I am researching for a new-to-genealogy Chace family member a possible Mayflower connection to William White. I am trying to place Experience White, b. 8 August, 1771, who m. Philip Chase (Chace), 28 Feb 1790, in Freetown, MA ( Dartmouth VRs), both of Freetown, possibly in the family of Peregrine WHITE of Freetown. Experience (White) Chace d. 1830 in Delaware County. Peregrine White of Freetown m. Mary Howland of Middleborough 3 May 1770 (Middleborough VRs). Peregrine was the son of Paul White and Elizabeth Curtis and was b. 23 December 1748. He is a direct descendant of William White. Peregrine appears in the Federal Census at Freetown in 1790, with one male under 16, two males over 16 and two females. (Of course, Experience at this time would be in the household with new husband Philip Chace and not be enumerated in any White family.) Peregrine appears in the 1800 Federal Census, still in Freetown, with one male 10-16, one male 16 to under 26, one male 26 and under 45, and one male 45 and older. Females are one aged 16 to under 26 and one other over 45. Experience White and her husband Philip Chace and many others of his Chace family from Freetown resettled in Delaware County, NY (Delhi, later called Hamden) in 1791. Also there in Delaware County in 1800 were Gershom, Joshua and Seth Howland (uncles, nephews or cousins (?) to Mary Howland who m. Peregrine White), as well as several Whites whom I cannot place as having come from Freetown. Experience White and Philip Chace named their 2nd son Thomas WHITE Chace (after her brother Thomas?) and named a second daughter Polly (nickname for Mary - her mother?) and a fourth daughter Hope (after her sister or grandmother?) And certainly Experience herself could have been named for Peregrine's maternal grandmother, Experience Palmer. I know that Thomas, Malachi and Hope are listed elsewhere in various family trees as children of Peregrine and Mary (Howland) White. This would agree with Census enumerations. There may have been another son according to the Census of 1800, although he is not listed in the Census of 1810. Is it possible that Experience is also a daughter - having missed the 1790 Census as she was a Chase at that time? There was an Experience White, born in Freetown 1772, who m. a Jonas Blanchard in 1795. That Experience White was the daughter of John White and Mercy Hathaway and is not the Experience White for whom I am searching. She is a descendant through Resovled White. That family had removed to NH before 1790. The other WHITE males of Freetown enumerated in the Federal Census of 1790 were Jenkins, Samuel, Thomas and Zebulon. For various reasons, I have eliminated them as possibles as the father of Experience. Since Experience was given as "of Freetown" in her marriage record of the same year (1790), I do believe her father should be there, too. I have not seen any wills of the above-named. I do not know whence the birthdate of 8 August, 1771 or the death-date of 1830 that George Chamberlain used for Experience White in his work on the Chase/Chace family. Does anyone know anything about "my" Experience? If she is not Peregrine's child, does anyone have another lead? Judy Chace Needham No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.2/1304 - Release Date: 2/29/2008 8:18 AM