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    1. [CHASE-L] Benjamin Chase, Nantucket to NY
    2. Barbara Babcock
    3. While on Nantucket this summer, I discovered a discrepancy between my Chase line and the one reported there. According to my great-grandmother's records, Benjamin Chase, Jr. b.1783 possibly in Ghent, NY, m. to Lydia Macy b.1794 in Ghent was the son of Benjamin Chase, Sr. b.1734. d.1826 m. Mehitable Thurston b. 1743. The Barney records in the historical society on Nantucket (btw, they said these records would be online in Sept.) list Ben, Sr. as the son of James Chase and Mary Brown and his wife as Margaret Gardner. The Macy genealogy, however, lists Ben's wife as Mehitable Underwood. Who was Ben Chase, Sr. really married to? Who were his parents? Is anyone out there descended from Ben's grandson, Durfee Chase, b.1829 in Williamson, NY, m. Mary Hubbard, d.1904. Durfee had two children, my great-grandmother Dr. Cornelia Chase Brant and her brother, Norman. I'd like to know what happened to Norman. Does my great-grandmother have any family left? And who were her real great-grandparents? Apparently, the Chase and Macy families were part of one of the 'removals' from Nantucket to Ghent and Hudson, NY at about the time of the Revolutionary War. Please forgive any mistakes I make while trying to get this information out there. I've never done this before. Barb

    08/22/1998 07:38:17