To Dick Chase and all other interested Chases, Thank you , Dick, for your good comments. I am not sure this message got through so I shall copy it again. Hey there---sorry you got the wrong Chase---I wasn't referring to the author of the 7 Generation of Aquila and Thomas Chase Book . (He would be pretty dusty by now. Ha) There has been another and much later Chase--I am referring to. (in the 1980s.) He was President of the New England Historic G.S. in 1989-1990. I have the N.E.H.G.S Register , Vol. CXLiii, Oct., 1989, right before my eyeballs right now. He is the man I was referring to who was listed as from Dover, Ma. in 1989--you guys. What I meant was---anyone who was thought so highly of as to be the President of the leading Genealogical Society in America surely would be able to answer your question about Aquila and Thomas Chase and their links to Britain. In reference to the Chronicles . I believe the complete set is kept in the Albany, New York if any of you are closeby and can check that out. That's where I read about these Chases coming originally from Wales. They believed that then, but I don't claim to know whether it has been proven or not. (Obviously not). Also, I must admit it was quite fun reading about the Chases WHO WERE connected to the Chase in Chesham, Bucks., England and their relatives. Some lived in Marlow, Bucks., and there were some pretty colorful mentions of them in the Bucks. Co., England Record Office when I visited there. I realized early on that they were not connected to my Chase from Essex, but it did provide a good read.