Sorry folks...My e-mail address was scrambled.....If you had an asnwer for the following please send again . Derek Please forgive me if I have posted this question before, but I am interested in the genealogy of Samuel Chase, who was a judge, and a writer to newspapers of the day, and a signatory to the declaration of independence..... Also, the Chase-Manhatten Bank ? Apparently there was no Chase ..it was named after a government official, (who was a Chase) who ran the treasury department...I received a letter some time ago from the bank telling me this, but cannot now find it. Derek Visit the Chase ancestral collection http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html