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This is message that I have forwarded from John(Jack) Davidson at:
jdavid(a)uswest.net. Thought the group might be able to help.
I have:
Name MIAL ________ PIERCE
Sex: M
Born __ MAY 1766 DUTCHESS CO., DOVER/DOVER PLAINS, NY
Baptized
Died 09 MAR 1861
Buried LAKEWOODCEM.OTSEGO CO.,COOPERST.,NY
Immigration
Ref
Occupation
Wife: ISABEL/ISABELLA ________ CHASE
$$mipierce
Name ISABEL/ISABELLA ________ CHASE
Sex: F
Born 16 AUG 1764
Baptized
Died 20 FEB 18(49)?
Buried LAKEWOODCEM.OTSEGO CO.,COOPERST.,NY
Immigration
Ref
Occupation
Husband: MIAL ________ PIERCE
These would be my great3-grandparents.
Looking for the parents of Mial and the names of his children.
Supposedly, Mial and Isabel had thirteen children. I know only
the last two Sabrina PIERCE RATHBONE and Benjamin PIERCE (my
ancestor). Have considerable on the family of Benjamin PIERCE
and Polly BOWEN PIERCE of Cooperstown, NY, but having a tough
time with Mial ancestors.
Any suggestions ?
Thank you for your time.
Contact him or send a message to me and I will forwrd it.
Thanks Barry
Dear Chase Clan:
A response is needed here I guess.
I have one major reason for writing as I did suggesting that each of us try
to reach back farther than America and farther back in England than the late
1500s. I suggested that if you tried in your own individual way you may
think of something I didn't think of. You all have different addresses and
places to search and even the same places where I researched might be
approached in a different way. Even now I wish I had delved into
investigating more of the Chases that were listed on the rolls in Essex
County, England as they may have been cousins or brothers and sisters of
William. I didn't investigate that and should have. As I mentioned, so many
of you are expert at this computer and Internet and you know more places to
write than I do.
My BIG ANSWER TO ALL OF THIS IS--WE ARE NEVER NEVER FINISHED WITH ANY OF OUR
LINES. THERE IS ALWAYS ALWAYS MORE TO LEARN ABOUT EACH OF OUR NAMES SO WHY
NOT ALL PULL TOGETHER AND TRY OUR OWN DIFFERENT WAYS?
As I read the messages from time to time I am proud to be part of such a fine
group. Please don't depend on my early research as many of you know far more
than I do about all of this.
Ginger
Note from the Chase Chronicles - Jan. 1915
SIMON P. CHASE AND FAMILY.
"The lineal descent of this branch of the family in America is as
follows: Aquila, Moses, Daniel, Samuel, Samuel, Peter, Peter, Simon
Peter. Simon P. Chase was the son of Peter Chase and Martha Stevens
his wife; he was born in Cornish, N.H., January 28, 1812; married at
Orange, N.H., April 1, 1838, to Ann Houston, daughter of John
Houston and Ann Moore his wife, of Temple, N.H.
Mr. and Mrs. Chase and little daughter Martha, in company with Mr. and
Mrs. William Houston, removed to Illinois in 1842, and shortly after
bought land two and one-half miles east of Princeville and built a
cabin home.
Three children were born, two daughters and a son. The daughters are
Mrs. Martha A. Harbaugh of Red Oak, Iowa, and Mrs. Sarah C. Eldred of
Roseville, Illinois. The son, Mr. Philander H. Chase, a well known
citizen of this community, resided during his life on the farm where
he was born. He died March 5, 1899. Mr. Simon Chase died January 9,
1870; his wife five years later, all of whom are buried in the
Princeville cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Chase early united with the Presbyterian Church of
Princeville, which at that time worshipped in the old log school
house. They helped according to their ability in the building of the
first, and also of the present church edifice. They were faithful in
church attendance, Mr. Chase being elected to the office of Ruling
Elder "ever used said office well," Mrs. Chase, who possessed a good
voice for singing and had received training under the best teachers of
New England in that day in harmony and sight-reading, used her voice
in the service of song in the church, and taught the young people,
sometimes meeting them in the "Singing School" held in the Morrow
School house and sometimes in her home. A few years later a musical
society was formed and "Sings" or in modern phrase "Musicals" were
held in the homes of music-loving families, which were a source of
culture as well as social pleasure to the young people.
