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Anyone have additional information about this Chase family? Thanks, Jean
Edwards in California
Jefferson County Nebraska Obit
Fairbury Journal, Feb 10, 1916
Mrs. Rhoda L. Strain, a long time resident of Jefferson county, died at her
home near Old Plymouth, January 30, 1916, aged 82 years, 2 months and 14
days. Her maiden name was Chase. Mrs. Strain was born in New York in 1833
and came with her parents by boat to Illinois in 1835; journeyed to Iowa in
a covered wagon with her husband in 1868 and thence in similar fashion to
Nebraska in 1873. She was of Pilgrim stock, being a direct descendant of
Capt. Miles Standish who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. She was also
descended from the Quakers and New York Holland Dutch, and was thus
qualified by inheritance to be a pioneer and to brave the rigors of life in
the new country. Mrs. Strain was the last of her generation, having
outlived a large family of brothers and sisters. Her husband, William
Garrett Strain, a veteran of the Civil War, died in 1880. The wife is
survived by her only son Hanford and four grandchildren. For over
thirty-five years she resided on the farm near Old Plymouth. For more than
a year before her death she was an invalid from heart trouble and the
weakness incident to her extreme age. She was a faithful member of the
Congregational Church nearly all her life. She was of vigorous mind always
on the side of reform.
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My grandmother
Carol Chase b 6/12/1884 Verdel Nebraska; died Santa Ana CA
Great-grandfather
Joseph Chase b New York; d 1933 Santa Ana CA
m Rose Skinner b Pennsylvania
Their children
Carol (above)
Leslie
Lily
Unknown girl
Do you connect to any of these folks? I'd love to hear from you!
Thankyouverymuch.
Jean Edwards in California
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Fred,
I have Jacob listed as the second son of William by his first wife. Now,
remember that I merely have copies of some hand- and type-written pages
handed down to me by my father through my grandpa through his estranged
adopted sister. According to our records, Jacob married Mary ___ . No date
for his birth or their marriage.
You wrote:
> Interestingly, the deed recites January 29th as the date of the
> conveyance (amazingly enough, the very day I had located the document),
> although I'm confused as to the year in question. Jacob lived from c.
> 1647-1734. Samuel Chase, the grantee under this conveyance, was his son
> (I need to check birth order of Jacob's children).
These dates correspond with the period records I have record of for Jacob.
I too find it curious you discovered this on an anniversay of the same day.
Amazing coincidence can bear a message sometimes. I do find it interesting
and have experienced some equally quizzical happenstances.
The day I was given the url to some theretofore unavailable letters from my
Quaker ancestors, I received some literature on my doorstep mailed to me via
an email enquiry I made to the Dutch Quakers while I was in America last
year. Very strange.
I have yet something else to share and I know not if it be of comfort or
distress. You earlier expressed an interest in a possible Quaker ancestry.
We have but little information about the children of William the Younger
(with a notable exception of Joseph, of course). But peculiarly, we also
single out Jacob. See the following (transcribed faithfully):
William Chace (2) married ____
(5) William born married Sarah Sherman dau. of Phillip Sherman 1647 in RI
(6) Jacob born married Mary ___
(7) Elizabeth born married Daniel Baker May 27 - 1674
(8) John born married Elizabeth Baker 1674 or 75
William Chace (2) probably had a second wife and had
(9) Abraham born married Elizabeth
(10) Joseph born married Sarah Sherman dau. of Sampson 2-28-1693-4
(11) Benjamin born married Amy Borden dau. of John 9-21-1696
(12) Samuel born married Sarah Sherman dau. of Samuel in 1699
The family lived near Herring River on the east side of Bass River in
Yarmouth now Dennis or Harwich and were born from about 1646-1672. The
children were connected with the Society of Friends in that neighborhood and
undoubtedly attended meeting at Friends Meeting established in Feb. 1681 at
the home of Ivory Jones and John Dillingham at or near Bound Brook.
Benjamin Chace son of William Chace was of Portsmouth 1673-1685; freeman
1674; was a copper. Bapt. May 16-1652 and 1730. William Chace (2) died
1685; and we find all of his children except John and Elizabeth in Rhode
Island from 1680 to 1701. Abraham was the last; he sold land in Harwich in
1695 and in 1701 he was a member of R.I. Friends Meeting. They were all
named in R.I. monthly meeting records except Jacob.
So, I give you what you may already know, Jacob possibly married a "Mary"
and he was not listed in the Rhode Island monthly meeting records.
Your cuz,
Jeffrey Chace
CHACE LIKE IN QUAHOG
From the time you were able to dig your first quahog by twisting your
toes in the sand while standing waist deep in salt water, the chances are you
wouldn't care if I told you that my name was spelled "C-H-A-C-E," But you
would be surprised at how many people won't accept that spelling outside of
Bristol County, in Massachusetts. Even my computer, as I sit here typing, is
programmed to remind me that my name, when typed, should be spelled
"C-H-A-S-E."
