I live near Newburgh myself, so if you ever need some help finding some info here , pls feel free to let me know. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:22 PM Subject: [CHASE-L] Gilbert F. Chase & Family > This is the first time I've used this mailing list. I hope I'm doing it > right. I'm trying to find parents for my second great grandfather Gilbert F. > Chase, born 16 Mar. 1809 (date figured from his age at death). He married > Fanny M. Shay 26 May 1820 in the Associate Reformed Church, Newburgh, Orange > Co. NY. Gilbert died 13 June 1870 in Fishkill Landing, Dutchess Co. NY. He > was engineer on the ferry-boat Union which crossed the Hudson River between > Newburgh and Fishkill Landing (now Beacon). Fanny died 26 March 1848 from > drowning in the Hudson River after throwing herself from a window of her home > on the Long Wharf according to newspaper accounts. Gilbert later mariied Ann > Augusta Weller on 30 Aug. 1849 and Setta (Letta?) Purdy on 22 May 1851. The > children of Gilbert & Fanny as follows: > James Walter Chase, b. 1 Aug. 1830, d. 23 July 1836 > Clarissa Ann Chase b. 18 Nov. 1833, d. 26 Sept. 1905 > married Henry G. Bogue, 22 Feb. 1851 > Harriet Amelia Chase, b. 12 Sept. 1838, d. 17 Apr. 1923 in > Newburgh > married Nelson I. Marsh, 2 April 1860 in Fishkill-on Hudson > Ebenezer Chase, b. 29 Aug. 1840, d. 6 Dec. 1912 > married Julia Pollock 24 Apr. 1864 in Reformed Dutch Church, > Fishkill-on- > Hudson > James Harvey Chase b. 1 June 1844, married Elvira Roe on 4 Jan. > no marriage year or death date for him. > All the above information is in the Family Bible of Gilbert & Fanny which I > own and is also from church records. Gilbert had no children with Ann or > Setta. All the events took place in either Dutchess County or Orange County, > New York which are located on the east and west banks of the Hudson River > about 60 miles north of New York City. I have no other information about any > of the children except Harriet who was my great grandmother. Maybe some of > their descendants are out there. But, most of all, from which of the many > Chases did Gilbert spring and where? > >