In 1852, Mr. Chase bought a piece of land, adjoining what he already
owned on which was a more commodious house; into this the family moved
from the cabin home, and in the vacated cabin the first public school
in District No. 5, Akron Township, was held in the winter of 1852-3,
Miss Sarah Farwell being the teacher.
The privations and difficulties incident to pioneer life of that day,
such as failure of crops, prairie fires, bad roads, distance from
markets, lack of legal currency or coin (most of the marketing being
in the form of barter, a farmer with his produce might supply his
family with sugar and shoes, but found it a poor medium with which to
pay taxes or postage on letters); all these Mr. Chase encountered with
manful courage and patience, saying often in facing them, "Well, well,
it will be better bye and bye."
These early settlers saw many rewards for their privations and arduous
toil, in the advancement and development of the country, and may we
not say they, under God's guiding hand, helped to "make the wilderness
and solitary place glad for them, and the desert to blossom as the
rose, and to rejoice with joy and singing."
Mrs. S.G. Eldred
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
Note from the Chase Chronicles - Jan. 1915
ENCASED HOUSES
"After I had copied the deeds and satisfied myself that Lieut. Wells
Chase did not live in West Newbury as had been stated, I went to Birch
Meadow Road, which was described in the deeds, running up towards
Brandy Brow in what is now Merrimac, formerly West Amesbury; but here
I was puzzled. I did not find any house on the lot described that
looked ancient; instead, there was a very good-looking two story and a
half house with nice barns and everything modern, and yet I had been
told that the old house was there. In making some inquiries, a
resident who is well posted said, "the house is there surely, but it
is inside the other house." It was a good house and the one who bought
the place some forty years ago built this present house right around
the old house, building the chimney up through the present roof, and
putting in a new chimney in that part which was towards the kitchen
and here is the old house inside just as it was before, and then an
outside tier of rooms around it with a new front door; a good liberal
piazza, and everything modern. I suppose the old house was so strong
and had so much timber in it and so many bricks that it was easier to
build a house around it than to take the old house down and build a
new one. I have found this in three or four cases where these old
houses have been encased by new structures, and this may explain why
some of the old landmarks that we have been looking for are not
readily found because they are inside of a more modern dwelling."
W.E. Gould
Jan. 1915
A CHASE NUN
"The one fact of pleasing interest to me, is one in regard to my great
grandfather, Moody Chase, and Col. William Prescott of Pepperell,
Mass. (of Bunker Hill fame). They married sisters, and owned adjoining
farms. My grandfather was opposed to war, and that he must stay at
home, and care for the two families seemed to be his duty while Col.
Prescott went with his regiment to the battle of Lexington but never
to return to his home again.
Another fact: In early life he took a great interest in the education
of Indian youth, and was a leader of a company of woodmen who cleared
the grounds in Hanover, N.H., where the venerable Dr. Wheelock
established an Indian school from which Dartmouth College took its
rise. Still another fact: he liked the reputation of being the
strongest man in town, and it is told of him, that being provoked by a
man to test his strength, he seized the man by his collar, and lifted
the man over a five railed fence into an adjoining field.
My elder sister was a convert to the Romish faith, taking the name of
M. Francis de Sales (Chase) and joining the visitation order of nuns.
Here is an incident in her life. At the time of the Chicago Exposition
in 1893, she wrote a paper entitled "Women in Religious Communities,"
and when the Parliament of Religions closed, she received warm praise,
and all thought, and every one decided, that it was written by a man.
But when their letters were answered, and she told them that she was
a cloistered nun, and, therefore, not in the world at all, they were
surprised indeed. They wanted more and advised that more be given. She
wrote for the Catholic magazine under the editorship of Father Doyle
for many years."
