Hello All, Being that I am a William descendent, I have not spent as much time investigating Aquila and Thomas. As such, I have a few questions for those of you who are more knowledgable about these two gentlemen. 1) Do you agree that Aquila and Thomas were brothers? 2) Does your research indicate that Aquila of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, was the father of these two men? 3) Are there any popularly held family legends which have been disproven? 4) Does anyone have any evidence of Aquila's or Thomas's family marrying into William's family? 5) How many instances of the spelling Chace have you found in the Aquila and Thomas families? Thanks in advance for any answers which are forthcoming. Cheers, Jeffrey Chace -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl

1. The evidence, (a reference to "brother" in a land transaction between the two) would seem to support that Aquila and Thomas were in fact brothers. Thomas seems to have married first, so the presumption is that he probably was older. 2. There is no valid evidence in any records on either side of the Atlantic that provides any provable indication or either where Aquila and Thomas emigrated from, or who any of their ancestors are. The Chesham link is admittedly a tempting one due to the fact that there was an Aquila in that family line, but any linkage that you might see in any genealogy (and, frankly, the erroneous linkage is unfortunately rampant) is based on nothing more than either speculation or wishful thinking. 3. There was for a spell early in the 20th century a legend that there was a linkage to a vast fortune in England. It was proven to be a myth. 4. None of it happened in my particular family line (although I have found that my wife's line includes not one, but two links to Thomas), but given the number of ancestors in the three lines, and the geographical proximity to each other, I am rather sure William and Aquila/Thomas ancestors have linked up more than once in the last 300 years. 5. I'll leave the count of "Chaces" for someone better versed in that aspect of our ancestry to answer. Dick Chase -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Chace [mailto:j.b.chace@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:54 AM To: CHASE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CHASE-L] Aquila and Thomas Chase Hello All, Being that I am a William descendent, I have not spent as much time investigating Aquila and Thomas. As such, I have a few questions for those of you who are more knowledgable about these two gentlemen. 1) Do you agree that Aquila and Thomas were brothers? 2) Does your research indicate that Aquila of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, was the father of these two men? 3) Are there any popularly held family legends which have been disproven? 4) Does anyone have any evidence of Aquila's or Thomas's family marrying into William's family? 5) How many instances of the spelling Chace have you found in the Aquila and Thomas families? Thanks in advance for any answers which are forthcoming. Cheers, Jeffrey Chace -- Jeffrey Chace http://www.chace.demon.nl ==== 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.