Attn: Gail Frick Re: Charles S. Chase, aged 87 years, died Aug. 12, 1894 First of all, thank you, Gail, for the kind words. Secondly, I am sending this via the Chase rootsweb group so that perhaps others might have ideas to help out in your search. Don't dispair. You're very very close. I think perhaps you are just a generation away (and maybe not even that)from determining which Chase you connect with.I have several suggestions to make. Do with them what you wish. 1. I would find a LDS (Mormon) Family History Library where they have the records on the microfishe and check out the state of Maine and all of the Chase names they have listed there. Even if none of the names you see there connect up with you it might help you to locate other towns where the Chases lived and your William may have had relatives in neighboring towns that can be traced. Also, the spouse is important to look up too because he was probably married in his wife's home town. 2. I have just looked in the William Chase of Cape Cod Book that is not indexed---and it drives me nuts for that reason. They list Chases in Unity, Maine and Troy, Vasalborough, Maine. There were Chases at the same time your Chase was there it seems. That could be a lead for you. You could do the same checking in the 7 generations of Aquila and T. to see where they went from N.H. 3. The Chases married into the Soule Family (Mayflower Pilgrim) and there are Soules around Kennebunk, Maine.--even to this day as they threw an exclusive little private party for Pres. Bush some years ago and were criticized for it. (Bush has a summer home there). 4. I don't have the knowledge I would like to share with you since I don't have any direct lines who moved there---My, I wish I did though. 5. Also, the Historic Society in Portland could be of help and maybe they even have a WWW to contact. 6. In the Cape Cod Book: Joseph and Jane (Dyer) Chase were the parents of George CChase, A.B. (Bates, 1868), A.M.----Uni. Colo. 1895---Uni. of New Brunswick, 1898, Bowdoin, 1902, professor of English literature at Bates College, 1872-1894, president of Bates College and professor of psychology there, 1894-1919, who was born at Unity, Me. 15 Mar. 1844, married 12 June 1872 Emma Francette Millett of Norway, Me. and died at Lewiston, Me 27 May 1919. Those are a few ideas I have just off the top of my head and perhaps some of the rest of you have far better ideas than I do. The main thing is---keep on digging---it all will come. If you can find that he came from a small town originally then I suggest writing to the small town Librarian as Librarians simply love to do research and will undoubtedly dig around for you. One time I did this very thing while researching my Lees and low and behold if the Librarian didn't send me a newspaper article about my ancestor who was the editor of a paper in the town. That was pretty exciting. Good luck and please feel free to write again any time as I have to admit I am hooked on this hobby and love to see others interested too. Ginger in Az.