Lizzie Chase
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
____________________________
"A precious gift, these links that bind
The lives before with lives behind"
Hello All
Does anyone have the above couple having a child Thomas who married Mary
Hall and thier daughter Hannah married an Abel Spalding. Hannah b. Dec 27
1769 d. Mar 8 1832 married 1790. can anyone confirm this line. Thanks
Barry
Hi Keith,
Has anyone tried to find the first CHASE on record? Then work their
way down to now. Also this is one of the biggest reasons for having a
CHASE'S REUNION, here in SALT LAKE CITY. I think, we are all looking in
the wrong places. There did the first CHASE come from? Again I am with
you, what is "PROOF"? I have the a line of genealogy which was give to
me with name of WILLIAM ANTHONY CHASE being born in 1495,
Cologne,Germany. What do you say to that? I do not know what to make of
it.
Will Chase
Keith wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Yes, as many of you know I live in the UK and indeed only about 45minutes from Wivenhoe
> the probable home of William CHASE's family.
> Having said that Ginger herself has, in my view, supplied the most likely
> parentage of William which she discovered on a visit to the Essex County
> records office and I am not sure just what other proof we,who are
> descended from William would be looking for.
> If we track down the Manorial Records we may discover that William and
> his family sat on the Manor Courts but what would that prove?
> ( The whereabouts of Manor Records can be obtained from the Historical
> Manuscripts people in London) I actually found some Manor Records in the PRO
> at Kew but also found that the Index was wrong! i.e. the records that were
> supposed to be in the box were not. Coincidentally the records were for
> Dedham Manor and showed another family ,the Shermans, regularly sat at
> the Manor Courts at the end of the 1500s.
>
> So while I know Ginger has outlined a plan of where to look for evidence I
> think we would need to have her spell this out again.
> Just what would be considered "proof" of where William came from and who
> his ancestors were?
> Keith
> Send reply to: "Jim Chase" <jimchase(a)gte.net>
> From: "Jim Chase" <jimchase(a)gte.net>
> Subject: Re: [CHASE-L] A thought for us all
> Date sent: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:06:13 -0800
> To: CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com
>
> > Hi Ginger,
> > That's a good idea. Also, there has got to be many people on the net from
> > England that are related to the Chases who, it seems to me, could do some
> > research in that country. Does anyone know any contacts there that are on
> > the net?
> > Jim
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <VReeder(a)aol.com>
> > To: <CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 11:32 PM
> > Subject: [CHASE-L] A thought for us all
> >
> >
> > > I have a suggestion to make. There are a lot of you out there all
> > connected
> > > to the Chases. You are all interested in learning the heritage of your
> > > respective Chase---back to William---or Aquila or Thomas. Some of you are
> > > very good on the computer and really know your way around the Internet.
> > Why
> > > don't we ---each of us---try to reach back farther than America? and find
> > > where the Chases lived and SOME CONNECTION TO ENGLAND. If you all tried
> > in
> > > your own way to write to different groups in England perhaps one of us
> > would
> > > luck out. (ie. Writing to towns and areas around Wivenhoe, Essex,
> > England
> > > where we believe William came from ---or writing other parts of
> > > England for help----Bucks. County, England where Aquila came from). I
> > hope I
> > > have made this clear.
> > > Ginger
> > >
> > >
> >
>
> Keith Hume,
> email khume(a)cwcom.net
> CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html
> Kent,England
> Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.)
> HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia
> SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada)
> SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England)
> FALL,(Ireland & Australia)
> BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)
Hi,
Yes, as many of you know I live in the UK and indeed only about 45minutes from Wivenhoe
the probable home of William CHASE's family.
Having said that Ginger herself has, in my view, supplied the most likely
parentage of William which she discovered on a visit to the Essex County
records office and I am not sure just what other proof we,who are
descended from William would be looking for.
If we track down the Manorial Records we may discover that William and
his family sat on the Manor Courts but what would that prove?
( The whereabouts of Manor Records can be obtained from the Historical
Manuscripts people in London) I actually found some Manor Records in the PRO
at Kew but also found that the Index was wrong! i.e. the records that were
supposed to be in the box were not. Coincidentally the records were for
Dedham Manor and showed another family ,the Shermans, regularly sat at
the Manor Courts at the end of the 1500s.
So while I know Ginger has outlined a plan of where to look for evidence I
think we would need to have her spell this out again.
Just what would be considered "proof" of where William came from and who
his ancestors were?
