Enjoyed reading your e-mail. I grew up in Swansea and return there often. Have written several articles about the Chase/Chace family for the Spectator...Came home this summer for a Case High reunion at Benjamin's and a boat trip down the Tontine River. All the names you mentioned are in my genealogy...especially Hathaway..Strange and Sherman all married Chase/Chaces in Freetown. I always go to the Hathaway Cemetery in Freetown and feel terrible that it is so neglected. There are both Chases and Chaces there. Those who fought in the Revolution have Chace on their gravestones..the other brothers who were Tories are buried as Chase. We lived so close together and I notice your spelling of Chase..In Swansea, Somerset, Rehobeth and Warren, RI, there are virtually no Chases. New Bedford is full of them, as is the Cape. Many children born as Chace in Bristol County and moved to the Cape were renamed Chase for convenience..I wrote a note for Ancestry about this. I am still working on putting a picture book together on the graves of all my Chase/Chace relatives..starting with William 1 in West Harwich. I have everything I need...but need some time. I have had several inquiries about Chase/Chaces who were Quakers. I have all the reference material and will start on that soon. Mt favorite and most prominent relative Quaker was Rev Obidiah Chace, lived in Swansea, born in Warren, RI and had his Quaker Church in Somerset. Really a very interesting man who had great influence on early America..and the people who he ministered to...His line was : William wife Mary William (wife not in this particular reference) William wife Hannah Sherman Eber wife Mary Knowles Eber wife Sarah Baker Obidiah wife Eunice Anthony Anthony wife Isabel Buffington ` In 1845 Obidiah married Esther Taber Freeborn Married for 60 years Four children; Charles Anthony Emma Rogers Walter Freeborn George Mahlon At age 34, he was approved a Minister of the Gospel for the Somerset Meeting House. He was there for 50 years and served without salary. He wrote a book of poems available in the Swansea Library One of these days I will type his whole history as contained in the History of Swansea Have fond memories of Taunton. Wouldn't have been Christmas unless a trip to the Taunton Green was made. Colonel Frank Chace