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?