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Ancestry in a Drop of Blood Tribes and would-be members are turning to DNA
tests. But the hunt for genetic truth has some asking: What does it mean to
be Indian?By Karen Kaplan
LA Times Staff Writer
August 30, 2005
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Marilyn Vann can trace her Cherokee roots back more than
200 years through generations of Native Americans and the descendants of
black slaves who lived among them.
She has mountains of paper — birth certificates, tribal enrollment cards,
land deeds, affidavits, yellowing photographs — documenting her family's
life within the tribe.
But when the engineer from Oklahoma City asked to join the 250,000-strong
Cherokee Nation four years ago, she was rejected by tribal officials here
who declared her black, not Indian.
The truth, she believes, is in her blood.
Vann turned to a technology that is roiling Indian tribes nationwide — DNA
testing.
From California to Connecticut, tribes and would-be members are grappling
with the ramifications of a science that is able to demystify someone's
genes for as little as a few hundred dollars.
Modern genetic tests can detect traces of ancestors by looking for mutations
that pass from generation to generation in specific racial groups.
More than half a dozen companies have sprung up in the last five years. Many
report their most eager customers are people seeking to prove Indian
heritage.
Some tribes are welcoming the new science.
The Meskwaki Nation in Tama, Iowa, began requiring DNA testing this spring
to screen out pretenders seeking to cash in on the tribe's casino profits.
"It was something we needed to be in place to protect the tribe," said
tribal council member Keith Davenport. "People are looking for an easy
ride."
But the DNA tests have opened fresh wounds throughout Indian country,
unmasking complicated family relationships and turning the unspoken bonds of
community into impersonal laboratory results.
Inevitably, DNA raises a delicate question: What does it mean to be Indian?
"What is up for grabs is how we define race," said Jenny Reardon, who
studies genome sciences and policy at Duke University in North Carolina.
"Tribes are dealing with these issues first, but it doesn't mean that every
American might not have to deal with these issues in one way or another."
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Vann has never been uncertain about who she is.
She spent much of her childhood surrounded by Cherokees in eastern Oklahoma
and enrolled in programs for Indian students at school. Her late father,
George Musgrove Vann, grew up in Cherokee country attending stomp dances and
speaking some Tsalagi, the official Cherokee language. He received 110 acres
from the federal government in compensation for lands confiscated from the
tribe when it was forcibly relocated to Oklahoma from Georgia on the Trail
of Tears in the late 1830s.
It was only later in her adult life, after her daughter was nearly done with
school and her career as a petroleum engineer was well established, that she
contemplated a way to give back to the tribe that loomed so large when she
was a girl.
In 2001, Vann applied for membership.
She got a letter back stating that her father was listed on the crucial 1907
tribal roll not as Cherokee but as Freedmen — a descendant of the former
slaves who came to Oklahoma with the tribe.
Under the rules of the Cherokee Nation, Vann could become a member only if
she was directly descended from someone listed on the 1907 rolls with a
fraction to denote the proportion of their blood that came from Cherokee
ancestors.
According to this racial accounting, Vann's father was 1/64 Cherokee. But
the record-keeping of the time wasn't terribly precise, and he was listed
only as a Freedman.
"My ancestors helped build this tribe," Vann said. "My father and my
grandfather enjoyed Cherokee citizenship. I've been kicked out, with no
say-so in the matter."
The rules for tribal membership vary with each of the 562 federally
recognized tribes.
In some cases, all it takes is having a parent who is a member of the tribe.
Other tribes allow only mothers or fathers to pass down membership to their
children. Sometimes applicants must have a full-blood Indian ancestor within
four or five generations, but many don't care if their members are blond and
blue-eyed with the tiniest fraction of Indian blood.
Overall tribal enrollment has been rising steadily for at least a decade. In
1995, when the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs began keeping an official
tally, tribes had 1.4 million members listed on their rolls. By 2001, the
most recent year for which statistics are available, that number had topped
1.8 million.
The growth has prompted some tribes to tighten their membership rules,
especially when casino money is at stake.
The Meskwaki Nation has been flooded with applications for tribal enrollment
since 1994, the year the casino in Tama began sharing its profits with
members, said council member Davenport. Membership swelled from 1,000 to
more than 1,300.
The tribe didn't change its enrollment criteria — membership is still passed
down from father to child. In simpler times, all it took was a signature to
vouch for paternity. Now the tribe requires a 16-factor DNA paternity test,
Davenport said.
At the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, which operates the lucrative Foxwoods
Resort Casino near Norwich, Conn., enrollment clerk Joyce Walker regularly
fields inquiries from people who say DNA tests prove they are Native
Americans.
"People say, 'I just found out I'm Indian and I want to know how I can start
receiving my profits,' " Walker said.
She tells them to take another DNA test to prove they are the offspring of a
tribal member. The news is rarely welcome.
Casino profits aren't the only reason people want to join tribes.
Card-carrying members qualify for care from the federal Indian Health
Service. Some tribes offer allowances for school clothing, vocational
training, aid for the elderly and other services.
Vann neither wants nor needs any of those material things.
"I have a respectable job. I have three homes, and two of them are paid
off," she said in her lakefront house in Oklahoma City. "I did not go to the
Cherokees to get anything. I went to offer my services."
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Last year, an opportunity presented itself to prove what Vann thought was
obvious — that after 200 years, Cherokee and Freedmen blood had become
inextricably mixed.
Rick Kittles, a genetic anthropologist, was interested in comparing the DNA
of African Americans from different parts of the country. He offered to swab
cells from inside the cheeks of about 150 Freedmen free of charge and tell
them what proportion of their genes came from Indian ancestors.
Such tests are being offered by private companies with names like GeneTree
and Family Tree DNA. Their home testing kits promise to reveal the secrets
of ancestry for $200 to $400.
The genes can be examined in several ways. The most straightforward tests
compare the DNA of a parent and child to confirm a biological link. When the
question is racial heritage, other tests can find clues in DNA.