Sometime during the year 1630, my relative and the first Chase to arrive
in America, William Chase, settled in and around the Cape Cod area of
Yarmouth. As timed passed, a large number of these Chases gravitated to the
small village of Freetown, Massachusetts. It was there at the start of the
Revolutionary War that the history of the Chase/Chace Family, took a dramatic
turn. Several Chase brothers, who belonged to Whig Party, changed the
spelling of their name from"Chase" to "Chace" at the time they enlisted in
the local Militia. Their brothers and relatives, who remained attached to the
Tories and were sympathetic to British, paid a price for their association
with the Crown. A George Chase, for example, was tarred and feathered in
Taunton and others were detained on Prison Ships and charged with harboring
arms and ammunition for the British. Some have claimed that it was a clerical
error that brought about the "Chace" spelling, but if one were to research
the Chace genealogy of that period and beyond, there was a proliferation of
Chace families and the numbers support the name change as part of the history
of the Revolutionary War and those Chaces that served in that war; mostly
from Freetown, Massachusetts.
This writing was not intended to be a genealogy discussion of the
Chase/Chace lineage, but let me make one point to support the change in
spelling. My ancestor who went to war on the side of Whig Colonists, was
Greenfield Chase (as recorded at birth) but Greenfield Chace as recorded at
his death. Indeed his gravestone in the Hathaway Cemetery, still well
preserved reads: "Greenfield Chace." Also located there are other Chaces as
well those Tories that remained Chase. Greenfield's own wife, Sarah, in the
grave next to his, reads Sarah Chase, but she didn't enlist..
So if you took the time and enjoyed looking through cemeteries of that
time frame; and if you had been raised in the Bristol County area, you would
casually walk pass many gravestones in the cemeteries of that county and see
the name of "Chace" everywhere. But if however you were to relocate some of
these tombstones to some other places in the western part of the State of
Massachusetts or other places in New England or the United States, the
uninitiated seeing the name of "Chace" on a grave would think that it was the
work of an illiterate stone cutter.
I lived in Swansea during my grammar school days and later entered Case
High School. There were always classmates named "Chace" near me. There was
Walter, Billy, Norma, Arnold, Herby, Edith and my brother Alston, all of whom
were in my class or had brothers and sisters that were in grades higher or
lower than mine. The "Chace" name in Swansea was a majority name and had been
that way since the mid 1750s. (There were no Chases.) And the fact that so
many of us spelled our name the same way didn't seem to bother anyone; and
the Chace name with two "C's" was perfectly acceptable and misused.
But outside of that small "Chace" enclave in southern Massachusetts, it
just wasn't the same! In 1946, my Dad was elected Superintendent of Schools
in Gardner, Massachusetts, city northwest of Swansea and about fifty miles
away near the New Hampshire line. But, for all practical purposes, as far as
my name was concerned, I could have moved to Yakima or Walla Walla,
Washington. The first day of football practice, before the school year
started, I began an adventure in frustration that follows me to this day. On
the roster of football players was my locker assignment, "# 14, Frank Chase."
There were other rosters, none of which had the courtesy to spell my name
correctly, a name that for 17 years had never been a problem. On the first
day of school, I reported to my homeroom and was pleased to see that my name
was spelled correctly. Taking my seat I waited for the roll call. My name was
not called, but a name sounding like "Charco" was repeated several times.. As
he concluded the roll, the teacher said, "Is there anyone whose name I did
not call?" "Yes," I replied, "You did not call Chace." For the rest of my
senior year, that teacher who was meeting the Superintendent's son for the
first time was very nice to me.
That could have been the end of the name dilemma, but it wasn't. The day
of the first football game, I played as listed in the program as a "Chase" as
I did for most of the season. The Gardner News and Worcester Telegram were in
cahoots also..There was only a "Chase" playing for the Wildcats.
Fortunately, when you pronounce "Chace" or "Chase," they sound the same.
Later in my life while serving in the Marine Corps, an officer kept hollering
for "Chakee." Before I was to be considered AWOL, I figured out he wanted me.
It's absolutely amazing what that second "C" will cause people to say. There
are even those who would like my named to be spelled and pronounced "CHANCE."
Now you can imagine how happy I was to be spending my summer vacation
back in Swansea, fifty years after I left. One day I had to go to a Doctor's
office for a coumadin check. When I went in the nurse asked me for my name
and when I said "Frank Chace" without hesitation she wrote it down as if she
had known me all her life. I didn't know her and she didn't know me..but what
a pleasant moment that was. I cannot possibly count the times in my Marine
Corps career when asked for my name, I would reply "Frank Chace" and then to
avoid confusion, orally spell it out loud, "C-H-A-C-E." Even as I spoke, I
would watch the person write down, "CHASE."
"Why did you do that?" I would ask.
"Why did do what?"
