Saturday, February 18, 2012

Surname Saturday - CHASE (England > Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  I am now up to number 365, who is Mary Chase (1695-1732), one of my 6th-great-grandparents. [Note: The 6th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts] 

My ancestral line back through three generations of CHASE ancestors is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

10. Thomas Richmond (1848-1917)
11. Julia White (1848-1913)

22. Henry Arnold White ((1824-1885)
23. Amy Frances Oatley (1826-before 1870)

44. Jonathan White (1806-1850)
45. Miranda Wade (1806-1850)


90.  Simon Wade (1767-1857)

91.  Phebe Horton (1772-????)


182.  Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819)
183.  Sarah Pray (1734-????)


364.  John Horton, born 21 March 1696 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States; died 10 January 1796 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, United States.  He was the son of 728. John Horton and 729. Mehitable Garnsey.  He married  09 July 1719 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.

365.  Mary Chase, born 15 January 1695 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died 09 March 1732 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of John Horton and Mary Chase are:  Ruth Horton (1720-????); Mehitable Horton (1723-1806); Mary Horton (1725-????); John Horton (1728-1776); Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819).


730. Thomas Chase, born 25 July 1654 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States; died before 25 February 1734 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.    He married 22 November 1677 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
751.  Rebecca Follansbee, born about 1658 in probably Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States; died 27 December 1711 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 1502. Thomas Follansbee and 1503. Mary.

Children of Thomas Chase and Rebecca Follansbee are:  Thomas Chase (1680-1756); Jonathan Chase (1683-1756); James Chase (1685-1753); Aquila Chase (1688-1714); Ruth Chase (1691-1758); Mary Chase (1695-1732); Josiah Chase (1697-1723); Rebecca Chase (1700-1769); Nathan Chase (1702-1784); Judith Chase (1704-1747).


1260.  Aquila Chase, born about 1618 in England; died 27 December 1670 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married before 1645 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.
1261.  Ann Wheeler, born before 13 May 1621 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died 21 April 1687 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2522. John Wheeler and 2523. Agnes Yeoman.

Children of Aquila Chase and Ann Wheeler are:  Sarah Chase (1645-1726); Anne Chase (1647-1690); Priscilla Chase (1649-1697); Mary Chase (1651-1725); Aquila Chase (1652-1720); Thomas Chase (1654-1734); John Chase (1655-1739); Elizabeth Chase (1657-1696); Ruth Chase (1660-1676); Daniel Chase (1661-1707); Moses Chase (1663-1743).


Information about these early Chase families was included in a number of recent and authoritative works:


1)  Dean Crawford Smith and Melinde Lutz Sanborn (editor), The Ancestry of Samuel Blanchard Ordway 1844-1916 (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1990).


2)  John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain, Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993).


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copyright (c) Randall J. Seaver, 2012.

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