Of the roughly 30,000 genes spelled out in the human genome, ancestry tests
focus on about 225 mutations called single nucleotide polymorphisms that
arose thousands of years ago and tend to be linked to specific continents.
By examining what kind of mutations a person has, scientists can get an idea
of whether one's ancestors came from Africa, Europe, Asia or North America.
"These sequences provide a record of the history of those populations," said
Kittles, an associate professor at Ohio State University and scientific
director of African Ancestry Inc., a Washington, D.C., company. "They run in
families, which run in communities, which run in different geographic
regions."
But genetic and genealogical ancestry aren't in perfect sync. Although every
person has four grandparents, their DNA isn't passed down in equal
proportions. As many as 35% of one's genes can be traced to a maternal
grandfather, for example, while as few as 15% may come from the other
grandfather, said Tony Frudakis, chief scientific officer of DNAPrint
genomics Inc., a Florida company that offers genetic testing products.
Nor are the results foolproof. Some legitimate descendants of Native
Americans may not have enough Native American genes to show up on a test,
especially if their last Indian ancestor was five or more generations back.
On the flip side, some people could acquire a telltale mutation through
random chance.
Even those who do have Native American genes can't tie them to the Sioux,
Navajo or any specific tribe, said Ripan Malhi, a molecular anthropologist
at UC Davis who specializes in Native American DNA. Tribes haven't spent
enough time in isolation to develop unique mutations.
"We've had a couple of tribes come to us and ask if we can come up with a
genetic signature of a tribe that they could use for tribal enrollment,"
said Malhi, co-founder of Trace Genetics Inc. in Richmond, Calif. "The
answer is no, you can't do that."
Indians are quick to point out that traditional tribal records are rife with
flaws. Government census takers often glanced at a person's skin tone and
guessed whether he was 25%, 50% or 100% Indian. Siblings who shared the same
parents were recorded as having different degrees of Indian blood. Indians
often told federal officials they were white because they feared their land
would be confiscated.
Sometimes, even the unreliable documents are out of reach.
"One of the courthouses burned down, and they had all the records from the
1880s," said Kenn Davin, a member of the United Eastern Lenape tribe in
eastern Tennessee. "A lot of this stuff we can't check out."
The search for genetic truth, however, has some Indians worried about the
consequences.
"If tribes started accepting DNA, they'd want to DNA test everybody, and
everybody with a card is not going to come back positive," said Vicky Spits
Fire Garland, a Cherokee who is vice president of the Tennessee chapter of
the Trail of Tears Assn. "Are they going to throw those people out?"
DNA testing could also reveal some unexpected family relationships.
"There's a huge queasiness … because of the social structure of Indian
country," said Laura Wass, a member of the Mountain Maidu tribe near Mt.
Lassen in Northern California. "It's going to open a lot of deep closets. A
lot of children were raised by other families…. You bring in DNA and now a
child finds out, 'Well, I'm not who I thought I was.' "
For some, the idea of analyzing blood to distinguish some Indians from
others threatens to undermine the fabric of the community.
"To define someone by blood quantum is the very definition of racism," said
David Cornsilk, a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Among the Mashantucket Pequot in Connecticut, a few tribal members have
bristled at the tribe's required genetic testing of all newborns. "They say,
'You've seen me pregnant, and suddenly I have a baby in my arms. Why should
I have to take this test?' " said Walker, the enrollment clerk. "We say
we're only trying to be consistent."
For all the precision of the technology, sometimes it leaves more questions.
Kay Yellow Horse, who was adopted nearly 50 years ago and raised by white
parents, ordered a DNA test from Seattle-based Genelex Corp. after seeing an
ad at a powwow last year. The Denver writer hoped the results would tell her
if there was a genetic basis for her affinity for Native Americans.
Ten weeks later, a fat enveloped arrived in the mail, confirming her Native
American heritage. She burst into tears.
"My entire life I had felt like a mutt from the pound," said Yellow Horse,
who changed her last name after a divorce. "After getting those results, now
I feel like a pedigreed show dog. It's given me a feeling of authenticity."
Though she was grateful to learn something about her roots, the results have
left her wondering about her past.
"Do I have my father's eyes?" she asked. "The hair color from my mom? Am I
the product of a rape, the product of an illicit affair, or who knows what?"
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Marilyn Vann's genes told her everything she wanted to know about her
ancestors.
It turns out that 3% of her genes come from Native Americans. Another 39%
are from Europeans, who likely intermarried with Indians over hundreds of
years; 58% of her genes originated in Africa.
The numbers roughly matched the facts in her stacks of paper. An 1835 tribal
roll shows that Rider Fields, her great-great-great-grandfather, was 25%
Cherokee. Other rolls from the 1800s list her great-great-grandmother and
great-grandmother with Cherokee blood.
Vann has made the three-hour drive to the Cherokee Nation headquarters in
Tahlequah to argue that if only her father had been properly listed on the
key 1907 census, she would have her membership card and the right to vote in
tribal elections.
Cherokee spokesman Mike Miller acknowledged the 1907 rolls weren't perfect,
but said it wasn't practical for the tribe to tinker with it 100 years after
the fact. As for her genetic test, Miller said it had nothing to do with the
criteria for membership.
Vann has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to compel the U.S. Interior
Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs to enforce her tribal voting rights.
She remains hurt and indignant that the Cherokee Nation will not acknowledge
her roots.
On a recent visit to Tahlequah, she stopped by tribal headquarters, a
concrete building emblazoned with the words "Welcome to Your Cherokee
Nation" in English and Tsalagi. Although it was closed, she was wary.
"I don't want to get spotted by the security camera," she said, shooting
glances over her shoulder — still an outsider in a world she has known all
her life.
--
Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
This site has a history of his life. As you will note, he held a number of
offices in RI, which no doubt accounts for his being referred to as
"Honorable"
http://sherman-roots.com/sherman/bio/07-sherm-philip.html
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Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone knows what the Honorable title was for. He was b.
abt. 1610, had dt. Sarah Sherman, if I remember correctly,........ who m. a
Chase.