"Why did you spell my name with a "S" when I told you it was spelled with a
"C?"
"But that is how "CHASE" is spelled," would be the reply in a tone that
inferred I was the village idiot.
So is it any wonder how much I enjoy returning to Swansea and Bristol County
where the name "Chace" is recognized as easily as the clam called "Quahog."
But just like "Chace," the "Quahog," loses it's identity when you stray
outside the Commonwealth. (Try asking for "quahog chowder" in Dallas, or
anywhere else where people want to hear you say, "I parked my car in Harvard
yard!" For a second laugh, asked them to spell "quahog."
I now live in West Palm Beach, Florida, but a saving grace is to
receive the newspaper once a week from Somerset, next door to Swansea..and
still chock filled with "Chaces." The Newspaper called "The Spectator" is
ever filled with the name of "Chaces." There's always an article about the
"Chace Street School." The are still "Chaces" going to same schools that I
went to. My family has a "Chace" scholarship for a deserving graduate of Case
High... yes, even when one passes on, the name goes into the obituary
correctly. Sometimes, I worry; if I'm not buried behind Christ Church in
Swansea Village with all my "Chace" ancestors, I could spend eternity as an
innocuous "CHASE," a name decided on by somebody who thought he was doing me
a favor by spelling my name correctly.
As a footnote, I married a Swansea girl named "Deane" with two E's.
There's a whole lot of people who don;t think she knows how to spell her name
correctly either.
And so.. to all of you who will continue to call me "Chase" ..do so
unhesitatingly. I am completely ambivalent.. since both Chase and Chace are
proud American names. It just so happens that I use the latter..and I insist
that my children do the same.
As my ancestor Greenfield would say,"A pox on you who would spell it
otherwise!"
Frank C Chace, Jr.
Colonel, US Marine Corps
2800 North Flagler Dr.
West Palm Beach, Florida 33407
>From the Chase family genealogy forum.
Persons interested in the history of the Chase family, especially
its New Hampshire branch, might want to visit the web site
http://www.geocities.com/unity_nh_historical_society to learn about
the effort that's underway to restore and put to use the historic
Chase's Tavern in Unity, NH. It was built about 1800 by Abner Chase
and kept for many years by Francis Chase and his wife Eunice Glidden
Chase. The restoration project is a cooperative effort of the Town
of Unity and the Unity Historical Society; the Society is seeking
both financial help for the restoration process and any information
on the history of the tavern and the Chase family's relationship to
it. Quite a lot of historical research has already been done, and
much of it is posted on the web site. There are photographs of the
tavern as it looks now (before restoration) and also ca. 1900. We
hope soon to add plans and drawings showing what it will look like
when restored. We hope to house in the tavern the Unity town offices
and police department, the Unity Free Library, and the Unity
Historical Society. The work will be done with great care to
preserve the historical features of this wonderful building. Please
check it out and consider helping on this project, either
financially or with information.
Lonnie Chase
chase1858(a)fgn.net
When it comes right down to it, we are all related, if you go back far
enough. If you are able to trace your linage to Alfred the Great you will be
able to go through the begats in the bible.
Virginia
By the way, in the last paragraph of the previous posting I made concerning
Thomas Chace's letter, I meant to say the he "could NOT have fathomed"
instead of "could have fathomed." I did not proofread very well.
Also, I wanted to share something with you all that I found quite humorous.
A few days back, I posted that goofball message about Ezekiel Springer and
his family tree back to Adam and Eve. I proposed jokingly that Adam's last
name was Chace and then again just as frivilously asked what Eve's maiden
must have been. In the last couple of days, I have received four
independent responses from Chases who simply wrote, "Eve's last name was
Chase."
So, I guess that must mean the Isaac, Aquilla, and William ARE related!! :)
Jeffrey Chace
j.b.chace(a)amaze.nl
Thinking back to last year when I found the first of my Great Great Great
Grandfather Thomas's letters, I ponder the extremes of history that lie
between him and me.
In the year 2001, I entered my apartment, turned on the electric light,
logged in to my computer, and used the telephone to access the Internet. I
found a hit for the search terms "Thomas Chace" and "Cornell" (his wife's
maiden name) and was led to a web address where an archive of scanned-in
letters of the Cornell family was to be found. Having found a letter from
Thomas Chace written to Ezra Cornell in 1849, I downloaded it to my hard
drive, printed it out on cheap paper in order to read it more comfortably,
and then sent an email to my father telling him about the letter and where
it could be found.
By contrast, upon having received a message from Ezra "per telegraph," which
to its day and age was almost as revolutionary as the internet is to us,
Thomas decided to reply. Going to his desk, he lit an oil lamp, pulled out
a couple of thick, rough, expensive pieces of paper, and readied his ink
well for use. Taking his quill pen in hand, he began the task of dipping the
quill in the ink and slowly scratching his words onto the coarse paper.