Keith
Send reply to: "Jim Chase" <jimchase(a)gte.net>
From: "Jim Chase" <jimchase(a)gte.net>
Subject: Re: [CHASE-L] A thought for us all
Date sent: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:06:13 -0800
To: CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Hi Ginger,
> That's a good idea. Also, there has got to be many people on the net from
> England that are related to the Chases who, it seems to me, could do some
> research in that country. Does anyone know any contacts there that are on
> the net?
> Jim
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <VReeder(a)aol.com>
> To: <CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 11:32 PM
> Subject: [CHASE-L] A thought for us all
>
>
> > I have a suggestion to make. There are a lot of you out there all
> connected
> > to the Chases. You are all interested in learning the heritage of your
> > respective Chase---back to William---or Aquila or Thomas. Some of you are
> > very good on the computer and really know your way around the Internet.
> Why
> > don't we ---each of us---try to reach back farther than America? and find
> > where the Chases lived and SOME CONNECTION TO ENGLAND. If you all tried
> in
> > your own way to write to different groups in England perhaps one of us
> would
> > luck out. (ie. Writing to towns and areas around Wivenhoe, Essex,
> England
> > where we believe William came from ---or writing other parts of
> > England for help----Bucks. County, England where Aquila came from). I
> hope I
> > have made this clear.
> > Ginger
> >
> >
>
Keith Hume,
email khume(a)cwcom.net
CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html
Kent,England
Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.)
HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia
SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada)
SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England)
FALL,(Ireland & Australia)
BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)
I seem to recall that there is a place in NY State called Chevy Chase.
There are many places with a Chase suffix over her in the UK.
Anybody know the US website for geographical locations?
Keith Hume
Date sent: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:36:20 -0800
From: Alice Leonard <jewels4u(a)nvbell.net>
Subject: CHEVY CHASE - [CHASE-L] Re: CHASE-D Digest V00 #66
Organization: Nevada Bell Internet Services
To: CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Hello All:
>
> I have to add a little snort to this post- when I was
> growing up in the Los Angeles area, my mother had a day-couch
> in one room - which was really called a chaiselounge (spelling is
> probably not correct being a French descriptive for this type
> furniture) but we little kids (2) couldnt pronouce this fancy
> name - so we called it a chevychase - it was much later that I
> was told the correct term for this piece of furniture.
>
> It was many years later when this personality came alone with this
> name which I think is not his birth name, however I think he took
> it from the name of a street in Hollywood/Brentood/Beverly Hills area
> of the same name Chevy Chase Dr. I have no idea for whom this street
> was named......but I used the word *first* - in the 30's - this actor
> came along after that....
>
> Hows that for a bit of trivia.
> Alice
> Mh Nv.
>
> Rexchase(a)aol.com wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 02/25/00 2:20:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > CHASE-D-request(a)rootsweb.com (Timothy) writes:
> >
> > << anyone on the list related to Chevy Chase the actor? Or has his lineage
> > been discussed before and is his line known? >>
> >
> > I do not know his Chase line or if that is his stage name. But he is still
> > alive so you could write/contact him if you really want to know. I do know
> > that he is apparently independently wealthy since he is one of the heirs to
> > the Crane Corporation which manufactures urinals, toilets, sinks and other
> > such plumbing supply items. For whatever reason, he is somewhat shy and
> > reluctant to disclose this part of his past. I wish one of my ancestors had
> > discovered such a basic need and filled it!
> >
> > One of his distant relatives introduced the Great Pyrenees dog to
> > America....now that is another worthy deed.
> >
> > Rex
>
Keith Hume,
email khume(a)cwcom.net
CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html
Kent,England
Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.)
HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia
SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada)
SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England)
FALL,(Ireland & Australia)
BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)
Although the spelling is not the same, these variants have been around
for a while.
The following are found in the Chase Chronicles and the "Seven
Generations" book.