Thanks,
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I was wondering if anyone knows what the Honorable title was for. He was b.
abt. 1610, had dt. Sarah Sherman, if I remember correctly,........ who m. a
Chase.
Thanks,
Barb
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From "What's New On Cyndi's List" recently; there are two CHASEs listed. Happy hunting!
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Great Marlow Return.
The House taking Notice, That, by the Book of Returns, there is a Return for
the Borough of Great Marlow in the County of Bucks, in Manner following;
viz.
James Chase, Esquire,By one Indenture, first brought in by the
Under-Sheriff, Fourth March.
Sir Wm. Whitlock, Knight,
James Chase, Esquire,By another Indenture added after by the High Sheriff,
Eighteenth March.
Ralph Bucknall, Esquire,
And a Debate arising in the House, touching the said Return;
The Question was put, That the said Return be a Double Return:
And it passed in the Negative.
Ordered, That the Indenture by which Mr. Bucknall is returned to serve as a
Burgess for the said Borough of Great Marlow, be taken off the File.
Ordered, That the Clerk of the Crown do attend this House, upon Monday
Morning next, at Ten of the Clock, to give an Account concerning the said
Return of Members to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of
Great Marlow in the County of Bucks.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 22 March 1690', Journal of the
House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 348-50. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28989&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
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MANORS
The history of Bundish in the 17th century is not clear, but at the end of
the century it was apparently in dual ownership. In 1681 Henry Herbert and
his wife Anne conveyed half of the manor to Joseph and Thomas Cffley.
(Footnote 86) In 1690 Sir William Boughton and his wife Mary, daughter of
John Ramsey, alderman of the city of London, conveyed half the manor to
Matthew and Robert Skinner. (Footnote 87) It may be that Lady Boughton and
Anne Herbert were granddaughters of William Ramsey and had inherited Bundish
as coheiresses of their father John Ramsey. Subsequently the manor came into
the undivided ownership of John Lingard, common serjeant of the City of
London, who died in 1729 leaving several daughters as coheiresses. (Footnote
88) In 1740 Elizabeth, Sarah, Anne, and Frances Lingard conveyed the manor
to Samuel Brackley, merchant. (Footnote 89) In 1753 Sarah and Anne Lingard
and Robert Chase and his wife Frances, daughter of John Lingard, conveyed it
to Francis Capper. (Footnote 90) In 1775 the estate was still described as a
manor. (Footnote 91) In all later documents and histories it was described
merely as a farm. In 1840 the farm consisted of 166 acres of which 107 acres
lay in Moreton and 59 acres in Shelley; at that time the estate was held by
Thomas Chaplin, trustee of John Chaplin, deceased. (Footnote 92)
From: 'Moreton: Manors', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar
Hundred (1956), pp. 131-34. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15605&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
The parish of Chelsea
Communications
Ferries
The right to operate the ferry was leased out by the owners. In 1665
Thomasina Cootes, widow of a waterman, left the ferry and boats to her
father Laurence Chase, (Footnote 5) and in 1668 the lessee was Samuel Chase.
(Footnote 6) In 1696 and 1704 Bartholomew Nutt paid rates for the ferry;
John Medley paid in 1735, and George Ludlow in 1750. (Footnote 7)
By statute the Corporation of the City of London appointed watermen to
oversee all wherrymen and watermen on the Thames as far as Windsor, and in
1668 Sir Walter St John and Samuel Chase brought a suit against the City's
appointees and about 34 watermen of Chelsea, who claimed that the
plaintiffs' exclusive rights to operate the ferry from Chelsea's 'Ferry
Place', opposite Danvers Street, to Battersea only extended to the horseboat
and not to footboats. They also claimed that the ancient ferry was near the
Crown on the Chelsea side, and that long before the ferry there was a dock
for dredging and trimming boats used by watermen, perhaps referring to the
public draw dock at the east end of Cheyne Walk. The charges at that time
were 1d. for every horse or beast and horseman in the horseboat, and ½d. for
everyone on foot. (Footnote 1) A ferrymen's petition in 1726 for
compensation for loss of business to the proposed Putney Bridge was
rejected. (Footnote 2) In 1808 and 1812 plying places on the river where
watermen could pick up passengers included a stretch under the trees
opposite the Yorkshire Grey by Manor Street, where there were wooden stairs
and a good causeway, opposite Lawrence Street where there were small stairs,
and the original ferry place opposite Danvers Street and the White Hart,
where there were 8-ft wide brick stairs alongside a brick wall and a 20-ft
wide dock. (Footnote 3)
From: 'The parish of Chelsea: Communications', A History of the County of
Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004), pp. 2-13. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28685&strquery=Chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
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Marlow Election.
A Petition of Ralph Bucknall, Esquire, was read; setting forth, That James
Chase, Esquire, and the Petitioner were duly elected for the Borough of
Great Marlow; and were accordingly proclaimed by Two of the Constables, who
are the proper Officers there; and were also returned by their Indentures,
joined in by many of the Inhabitants: After the doing whereof, the said
Constables, and divers of the Inhabitants were called out of their Beds, and
were unduly prevailed upon to execute another indenture; wherein the said
Mr. Chase, with Sir Wm. Whitlock, are returned, in Prejudice of the
Petitioner's Right: And praying the Consideration of the House in the
Premises.
Ordered, That the Consideration of the said Petition be referred to the
Committee of Privileges and Elections: Who are to examine the Matters
thereof; and report the same, with their Opinions therein, to the House.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 10: 6 October 1690', Journal of the
House of Commons: volume 10: 1688-1693 (1802), pp. 426-29. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=29047&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
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Persons sent for.
RESOLVED, &c. That Mr. Alexander Thaine, Mr. Wm. Davies, Mr. Stephen Chase,
Mr. Tho. Bagley, Cleve Ven, Gilb. Meese, James Weaver, Jo. Miller, be
forthwith sent for, as Delinquents, for refusing to pay the weekly
Assessments; and for abusing the Collectors when they came to demand it.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 3: 11 April 1643', Journal of the
House of Commons: volume 3: 1643-1644 (1802), pp. 38-40. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=8393&strquery=chase. Date
accessed: 24 August 2005.