Having finished and after allowing the ink to dry on the paper, he folded
the two pages together leaving part of the unmarked back side of the second
page to the outside to serve as the address area and addressed it. Now, the
letter was ready and he climbed into bed after saying his prayers. Upon
waking the following morning Thomas readied himself to attend to his milk
route, harnessed up his team of horses to his milkwagon, and made sure he
had the letter to take with him. He then headed off toward to town to post
the letter.
At the time, Thomas probably could have fathomed that the telegraph would
one day evolve into the telephone which in turn would help make the internet
a reality for the people of the late twentieth century. 152 years after he
wrote that letter, I stumbled upon it on the internet and in a matter of
minutes was able to transport myself away from this modern world back to a
much simpler time. Genealogy can sometimes be a wonderous thing. Maybe
someday, our descendants will be reading through our email postings looking
for their family history and be just as amazed at the primitive nature of
our
communications.
Jeffrey Chace
j.b.chace(a)amaze.nl
While researching in old Massachusets records yesterday I found this:
LDS # 954385, page 73,List of Freemen on 14 May 1634 include WILLIAM CHASE..
These are Colony records so it doesn't say which town he resided in. I did
not find any other mention of him. There are several books on this film.
Books 1 & 2 are included,but Book 3 is missing. Books 1 & 2 cover the period
from 1629 to 1649. Book 4 is on the film. It covers 1650 - 1660.This seems
wrong as that would mean that Book 3 only covered 1649-1650,but that is what
it said. Most of the book is pretty good reading. There is an index at the
back of each book,but some times the page numbers are in the binfing and
unreadable.
Clyde
<<<< Heber C. Kimball, Journal extracts (1801-1838)
in
Millennial Star 26 (1864) SYNOPSIS OF THE HISTORY OF HEBER CHASE KIMBALL
Concerning my ancestors I can say but little. My grandfather and his brother
came from England; and both assisted in gaining the independence of the
United States.
Father Joseph Smith and his brother, John Smith, were acquainted with the
Kimballs: the families were connected by marriage.
My father, Solomon Farnham Kimball, was born in the state of Massachusetts,
in the year 1770; he was raised from his boyhood with Judge Chase of
Massachusetts, who was a blacksmith.
My father remained with him until he was married, when the Judge assisted
him in establishing himself in the business of blacksmithing, in the town of
Sheldon, Franklin County, Vermont.
My father married Anna Spaulding, who was born in New Hampshire, in the town
of Plainfield on the banks of the Connecticut River. She was the daughter of
Daniel and Speedy Spaulding. ..............<<<<<<
Now this is one of the "really need to know questions" "which" Judge Chase
was he named after.
A supposition could be Judge Samuel Chase, grandfather to Bishop Philander.
And this line DOES have a Heber or two running through it. but not a black
smith , that I know of.
<;> Harriet Chase blowing to the winds in Wash.
In a message dated 01/23/02 5:01:11 AM Pacific Standard Time,
CHASE-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
> Chace probably WAS Adam's last name, but
> what was Eve's?
>
>
Eve's last name was CHASE.
Rex
Hello everybody
Thanks to all who offered advice re: William Chase/Canada.
It was much appreciated.
Kind regards from rainy England.
Victoria
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Jeffrey,
I think I've done better. This website has let me trace a part of my lineage back to god with a small "g" - Odin and Frigg that is. - http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
2002 01:05:28 +0100
From: "Jeffrey Chace"
To: CHASE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [CHASE-L] Adam Chace
http://www.thecolefamily.com/hobby/springer.htm
Have you guys ever, and I mean evvvvverrrrr, seen anything like this
beauty? This Ezekial Springer guy could trace his family tree right back to
Adam and Eve! Party on Garth.
I suppose we could do the same. Chace probably WAS Adam's last name, but
what was Eve's?
HeHe.
Jeffrey Chace
Jeffrey Chace
j.b.chace(a)amaze.nl
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http://www.thecolefamily.com/hobby/springer.htm
Have you guys ever, and I mean evvvvverrrrr, seen anything like this
beauty? This Ezekial Springer guy could trace his family tree right back to
Adam and Eve! Party on Garth.
I suppose we could do the same. Chace probably WAS Adam's last name, but
what was Eve's?
HeHe.
Jeffrey Chace
Jeffrey Chace
j.b.chace(a)amaze.nl
L I N U X t h e c h o i c e o f a
G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be
very selective about who it decides to make friends with.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~barbpretz/ps02/ps02_144.html
Name
Thomas Crowell
Birth
ca 1645[188],[37],[380],[504]
Death
bef 9 Mar 1689/1690[37],[380]
Father
John Crowell (ca1590-<1672)
Mother
Elishua ? (1592-1688)
Spouses
1
Agnes ?
