the top of Lawrence Street on the east side was still not built on by 1836. In 1714 Richard Culliford bought the lease of the house on the east side near the top, on a site 32 ft to Lawrence Street and 145 ft back to Cheyne Row, built by Thomas Hearne in 1688, and in 1720 he obtained a 20-ft wide strip of the vacant land which lay between him and the wall of the Duchess of Buccleuch's house at the northern end. (Footnote 4) The illustration of 'Monmouth House' in 1833 shows the ground still unbuilt, although with a high wall around it. (Footnote 5) From: 'Settlement and building: From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Village or Great Chelsea', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 31-40. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28690&strquery=Chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005. From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 6: 19 March 1644', Journal of the House of Lords: volume 6: 1643 (1802), pp. 474-76. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37477&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005.

Use your browser search feature to locate "Chase" in the text below and learn what else went by our name. TIDENHAM INCLUDING LANCAUT TIDENHAM lies on the boundary of Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire to the east of Chepstow. The parish forms a roughly wedge-shaped area between the broad estuary of the Severn on the east and the meandering course of the Wye on the west, tapering towards the south into a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the two rivers. Crossing points of the rivers, notably the Severn passage at Beachley, played an important part in the development of settlement, and fisheries were a major factor in the economy of Tidenham from late Saxon times when it was a large royal manor. Tidenham later became part of the Marcher lordship of Striguil whose lords created a hunting chase in the manor. Offa's Dyke, once marking the boundary between the lands of the English and Welsh, runs down the western side of the parish but excludes two areas, the peninsula of Lancaut formed by a meander of the Wye, and the Beachley peninsula on the south. Lancaut evidently remained in Welsh occupation in the 8th century when the dyke was built, but by 956 it was part of the English king's manor of Tidenham. (Footnote 1) Nevertheless it retained its separate identity within the manor; (Footnote 2) in the Middle Ages it was a separate ecclesiastical parish, (Footnote 3) and in the later 19th century it was accorded the status of a civil parish, amounting to 218 a., being merged in Tidenham parish in 1935. (Footnote 4) Beachley was also part of Tidenham manor by 956 and was apparently the area described in a Saxon survey of the manor made then or later as lying 'outside the inclosed land' and let in part to Welsh sailors; (Footnote 5) it has been suggested that the small seaport existed at the time of the building of the dyke and was excluded by it in order to leave both sides of the mouth of the Wye, and the Severn crossing at Beachley, under Welsh control. (Footnote 6) In 956 the bounds of Tidenham manor followed the Severn on the east and the Wye on the west while the northern and north-eastern boundary between the two rivers followed a series of landmarks some of which can be identified. (Footnote 7) The boundary began at Yewtree Headland, the neck of land on the Wye opposite Tintern where the woods still contained many yews in 1969, ran on to the Stone Row, and then to White Hollow (Hwitan Heal), a name which survives in Whitewalls, a house east of Oakhill Wood; (Footnote 8) it then passed through Yew Valley, Broad Moor, and Twyford, where the Piccadilly and Black brooks join at the main Gloucester-Chepstow road, (Footnote 9) and came to a pill on the Severn later called Horse Pill. (Footnote 10) Those bounds took no account of Madgett, an area of 311 a. lying within the northern boundary of the parish. (Footnote 11) In 956 Madgett was probably already detached from Tidenham manor, for the manor was extended at 30 hides (Footnote 12) as it was in 1066 when Madgett was certainly no longer part of it, being held with one of the Woolaston manors; (Footnote 13) Madgett remained part of Woolaston parish until 1882 when it was merged with Tidenham. (Footnote 14) The original boundary on the north-east presumably ran from Park Hill through Mereway Grove and down the Piccadilly brook to Twyford, but later an irregular arm of Woolaston parish extended into Tidenham as far as Ashwell Grange and a small detached piece of Tidenham survived within that arm near Ashwell Grove. (Footnote 15) The irregular boundary appears to have resulted from allotments of tithes to the respective parishes at the inclosure by Tintern Abbey of the Ashwell Grange estate from the waste in the early Middle Ages; (Footnote 16) much of the 119 a. of assarts made by the abbey in Tidenham before 1282 (Footnote 17) probably lay in that area. The detached piece of Tidenham was merged with Woolaston in 1882, (Footnote 18) and the boundary in that area was rationalized in 1935 when 113 a. of Tidenham between Ashwell Grange and the Piccadilly brook were transferred to Woolaston. (Footnote 19) The account given here relates to Tidenham parish as it existed before the boundary changes (an area of 6,065 a., excluding river foreshore) (Footnote 20) and to Lancaut; the history of Madgett is given under Woolaston. The east and south parts of the parish are lowlying, mainly at under 100 ft., and the land is formed chiefly by the Keuper Marl. East of Sedbury, however, the Lower Lias overlying the Rhaetic beds forms an area of higher ground terminating in Sedbury Cliffs (Footnote 21) which rise to c. 150 ft. above the Severn. North of