House of Commons Journal Volume 8
24 March 1662
Privilege.
Ordered, That one Richard Chase, who was committed for a Breach of Privilege
in seizing and detaining Mr. Whorwood, a Member of this House, shall upon
Security given to the Serjeant at Arms for his Appearance the First Day of
the next Sitting of this House, have his Liberty in the mean Time.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 24 March 1662', Journal of the
House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 393-94. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26487&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
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List of the Servants for the King's Children.
"Pankeeper,Samuel Vance,
Anne Chase,vi l. xiii s. iiii d.
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 6: 19 March 1644', Journal of the House
of Lords: volume 6: 1643 (1802), pp. 474-76. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37477&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
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Settlement and building
From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Village or Great Chelsea
In 1695 there were four houses rated on the western side of Lawrence Street,
followed by two on the eastern side. In 1704 John Lawrence leased to Samuel
Chase of St Giles-in-the-Fields, bricklayer, two pieces of land at the
northern end of the Lawrence property adjoining the glebe, presumably the
site of the four houses which closed off Lawrence Street on the north and
were later collectively known as Monmouth House. Chase also leased some
glebe land in 1704 on the north side to create gardens for the two central
houses, which were larger than the rest and faced down Lawrence Street, with
a passage between them to the garden, hidden behind a pair of doors with a
pedimented doorcase. (Footnote 5) They were first rated in 1705-6 as two
houses at £28 each and two at £18. The centre house on the east was let from
1715 to Anne, duchess of Buccleuch (d. 1732), widow of James Scott, duke of
Monmouth (d. 1685), and from 1718 she also took the adjoining house at right
angles: (Footnote 6) her residency there gave the house its popular name of
Monmouth House, but that led later writers to assume that the block had
originally been built as a single mansion. The duchess was in Chelsea from
at least 1714, and entertained royalty there in 1716, but spent her later
years in Scotland. (Footnote 7) The house was rated to her daughter, Lady
Isabella Scott, in 1735. (Footnote 8) The westernmost house of the group,
occupied by Alexander Reid in 1722 and empty in 1735, was rated to Nicholas
Sprimont in 1751 when the next house, presumably the western central house,
was rated to Tobias Smollett, and the Duchess of Buccleuch's former house to
Sprimont as a house and outbuildings, which he used as a showroom for the
Chelsea Porcelain works. (Footnote 9) Smollett lived in Chelsea from 1750 to
1763, though he never identified his house in his letters. (Footnote 10)
Nos 23 and 24 Lawrence Street, facing Justice Walk and still standing in
2003, had twin doorways in a single doorcase, similar to the arrangement
shown on Monmouth House c. 1833, (Footnote 1) and probably date from the
development of c. 1690, which has otherwise left no trace, except for the
stuccoed remains of Church Row at nos 62 and 63 Cheyne Walk. (Footnote 2)
Perhaps because of lack of demand, not all the site was built over in the
late 17th century. A factory was built for the Chelsea Porcelain works in
1750 on the west side of Lawrence Street on an empty site between the house
at the corner of Justice Walk and Chase's houses at the top of the street,
(Footnote 3) while a plot of land opposite at the top of Lawrence Street on
the east side was still not built on by 1836. In 1714 Richard Culliford
bought the lease of the house on the east side near the top, on a site 32 ft
to Lawrence Street and 145 ft back to Cheyne Row, built by Thomas Hearne in
1688, and in 1720 he obtained a 20-ft wide strip of the vacant land which
lay between him and the wall of the Duchess of Buccleuch's house at the
northern end. (Footnote 4) The illustration of 'Monmouth House' in 1833
shows the ground still unbuilt, although with a high wall around it.
(Footnote 5)
From: 'Settlement and building: From 1680 to 1865: Chelsea Village or Great
Chelsea', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 12: Chelsea (2004),
pp. 31-40. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=28690&strquery=Chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
From: 'House of Lords Journal Volume 6: 19 March 1644', Journal of the House
of Lords: volume 6: 1643 (1802), pp. 474-76. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=37477&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
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TIDENHAM INCLUDING LANCAUT
TIDENHAM lies on the boundary of Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire to the
east of Chepstow. The parish forms a roughly wedge-shaped area between the
broad estuary of the Severn on the east and the meandering course of the Wye
on the west, tapering towards the south into a narrow peninsula at the
confluence of the two rivers. Crossing points of the rivers, notably the
Severn passage at Beachley, played an important part in the development of
settlement, and fisheries were a major factor in the economy of Tidenham
from late Saxon times when it was a large royal manor. Tidenham later became
part of the Marcher lordship of Striguil whose lords created a hunting chase
in the manor.