Chivey P. Chase - b. June 26, 1835 - died Dec, 23, 1902
Chevey Chase - b. 13 July 1812 - died Oct. 1879
Chevey Chase - b. 14 Feb. 1775 - died 16 March 1863
Chevey Chase - b. 14 Feb. 1791 -
Chevey Chase - b. 21 July 1798 -
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
Hello All:
I have to add a little snort to this post- when I was
growing up in the Los Angeles area, my mother had a day-couch
in one room - which was really called a chaiselounge (spelling is
probably not correct being a French descriptive for this type
furniture) but we little kids (2) couldnt pronouce this fancy
name - so we called it a chevychase - it was much later that I
was told the correct term for this piece of furniture.
It was many years later when this personality came alone with this
name which I think is not his birth name, however I think he took
it from the name of a street in Hollywood/Brentood/Beverly Hills area
of the same name Chevy Chase Dr. I have no idea for whom this street
was named......but I used the word *first* - in the 30's - this actor
came along after that....
Hows that for a bit of trivia.
Alice
Mh Nv.
Rexchase(a)aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 02/25/00 2:20:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> CHASE-D-request(a)rootsweb.com (Timothy) writes:
>
> << anyone on the list related to Chevy Chase the actor? Or has his lineage
> been discussed before and is his line known? >>
>
> I do not know his Chase line or if that is his stage name. But he is still
> alive so you could write/contact him if you really want to know. I do know
> that he is apparently independently wealthy since he is one of the heirs to
> the Crane Corporation which manufactures urinals, toilets, sinks and other
> such plumbing supply items. For whatever reason, he is somewhat shy and
> reluctant to disclose this part of his past. I wish one of my ancestors had
> discovered such a basic need and filled it!
>
> One of his distant relatives introduced the Great Pyrenees dog to
> America....now that is another worthy deed.
>
> Rex
In a message dated 2/27/00 3:43:50 PM Central Standard Time, Rexchase(a)aol.com
writes:
<< I do know
that he is apparently independently wealthy since he is one of the heirs to
the Crane Corporation which manufactures urinals, toilets, sinks and other
such plumbing supply items. For whatever reason, he is somewhat shy and
reluctant to disclose this part of his past. I wish one of my ancestors had
discovered such a basic need and filled it! >>
I see from his web site that his real name is Cornelius Crane Chase and he
was born in NY.
In a message dated 02/25/00 2:20:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
CHASE-D-request(a)rootsweb.com (Timothy) writes:
<< anyone on the list related to Chevy Chase the actor? Or has his lineage
been discussed before and is his line known? >>
I do not know his Chase line or if that is his stage name. But he is still
alive so you could write/contact him if you really want to know. I do know
that he is apparently independently wealthy since he is one of the heirs to
the Crane Corporation which manufactures urinals, toilets, sinks and other
such plumbing supply items. For whatever reason, he is somewhat shy and
reluctant to disclose this part of his past. I wish one of my ancestors had
discovered such a basic need and filled it!
One of his distant relatives introduced the Great Pyrenees dog to
America....now that is another worthy deed.
Rex
Hi Ginger,
I think you may be right. William Chase's always seen to get into
trouble in the way or another. I do not know about the other two lines.
Will Chase
VReeder(a)aol.com wrote:
>
> Just for the record.
> I believe the people in the second story of your message written 2-26-2000
> were connected to William.
> What do the rest of you think?
> Interesting stories though.
> Ginger
Just for the record.
I believe the people in the second story of your message written 2-26-2000
were connected to William.
What do the rest of you think?
Interesting stories though.
Ginger
I have information on the following CHASE/WHITNEY connection. I hope that
this may help someone in their research.:
Joseph Chase married Sarah Doolittle on March 29, 1783 in Peekskill,
Westchester, NY. This Joseph Chase had two other wives and lots of children
and is documented in the book "Seven Generations of Thomas & Aquila Chase"
page 146. Anyway, their child Parmelia Chase was born on 7-29-1797 in
Mexico, NY and died 1-13-1882. She married Levi Whitney (Son of Benjamin
Whitney and Ann Harris) on 3-23-1814 in Mexico, NY. Their children are as
follows:
Adelia Whitney born 2-12-1815 in Mexico, NY and died 2-22-1815.
Harlo Whitney born 6-7-1816 in Mexico, NY
Sarah Whitney born 3-26-1818 in Mexico, NY and died 11-13-1897. She married
Archabal Sekunler 1-4-1844.
