I don't recall anyone posting these wills. I received them in the past by e-mail and promptly lost the address of the sender when my system crashed because I had not backed up my e-mails. The inventory is not included in this version of William's will. The inventory is well worth reading, but I do not trust my typing to copy it from paper. It is in Ginger's book. So, I just include what I have as a file. As you can see, the wills are part of an excerpt from a well known genealogy. Most Chase's probably have these wills, but some may not. (Keith, I would not put this version on your website because I did not copy it directly from the text. It may have errors. You probably have a more complete version.) Excerpt from "The Chace and Hathaway Families" Wilson-Clark Co. Printers, Ashtabula, OH 1900 (Copied for family use; not for profit.) INTRODUCTION. The author of this Record, having for his own amusement and edification, collected from the Records, many dates relating to the Ancestors and Decendants of Holder Chace, of East Claridon, Ohio, and Clothier Hathaway, of Pompey, N. Y., was invited by some of the family to have it published. Not desirous of appearing as an author, yet being a member of the families (by marriage) he did not feel at liberty to refuse the request, though he well knew the task would subject him to much trouble and inconvenience. The work, such as it is, is submitted to the family in the confident belief that it will be found to contain records never before published, and that they can be relied upon as correct. The material has been chiefly obtained from family bibles and town records, of both Taunton and Freetown, Mass. The amount of labor both physical and mental, the work has cost, can be understood by those only who have themselves been engaged in some work of this kind. In collecting some material, the author has been kindly assisted by several gentlemen, among whom he takes pleasure in mentioning Rev. William A. Eardeley, of Henderson, Me., historian of "The Chase-Chace Family Association," incorporated at Hartford, Conn., July 6th, 1899, and Mr. H. E. Hathaway, of Providence, R. I. To each of whom he is indebted for valuable information communicated and incorporated in this work. C. V. C. January 1st, 1900. William Chase. "WILLIAM CHASE, he came wth the first company, 1630 he brought one child his son willia, a child of ill qualitys, & a sore affliction to his parents: he was much afflicted by the long & tedious affliction of his wife; after his wives recovery she bare him a daughter, Wch they named mary borne aboute the middle of the 3rd month, 1637. he did after yt remove intending to Situate, but after went wth a company who made a new plantation at Yarmouth." "Mary Chase the wife of William Chase, she had a paralitik humor wch fell into her back bone so yt she could not stir her body, but as she was lifted, and filled her wth great torture, & caused her back bone to goe out of joynt, & bunch out from the beginning to the end of wch infirmity she lay 4 years & a halfe, & a great pt of the time a sad spectakle of misery: But it pleased God to raise her againe, & she bore children after it." (N.E.H.G.R., 1881). Such is the language of the first church in Roxbury, now Boston Highlands, Mass. William came over in the fleet which brought Governor Winthrop and his colony. He was one of Mr. Stephen Bachilor's company, who spent the winter of 1638 at Mattacheese (Yarmouth), and the only one who remained after that unfortunate enterprise was abandoned. October 9, 1630, he applied for admission as a freeman, and on May 14, 1634, he took the freeman's oath. WILL OF WILLIAM CHASE, (Vol. 2, part 2, p. 63, Plym. Records.) I, William Chase, of Yarmouth, the elder, being aged and sick in body, but of perfect memory, thanks be to the Lord, do make my last will and testament, as followeth: First, I give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin, after my decease, one heifer calf and two steer calves, of a year old and upwards; also I give to my son William, who hath had of me already a good portion, the sum of five shillings, to be paid in any good pay, if he demand it. All the rest of my goods, cattle and chattels, I give and bequeath unto Mary, my wife, together with this my dwelling house, the land and all the appurtenances thereunto belonging; as also half of my lot of land at the Bass pond, which I bought of William Palmer, a middle line made, and that half part next to Darbey's I give unto her Mary, my wife aforesaid, as also my orchard and land I bought of Goodman White, now in my possession, all unto her use and disposing during her natural life, if she continues a widow, and when she dies, to dispose a third part of that estate God shall leave her, as she shall think good; the other two parts to our son Benjamin's part; but if it shall please God that she shall marry, my will is that she shall have a third part of that estate, and the other two parts to be to our son Benjamin aforesaid. Also I do make my wife Mary aforesaid, the executrix of this my last will and testament, and do appoint my neighbors Robert Dennis and Richard Taylor, tailor, overseers of this my last Will and Testament and have hereunto subscribed my hand this 4th day of May, 1659. Witnesses hereunto: Richard Hoar. WILLIAM X CHASE. Mary Dennis. His mark. These witnesses deposed before me, Thomas Prince, Gov'r. this 13th of May 1659. Inventory Sept. 14, 1659-- . 74, s 279 d 16. (Vol. 2, Part 2, p. 64, Plym. Records.) William Chase, d. between May 4 and 13, 1659, in Yarmouth. Mary his wife, was found dead in October 1659. * * * * BENJAMIN CHASE, m. in Dartmouth, Mass. about 1673 Philip (pe), b. Oct, 1st, 1652, dau. of Hon. Philip and Sarah (Odding) Sherman. He was made a Freeman, May,1674, at Portsmouth, R. I. He and his wife Philip(pe), joined the first Sabbatarian Church, Newport, R. I., April 17, 1717. He was selectman of Freetown, Mass. in 1698-9, and 1705; assessor, 1691; March 6, 1705 he was appointed "guardian unto his grand-daughter, Sarah Makepeace." He was a cooper by trade. His will dated Sept. 6, 1730. Extract from the early Bristol County, Mass. Probate Records. July 25, 1731.--The will of Benjamin Chace, the cooper was proved in the Court of Probate: "To sons Benjamin & Walter all my lands in Freetown purchase. To grandson Benjamin Grinnell one 40 acre lot of land in No. 23, and also the 7th, share in 3d lot, it being a cedar swamp lot in Middleboro'. To daughter Barthiah Dunham one half of the 14th, lot near Baiting Brook in Middleboro' and one cow. To son Benjamin the 5th share of the aforesaid third lot in Middleborough purchase. To sons Benjamin & Walter all the rest of my lands in Middleborough. To daughter Philip Hathaway, & son in law Jacob Hathaway, all my land from & adjoining the land that my son Jacob Hathaway bought of my son Benjamin Chase & shall be a quarter Share in breadth & extending in leangth down to the river, always excepting 3 rods square which is to be reserved for a burying place & is to be in the south-west corner. Also to daughter Philip 20 pounds, & all my moveable furniture that I have removed to my son Jacob Hathaway's house. To grand dau. Sarah the wife of Isaac Hathaway one cow. To grand child Daniel Grinell 5 shillings. Son Walter, sole executor." Witnesses: Isaac Hathaway, Benjamin Darnell, & Sarah Hathaway. Benjamin Chace, d. in Freetown, Mass., about July, 1731. Kieth, let me know if I can look up some Humes for you in Oregon. I work a block from our state library with its genealogical collection. Dave White (one of Wm's many gggggggggrandsons).