Pill House a stretch of flat meadow land bordering the Severn is formed by alluvial deposits. (Footnote 22) Sea-walls to defend that part against the river were being maintained in the late 13th century, (Footnote 23) but in 1969 they were no longer kept up and survived only in short stretches, for in recent years a considerable area of land had been gained from the river and planted with grass; the river's action has also added land to the bank further south, in Beachley Bay. (Footnote 24) In the late 17th and early 18th centuries the Tidenham manor court was concerned with the upkeep of sea-walls along the Wye on the west side of the Beachley peninsula. (Footnote 25) To the northwest of the main Gloucester-Chepstow road the land rises steeply to c. 550 ft. before levelling off to form a wide plateau; on the west side the land falls even more steeply to the Wye, in places forming bare rock cliffs at 200-300 ft. above the wooded banks of the river. In the north-western part the land is formed mainly by the Carboniferous Limestone, although a strip of the Old Red Sandstone intervenes on the hill slopes to the east, and there are two considerable areas of Millstone Grit on the northern plateau and patches of Dolomitic Conglomerate on the west. (Footnote 26) In 1292 the reeve of the manor sold 316½ horse-loads of coal from Tidenham Chase in the north of the parish; (Footnote 27) the tenants reported that coals could be found on the chase in 1584, (Footnote 28) and the lord of the manor was negotiating with miners for the exploitation of the deposits there in 1677. (Footnote 29) The limestone of the parish has been extensively quarried both for local building purposes and for export from the parish. (Footnote 30) The whole parish of Tidenham lay at one time within the Forest of Dean, but by the early 13th century the lords of the manor had appropriated a great hunting chase extending across both Tidenham and Woolaston, and the exclusion of the two parishes from the jurisdiction of the forest had been established by the end of the century. The earliest record found of Tidenham Chase was in 1228 when it was said to have existed from antiquity, (Footnote 31) but other jurors in the 13th century attributed its creation to William Marshal (d. 1219). (Footnote 32) In the 1270s the chase was said to stretch from Chepstow Bridge to the Cone brook on the Woolaston- Alvington boundary; on the north it was presumably confined by the original Woolaston-Hewelsfield boundary, for the lord of Tidenham was reported to have extended its bounds into Hewelsfield during Henry III's reign. (Footnote 33) The jurors perambulating the Forest of Dean in 1228 regarded the chase as still being part of the forest, as did those of 1282 who gave the confluence of Severn and Wye as the forest's southern boundary; (Footnote 34) in 1267, however, the Cone brook had been stated to form the boundary between the forest and the Earl of Norfolk's lordship. (Footnote 35) The distinction was made again in other evidence given in 1282, when it was complained that the earl's riding forester in the chase and others were accustomed to make poaching expeditions into the forest and then return to the chase where they could not be attached because it lay outside the county. (Footnote 36) The exclusion of Tidenham and Woolaston from the forest was confirmed From: 'Tidenham including Lancaut: Introduction', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp. 50-62. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15757&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 24 August 2005.

House of Commons Journal Volume 8 4 April 1662 Privilege-Person discharged. Richard Chase (the Constable, who, for his Breach of Privilege, in seizing and detaining Mr. Whorwood, a Member of this House, and his uncivil Carriage towards him, was, by former Order of this House, committed to the Custody of the Serjeant at Arms), being this Day brought to the Bar of this House; and having submitted himself, and craved Pardon for his Miscarriage; and being withdrawn; Resolved, upon the Question, That the said Chase be called in to the Bar of this House; and do receive a Reprehension from Mr. Speaker, upon his Knee: And that thereupon he be discharged. And the said Constable was accordingly called in; and, being upon his Knee, Mr. Speaker gave him a very grave Reprehension: And so he was dismissed. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 4 April 1662', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 396-97. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26489&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 23 August 2005. House of Commons Journal Volume 8 19 March 1662 Privilege. Upon Information, That Mr. Broome Whorwood, a Member of this House, coming out of London last Night, was seized and detained by one Richard Chase, a Constable, and his Watch, at Bishopgate; and not suffered to pass, either in his Coach, or on Foot, although there was no Restraint put upon any other Person that had occasion to pass that Way, but only upon the said Mr. Whorwood, although the Constable was informed, that he was a Member of Parliament; and declared, that he acted by a Power that was above the Parliament, and would not permit . . to pass. Ordered, That the Serjeant at Arms attending this House, or his Deputy, do apprehend the said RichardChase, and take him into Custody, to answer this Misdemeanor, and Breach of Privilege, objected against him, in seizing and detaining the said Mr. Whorwood; and his uncivil Usage towards him. From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 19 March 1662', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 389-90. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26483&strquery=chase. Date accessed: 23 August 2005.