Offa's Dyke, once marking the boundary between the lands of the English and
Welsh, runs down the western side of the parish but excludes two areas, the
peninsula of Lancaut formed by a meander of the Wye, and the Beachley
peninsula on the south. Lancaut evidently remained in Welsh occupation in
the 8th century when the dyke was built, but by 956 it was part of the
English king's manor of Tidenham. (Footnote 1) Nevertheless it retained its
separate identity within the manor; (Footnote 2) in the Middle Ages it was a
separate ecclesiastical parish, (Footnote 3) and in the later 19th century
it was accorded the status of a civil parish, amounting to 218 a., being
merged in Tidenham parish in 1935. (Footnote 4) Beachley was also part of
Tidenham manor by 956 and was apparently the area described in a Saxon
survey of the manor made then or later as lying 'outside the inclosed land'
and let in part to Welsh sailors; (Footnote 5) it has been suggested that
the small seaport existed at the time of the building of the dyke and was
excluded by it in order to leave both sides of the mouth of the Wye, and the
Severn crossing at Beachley, under Welsh control. (Footnote 6) In 956 the
bounds of Tidenham manor followed the Severn on the east and the Wye on the
west while the northern and north-eastern boundary between the two rivers
followed a series of landmarks some of which can be identified. (Footnote 7)
The boundary began at Yewtree Headland, the neck of land on the Wye opposite
Tintern where the woods still contained many yews in 1969, ran on to the
Stone Row, and then to White Hollow (Hwitan Heal), a name which survives in
Whitewalls, a house east of Oakhill Wood; (Footnote 8) it then passed
through Yew Valley, Broad Moor, and Twyford, where the Piccadilly and Black
brooks join at the main Gloucester-Chepstow road, (Footnote 9) and came to a
pill on the Severn later called Horse Pill. (Footnote 10) Those bounds took
no account of Madgett, an area of 311 a. lying within the northern boundary
of the parish. (Footnote 11) In 956 Madgett was probably already detached
from Tidenham manor, for the manor was extended at 30 hides (Footnote 12) as
it was in 1066 when Madgett was certainly no longer part of it, being held
with one of the Woolaston manors; (Footnote 13) Madgett remained part of
Woolaston parish until 1882 when it was merged with Tidenham. (Footnote 14)
The original boundary on the north-east presumably ran from Park Hill
through Mereway Grove and down the Piccadilly brook to Twyford, but later an
irregular arm of Woolaston parish extended into Tidenham as far as Ashwell
Grange and a small detached piece of Tidenham survived within that arm near
Ashwell Grove. (Footnote 15) The irregular boundary appears to have resulted
from allotments of tithes to the respective parishes at the inclosure by
Tintern Abbey of the Ashwell Grange estate from the waste in the early
Middle Ages; (Footnote 16) much of the 119 a. of assarts made by the abbey
in Tidenham before 1282 (Footnote 17) probably lay in that area. The
detached piece of Tidenham was merged with Woolaston in 1882, (Footnote 18)
and the boundary in that area was rationalized in 1935 when 113 a. of
Tidenham between Ashwell Grange and the Piccadilly brook were transferred to
Woolaston. (Footnote 19) The account given here relates to Tidenham parish
as it existed before the boundary changes (an area of 6,065 a., excluding
river foreshore) (Footnote 20) and to Lancaut; the history of Madgett is
given under Woolaston.
The east and south parts of the parish are lowlying, mainly at under 100
ft., and the land is formed chiefly by the Keuper Marl. East of Sedbury,
however, the Lower Lias overlying the Rhaetic beds forms an area of higher
ground terminating in Sedbury Cliffs (Footnote 21) which rise to c. 150 ft.
above the Severn. North of Pill House a stretch of flat meadow land
bordering the Severn is formed by alluvial deposits. (Footnote 22) Sea-walls
to defend that part against the river were being maintained in the late 13th
century, (Footnote 23) but in 1969 they were no longer kept up and survived
only in short stretches, for in recent years a considerable area of land had
been gained from the river and planted with grass; the river's action has
also added land to the bank further south, in Beachley Bay. (Footnote 24) In
the late 17th and early 18th centuries the Tidenham manor court was
concerned with the upkeep of sea-walls along the Wye on the west side of the
Beachley peninsula. (Footnote 25) To the northwest of the main
Gloucester-Chepstow road the land rises steeply to c. 550 ft. before
levelling off to form a wide plateau; on the west side the land falls even
more steeply to the Wye, in places forming bare rock cliffs at 200-300 ft.
above the wooded banks of the river. In the north-western part the land is
formed mainly by the Carboniferous Limestone, although a strip of the Old
Red Sandstone intervenes on the hill slopes to the east, and there are two
considerable areas of Millstone Grit on the northern plateau and patches of
Dolomitic Conglomerate on the west. (Footnote 26) In 1292 the reeve of the
manor sold 316½ horse-loads of coal from Tidenham Chase in the north of the
parish; (Footnote 27) the tenants reported that coals could be found on the
chase in 1584, (Footnote 28) and the lord of the manor was negotiating with
miners for the exploitation of the deposits there in 1677. (Footnote 29) The
limestone of the parish has been extensively quarried both for local
building purposes and for export from the parish. (Footnote 30)
The whole parish of Tidenham lay at one time within the Forest of Dean, but
by the early 13th century the lords of the manor had appropriated a great
hunting chase extending across both Tidenham and Woolaston, and the
exclusion of the two parishes from the jurisdiction of the forest had been
established by the end of the century. The earliest record found of Tidenham
Chase was in 1228 when it was said to have existed from antiquity, (Footnote
31) but other jurors in the 13th century attributed its creation to William
Marshal (d. 1219). (Footnote 32) In the 1270s the chase was said to stretch
from Chepstow Bridge to the Cone brook on the Woolaston- Alvington boundary;
on the north it was presumably confined by the original
Woolaston-Hewelsfield boundary, for the lord of Tidenham was reported to
have extended its bounds into Hewelsfield during Henry III's reign.
(Footnote 33) The jurors perambulating the Forest of Dean in 1228 regarded
the chase as still being part of the forest, as did those of 1282 who gave
the confluence of Severn and Wye as the forest's southern boundary;
(Footnote 34) in 1267, however, the Cone brook had been stated to form the
boundary between the forest and the Earl of Norfolk's lordship. (Footnote
35) The distinction was made again in other evidence given in 1282, when it
was complained that the earl's riding forester in the chase and others were
accustomed to make poaching expeditions into the forest and then return to
the chase where they could not be attached because it lay outside the
county. (Footnote 36) The exclusion of Tidenham and Woolaston from the
forest was confirmed
From: 'Tidenham including Lancaut: Introduction', A History of the County of
Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972), pp. 50-62.
URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15757&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 24 August 2005.
House of Commons Journal Volume 8
4 April 1662
Privilege-Person discharged.
