Perhaps the following will give an understanding of how the misinformation of a connection to England got into the Chase genealogies. In consideration of future new genealogists, it would be good to NOT include the English generations that have been documented but to which a connection has not been made. It has caused much confusion among new Chase genealogists. For several years of the 1860's, H. B. Somersby, on behalf of George Bigelow Chase, searched the records of every county in England in search of the origins of Aquila and Thomas Chase. Not finding the information he sought, an assumption was made that the brothers came from a Chase family in Chesham, England. Without any documentation, in Oct. 1868, George Chase put the assumption into print in a pamphlet entitled, "A Genealogical Memoir of the Chase Family of Chesham, Bucks, in England and of Hampton and Newbury in New England, with notices of some of their Descendants," That pamphlet has caused a multitude of wrong genealogies and reference books. A great many books printed since that time, having Chase genealogy, has used that same information with the exception of the "Seven Generations" book. Below is an extract from that pamphlet showing how they must have arrived at their assumption. "The discovery of the unique name of Aquila, found no where else in England, before or since, in any records of families bearing the name of Chase, was deemed conclusive proof by Mr. Somersby, as it has been since by other distinguished antiquarians, of the identity of the American with the English families. The date of birth coincided with another tradition lingering in some branches of the American family, that Aquila Chase of Newbury, had called his first son, but the fifth child that was born to him, after his father's name as well as his own, " that Aquila the first was Aquila the second, too." "The register at Chesham contains no other mention of Aquila, Thomas and Mordecai other than the record of their births. Of the seven remaining children of Richard Chase, their marriages or deaths, in some cases both, are recorded. This shows that the three younger sons left Chesham, and lived and died elsewhere." "Aquila 3 Chase married ——,* and had Thomas 4 Aquila,4 b. 1618." The register shows that Aquila, the son of Richard, was baptized 7 Aug. 1580. But he was not the father of Aquila born in 1618. John Carroll Chase, author of the "Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase" disproved that assumption with documentation of church records, grave locations, and on-site investigation. Ref. "A Genealogical Memoir of the Chase Family of Chesham, Bucks, in England and of Hampton and Newbury in New England, with notices of some of their Descendants" "Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase" "The Chase Chronicles"