Hi Everyone, Am interested in getting in touch with those whose line is the above. I'd like to find out if anyone has any info on Stephen's children and.....I think I've come across some info! Thanks, Barb ace3399@msn.com

In a message dated 06/06/2004 4:43:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Stub53usmc writes: I read everthing that comes in concerning our Chase/Chace e-mail...however, every once in a while ..something comes in that is real exciting to me..such is the case in the e-mail from Barry Price..in Vancover..which reads in part.. "Looking for the children of the above couple..(Thomas/Hope Terry Chase). They are the children of Obed and Phebe Hathaway Chase..and James and Phebe Chase respectfully..Thanks for any help that you can give.." Just a note...coming down the Thomas Chase/Chace side of the family..up until Thomas married Hopey..he was in the Chase spelling ..going back to William 1..When he married Hopey Chace..he changed his name to spell Chace.. The same as Hopey...This was frequently the case in the early 1800's.. Many of my records show that Chaces born in Bristol County (Freetown, Assonet, Fall River, Swansea, Somerset, Rehoboth etc..) who left the County and moved to the Cape (Yarmouth, Dennis , West Harwich etc) changed their spelling to Chase for convenience sake..since everyone was named Chase..likewise, those coming from the Cape to Bristol County, changed their name to Chace..because there were very few Chases..and almost everyone was named Chace. I can provide documentation in these facts because it is stated in several early geneology books...concerning the Chase/Chace history...legal proceedings were not required to make the change..and for those of us who got into this geneolgy trail early ..it was very confusing...In the cemetary behind Christ Church in Swansea..where I cut the grass as a 14 yr old Sexton in the War Years of !943-45..Many of the graves will have the fathers name as Chase..yet all the children names as Chace..There are many cemetaries in Swansea..and it is very difficult to find grave markers with the spelling of Chase. I have several early maps of Swansea circa 1850..and there are no Chases recorded in any of the houses marked on the maps.. I would like to repeat what my son ( A Commodore in the US Navy) and I have concluded about the Chase/Chace spelling of our names.. The book..."Some of the Descendents of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth, Mass." It contains the names and families for 196 descendents of William Chase. No where in the list of over a thousand names is the name of Chace to be found. Over the years, having grown up in Swansea and living close to Freetown and my son being in the Navy and having spent several tours in Newport, RI ..between the two of us we have had the opprotunity to visit the graves sites of all our ancestors going back to William 1..This is not so on the Thomas Chace side of the family..although my nephew, John Chace ..the son of my brother..Chaplain Colonel Alston Chace, USAF ..has found most of these graves. I have taken pictures of almost all of these sites and what these pictures show is as follows: `George Bedford Chase (Walter3, Benjamin2 and William 1) had 16 that is sixteen ..children. He was born in Freetown in 1719 and died in Smithfield RI in 1784 . He married in Freetown in 1741 to Mary Strange... daughter of Lot and Hannah (Hathaway) Strange... (It is quite clear in my research , a most frequent marriages during this time was Chases/Chaces ....to Hathaways One of the children born to George and Mary was Greenfield Chase.. in 1754..He is my great,great,great great Grandfather....ie Frank Chace, my father. Ellery Chace my grandfather, Hiram Chace, my great grandfather, Thomas Chase/Chace, my great, great, grandfather, Capt James Chace, (Ship Captain) my great, great, great grandfather, Greenfield Chase/Chace, my great, great, great ,great grandfather.. It is this grandfather that my early Chace relatives selected for our entry into the DAR and SAR. My Aunt Marion Chace used to apologizes to me for the selection of Greenfield as our sponsor into the DAR and SAR. ( because there were others Chase/Chaces with a more exciting participation in the Rebellion.) Just like his brothers who remained loyal to the Colonies and were Whigs, Greenfield joined Capt's Benjamin Read's (Freetown Company) and Col. John Hathaways Regmt. He enlisted Aug 2 1780 and was discharged Aug 7, 1780..service..6 days on alarm at Rhode Island (Taken from Full Context of Massssachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion 17 Vols ..Vol 3 page 351 So it was that several other Chases answered the call to include, Gilbert (brother), George, (brother), Edward, (brother), Bradley, Augustus, Darius, Ebenezer.and Fairfax (son of Abiel Chase.) Greenfield and his brothers are buried in the Hathaway Cemetery in Assonet...and what is more important..the Chases who went into the Revolutionary War and enlisted under the name of Chase..were buried as Chace,... Also included in the Cemetery named "Chace" is Azel Chace...who is listed as being in the War of the Rebellion. Also in the Rounsville Cemetery are Albert E Chace and Seth H Chace. My point is that almost all of the Chases in Freetown who enlisted under the name of Chase...are buried under the name of Chace. My son and I believe this was done to separate their name from that of other family members who remained loyal to the Crown and were Tories. Somewhere in my notes is a story of a Chase who was a Tory who was caught hiding arms for the British and he was tared and feathered in Taunton, Mass. Tories who went on trial May 31st 1777 were...George Chase and George Chase Jr. Ammi Chase, is included in the list of Prisoners on board the gun ship "Adams." Just to point put the division between Tories and Whigs..from the History Of Freetown..July 30th 1902.. "The war cloud of the Revolution was now gathering on the horizon and the far-sighted of the colonist were preparing for a storm, a history of which comes down to us largely by old tradition and the grandmother's tales of "Whigs and Tories.".....people bitterly divided on the question at issue....In that part of our town annexed to us from Tiverton in 1747 and still known a s New freetown, a company of minutemen were training, under Captain Levi Rounsville and making ready for the call that would be sounded in the "Lexington Alarm." Southward the dozen households located along the plunging Quequechan were watchful and brave, liberty men all. who, later in the conflict proved themselves competent to defenf their own against the marines of England. But while the southern and eastern portions of the town were preparing to contest the rule of the mother country, the village of Assonet, under the master spirit of old Colonel Gilbert, held loyal to the crown..... Captain George Chase (son of George Bedford Chase) was the Moderator of a meeting (Province of Ye Massachusetts Bay...Bristol ..January 1774.....Resolved the following... "1st That it is ye Duty of this Town at this time to Express our sentiments in matters which so nearly Concern us more spedely, as there appears to be Reason to fear there is a Spirit of Anarchy, Disorder and Confusion prevailing in sum parts of the this Province." 2nd Resolved , That ye Body of People at Boston on ye 16th Day of December last, taking upon themselves the Stile and Appelation of a Body of People who did not Indeavor to prevent a number of people (in Indian Dress od Disguise) from acting there Savage Nature in ye Destruction of ye Tea aforsd, as we Apprehend, was not doeing their Duety, but was Contrary to Law and we fear will bring upon the Vengeance of an Affronted Majesty, and also plunge us in Debt and Misery when ye Injured owners of sd. Tea shall make there Demand for ye Vallue of ye Same." There were two more similiar resolutions.. It goes on to state that they in this Town of Assonet.."do hereby declare that we Abhor, Detest and for Ever bare out Testimony against the proceding of ye Body and Indians aforsd. or any others have or shall act in ant Riotous manner, it being so very Contrary to ye Spirit of our Laws and ye Liberty of the People." On week before the battles of Lexington and Concord...the Whig Towns of the County mustered their forces and marched them two thousand strong upon the "detested" village, dispersed the Tory Battalion and compelled its leaders to seek safety in flight. (Village was Assonet) It is truly too bad that the history of the Rebellion does not reflect more credit on the Whigs of Bristol County..before the action took place in Lexington and Concord.. they clearly were involved with the Rebellion before Boston etc. There is quite a bit more that I could write about concerning the strong feelings between the Whigs and Tories...Is it any wonder why Greenfield would not take exception to his brother George who was the Moderator at th Tory meeting? Is it any wonder that the Chases who answered the Call came home and changed their name to Chace....and to do so to recognize their allegiance to the new Country? Since I startd to write about our opinion as to why the Chase name became Chace and the proliferation of the Chace name from about 1775... I have received several e-mails still defendinfg the fact that Chase became Chace through clerical error in Freetown..and these e-mails were less than sympathetic to my explanation.. I have no doubt that somewhere clerical errors