Mary Ann Whitney born 1-29-1820 in Mexico, NY and died 3-30-1880. She
married E.F. Taggert.
Chancey Whitney was born 11-5-1822 in Mexico, NY and died 9-2-1823.
John Whitney was born 9-16-1824 in Mexico, NY and died 9-16-1824.
Bennogah Whitney was born 2-16-1826 in Mexico, NY and died 2-16-1826
Benjamin Whitney was born 5-29-1828 in Mexico, NY and died 5-15-1894. He
married Louisa Gorman 3-27-1851.
Joseph C. Whitney was born 6-8-1833 in Mexico, NY and died 12-8-1860. He
married Mary J. Dalano.
Adelia Whitney was born 5-5-1838 in Mexico, NY and died 6-20-1838.
Dianthia Sophia Whitney was born 12-2-1831 in Mexico, NY and died 2-26-1904
in Cardston, Alberta Canada.
Calfernia Whitney was born 8-1-1836 in Mexico, NY and married John Soles
2-8-1859 in Mexico, NY.
Sheila Stratton-Peel
Note from the Chase Chronicles - April 1917
WHO WAS THOMAS CHASE?
"During the war of 1812 there was living in Saratoga Co. N.Y., an
elderly man by the name of Thomas Chase. Here he kept an inn, as did
the majority of men who were at all prosperous in those days, and he
was married at that time to his second wife, a very young widow, Mrs.
Wood. His two daughters, Annar and Tryphosa, were very unhappy over
this second marriage, and were made particularly so when they knew
that their mother's finery was being worn by their youthful
stepmother. Their mother's silk dresses, nice laces, embroidered
flounce, silver garters, gold shoebuckels, gold beads, and earrings
were given by Thomas Chase to his second wife and for this act he was
not forgiven by one daughter, Tryphosa, until about the year 1813.
Tryphosa married Capt. Aaron Hale of the Nathan Hale family and lived
for a time at East Haddam, Conn., but most of her married life was
spent near Greenfield, Saratoga, Co., Capt. Aaron Hale had served in
the Revolution from start to finish, and he was getting more easy in
finances, when the war of 1812 commenced, and the following winter was
a hard one for everybody. Aaron Hale and his wife, Tryphosa, felt this
hardship greatly. One beautiful morning that winter Aaron drove up to
the door with sled and horses, and told "Posey" to hurry and put on
her warmest cloths, for he was going to take her and little Electa,
their daughter, to see her father, Thomas Chase. Tryphosa hesitated,
for she had never seen him since he married the second time and said
she never would see him, but she was finally persuaded to go. Before
they reached the inn, Thomas saw them coming, and as they drove up he
was on the doorstep to greet them. "Mrs. Chase" stood inside the hall
and was "very nice".
That night little Electa was put to bed before the others. She was
awakened about nine o'clock by a great noise over head, and the sound
of music. She had never heard anything like it before. Grandfather
Thomas hurried and took her in his arms, wrapped her in a warm shawl
and carried her upstairs, where he said she could see the "soldiers
dancing" and a man "play the fiddle." When she found out what the
noise was, she was not afraid, and after grandfather put her back to
bed she soon went to sleep.
The next day Aaron and Tryphosa returned home. When they had got into
the sled, the second wife brought a great bag of dried plums, apples,
etc., to pack into the sled with them. These were very acceptable, for
fruit was not plentiful that year.
The name of the first wife of Thomas is a query. Wonderful old towels
said to belong to her have "T. C." or "L.C." worked on them. The
second wife had proved her genuineness and goodness of heart in the
incident related above.
Two of Tryphosa's pictures are extant - one taken in 1864 when she was
an old, old lady, but still so sweet and charming; the other taken
when she was a young girl - perhaps fifteen or eighteen. She is
wonderfully beautiful - exquisitely dressed with a pink rose in her
hair.
Annar was born in 1774, and in the early 1800's was living in
northeastern Pennsylvania, where she had gone with her husband, Capt.
