I'd like to answer Barb Austin who in the genealogy she quotes as part of the transcription of the diary of Edward Payson Chase - see earlier emails and also below for link "http://www.rootsweb.com/~rinewpor/chase.html" does not cite Benjamin as a son of William Chase I and also lists his daughter Mary born in 1637 and goes on to say that he had a second daughter, Mary, born 1639, and names William II's wife as Alice Fish. Benjamin is definitely a son of William I as evidenced by his will wherein he leaves to "my son Benjamine...one heifer calfe and two steer Calves of a yeare old and upward." To "my son William whoe hath had of mee alreddy a good portion; the sume of five shillings...if hee Demand it. All the rest of my goods, Cattles and Chattles, I give unto Mary my wife..." What does this tell us? William and Benjamin were certainly the sons of William I. There were no other children alive then as law would have required them to share in the estate. The Scituate and Barnstable Church Records, as published in the NEHGS Register, Vol 9, page 286, says that Mary, daughter of Goodman Chase ye elder was buried Octob. 18, 1652. Her birth is elsewhere given as about 15 May 1637, and her brother Benjamin's as b. in 1639, bapt. at Roxbury 18 Apr 1652. About William II's birth being as early as 1622, it seems that it could be possible, although most references state the birth "as early as 1627". As to Alice Fish being William II's wife, I haven't seen any other references, but certainly bears research as her name continues to be unknown. I hope that everyone reads Edward Payson Chase's journal, so wonderfully transcribed by Barb Austin, for the minutiae of everyday life in the 1870s and 1880s. Judy Chace Needham