were made..just as I have spent a lifetime convincing people that my name is spelled with two "C's" ..however, just as Greenfield changed his name..all of his children...he and Sarah had 11 eleven......so it was that his son James, for example, who married his second cousin Phebe Chase, they had 17 seventeen.. children Gilbert, Greenfield's brother had 8 eight children...A son of Gilbert, Allen had 8 children.. Edward, Geenfields brother had 12 children... a son Edward had 9..another son Philip had 9..Another son Walter had 5..and another son George had 11 James Chase a Tory....brother of Grenfield..born in Freetown in 1744 married Betty Douglass in 1766...moved to New Brunswick had 12 children named Chase.. His son James had 6.....his son Seth had 12.. his son Daniel had 5.. His son James had 11...so here you have 46 Chases ..whose name did not change .. As for the reason I started out to answer Barry Price from Vancover about Hopey Chace marrying Thomas Chase/Chace From the office of the City Clerk in Fall River, Mass.... Registered # 634 Date of death..December 9, 1871 Name..Hopey Terry Chace Age 59 yrs 6 months Cause of death Tphoid Fever Residence.. South Main Street Place of Death.. Fall River, Mass. Place of Burial..Oak Grove Cemetery Name of Father James Mother Phebe Date of Record..Dec 28, 1871 Reg. # 360 Date of Death June 24th, 1872 Name Thomas Chace Age 62 yrs 5 months 27 days Cause of Death ..Consumption Residence Osborn St. Place of death Fall River Mass Place of Burial Oak Grove Occupation..Mule Spinner Place of Birth Dennis, Cape Cod Name of Father Obed Name of mother Sarah Date of Record july 18th, 1872 I have copies of these if needed.... Children Andrew 1840 1916 Hiram 1842 1907 married Annie Palmer Amy Hope Phoebe married Thomas Wilkerson Caroline married a Brownell Other interesting facts: On Greenfields grave In Memory Of Mr. Greenfield Chace OiBi March 29th 1810 AE'T 56 years "Depart my friends, Wipe you tears. Here I ...lie.. Till the Christ appears" Sarah's Grave Sarah Chase Wife of Greenfield departed this life April 3,1841 Note: Sarah did not change her name to Chace Hopey and Thomas graves are marked "Mother and Father" They are buried right next to my father and mother Frank and Alice Chace in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River.. Also there are Hopey and Thomas' sons Andrew and Hiram and others of the Chace family I have pictures of most graves from William 1 down to my parents...but not all From William Chase 1 2 Benjamin Chase b 1639 Roxbury Mass...................William Chase Jr (Willy) 1627 3 Walter Chaseb Freetown 1684 ......................John Chase b.1649 Yarmouth 4 George Bedford Chase b 1719 Freetown ........... Thomas Chase b. 1679 Yarmouth 5 Greenfield Chace b 1754 Freetown .......... Joseph Chase b, 1718 Yarmouth 6 James Chace b 1786 Freetown ................. Joseph Jr. 1744 Yarmouth 7.....................................................................Obed b 1772 Yarmouth 8 Hopey Terry Chace b 1811 Freetown Thomas Chase/Chace 1808 Dennis 9 Hiram King Chace b1824 Freetown 10 Ellery Wyatt Chace b 1873 Fall River 11 Frank Clinton Chace b1905 Fall River 12 Frank Clinton Chace Jr b 1929 Fall River 13 Christopher Bruce Chace b1954 Fall River 14 Stephen Deane Chace b 1957 15. Stephen Deane Chace Jr, b.1986 San Diego Calif 16. Alexander Chace b. 1988 Richmond Va Would be glad to work out a way of getting pictures or birth/marriage cetificates where needed..and help into DAR/SAR along my family lines.... can provide detailed location of William 1 and the Chase boys grave marker through the Civil War in West Harwich..Mass..including pictures and inscriptions on monument... I hope the information herein is helpful Colonel Frank Clinton Chace Jr US Marine Corps (Ret) my web site...click here.. http://web.infoave.net/~pgwar/stub.htm ----------------- Forwarded Message: Subj:Exciting e-mail Chaces Date:06/06/2004 4:43:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time From:Stub53usmc To:prishep@telus.net, Meb42639, johnbats2@yahoo.com, timein@webtv.net, Raskad, ChaseDNAteam, Dougsherma, jchase@dc.rr.com, jenistyx@hamilton.net, k.hume3@ntlworld.com, chase1858@direcway.com, Renogen@peoplepc.com, munch@telus.net, Chase-L@rootsweb.com, kittom@swbell.net, PVoelker@compuserve.com, SMARTINoff, ajones@n-connect.net I read everthing that comes in concerning our Chase/Chace e-mail...however, every once in a while ..something comes in that is real exciting to me..such is the case in the e-mail from Barry Price..in Vancover..which reads in part.. "Looking for the children of the above couple..