Jonathan Burns. They had followed the winding Susquehanna with their
ox teams, going from Saratoga Co., into the unbroken wilderness of
this new country. The neighbors there often referred to Annar as a
"Taunton Yankee" and she told her grandchildren the story of how the
people living on a tidal river of her birthplace made the fish in that
river such a large part of their food supply that once in the midst of
a Sunday sermon, a man came running breathlessly to the meeting house
door, calling out, "The shad have come!" All left the church, even the
minister, to secure the valuable fish.
We have a copy of a deed recorded the 1st of May, 1804, which conveyed
property in the town of Ballston, on the east side of Long Lake, N.Y.,
to Thomas chase. Three of Annar's children were born in Saratoga Co.,
and in the Malta Ridge cemetery of that county, Thomas Chase is said
to be buried, with many others of the Chase family.
Now who was this Thomas Chase? It is claimed that Sir Charles Townley,
the last baronet, used to write to this family, his letters having the
tone of a kinsman. Some of the descendants stoutly affirmed they were
descended from Aquila, mentioning the Benoni line. Others say Thomas
was from the line of William through Benjamin. Aaron Hale, Sr., whose
son married Thomas' daughter, lived in Chatham, Hartford, Conn., prior
to 1781. From there he went to Spencertown, Columbia Co., N.Y., and in
1799 was living in Greenfield, N.Y., where he died in 1829. It is
suggested that Thomas may have lived in the same localities, as Aaron
Jr., who married Tryphosa Chase, always lived with his father, Aaron
Sr., and the young people probably lived near each other to account
for their courtship and marriage.
Thomas Chase's grandchildren said that he fought in the Revolutionary
War, and we find the record of Thomas Chase who served as a private
and corporal in Capt. Joseph Dykeman's Co. of Col. John Field's
regiment of the Dutchess Co., militia."
Same issue:
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Part of an interesting letter from Charles Estes, of Warren, R.I.
My Dear Friend Gould: *
"In looking over some of the Friends Records, stored in the fireproof
vault at Moses Brown School, a few days ago, I found a minute made
against three daughters of a William Chase, of Pittsfield. Their names
were Annah, Myriam and Elizabeth Chase. They had left friends and gone
to another meeting, also disregarded the use of the plain language,
and going out in Dress and Address. For which they were labored with
in order to show them the error of their ways, all of which labor was
unsuccessful and they were denied their Right of Membership with
Hampton Monthly Meeting of Friends, the 31st of the 5th mo., 1791. I
have no record whereby I can show who the parents of this William
Chase were. From the location, I am inclined to think he may have been
a descendant of Aquila or Thomas Chase.
( * William E. Gould was editor of the Chase Chronicle at that time.)
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)bwn.net
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"A precious gift, these links that bind
The lives before with lives behind"
Hi Ginger,
That's a good idea. Also, there has got to be many people on the net from
England that are related to the Chases who, it seems to me, could do some
research in that country. Does anyone know any contacts there that are on
the net?
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: <VReeder(a)aol.com>
To: <CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 11:32 PM
Subject: [CHASE-L] A thought for us all
> I have a suggestion to make. There are a lot of you out there all
connected
> to the Chases. You are all interested in learning the heritage of your
> respective Chase---back to William---or Aquila or Thomas. Some of you are
> very good on the computer and really know your way around the Internet.
Why
> don't we ---each of us---try to reach back farther than America? and find
> where the Chases lived and SOME CONNECTION TO ENGLAND. If you all tried
in
> your own way to write to different groups in England perhaps one of us
would
> luck out. (ie. Writing to towns and areas around Wivenhoe, Essex,
England
> where we believe William came from ---or writing other parts of
> England for help----Bucks. County, England where Aquila came from). I
hope I
> have made this clear.
> Ginger
>
>
Which line is AMOS L. CHASE from????
I would have loved to have known him...
In the book "The Heart of New Hampshire--Things held dear by Folks of the
Old Stock" by Cornelius Weygandt, 1944, second impression, G. P. Putnam's
Son, New York..
Pages 3-10. Excerpts..
The Bard of Atwell Hill
It was new to my experience to find a man like Amos l. Chase. I had met
many writers of verse, but I had never met one who sang his stuff and acted
it in pantomime........................It was to singing accompanied by the
rattle of the bones that Amos first introduced us,...................
