Hello! Over the past couple of weeks, there have been several postings that make mention of the various members of the family of William Chase of Yarmouth. I have some questions about some of the information that has been given. 1. Just to repeat what someone said in an earlier message about the relationship between William Chase and the brothers Aquila and Thomas Chase - I've never seen any evidence of any connection between the two families. 2. At the Chase family site, the entry for William Chase lists ancestors going back a few generations. Does anyone know if this information is backed up with reliable sources? 3. Several postings have mentioned that William's wife was Mary Townley. In the series "Some of the Descendants of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth" that appeared in NEHGR in 1933/34, William's wife is given as Mary, but with no last name. Has information come to light since that series that proves Mary's last name was Townley? 4. Some messages have given the wife of the William Chase Jr. (son the aforementioned William and Mary) as Elizabeth Holder. In that series of articles in NEHGR, the author specifically gives evidence that Elizabeth Holder could not have been the wife of William Jr. The author states, "It has been said that he (William) had four children by each wife, and that his second wife was Elizabeth Holder. One Christopher Holder of Olveston, co. Gloucester, England, came to Boston in 1656, but, since he espoused the views of the Quakers, he was banished in 1659 and fled to Newport, R.I. He married, 12 Aug. 1660, Mary Scott. Among his nine children born at Newport was Elizabeth Holder, born 4 Jan. 1664/5, who, when William Chase died, would have been barely twenty years of age. As it has been claimed that the four youngest children of William Chase were born of his second wife, and as the eldest of these four children sold land in Harwich in 1695 and therefore must have been born as early as 1674, when Elizabeth Holder was only about ten years old, it is impossible for her to have been the second wife of William Chase. No other Holder family has been found in New England before 1700." Again, has there been information uncovered since that article that counters the author's argument against Elizabeth Holder being the wife of William Chase, Jr.? Thanks for any clarification of these questions. John