Richard Chase (the Constable, who, for his Breach of Privilege, in seizing
and detaining Mr. Whorwood, a Member of this House, and his uncivil Carriage
towards him, was, by former Order of this House, committed to the Custody of
the Serjeant at Arms), being this Day brought to the Bar of this House; and
having submitted himself, and craved Pardon for his Miscarriage; and being
withdrawn;
Resolved, upon the Question, That the said Chase be called in to the Bar of
this House; and do receive a Reprehension from Mr. Speaker, upon his Knee:
And that thereupon he be discharged.
And the said Constable was accordingly called in; and, being upon his Knee,
Mr. Speaker gave him a very grave Reprehension: And so he was dismissed.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 4 April 1662', Journal of the
House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 396-97. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26489&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 23 August 2005.
House of Commons Journal Volume 8
19 March 1662
Privilege.
Upon Information, That Mr. Broome Whorwood, a Member of this House, coming
out of London last Night, was seized and detained by one Richard Chase, a
Constable, and his Watch, at Bishopgate; and not suffered to pass, either in
his Coach, or on Foot, although there was no Restraint put upon any other
Person that had occasion to pass that Way, but only upon the said Mr.
Whorwood, although the Constable was informed, that he was a Member of
Parliament; and declared, that he acted by a Power that was above the
Parliament, and would not permit . . to pass.
Ordered, That the Serjeant at Arms attending this House, or his Deputy, do
apprehend the said RichardChase, and take him into Custody, to answer this
Misdemeanor, and Breach of Privilege, objected against him, in seizing and
detaining the said Mr. Whorwood; and his uncivil Usage towards him.
From: 'House of Commons Journal Volume 8: 19 March 1662', Journal of the
House of Commons: volume 8: 1660-1667 (1802), pp. 389-90. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26483&strquery=chase.
Date accessed: 23 August 2005.
Hi Everyone,
Am interested in getting in touch with those whose line is the above. I'd like to find out if anyone has any info on Stephen's children and.....I think I've come across some info!
Thanks,
Barb
ace3399(a)msn.com
In a message dated 06/06/2004 4:43:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Stub53usmc
writes:
I read everthing that comes in concerning our Chase/Chace e-mail...however,
every once in a while ..something comes in that is real exciting to me..such
is the case in the e-mail from Barry Price..in Vancover..which reads in part..
"Looking for the children of the above couple..(Thomas/Hope Terry Chase).
They are the children of Obed and Phebe Hathaway Chase..and James and Phebe Chase
respectfully..Thanks for any help that you can give.."
Just a note...coming down the Thomas Chase/Chace side of the family..up until
Thomas married Hopey..he was in the Chase spelling ..going back to William
1..When he married Hopey Chace..he changed his name to spell Chace.. The same as
Hopey...This was frequently the case in the early 1800's.. Many of my records
show that Chaces born in Bristol County (Freetown, Assonet, Fall River,
Swansea, Somerset, Rehoboth etc..) who left the County and moved to the Cape
(Yarmouth, Dennis , West Harwich etc) changed their spelling to Chase for
convenience sake..since everyone was named Chase..likewise, those coming from the Cape
to Bristol County, changed their name to Chace..because there were very few
Chases..and almost everyone was named Chace. I can provide documentation in these
facts because it is stated in several early geneology books...concerning the
Chase/Chace history...legal proceedings were not required to make the
change..and for those of us who got into this geneolgy trail early ..it was very
confusing...In the cemetary behind Christ Church in Swansea..where I cut the grass
as a 14 yr old Sexton in the War Years of !943-45..Many of the graves will
have the fathers name as Chase..yet all the children names as Chace..There are
many cemetaries in Swansea..and it is very difficult to find grave markers with
the spelling of Chase. I have several early maps of Swansea circa 1850..and
there are no Chases recorded in any of the houses marked on the maps..
I would like to repeat what my son ( A Commodore in the US Navy) and I have
concluded about the Chase/Chace spelling of our names..
The book..."Some of the Descendents of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth,
Mass." It contains the names and families for 196 descendents of William
Chase. No where in the list of over a thousand names is the name of Chace to be
found.
Over the years, having grown up in Swansea and living close to Freetown and
my son being in the Navy and having spent several tours in Newport, RI
..between the two of us we have had the opprotunity to visit the graves sites of all
our ancestors going back to William 1..This is not so on the Thomas Chace side
of the family..although my nephew, John Chace ..the son of my
brother..Chaplain Colonel Alston Chace, USAF ..has found most of these graves.
I have taken pictures of almost all of these sites and what these pictures
show is as follows:
`George Bedford Chase (Walter3, Benjamin2 and William 1) had 16 that is
sixteen ..children.
He was born in Freetown in 1719 and died in Smithfield RI in 1784 . He
married in Freetown in 1741 to Mary Strange... daughter of Lot and Hannah (Hathaway)
Strange... (It is quite clear in my research , a most frequent marriages
during this time was Chases/Chaces ....to Hathaways
One of the children born to George and Mary was Greenfield Chase.. in
1754..He is my great,great,great great Grandfather....ie Frank Chace, my father.
Ellery Chace my grandfather, Hiram Chace, my great grandfather, Thomas
Chase/Chace, my great, great, grandfather, Capt James Chace, (Ship Captain) my great,
great, great grandfather, Greenfield Chase/Chace, my great, great, great ,great
grandfather.. It is this grandfather that my early Chace relatives selected
for our entry into the DAR and SAR. My Aunt Marion Chace used to apologizes to
me for the selection of Greenfield as our sponsor into the DAR and SAR. (
because there were others Chase/Chaces with a more exciting participation in the
Rebellion.) Just like his brothers who remained loyal to the Colonies and were
Whigs, Greenfield joined Capt's Benjamin Read's (Freetown Company) and Col.
John Hathaways Regmt. He enlisted Aug 2 1780 and was discharged Aug 7,
1780..service..6 days on alarm at Rhode Island (Taken from Full Context of
Massssachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion 17 Vols ..Vol 3
page 351
So it was that several other Chases answered the call to include, Gilbert
(brother), George, (brother), Edward, (brother), Bradley, Augustus, Darius,
Ebenezer.and Fairfax (son of Abiel Chase.)