It was Jesse W. Currier who had told us where to find Amos, at the foot of
Atwell Hill (pronounce it "Attill"), and what a showman he was, and what a
maker of cornhusk mats. What he had not told us was that the singer and
matmaker is also as good a gardener as gardeners can be. He is, too, as
highhearted a man as I have ever met. On a crutch from rheumatism and alone
in old age, he is cheerfulness incarnate, with a deep-seated feeling that it
is his duty to do what he can to make people happy.
....Amos told us he could show us sixty cellar holes from where he used to
live and farm up Atwell Hill across to Tarleton Pond, and many other
homesites up Ellsworth Hill....
...Our meeting came about by my calling out: "Is anybody home?" I was
greeted cordially by a little old man with a longbeard and a good head of
hair, not white but yellowy white..........I was soon looking over cornhusk
mats, of three sizes - ...Each mat had a sheet of yellow paper fastened to
it by string, each sheet bearing a typewritten verse. The smallest mat
carried this rhyming:
This mat was braided on Atwell Hill
By a farmer old and gray;
He has farmed 70 years
Raised colts and steers...
He's braided mats today
The same as grandmother used to braid
As long as she was able
To set a teapot,
When it was hot,
To keep the smut off the table
Grandmother used a fireplace,
To bake and boil and stew
She braided strawhats and cornhusk mats,
So I'll braid one for you
by A. L. Chase
Pike, N. H.
The past, in all its manifestations, is everything to Amos chase. Old
times, to him, were good old times, and the cornhusk mats a symbol of them.
Amos Chase not only makes adaptations of old songs to present
conditions...he writes what he calls "history," too. He sang three such
"histories" to us on our second visit to him. The first,..... was an
outline story of his life, including episodes from childhood to old age,
.............fireside in the dwelling house his great-grandfather had built
on Atwell Hill in 1804...
The only verses of his, he said, that had ever been printed--and those in a
Plymouth newspaper--were obituaries and verses in celebration of
anniversaries in the lives of his neighbors. His gift of rhyming, and of
getting the tang of the farm and the woods into his rhymes was recognized on
Atwell Hill and Ellsworth Hill, in Wentworth and in Pike.............
..............Whatever the occasion on Atwell Hill from the 1880's on, Amos
was asked to write verses for it. Anniversaries of church and school, of
birthdays and weddings, were not complete without verses by Amos. for fifty
years he has been definitely a part of the life of his community as any
local bard or balladist of old time.
Sharon Kay Arthur Knapp
3 Horning Drive
Superior, MT 59872
spr3622(a)blackfoot.net
http://www.uftree.com/UFT/WebPages/spr3622/ARTHUR/index.htm
First, THANK YOU to all who mailed me.
James Henry Chase had a sister Elyda Jane.
James married 28 Sept.,1865 to Jane Elizabeth Meldrem
b.15 April,1830 daughter of George Meldrem 22 March
1811 in Scotland and Hannah Halley b.20 Aug.,1809 in
NY
James and Jane had 6 children:
George Bradley b.23 July 1867 in Linwood,NY
d.3 Oct.1927 in Baltic, OH m. 25 Nov.1891
Mary Jeanette VanDresor b.30 Nov,1848 in NY
d. 7 Nov,1885 in Port Perry, Ontario, Canada
daughter of Steven and Harriett VanDresor
(parents names taken from 1850 census)
John Henry d. 8 April 1935 NY
m. Florence E. d. 4 Dec.,1943 NY
Henry Harrison d. 15 April 1928 NY
m. Carrie B. d.28 Sept.,1956 NY
Louise C. d.22 Dec.,1933
m. R.D.Reamer
Maurice (Morris) J. d.29 June 1928 NY
unknown if married
James Gorden d. 1902 Alaska
Jane and son James are buried in Caledonia, NY.
On the 1860 NY Census there is a James Chase, wife
Rebecca (and presumed son) James H. which would put
him in age range with Jane Meldrem. This is the extent
of my knowledge of James Henry.
Thanks again. Betty
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With the ropes of the past,
We will ring the bells of the future.
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