(Thomas/Hope Terry Chase). They are the children of Obed and Phebe Hathaway Chase..and James and Phebe Chase respectfully..Thanks for any help that you can give.." Just a note...coming down the Thomas Chase/Chace side of the family..up until Thomas married Hopey..he was in the Chase spelling ..going back to William 1..When he married Hopey Chace..he changed his name to spell Chace.. The same as Hopey...This was frequently the case in the early 1800's.. Many of my records show that Chaces born in Bristol County (Freetown, Assonet, Fall River, Swansea, Somerset, Rehoboth etc..) who left the County and moved to the Cape (Yarmouth, Dennis , West Harwich etc) changed their spelling to Chase for convenience sake..since everyone was named Chase..likewise, those coming from the Cape to Bristol County, changed their name to Chace..because there were very few Chases..and almost everyone was named Chace. I can provide documentation in these facts because it is stated in several early geneology books...concerning the Chase/Chace history...legal proceedings were not required to make the change..and for those of us who got into this geneolgy trail early ..it was very confusing...In the cemetary behind Christ Church in Swansea..where I cut the grass as a 14 yr old Sexton in the War Years of !943-45..Many of the graves will have the fathers name as Chase..yet all the children names as Chace..There are many cemetaries in Swansea..and it is very difficult to find grave markers with the spelling of Chase. I have several early maps of Swansea circa 1850..and there are no Chases recorded in any of the houses marked on the maps.. I would like to repeat what my son ( A Commodore in the US Navy) and I have concluded about the Chase/Chace spelling of our names.. The book..."Some of the Descendents of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth, Mass." It contains the names and families for 196 descendents of William Chase. No where in the list of over a thousand names is the name of Chace to be found. Over the years, having grown up in Swansea and living close to Freetown and my son being in the Navy and having spent several tours in Newport, RI ..between the two of us we have had the opprotunity to visit the graves sites of all our ancestors going back to William 1..This is not so on the Thomas Chace side of the family..although my nephew, John Chace ..the son of my brother..Chaplain Colonel Alston Chace, USAF ..has found most of these graves. I have taken pictures of almost all of these sites and what these pictures show is as follows: `George Bedford Chase (Walter3, Benjamin2 and William 1) had 16 that is sixteen ..children. He was born in Freetown in 1719 and died in Smithfield RI in 1784 . He married in Freetown in 1741 to Mary Strange... daughter of Lot and Hannah (Hathaway) Strange... (It is quite clear in my research , a most frequent marriages during this time was Chases/Chaces ....to Hathaways One of the children born to George and Mary was Greenfield Chase.. in 1754..He is my great,great,great great Grandfather....ie Frank Chace, my father. Ellery Chace my grandfather, Hiram Chace, my great grandfather, Thomas Chase/Chace, my great, great, grandfather, Capt James Chace, (Ship Captain) my great, great, great grandfather, Greenfield Chase/Chace, my great, great, great ,great grandfather.. It is this grandfather that my early Chace relatives selected for our entry into the DAR and SAR. My Aunt Marion Chace used to apologizes to me for the selection of Greenfield as our sponsor into the DAR and SAR. ( because there were others Chase/Chaces with a more exciting participation in the Rebellion.) Just like his brothers who remained loyal to the Colonies and were Whigs, Greenfield joined Capt's Benjamin Read's (Freetown Company) and Col. John Hathaways Regmt. He enlisted Aug 2 1780 and was discharged Aug 7, 1780..service..6 days on alarm at Rhode Island (Taken from Full Context of Massssachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion 17 Vols ..Vol 3 page 351 So it was that several other Chases answered the call to include, Gilbert (brother), George, (brother), Edward, (brother), Bradley, Augustus, Darius, Ebenezer.and Fairfax (son of Abiel Chase.) Greenfield and his brothers are buried in the Hathaway Cemetery in Assonet...and what is more important..the Chases who went into the Revolutionary War and enlisted under the name of Chase..were buried as Chace,... Also included in the Cemetery named "Chace" is Azel Chace...who is listed as being in the War of the Rebellion. Also in the Rounsville Cemetery are Albert E Chace and Seth H Chace. My point is that almost all of the Chases in Freetown who enlisted under the name of Chase...are buried under the name of Chace. My son and I believe this was done to separate their name from that of other family members who remained loyal to the Crown and were