Rich & Nancy, I have an Issac CHASE who was an early convert to the Mormon church, but the only Willard in my database was born in Utah 1880. As far as the seerstone, I am not familiar with that story. The history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints starts with the revelation to Joseph Smith in 1820 in Palmyra, New York. The Church was officially founded on April 6 1830 in Fayette, New York. The CHASE lines I have were mostly in the Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island area or in Massachusetts prior to abt 1800, my line move to Vermont abt 1800 and then to Sparta, Livingston, New York by 1830 untill after 1837. From there, they followed the emigration of the Church to Nauvoo (1841), then to Utah. Rich Hill wrote: > Nancy, > > I have done some research on the Willard CHASE family that was associated > with Joseph SMITH, Jr., and I believe I have his ancestry. However I do not > have that research on this computer and it will be a few days before I get > the other one back from service before I can check the data base. > > I don't remember if there was an Isaac that was related to Willard or not. > > Do you have any idea where they came from before being in Seneca County? I > have info on hundreds of CHASEs, most of which an old GEDCOM of mine was > posted on the internet by someone else and I believe that much of it is > probably here in this CHASE data base, although I have not checked lately. > > If any of your people came out of the southeast corner of Washington county, > NY., I would be extremely interested. > > Best regards. > Dick Hillenbrand > Syracuse, NY > > -----Original Message----- > From: nancy <nchase@jps.net> > To: CHASE-L@rootsweb.com <CHASE-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 1:38 PM > Subject: [CHASE-L] Chase Family research > > >Hi, > >I am a new subscriber so I hope I get this right! > >I have reached a dead end on my family research and I am fairly new at > this > >so any help would be appreciated. > >I am trying to get information on an Isaac Chase who was born Jan.22, 1797 > >and died Nov.20, 1819. He was married to Phebe Holrow who was born Oct. > >1799, died Dec.24, 1859. Phebe died in Seneca County, New York. They had > >two children who lived to maturity, George and Martha. > >Family stories relate that the Chase family farm was the site where Joseph > >Smith ( founder of the Mormon Church) dug up his seer stone. I have read > in > >some Mormon history books that the stone was dug up in upstate New York on > >the Willard Chase farm. I am assuming that Willard was related. This is > >all the info. I have - any ideas? > > > >Thanks a lot for your time. > >Nancy Chase > >nchase@jps.net > > > > > >