Greenfield and his brothers are buried in the Hathaway Cemetery in
Assonet...and what is more important..the Chases who went into the Revolutionary War and
enlisted under the name of Chase..were buried as Chace,... Also included in
the Cemetery named "Chace" is Azel Chace...who is listed as being in the War of
the Rebellion. Also in the Rounsville Cemetery are Albert E Chace and Seth H
Chace.
My point is that almost all of the Chases in Freetown who enlisted under the
name of Chase...are buried under the name of Chace. My son and I believe this
was done to separate their name from that of other family members who
remained loyal to the Crown and were Tories.
Somewhere in my notes is a story of a Chase who was a Tory who was caught
hiding arms for the British and he was tared and feathered in Taunton, Mass.
Tories who went on trial May 31st 1777 were...George Chase and George Chase
Jr. Ammi Chase, is included in the list of Prisoners on board the gun ship
"Adams."
Just to point put the division between Tories and Whigs..from the History Of
Freetown..July 30th 1902..
"The war cloud of the Revolution was now gathering on the horizon and the
far-sighted of the colonist were preparing for a storm, a history of which comes
down to us largely by old tradition and the grandmother's tales of "Whigs and
Tories.".....people bitterly divided on the question at issue....In that part
of our town annexed to us from Tiverton in 1747 and still known a s New
freetown, a company of minutemen were training, under Captain Levi Rounsville and
making ready for the call that would be sounded in the "Lexington Alarm."
Southward the dozen households located along the plunging Quequechan were
watchful and brave, liberty men all. who, later in the conflict proved themselves
competent to defenf their own against the marines of England. But while the
southern and eastern portions of the town were preparing to contest the rule of
the mother country, the village of Assonet, under the master spirit of old
Colonel Gilbert, held loyal to the crown.....
Captain George Chase (son of George Bedford Chase) was the Moderator of a
meeting (Province of Ye Massachusetts Bay...Bristol ..January 1774.....Resolved
the following...
"1st That it is ye Duty of this Town at this time to Express our sentiments
in matters which so nearly Concern us more spedely, as there appears to be
Reason to fear there is a Spirit of Anarchy, Disorder and Confusion prevailing in
sum parts of the this Province."
2nd Resolved , That ye Body of People at Boston on ye 16th Day of December
last, taking upon themselves the Stile and Appelation of a Body of People who
did not Indeavor to prevent a number of people (in Indian Dress od Disguise)
from acting there Savage Nature in ye Destruction of ye Tea aforsd, as we
Apprehend, was not doeing their Duety, but was Contrary to Law and we fear will
bring upon the Vengeance of an Affronted Majesty, and also plunge us in Debt and
Misery when ye Injured owners of sd. Tea shall make there Demand for ye Vallue
of ye Same."
There were two more similiar resolutions..
It goes on to state that they in this Town of Assonet.."do hereby declare
that we Abhor, Detest and for Ever bare out Testimony against the proceding of ye
Body and Indians aforsd. or any others have or shall act in ant Riotous
manner, it being so very Contrary to ye Spirit of our Laws and ye Liberty of the
People."
On week before the battles of Lexington and Concord...the Whig Towns of the
County mustered their forces and marched them two thousand strong upon the
"detested" village, dispersed the Tory Battalion and compelled its leaders to seek
safety in flight. (Village was Assonet)
It is truly too bad that the history of the Rebellion does not reflect more
credit on the Whigs of Bristol County..before the action took place in
Lexington and Concord.. they clearly were involved with the Rebellion before Boston
etc.
There is quite a bit more that I could write about concerning the strong
feelings between the Whigs and Tories...Is it any wonder why Greenfield would not
take exception to his brother George who was the Moderator at th Tory meeting?
Is it any wonder that the Chases who answered the Call came home and
changed their name to Chace....and to do so to recognize their allegiance to the new
Country?
Since I startd to write about our opinion as to why the Chase name became
Chace and the proliferation of the Chace name from about 1775... I have received
several e-mails still defendinfg the fact that Chase became Chace through
clerical error in Freetown..and these e-mails were less than sympathetic to my
explanation.. I have no doubt that somewhere clerical errors were made..just as
I have spent a lifetime convincing people that my name is spelled with two
"C's" ..however, just as Greenfield changed his name..all of his children...he
and Sarah had 11 eleven......so it was that his son James, for example, who
married his second cousin Phebe Chase, they had 17 seventeen.. children
Gilbert, Greenfield's brother had 8 eight children...A son of Gilbert, Allen
had 8 children..
Edward, Geenfields brother had 12 children... a son Edward had 9..another son
Philip had 9..Another son Walter had 5..and another son George had 11
James Chase a Tory....brother of Grenfield..born in Freetown in 1744 married
Betty Douglass in 1766...moved to New Brunswick had 12 children named
Chase.. His son James had 6.....his son Seth had 12.. his son Daniel had 5.. His
son James had 11...so here you have 46 Chases ..whose name did not change ..
As for the reason I started out to answer Barry Price from Vancover about
Hopey Chace marrying Thomas Chase/Chace
From the office of the City Clerk in Fall River, Mass.... Registered # 634
Date of death..December 9, 1871
Name..Hopey Terry Chace
Age 59 yrs 6 months
Cause of death Tphoid Fever
Residence.. South Main Street
Place of Death.. Fall River, Mass.
Place of Burial..Oak Grove Cemetery
Name of Father James
Mother Phebe
Date of Record..Dec 28, 1871
Reg. # 360 Date of Death June 24th, 1872
Name Thomas Chace
Age 62 yrs 5 months 27 days
Cause of Death ..Consumption
Residence Osborn St.
Place of death Fall River Mass
Place of Burial Oak Grove
Occupation..Mule Spinner
Place of Birth Dennis, Cape Cod
Name of Father Obed
Name of mother Sarah
Date of Record july 18th, 1872
I have copies of these if needed....