Birth
ca 1645[248]
Marriage
bef 1668[188]
Children
Thomas (-1734)
Notes for Thomas Crowell
Thomas Crowell, Sr. resided at Bass Ponds, which was afterwards called Crow
Town and is now West Dennis.[38], [380]
"Thomas Crow or Crowell, born about 1645, was the son of John and Elishua
Crow, one of the earliest settlers of Yarmouth. He probably married and
lived for a time in Yarmouth, but there is no record of his children there.
By deed dated Februar 14, 1673-4, he bought of the proprietor of Monomoit
a tract adjoining and north of Cockle Cove, (Buck's Ceek), the locality
being called Seaqunsett by the Indians. His land extended north to the
highway
(not the State highway to Harwich) and lay on the east side of a cartway
from the ighway to the meadow off Joseph Nickerson at said Cove and to the
marsh of Tristram hedges south of it at Regged Neck. mr. Crow erected a
'dwelling house' on the east side of this cartway. He also bought at the
same
time a lot of meadow at Matchpoxett (Red River Neck) west of and nea
Taylor' pond. this property he sold by deed dated August 13, 1683, to Hugh
Stewart of yarmouth and removed to the latter place, locating near Bass
pond. [M.L. Luce papers] he died march 9, 1689-90, aged 45 years. . . On
March 15, 1689-90, an inventory of the estate of Thomas Crow, son of John,
was taken by Jeremiah Jones and Isaac Chase, both of Yarmouth, and on
April 18 folowing the eldest son John and his brother Thomas, agreed upon a
settlement of the estate between them, undertaking to maintain their
mother, Agnes, as long as she should remain a widow. [Barnstable Probate
Records; 11 Mayflower Descendant 26] No mention is made of any other
children." [504]
"[Estate of Thomas Crowel, Sr.]
[p. 31] 'The invintory of ye Estate of Thomas Crowel Snr of yarmouth
deceased the: 9th" of march 1689' was taken 15 March, 1689, by Jeremiah
Jones and Isaac Chase. It included a house and 24 acres of land and 2 acres
of meadow; 12 acres of land by the Fresh Pond and 6 acres of meadow
belonging to it; also livestock and household utensils. The inventory was
sworn to by 'Agnes Crowel relict of ye above mentioned Thomas Crowel' on
17 April, 1690.
' Be it knowen . . That wee John Crowel and Thomas Crowel Sons to ye
Deceased Thomas Crowel of yarmouth has mutually and Lovingly Condensed
and agreed to part and devid our sd ffathers Estate in to three parts'
two-thrds to belong to John, one-third to Thomas. The division included all
the
real estate and the movables out of doors, except that the 'house or
housing' is to belong to John without without any division. 'Also we . . .
have
volluntory freely and willingly Condesended to maintaine our mother Agness
Crowel . . . according to our abilities and if Shee see cause to Remove
from us to Live any where else wee Shall according to ye verdict of two
Indifferent men one of her Choosing a nother of ours Shall appoint her a
portion to Live upon according to our abilities while Shee Remaines a
widdow' dated 18 April, 1690; signed by John Crowel, Thomas Crowel and
Agnes Crowell; all of them made their marks. The witnesses were Samuel
Howes and James Stueart. The inventory and aggrement were recorded 21
April, 1690, by Joseph Lothrop, recorder." [527]
Last Modified 10 Feb 2001
Created
13 May 2001 by Reunion for Macintosh
Jeffrey Chace
j.b.chace(a)amaze.nl
L I N U X t h e c h o i c e o f a
G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . .
Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be
very selective about who it decides to make friends with.
>From the Sears link. Very interesting and sounds authentic. Records the
little Bass pond and refers to it also as Follands pond. The "taking of
fish" was what apparently drew the Nickersons to Yarmouth and a very
controversial struggle ensued- "The matter of allotment of lands at Yarmouth
was the cause of serious trouble in the early history of the town."
Details of life then are well worth reading.
Jeffrey Chace
586. William Nickerson
1637 came from Norwich on "John and Dorothy"
1641 removed to Yarmouth [101]
weaver from Norwich, England [96]
?? Line 221: (New PAF RIN=1993)
1 DEAT
2 DATE BTWN 30 AUG 1689-8 SEP 1690
?? Line 222: (New PAF RIN=1993)
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Chatham (Monomoit), Mass.
LJB Weaver of Norwich, England. came to America 1637, founder of
Chatham, MA
1664
!MSM William Nickerson was the founder of the village of Monomoit. He
was born
in 1603 or 1604. His father's name was probably Robert. He learned the
trade
of a weaver and settled in Norwich, Norfolk County, Eng. He married Ann,
daughter of Nicholas Busby, about 1630 and four children were born to
them
before 1637, the date of his emigration to New England. "The examination
of
William Nickerson of Norwich in Norfolk, weaver, age 33 and Anne, his
wife,
aged 28, with four children, Nicholas, Robert, Elizabeth, Anne are
desirous
to go to Boston in New England, there to inhabit, 8 Apr 1637." Five
other
children were born to them in New England, john, Sarah, William (bapt.
