Thomas Chase is #730 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #731 Rebecca Follansbee (a1658-1711) in 1677 in Newbury, Massachusetts.
I am descended through:
* their daughter #365 Mary Chase (1695-1734) who married #364 John Horton (1696-1796), in 1719.
* their son, #182 Nathaniel Horton (1730-1819), who married #183 Sarah Pray (1734-1820) in 1753.
* their daughter, #91 Phebe Horton (1772-a1820), who married #90 Simon Wade (1767-1857) in about 1790.
* their daughter #45 Miranda Wade (1804-1850), who married #44 Jonathan White (1803-1850) in 1824.
* their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844.
* their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
* their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
* their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
* their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)
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1) PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Name: Thomas Chase[1–9]
* Sex: Male
* Father: Aquila Chase 1619-1670
* Mother: Ann Wheeler 1621-1687
2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Birth: 25 July 1654, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1–3]
* Distribution: 28 March 1671 (age 16), father's will proved; Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[4]
* Death: before 25 February 1734 (before age 79) Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1,8-9]
* Probate: 25 February 1733/4 (age 78), will proved; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1,8-9]
3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
* Spouse 1: Rebecca Follansbee 1658-1711
* Marriage 1: 22 November 1677 (age 23), Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1,5-6]
* Child 1: Thomas Chase 1680-1756
* Child 2: Jonathan Chase 1683-1749
* Child 3: James Chase 1685-1753
* Child 1: Aquila Chase 1688-1713
* Child 1: Ruth Chase 1691-1758
* Child 6: Mary Chase 1694-1733
* Child 7: Josiah Chase 1697-1723
* Child 8: Rebecca Chase 1700-1769
* Child 9: Nathan Chase 1702-1784
* Child 10: Judith Chase 1704-1746
* Spouse 2. Elizabeth Woodhead 1674-1734
* Marriage 2: 2 August 1714 (age 60), Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States[1,7]
* Child 11: Elizabeth Chase 1715-1808
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
Thomas Chase was born in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay on 25 July 1654, the son of Aquila and Ann (Wheeler) Chase[1-3].
He married (1) on 22 November 1677 to Rebecca Follansbee (a1658-1711) in Newbury[1,5-6]. They had ten children, all born and recorded in Newbury town records:
* Thomas Chase (1680-1756), married 1699 Sarah Stevens (1679-1760).
* Jonathan Chase (1683-1749), married 1702 Joanna Palmer (1680-1756).
* James Chase (1685-1753), married 1707 Martha Rolfe (1687-1739).
* Aquila Chase (1688-1713), married 1712 Mary Smith (1694-1785).
* Ruth Chase (1691-1758), married 1716 Nathaniel Miller (1696-1763).
* Mary Chase (1695-1734), married John Horton (1696-1796).
* Josiah Chase (1697-1723), married 1718 Sarah Porter (1699-1728).
* Rebecca Chase (1700-1769), married 1721 Stephen Moulton (1697-1786).
* Nathan Chase (1702-1784), married 1723 Judeth Sawyer (1701-1740).
* Judith Chase (1704-1747), married 1722 David Horton (1701-????).
Thomas Chase married (2) on 2 August 1713 in Newbury to Elizabeth (Woodhead) Moers (1674-after 1734) on 2 August 1713[7]. They had one child:
* Elizabeth Chase (1715-1808), married 1732 Benjamin Rogers (1713-????).
Aquila Chase, the father of Thomas, died testate, having written a will dated 10 December 1670, which was proved 28 March 1671[4]. In his will, he bequeathed to Thomas:
"Also I will that my wife give unto my sonn Thomas Chase at the age of one and twenty Tenn pounds in corne or neate cattle, provided the sayd Thomas doe abyde and serve with his mother to the sd age, And if his mother and hee the sd Thomas see cause, that hee should seve for a trade with any other man soe that hee have ye benifitt of a trade, then his mother my well beloved wife, is to pay unto the sayd Thomas but six pounds in the like pay before mentioned, ..."
The book Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase provides this information about the life of Thomas Chase (1654-1734)[1]:
"Thomas Chase learned the carpenter's trade. He was in the military service in King Philip's War on 27 March 1675 in Capt. Samuel Appleton's Company and was credited £3: 18s for his service in December 1675. He was in the Narragansett campaign and in January 1701/2 petitioned for a grant of land for his services in 1675 and 1676. In 1678 at the age of 24 he was one of the male inhabitants of Newbury to take the oath of allegiance. In 1679 his family was under the inspection of Abraham Merrill, tithingman. In 1688 he paid a tax on one head, one house, eight acres of plowland, one acre of meadow, one horse, three cows, two two-year-olds, one yearling, eight sheep and three hogs."He settled near Amesbury Ferry about thirty rods north of the intersection of the Ferry road with the road leading by the old cemetery at Sawyer's hill at Curzon's tide mill on the Artichoke river. His first purchase was fourteen acres from Nicholas Woodman 'Bounded with the country highway to Amesbury Ferry,' 2 June 1677. His homestead was in what is now Newburyport. It passed to his son, Nathan."Thomas Follansbee of Newbury, joiner, for £56 sold his homestead in Newbury 'upon ye plaine' to his son-in-law Thomas Chase 2 November 1711 and Thomas Chase, house carpenter, 'for love' sold the same property to his son, Aquila Chase, 2 April 1713."