Tories. Somewhere in my notes is a story of a Chase who was a Tory who was caught hiding arms for the British and he was tared and feathered in Taunton, Mass. Tories who went on trial May 31st 1777 were...George Chase and George Chase Jr. Ammi Chase, is included in the list of Prisoners on board the gun ship "Adams." Just to point put the division between Tories and Whigs..from the History Of Freetown..July 30th 1902.. "The war cloud of the Revolution was now gathering on the horizon and the far-sighted of the colonist were preparing for a storm, a history of which comes down to us largely by old tradition and the grandmother's tales of "Whigs and Tories.".....people bitterly divided on the question at issue....In that part of our town annexed to us from Tiverton in 1747 and still known a s New freetown, a company of minutemen were training, under Captain Levi Rounsville and making ready for the call that would be sounded in the "Lexington Alarm." Southward the dozen households located along the plunging Quequechan were watchful and brave, liberty men all. who, later in the conflict proved themselves competent to defenf their own against the marines of England. But while the southern and eastern portions of the town were preparing to contest the rule of the mother country, the village of Assonet, under the master spirit of old Colonel Gilbert, held loyal to the crown..... Captain George Chase (son of George Bedford Chase) was the Moderator of a meeting (Province of Ye Massachusetts Bay...Bristol ..January 1774.....Resolved the following... "1st That it is ye Duty of this Town at this time to Express our sentiments in matters which so nearly Concern us more spedely, as there appears to be Reason to fear there is a Spirit of Anarchy, Disorder and Confusion prevailing in sum parts of the this Province." 2nd Resolved , That ye Body of People at Boston on ye 16th Day of December last, taking upon themselves the Stile and Appelation of a Body of People who did not Indeavor to prevent a number of people (in Indian Dress od Disguise) from acting there Savage Nature in ye Destruction of ye Tea aforsd, as we Apprehend, was not doeing their Duety, but was Contrary to Law and we fear will bring upon the Vengeance of an Affronted Majesty, and also plunge us in Debt and Misery when ye Injured owners of sd. Tea shall make there Demand for ye Vallue of ye Same." There were two more similiar resolutions.. It goes on to state that they in this Town of Assonet.."do hereby declare that we Abhor, Detest and for Ever bare out Testimony against the proceding of ye Body and Indians aforsd. or any others have or shall act in ant Riotous manner, it being so very Contrary to ye Spirit of our Laws and ye Liberty of the People." On week before the battles of Lexington and Concord...the Whig Towns of the County mustered their forces and marched them two thousand strong upon the "detested" village, dispersed the Tory Battalion and compelled its leaders to seek safety in flight. (Village was Assonet) It is truly too bad that the history of the Rebellion does not reflect more credit on the Whigs of Bristol County..before the action took place in Lexington and Concord.. they clearly were involved with the Rebellion before Boston etc. There is quite a bit more that I could write about concerning the strong feelings between the Whigs and Tories...Is it any wonder why Greenfield would not take exception to his brother George who was the Moderator at th Tory meeting? Is it any wonder that the Chases who answered the Call came home and changed their name to Chace....and to do so to recognize their allegiance to the new Country? Since I startd to write about our opinion as to why the Chase name became Chace and the proliferation of the Chace name from about 1775... I have received several e-mails still defendinfg the fact that Chase became Chace through clerical error in Freetown..and these e-mails were less than sympathetic to my explanation.. I have no doubt that somewhere clerical errors were made..just as I have spent a lifetime convincing people that my name is spelled with two "C's" ..however, just as Greenfield changed his name..all of his children...he and Sarah had 11 eleven......so it was that his son James, for example, who married his second cousin Phebe Chase, they had 17 seventeen.. children Gilbert, Greenfield's brother had 8 eight children...A son of Gilbert, Allen had 8 children.. Edward, Geenfields brother had 12 children... a son Edward had 9..another son Philip had 9..Another son Walter had 5..and another son George had 11 James Chase a Tory....brother of Grenfield..born in Freetown in 1744 married Betty Douglass in 1766...moved to New Brunswick had 12 children named Chase.. His son James had 6.....his