Thankyou Kathy, What an intriquing story. I am very excited about our trip, and hope to fit in as much as possible. As well as the Chase family, I have ties to the Mowry's, Wheelers and Whites of the Mayflower. So, it could be a packed week. Pat >From: Kathy Caslin <caslin@winco.net> >To: CHASE-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CHASE-L] To Pat re: Chase Burials >Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:57:00 -0500 > >Hi Pat, > >If you have some time while in Providence...take the I-95 north past >Boston. When you get near Danvers you can stay on 95 or take the more >scenic Rte 1 up to Newburyport. You'll need a full day. > >Newburyport is one of the towns that Aquila Chase and Annie Wheeler were >early settlers in. Newburyport itself is worth going to see. It's lovely. > >If you go to the Historical Society there...they can give you a map...and >there is an 18th centruy building that stands I think...at the corner of >Federal St and the road that goes along the river. > >This was the site where Aquila and Annie first lived in Newburyport. The >original house is of course gone. They also had a 5 acre planting lot >further up in town. I don't have that street address handy. I have things >packed away because I , myself, am moving back to New England this Fall. > >But...if you go up to High St ...and go left on High St... toward >Newbury...which is I think Rte 1a....follow it along past the turn on the >left for Plum Island...stay on 1a...past the Meeting House on the >right...CAUTION: there is a graveyard across from the meeting house...that >is NOT the one you want. Keep going...you will see a village green on the >right hand side...keep going and looking off to the right....further up the >road...you will find the "Old Settlers Burial Ground". There is a sign and >a wall and it's all overgrown. It is here that Aquila and Annie are >believed to be buried. There is no marker so no one knows for sure....but >it's a cool place to go. > >Then back track to Newburyport...it's only a few miles.....and get on Rte >1...and go over the river and go 5 miles up the road to Hampton. There is a >green in the town center...not at the beach...but in the town that was >where all the original houses were. They're gone now...but there are >markers there. There on the green are rocks with the names of the like 20 >families that settled Hampton. There is a rock for the Chase families of >Aquila and his brother Thomas. If you get lost ask where the Historical >Society is...because it's right at the green. > >The Hampton Green is also cool because it is the site of a ghost story. >There was a woman named Eunice Cole. She is known as the witch of Hampton. >She was a kind of cantankerous old lady who fought a lot with her >neighbors...and the town folk of Hampton weren't the friendliest lot to >begin with...so of course they started accusing her of being a witch. Goody >at one point lived out on Island Path near the beach...and made her living >selling food to the fisherman as they headed out to sea. Well...some of the >fisherman got sick...and Goody got accused of witchcraft because they got >sick. There were numerous other accusations...but that was one I found >interesting. Goody was in and out of jail for many years. She had no >children to protect her and was finally let out. After her husband died, >she was named a ward of the town...and the towns people were ordered by the >court to to take care of her because she had no family. There was a little >bit of justice in that..I think. > >Anyway, she lived in a shack there at the village green...and when she died >...they were afraid to go in and check on her....and when they finally >did.. they dragged her body out...and drove a stake into her heart...to >peg her spirit to the earth...and buried her in a shallow grave near the >green. No one knows where. > >But they say her ghost walks the green. :0) > >And how does she tie into Aquila and Annie? Well...she sold food to the >fisherman...one of whom was probably Aquila...because he lived on the bank >of the Hampton river almost directly across from Island Path. There is NO >evidence to say he or Thomas accused her of anything....and the people who >accused Goody...also arrested Aquila for violating the Sabbath...by >picking the peas. So it could be that they were both on the bottom end of >the pecking order in the village. > >And...the other thing that ties Goody Cole and Annie....is this. I have a >copy of the manifest of the Mary and John. The voyage of 1634/35 records >among the passengers..John and Agnes Wheeler...and their 5 children...among >whom are David and Annie...and the manifest also lists William and Eunice >Cole. So Annie and Goody Cole made the 3 month voyage to America together. >So Annie would have known the witch of Hampton. > >Pretty cool..huh? > >Kathy Caslin caslin@winco.net > > >==== CHASE Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from the list send a request here >Chase-L-request@rootsweb.com and put the word unsubscribe ONLY in the >subject and message boxes. > _________________________________________________________________ Play Q6 for your chance to WIN great prizes. http://q6trivia.imagine-live.com/enca/landing