Keith: Your gg grandmother Sarah Chase Hume would have the mtDNA of her mother Elizabeth Chase (James P. Chase's wife). Her son George (your g grandfather) would carry the Y-chromosome DNA of her husband, Peter, as well as her mtDNA. But George, in turn, would pass on only the Y DNA to his son, John, your grandfather, so the Chase link would be "lost" with respect to the mtDNA. Richard -----Original Message----- From: chase-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:chase-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Keith Hume Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:10 AM To: chase@rootsweb.com Cc: chase@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CHASE] DNA test Thank you Richard.. Yet again!! So in effect it is almost, if not a completely, hopeless task trying to trace dna back to James P. Chase's wife , Elizabeth Douglas> Keith Hume

Thanks Richard, I Understand Keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Chase" <rachase@triad.rr.com> To: <chase@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [CHASE] DNA test > Keith: > Your gg grandmother Sarah Chase Hume would have the mtDNA of her mother > Elizabeth Chase (James P. Chase's wife). Her son George (your g > grandfather) > would carry the Y-chromosome DNA of her husband, Peter, as well as her > mtDNA. But George, in turn, would pass on only the Y DNA to his son, John, > your grandfather, so the Chase link would be "lost" with respect to the > mtDNA. > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: chase-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:chase-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Keith Hume > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 4:10 AM > To: chase@rootsweb.com > Cc: chase@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CHASE] DNA test > > Thank you Richard.. Yet again!! > So in effect it is almost, if not a completely, hopeless task trying to > trace dna back to James P. Chase's wife , Elizabeth Douglas> > Keith Hume > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHASE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

I took advantage of the Origins Network offer of free access to their data search their computerized Boyd's Inhabitants of London database to see if it might perchance contain any information on Aquila, and, mirabile dictu, it does in fact contain a page (sheet #8084) on Aquila (the indexer, obviously not s student of the Bible, mis-entered the name a "Aguila") Chase, a resident of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in London. The record states him to be the son of Richard Chase (of Chesham), and that he married Martha Jelliman, daughter of John and Margery Jelliman, on 22 June 1606 in that Parish. It notes that he was a citizen, a tailor and member of the Draper Guild, and had become a Freeman in 1605. (A freeholder had certain rights to land unlike the earlier serfs. A freeholder could usually pass on his land to his sons and sometimes could sell his rights to the land. This higher social status often included the right to vote in local and Parliamentary elections. "Freeman" was a more general term, including both freeholders and non-farmers like merchants and craftsmen.) The significance of this record in Boyd's is that is confirms the assumption that Chase/Chamberlain make in their Seven Generations. genealogy that the London Aquila was probably the Chesham Aquila, son of Richard, that is documented in records in Buckinghamshire. The Boyd's record also lists three children of Aquila and Martha: Anne, bpt. 26 Feb 1607, and buried 19 Jul 1609; Martha buried 11 Mar 1610, and Aquila. While there is no birth, baptism or burial date shown for the latter, it does note that he was a member of the Draper Guild, and was made a Freeman in October 1649. [London Parish records show that Aquila and Martha had several other children-but none of them named Thomas. They also record that the elder Aquila was buried in St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, Parish in London 9 Feb 1643, and that the younger Aquila was buried there in 1659/60.] So, for those who might still entertain the hope that the younger Aquila is one and the same as the Aquila who shows up in Hampton, Mass. Bay Colony, and is the link to that Chase line back to the Chesham Chases, all this would seem to further confirm that that "just ain't so", and his ancestry continues to be a mystery. Dick Chase