Barnstable, 1 Jun 1646) and Joseph (born at Yarmouth Dec 1647).
!He was led to abandon England buy the persicutions of Matthew Wren,
then
Bishop of Norfolk, whose zealous efforts against non-conformists within
his
jurisdiction made their lives miserable. History informs us that one of
the
charges brought against Bishop Wren by a committee of Parliament was
that,
during the term of two years and four months, while he held the See of
Norwich,
3000 of his Majesty's subjects, many of whom used trades, spinning,
weaving,
knitting, making cloth, stockings, and other manufactures of wool, some
of them
setting a hundred poor people at work," transported themselves into
Holland,"
and "others to parts beyond the seas" in consequence of his superstition
and
tyranny." It was to avoid these persecutions that, on 15Apr 1637, a
company
from Norwich and vicinity(including William Nickerson) took ship at
Yarmouth
(presumably Grt Yarmouth at the mouth of the Yar river) and sought the
protection of the New World. They arrived safely at Salem on 20 Jun the
following, and the greater part of them dispersed to various parts of
the
colony. Unfortunately the movements of William Nickerson and his family
for
the next few yers are largely a matter of conjecture. He took the oath
of a
freeman in Boston on 2 May 1638 but it is not likely that he was
resident
there. Mr Savage, the learned antiquary, conjectured that he went to
Watertown, where his father-in-law and family, passengers on the same
ship with
him, finally settled after a short stay at Newbury.
He was in Yarmouth as early as 1640, the year after its settlement, and
in
Jun 1641 representated that town on the "Grand Enquest" or grand jury of
the
colony. His house and farm were near Little Bass Pond, now called
Follands
pond, where James Maker and James Matthews, and several other early
settlers of
the twon settled, perhaps on account of the advantage which the
situation
afforded for taking fish. He sold his house and land after his removal
to
Chatham (Monomoit) to James Matthews.
The matter of allotment of lands at Yarmouth was the cause of serious
trouble
in the early history of the town. The original grant from the Plymouth
court
was made to four persons, three of whom Mr Anthony Thacher, Mr Thomas
Howes and
Mr John Crow, were among the first settlers. These three held the lands
in
trust to apportion them among such persons as should be admitted to
settle in
the town. They were known as the "committees of the plantation." Against
their action in parcelling out the land, complaints were repeatedly made
by some
of the inhabitants and finally, in Mar 1648, the court deputed Capt
Miles
Standish to visit the town and compose the differences which had arisen.
In
May following, after hearing the parties, Capt Standish made grants of
land to
various persons (among them a grant of ten acres of upland and eight
acres of
meadow toward the South sea to William Nickerson), and it was then and
there
agreed between the "committees of the plantation" and representatives of
the
town, that there should be added to the "committees" three other persons
representating the town and that no disposition of lands should
thereafter bemade without the consent of these three or two of them. Mr
Starr, William
Nickerson and Robert Dennis were selected to represent the town for that
year,
and their successors were to be chosen each year at the annual town
meeting.
The differences concerning these lands continued for a long time to
agitate the
people of Yarmouth, and out of them probably grew a number of suits for
slander
and defamation by and against William Nickerson and others, which
occupied the
Court's attention in October 1650. The result of the proceedings was
that all
parties were ordered to pocket their injuries and discontinue their
suits,
though the Court desired Mr Nickerson to see the evil of his offensive
speeches
against sundry of the town.
In Jun 1651 we find him serving as a juror at Plymouth in the trial of
civil
cases, and in 1655 he was honored by his townsmen by an election as a
deputy
from Yarmouth to the Colony Court, his associate being Mr Edmund Hawes.
This
election shows that his standing in the community had not been affected
by the
differences with the leaders of the town.
In the following year, 1656, we find the beginning of his troubles over
the
land at Monomoit. It is recorded that, at the June session of the Court
at
Plymouth, William Nickerson appeared, "being summoned to answer for his
buying
of land of the Indians contrary to order" or statute. He had, also,
violated
the injunctions of a warrant directed to Yarmouth forbidding sales to
Indians,
having left a boat "to bee the Indians." The court declared, "concerning
his
breech of order in buying of the land, hee lyeth under fine and penalty
expressed in the order fot the breech thereof, (i.e. five pounds per
acre) and
for his contempt of the warrant hee is disenfranchised his freedome."
The fee so imposed, the Court appears to have been in no haste to
collect.
Mr Nickerson had, however, found that he could not make the purchase
without
consent of the Court and his next move was taken with the intention of
complying with the law, as the Court had interpreted it. We, therefore,
find
him petitioning the Court in June 1657, in the regular way, for
"libertie to
injoy the land he purchased att Mannamoiett," whereupon it was ordered
that the
land there be viewed by a committee appointed by the Court and that upon
their
report he should have a "competency or proportion out of it allowed unto
him
and then to resigne up the reaminder unto the Court." This result was
not
satisfactory to the petitioner but he took no further action at that
time.
