Hello, cousins, and thank you, JLynn, for your very informative summation to Leslie Quist regarding the on and off Aquila misinformation. It was nice to learn also that you are related to Lonnie Chase who has been a generous and helpful correspondent of mine. JLynn, can you tell me if there is an existing land grant document, reference your comment "[Aquila] was actually granted land for service by the colony in which he settled"? I sure would like to see that. Also, your allusion to the Sabbath "pease-picking" incident reminds me that I've got a copy of a July 18, 1897 New Orleans Time-Democrat posthumous article about Bishop Philander Chase written by a Laura Chase Smith which came down to me from among the papers of my g-g grandmother, Anne Eliza Blackwell Chase. According to the article, Philander Chase was the first Protestant clergyman of New Orleans, first Bishop of Illinois, and founder of Kenyon and Jubilee Colleges. It is gruesomely hard to read, but a delightful (LONG) article written in typically-embellished 19th century style which contains Philander's ancestry (parents Dudley Chase/Albea ? - can't read it - Corbet) and progeny, chronology of his career, and also a discussion of this "pea-picking" adventure of Aquila's and the circumstances which lead up to that Sabbath infraction. In 1897 it was "peas;" is "pease" the same thing? An aberration devolved from colonial English? I sure don't know! As to Philander, he seems to have been such an illustrious fellow and I've never seen any inquiries about him. That's surprising. Among Jlynn's comments was a reference to the Chase stone, so I am posting the following info to the List again for new members who might be interested in seeing a facsimile of it. My uncle acquired a photocopy of a photograph of it from the NEHGS in 1971. At that time the tablet itself was no longer mounted but in storage at the Society, and Lonnie Chase learned that a 20th century Chase descendant who was associated with the Society came into personal possession of it and Lonnie was told that nobody there knows where it is! THAT's hard to figure, but maybe Lonnie knows more by now. He may have inquired further. Also, Listmember Gladys Chase was kind enough to write me in 3/98 the following: "In 'The Seven Generations of the descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase' between pages 28 & 29 they have a picture of the tablet with the following caption: tablet of caen stone, thirty-two inches in height in the entrance corridor of the New England Historic Genealogical Society's Building, 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass." (I myself have never seen this "bible" for all Chasers, and one of these days I am going to get my hands on one.) I have that old photocopy of my uncle's (John Churchill Chase), and while it certainly is not up to today's standards of duplication, it is clearly legible and I offer a copy to any interested cousin. Just send me your snail mail address. Sandy Chase (Aquila, Thomas, Thomas, Josiah, Josiah, Josiah, Edward, Edward Wilson, Joseph Carter, Francis Neelis) P.S. to Lonnie Chase - huge and joyful breakthrough as listed above - made it about 2 months ago.