Thomas Chase died testate before 25 March 1734, having written a will on 3 August 1732, and proved on 25 March 1734 in Essex County Probate Court[1,8-9]. It reads:
"In the Name of God Amen, I Thomas Chase of Newbury in the County of Essex in his majesties Province of the Massachussetts Bay in New England being sensible of my Frailty and mortality, but as yet of perfect mind and memory Thanks be to God, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. First of all I commend my Soul to God ect. and as touching ye worldly Goods wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise and dispose of in the following manner and Form."1. I give and bequeath unto my loving and well beloved wife Elizabeth Chase ye use and Improvement of one third Part of my real estate during her natural Life, and one third Part of my personal Estate forever to be at her dispose except my Utensils of Husbandry, Carpenters Tools & wearing Apparel & I give my Horse to my said Wife during her remaining my Widow, and at her marriage or Decease, I give my said Home to my son Nathan Chase."2. I give to my son Thomas Chase his Heirs and assigns forever four acres of my Island of Salt meadow at that End next the Gut as Called, having paid him his Portion already."3. I give and bequeath to my son Jonathan Chase ten Pounds in Bills of Credit or in other Species equivalent to Bills to be paid by my Executor within, One Year after my decease and one Quarter Part of my wearing apparel besides what I have given him already."4. I give and bequeath unto my Son James Chase ten Pounds in Bills of Credit or other Species equivalent to Bills of Credit (besides what I have already given to him) to be paid by my Executor within two years after my decease & I Give my Son one Quarter Part of my Wearing Apparel."5. I give to my Grandson Edward Chase ten pounds in Bills of Credit or in Other Species equivalent to Bills of Credit to be paid by my Executor when my said Grandson shall arrive to the Age of twenty one years."6. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Ruth Miller fifteen pounds in Bills of Credit or in other Species equivalent to Bills of Creditto be paid by my Executor within four years after my Decease."7. I give to my daughter Mary Horton five pounds in Bills of Credit or in other species equivalent to Bills of Credit to be paid by my Executor within five years after my Decease."8. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Rebecca Moulton five Pounds in Bills of Credit or in other Species equivalent to Bills of Credit to be paid by my Executor within six yearas after my Decease."9. I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Judith Horton five Pounds in Bills of Credit or other Species equivalent to Bills of Credit to be paid by my Executor within seven years after my decease."10.. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Eliza Chase thirty Pounds in Bills of Credit or in other species equivalent to Bills of Credit within one year after my decease to be paid by my Executor and I give my said Daughter Eliza two thirds of my Household Goods and one Cow & my great Bible, after my Wifes decease, and my will is that If my Daughter Eliza depart this Life and leave no Child, then what is herein given to her shall be paid to my four Daughters abovenamed in equal Shares viz: in Case my said Daughter depart this Life, before she receive her Portion herein given to her and leave no Child then her Sisters shall receive ect. & I give to my daughter Eliiiiza One half of my Sheep, and I give to my aforementioned Wife the other half of my Sheep, & what I Have at my decease I give to my Wife & sd daughter Eliza. I give and bequeath unto my Son Nathan Chase and to his Heirs and assigns forever all my real Estate consisting in Housings and Lands, meadows ect. whatsoever and wheresoever it may be and also all my personal Estate not before disposed of in this my Will and I do constitute and appoint my Son Nathan Chase to be Executor to this my Will to receive all my Debts and to pay all my just Debts Legacies and funeral Charges and my Will is that all my Legacies shall be paid in Newbury and I do revoke and make void all former Wills by me made and ratifie and Confirm this to be my last Will and Testament, In Witness whereof I set to my Hand & Seal this third day of August Anno Domini 1732."Signed, sealed and published & declared by the abovenamed Thomas Chase to be his last Will and Testament in Presence of us --"Joseph Coffin hisWilliam Goodridge Thomas T Chase (seal)Nathaniel Coffin." mark
The will was accepted by the Court at Ipswich on 25 February 1733/4, with Nathaniel Coffin and William Goodridge attesting that Thomas Chase signed, sealed published and declared the abovewritten will in their presence[8-9].
5. SOURCES
1. John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain (compilers), Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase (Haverhill, Mass.: Record Publishing Company, 1918).
2. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," indexed database and digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Newbury Births, Marriages, Deaths," page 8 (image 324 of 2384), Thomas Chase birth entry, 25 July 1654.
3. The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 2 Volumes (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1911), Volume 1, page 96, Thomas Chase birth entry, 25 July 1654.
4. Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, 1665-1674 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1918), pages 217-219, will transcript of Aquila Chase of Newbury, 1671.
5. Massachusetts, U.S., Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Newbury Births, Marriages, Deaths," no page number (image 622 of 2384), Thomas Chase and Rebecca Follansbee marriage entry.
6. The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 2 Volumes, Volume 2, Page 179, Rebecca Follinsby and Thomas Chase entry, 22 November 1677.
7. The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 2 Volumes, Volume 2, page 96, Marriage of Thomas Chase and Elizabeth Moers, 2 August 1714.
8. Essex County, Massachusetts, Probate Records and Indexes 1638-1916, Family History Library (Salt Lake City, Utah), on 280 FHL microfilm reels, Essex County Probate Records, Volume 321, pages 055-056, on FHLMicrofilm 0,875,131.
9. Essex County, Massachusetts, probate records and indexes 1638-1916, Volume 321, pages 055-056, Thomas Chase will, FHL Microfilm US/CAN 0,875,131.
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