In a message dated 99-05-27 22:21:06 EDT, brownj-s@ma.ultranet.com writes: << Some messages have given the wife of the William Chase Jr. (son the aforementioned William and Mary) as Elizabeth Holder. In that series of articles in NEHGR, the author specifically gives evidence that Elizabeth Holder could not have been the wife of William Jr. The author states, "It has been said that he (William) had four children by each wife, and that his second wife was Elizabeth Holder. One Christopher Holder of Olveston, co. Gloucester, England, came to Boston in 1656, but, since he espoused the views of the Quakers, he was banished in 1659 and fled to Newport, R.I. He married, 12 Aug. 1660, Mary Scott. Among his nine children born at Newport was Elizabeth Holder, born 4 Jan. 1664/5, who, when William Chase died, would have been barely twenty years of age. As it has been claimed that the four youngest children of William Chase were born of his second wife, and as the eldest of these four children sold land in Harwich in 1695 and therefore must have been born as early as 1674, when Elizabeth Holder was only about ten years old, it is impossible for her to have been the second wife of William Chase. No other Holder family has been found in New England before 1700." Again, has there been information uncovered since that article that counters the author's argument against Elizabeth Holder being the wife of William Chase, Jr.? >> I am hoping that someone will respond to this by posting to the list. Thanks!