Several months previous, in march 1657, he had removed with his family
to
Boston, in order that his wife might be able to care for her parents in
their
old age. They had resided there but a few months when the father,
Nicholas
Busby, died, the exact date of his death being 28 Aug 1657. Mr Busby
lefta
considerable property, out of which he bequeathed his daughter, Anne
Nickerson,
the sum of 50 pounds and his "thick bble." He appointed his three
"sonnes that
are here in New England," Abraham Busby, William Nickerson and John
Grout, to
gather up all his dents which were in his "debt bookes" and to pay over
the
proceeds to his widow, whom he appointed executrix of his will. About a
month
after Mr Busby's decease Mr Nickerson purchased of Dr Snelling an estate
on the
east side of the road leading to Roxbury, consisting of a dwelling
house, yard,
garden and orchard. On this lot he appears to have erected a shop. In
September 1659 he acted as an appraiser of the estate of Philip Long of
Boston.
The widow Busby survived her husband nearly three years, her death
occurring
in July 1660. After settlement of her estate he sold his house, in
November
1661, and returned to Yarmouth about Jan 1662. We find him mentioned in
the
following August as bringing a barrel of liquor into that town, an act
of no
discredit in those days when every family had its supply of liquor. In
March
1663 we find him attempting to recover a share of the whales taken along
the
shore of the town during his absence.
During his absence in Boston he had applied to the Plymouth Court
requesting
the whole tract of land purchased by him of the Indians att Mannomoyett
or
thereabouts, hee expressing himself otherwise not willing to accept of a
former
grant of the Court which was to have a competency thereof, whereupon the
Court,
in June 1659, had ordered that he might have the whole tract, provided
he would
pay the fine of five pounds per acre for every acre purchased, as the
statute
required. On his return to Yarmouth he took up his plans with regard to
the
Monomoit lands with renewed zeal. On this most persuasive petition the
Court
failed to take any action, but Mr Nickerson felt reasonably sure of
receiving a
part, at least, of his purchase, if he chose to accept it, and
therefore,
determined to take actual possession of the tract. His action moved the
Court
to more vigorous measures. It had passed an order in June, 1663 that "in
due
and convenient time William Nickerson be required to make satisfaction
for his
breach of the law," and in the following December, having summoned him
to
Plymouth, had required him to answer for his purchase of the land, when
he
pleaded that he "acted through ignorance, etc." It now took measures to
collect from him a part of the fine he had incurred. It gave orders to
the
chief marshall to levy on March 1663/4 the sum of two hundred pounds of
the
goods or chattles of the said William Nickerson's or soe much thereof as
shal
bee found within this government as parte of the penaltie due on account
of
his illegal action. The chief marshal attended to his duties but
reported that
he could not find any property on which to levy.
The Court thereupon in Jun 1664 passed an order declaring that said land
should be put up to sale and improved to the use of the colony, only
that the
said Nickerson should have a portion allowed unto him, according to the
Court
or the persons deputed in the behalf of the country to make sale think
meet.
Said persons were Mr hinckley, Mr Bacon, Lieut Freeman and William
Bassett.
Under this order no action appears to have been taken as in the
following
February, Mr Nickerson laid the whole case before the Commissioners of
the
King. These commissoners had been sent out from England with a part of
the
English fleet with authority to reduce the Dutch at Manhattan to
submission and
to visit the several colonies of New England to hear and determine
complaints
and appeals in matters civil, military and criminal and to provide for
the
peace and securty of the country. They first obtained the surrender of
Manhattan and then proceeded to visit the several colonies. They heard
Mr
Nickerson's appeal, which was the only one submitted to them at
Plymouth, and
appear to have thought that his claim to a "farm of 4 miles square," as
they
call it to be unreasonable. Not deeming wholly at fault, however, they
consented to move the Colony Court in his behalf, if he would abide by
its
action, as a result of which his fine was remitted, and this order was
passed:
The Court sees good to allow him, the said William Nickerson, one
hundred
acres of land att or neare his house, to bee layed out according to the
best
discretion of Bernard Lumbert, Marshall Nash and Joseph Howes. The rest
of
said land at Mannamoiett this Court grants unto Mr Thomas Hinckley, Mr
John
Freeman, Mr William Sargeant, Mr Anthony Thatcher, Nathaniel Bacon,
Edmund
Hawes, Thomas Howes, Senior, Thomas Falland, Sen., Liut. Joseph Rogers,
to them
and their heirs forever by equal proportions to be alloted to them,
provided
the said William Nickerson's portion have an equal proportion of the
meddow
lands there with them before the first day of December next, and the
Court
orders that the nine persons mentioned above alow in marchantble
countrey pay
theire equall proportions unto him, the said William Nickerson, of that
pay as
hee shall make apeer upon just account that he payed for the purchase of
said
lands and this Court orders and impowers the said Bernard Lumbert,
Marshall
Nash and Joseph Howes, in the name of the Court to put these nine men
above
mentioned into full possession of the said lands at Mannamoiett, and the
Court
doth grant libertie to them to purchase the tract of lands at
Mannamoiett
adjacent as are not purchased, and to equally proportion them amongst
themselves, soe that it shall not exceed one hundred acres apiece. And
the
Court orders that none of them shall sell his part to any other person
or
persons whatsoever without the consent of his associates or of the
Court.
The final action of the Court was a bitter disappointment to Mr
Nickerson.
Throughout this controversy he must have stoutly claimed that, having
made this
bargain in good faith in ignorance of the law, he should in justice have
the
full benefit of it. The Colonial authorities on the other hand felt that
the
majesty of the law should be vindicated. For this some of them had
personal,
as well as public reasons. Not appreciating the attitude of the Colony,
Mr
Nickerson looked upon the proceeding as an injustice, as it certainly
was
from his standpoint. The trouble rankled in his breast and he conceived
that
Mr Thomas Hinckley of Barnstable, later Governor and one of the most
influential citizens of the Cape had willfully used his influence as
Assistant
against him. So consequently he wrote letters to this effect to
Barnstable,
Plymouth Court and the Royal Commissioner. The Court, however, thought
it
necessary to impose a fine upon him. Finally, however, the Royal
Commissioner
interfered in Mr Nickerson's behalf, and the Court, not caring to offend
this
representative of the Crown, contented itself upon imposing a moderate
fine.
Meanwhile the order granting Mr Hinckley and the others all except 100
acres
of the Nickerson purchase was in full force, and it was found that Mr
Nickerson
had no title whatever except to the 100 acres assigned to him, in fact
he had
not secured the Indian title. For seven years (1665-72) Mr Nickerson
continued
his efforts to secure a title from the Indians, but without success, no
deed
was forthcoming. Finally, in March 1672, he sued the sachem Mattaquason
to
recover damages for withholding the deed and was again unsuccessful.
However,
within a few months he succeeded with both attempts, and made terms with
Mr
Winslow and his associates, whereby by paying ninety pounds in New
England pay,
he secured not only a deed from them but also his long coveted deed from
the
Indians. The latter deed is dated 19 Jun 1672 and is signed by
Mattaquason and
John Quason, his son, the sachems of Monomoit.
1637 came from Norwich on "John and Dorothy"
1641 removed to Yarmouth [101]
weaver from Norwich, England [96]
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1 DEAT
2 DATE BTWN 30 AUG 1689-8 SEP 1690
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1 DEAT
2 PLAC Chatham (Monomoit), Mass.
BIRTH-PARENTS: PAF GEDCOM; 1996; Benjamin F Rollins, Jr, email:
brollins(a)capecod.net "Mooncusser: ; ; ;RINs:33943-34450
OCCU tailor
BURI DATE BURIAL HILL
MARR DATE CIR. 1627
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Anyone wanna help? I also read William's will again and it says that he
bought the land by Bass pond from one William Palmer. Below we also have
Nickerson, Hoover, and Sears.
I took a moment to put the following criteria into google.com and came up
with this -
Criteria: "Bass pond" 1650 Massachusetts deed
Ancestry of Paine Nickerson of Orrington,
Mainehttp://www.geocities.com/mainegenie2/NICKRSN.htm
... in that of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.(3 ... meadow on Little Bass
Pond. He also ... 2) JONES
(bc.1650, d. after 1735 ... Purchase on Long Pond at a ... in a deed by her
son ...
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William NICKERSON / Alice
(NICKERSON)http://sdss4.physics.lsa.umich.edu:8080/~mckay/amckay/html/d0001/f0000022.html
... They arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, in New England ... as Little Bass
Pond) at the head
of Bass River. With others ... Oct. 2, 1650, there were ... in the deed as
of ...
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Henry HOOVER / Mary
PHILLIPShttp://sdss4.physics.lsa.umich.edu:8080/~mckay/amckay/html/d0001/f0000030.html
... meadow about the Bass Pond, and all the ... in Duxbury 1645-1650;
(Delano was an ... the coast
of Massachusetts going as far ... 4, page 370. Deed from Jonathan Dunham
...
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Sketches of the Early Settlers of West Tisbury by Charles ...
http://www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/b2wtres.htm
... is estimated as in 1650, and he was ... 20, 1710, by a deed to his
grandson ... 1622, settled
in Massachusetts, whither he had ... lying at the Bass pond with half a ...
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Ancestors of Maj Gen Leslie R Sears, Jr - pafn14 - ...
http://www.searsr.com/raysance/pafn14.htm
... he resided until about 1650, when he came to ... Edward in a deed dated
1651. ... QUAY 0 to
Massachusetts ABT 1637. Submitter ... were near Little Bass Pond, now called
...
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