There is disagreement among published Chase genealogies about the lineage of the brothers Aquila and Thomas Chase who arrived in Hampton NH in 1639, and subsequently located in Newbury (now Newburyport) MA. The Chase Family History by J.M. Seaver (1929) lists the Aquila Chase born in Chesham in 1580 as the one which came to Hampton NH in 1639. This is clearly in error, since it is refuted by a recorded court deposition filed by Aquila in Ipswich Mass. in 1666 wherein he gives his age as 48, making the year of his birth about 1618 ("Decendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase"; John Chase & Geo. Chamberlain, 1928). The Chase/Chamberlain genealogy assumes that the Chesham Aquila (b. 1580) is the Aquila Chaste (in later records written as Chase) who is listed in Parish records in London as marrying a Martha Jelliman on 22 June 1606, and who had a number of children whose baptisms are recorded there. Among them was a son Aquila who was bp. 9 April 1626 (his burial there in the year 1659/60 is also recorded). There is no record of a son Thomas. Chase/Chamberlain therefore break the Chase genealogy between the Chesham Chases, and the brothers Aquila and Thomas in Hampton, since no factual documentation of the linkage apparently could be found. Any information (hopefully in the form of documented references) that anyone can provide on the parents, birth, and early life of the Newbury MA Aquilla and Thomas will be most welcome. Dick Chase Many recent Chase family compilers list the Aquila and Thomas who came to New Hampshire as children of the senior Aquila Chase of Chesham (b. 1580, son of Richard and Joan Chase) and Martha Jelliman, married 22 June 1606. Presently available evidence suggests that this is in error. If the Chesham Aquila is indeed the Aquila listed in the London records, then it seems unlikely that he could be the father of the brothers Aquila and Thomas; if he is their father, then the Aquila listed in London must be a different one, and Martha Jelliman cannot be his spouse and their mother.