son Seth had 12.. his son Daniel had 5.. His son James had 11...so here you have 46 Chases ..whose name did not change .. As for the reason I started out to answer Barry Price from Vancover about Hop ey Chace marrying Thomas Chase/Chace From the office of the City Clerk in Fall River, Mass.... Registered # 634 Date of death..December 9, 1871 Name..Hopey Terry Chace Age 59 yrs 6 months Cause of death Tphoid Fever Residence.. South Main Street Place of Death.. Fall River, Mass. Place of Burial..Oak Grove Cemetery Name of Father James Mother Phebe Date of Record..Dec 28, 1871 Reg. # 360 Date of Death June 24th, 1872 Name Thomas Chace Age 62 yrs 5 months 27 days Cause of Death ..Consumption Residence Osborn St. Place of death Fall River Mass Place of Burial Oak Grove Occupation..Mule Spinner Place of Birth Dennis, Cape Cod Name of Father Obed Name of mother Sarah Date of Record july 18th, 1872 I have copies of these if needed.... Children Andrew 1840 1916 Hiram 1842 1907 married Annie Palmer Amy Hope Phoebe married Thomas Wilkerson Caroline married a Brownell Other interesting facts: On Greenfields grave In Memory Of Mr. Greenfield Chace OiBi March 29th 1810 AE'T 56 years "Depart my friends, Wipe you tears. Here I ...lie.. Till the Christ appears" Sarah's Grave Sarah Chase Wife of Greenfield departed this life April 3,1841 Note: Sarah did not change her name to Chace Hopey and Thomas graves are marked "Mother and Father" They are buried right next to my father and mother Frank and Alice Chace in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River.. Also there are Hopey and Thomas' sons Andrew and Hiram and others of the Chace family I have pictures of most graves from William 1 down to my parents...but not all From William Chase 1 2 Benjamin Chase b 1639 Roxbury Mass...................William Chase Jr (Willy) 1627 3 Walter Chaseb Freetown 1684 ......................John Chase b.1649 Yarmouth 4 George Bedford Chase b 1719 Freetown ........... Thomas Chase b. 1679 Yarmouth 5 Greenfield Chace b 1754 Freetown .......... Joseph Chase b, 1718 Yarmouth 6 James Chace b 1786 Freetown ................. Joseph Jr. 1744 Yarmouth 7.....................................................................Obed b 1772 Yarmouth 8 Hopey Terry Chace b 1811 Freetown Thomas Chase/Chace 1808 Dennis 9 Hiram King Chace b1824 Freetown 10 Ellery Wyatt Chace b 1873 Fall River 11 Frank Clinton Chace b1905 Fall River 12 Frank Clinton Chace Jr b 1929 Fall River 13 Christopher Bruce Chace b1954 Fall River 14 Stephen Deane Chace b 1957 15. Stephen Deane Chace Jr, b.1986 San Diego Calif 16. Alexander Chace b. 1988 Richmond Va Would be glad to work out a way of getting pictures or birth/marriage cetificates where needed..and help into DAR/SAR along my family lines.... can provide detailed location of William 1 and the Chase boys grave marker through the Civil War in West Harwich..Mass..including pictures and inscriptions on monument... I hope the information herein is helpful Colonel Frank Clinton Chace Jr US Marine Corps (Ret) my web site...click here.. http://web.infoave.net/~pgwar/stub.htm

Does anyone know which George Chase was a Tory? Was it George Bedford born in 1753? Was he the one on board the "prison ship"? Also I saw somewhere on the list that Capt James Chace was "quite a famous sea Captain". Can anyone tell me more about that? Which James was that? James P. Chace b 1744 or James Chace b. 1786? What did he do? I have so many relatives that have the same name it gets confusing! Many thanks to anyone who knows my answers!! Ruth Chase Hill in Florida

Hey Dave, I was just in Topeka at the Kansas Historical Society about a month ago doing research. Enoch Chase must be your ancestor. If I remember correctly, Enoch is a descendent of Aquila Chase. There was also another very interesting Chase that I ran across while researching my own family. His name was Dr. James S. Chase and he has a very interesting distinction to his credit. After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, his body was placed on a funeral train that went through Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dr. Chase, who at the time was one of the youngest soldiers in the Union Army, was detailed to guard Lincoln's body while the train was depoted there that night. After a funeral service the next day, Chase was again detailed to guard the coffin until the train left Harrisburg. James S. Chase was born 3 July 1848 in Meadeville, Pennsylvania. After being mustered out of the Union Army at the age of 16, he eventually removed to Lyons, Kansas, in 1879, where he practiced medicine. And in 1910 he moved to Topeka where he lived until he died in 1930. Cheers, Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl