For any who might know; while reading the history of Phillander Chases family I am struck by the relative "late" settlement of the CRV. I have some ancestors who were married in Lebanon in 1791 and whose children were born even farther up the valey,in Orford, in 1792. Would this be considered very early or were these areas already pretty well populated by this time? (I haven't had time to find the books so kindly suggested in response to my earlier question). Would I be mistaken to assume that they probably came up the river and probably from Mass. What would the likelihod be that they might have come from Maine? Ken Roberts