Children
Andrew 1840 1916
Hiram 1842 1907 married Annie Palmer
Amy
Hope
Phoebe married Thomas Wilkerson
Caroline married a Brownell
Other interesting facts:
On Greenfields grave
In Memory Of Mr. Greenfield Chace
OiBi March 29th 1810
AE'T 56 years
"Depart my friends,
Wipe you tears.
Here I ...lie..
Till the Christ appears"
Sarah's Grave
Sarah Chase
Wife of Greenfield
departed this life
April 3,1841
Note: Sarah did not change her name to Chace
Hopey and Thomas graves are marked "Mother and Father"
They are buried right next to my father and mother Frank and Alice Chace in
Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River..
Also there are Hopey and Thomas' sons Andrew and Hiram and others of the
Chace family
I have pictures of most graves from William 1 down to my parents...but not
all
From William Chase 1
2 Benjamin Chase b 1639 Roxbury Mass...................William Chase Jr
(Willy) 1627
3 Walter Chaseb Freetown 1684 ......................John Chase b.1649
Yarmouth
4 George Bedford Chase b 1719 Freetown ........... Thomas Chase b. 1679
Yarmouth
5 Greenfield Chace b 1754 Freetown .......... Joseph Chase b, 1718 Yarmouth
6 James Chace b 1786 Freetown ................. Joseph Jr. 1744 Yarmouth
7.....................................................................Obed b
1772 Yarmouth
8 Hopey Terry Chace b 1811 Freetown Thomas Chase/Chace 1808 Dennis
9 Hiram King Chace b1824 Freetown
10 Ellery Wyatt Chace b 1873 Fall River
11 Frank Clinton Chace b1905 Fall River
12 Frank Clinton Chace Jr b 1929 Fall River
13 Christopher Bruce Chace b1954 Fall River
14 Stephen Deane Chace b 1957
15. Stephen Deane Chace Jr, b.1986 San
Diego Calif
16. Alexander Chace b. 1988 Richmond Va
Would be glad to work out a way of getting pictures or birth/marriage
cetificates where needed..and help into DAR/SAR along my family lines.... can
provide detailed location of William 1 and the Chase boys grave marker through the
Civil War in West Harwich..Mass..including pictures and inscriptions on
monument...
I hope the information herein is helpful
Colonel Frank Clinton Chace Jr US Marine Corps (Ret)
my web site...click here.. http://web.infoave.net/~pgwar/stub.htm
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I read everthing that comes in concerning our Chase/Chace e-mail...however,
every once in a while ..something comes in that is real exciting to me..such
is the case in the e-mail from Barry Price..in Vancover..which reads in part..
"Looking for the children of the above couple..(Thomas/Hope Terry Chase).
They are the children of Obed and Phebe Hathaway Chase..and James and Phebe Chase
respectfully..Thanks for any help that you can give.."
Just a note...coming down the Thomas Chase/Chace side of the family..up until
Thomas married Hopey..he was in the Chase spelling ..going back to William
1..When he married Hopey Chace..he changed his name to spell Chace.. The same as
Hopey...This was frequently the case in the early 1800's.. Many of my records
show that Chaces born in Bristol County (Freetown, Assonet, Fall River,
Swansea, Somerset, Rehoboth etc..) who left the County and moved to the Cape
(Yarmouth, Dennis , West Harwich etc) changed their spelling to Chase for
convenience sake..since everyone was named Chase..likewise, those coming from the Cape
to Bristol County, changed their name to Chace..because there were very few
Chases..and almost everyone was named Chace. I can provide documentation in these
facts because it is stated in several early geneology books...concerning the
Chase/Chace history...legal proceedings were not required to make the
change..and for those of us who got into this geneolgy trail early ..it was very
confusing...In the cemetary behind Christ Church in Swansea..where I cut the grass
as a 14 yr old Sexton in the War Years of !943-45..Many of the graves will
have the fathers name as Chase..yet all the children names as Chace..There are
many cemetaries in Swansea..and it is very difficult to find grave markers with
the spelling of Chase. I have several early maps of Swansea circa 1850..and
there are no Chases recorded in any of the houses marked on the maps..
I would like to repeat what my son ( A Commodore in the US Navy) and I have
concluded about the Chase/Chace spelling of our names..
The book..."Some of the Descendents of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth,
Mass." It contains the names and families for 196 descendents of William
Chase. No where in the list of over a thousand names is the name of Chace to be
found.
Over the years, having grown up in Swansea and living close to Freetown and
my son being in the Navy and having spent several tours in Newport, RI
..between the two of us we have had the opprotunity to visit the graves sites of all
our ancestors going back to William 1..This is not so on the Thomas Chace side
of the family..although my nephew, John Chace ..the son of my
brother..Chaplain Colonel Alston Chace, USAF ..has found most of these graves.
I have taken pictures of almost all of these sites and what these pictures
show is as follows:
`George Bedford Chase (Walter3, Benjamin2 and William 1) had 16 that is
sixteen ..children.
He was born in Freetown in 1719 and died in Smithfield RI in 1784 . He
married in Freetown in 1741 to Mary Strange... daughter of Lot and Hannah (Hathaway)
Strange... (It is quite clear in my research , a most frequent marriages
during this time was Chases/Chaces ....to Hathaways
One of the children born to George and Mary was Greenfield Chase.. in
1754..He is my great,great,great great Grandfather....ie Frank Chace, my father.
Ellery Chace my grandfather, Hiram Chace, my great grandfather, Thomas
Chase/Chace, my great, great, grandfather, Capt James Chace, (Ship Captain) my great,
great, great grandfather, Greenfield Chase/Chace, my great, great, great ,great
grandfather.. It is this grandfather that my early Chace relatives selected
for our entry into the DAR and SAR. My Aunt Marion Chace used to apologizes to
me for the selection of Greenfield as our sponsor into the DAR and SAR. (
because there were others Chase/Chaces with a more exciting participation in the
Rebellion.) Just like his brothers who remained loyal to the Colonies and were
Whigs, Greenfield joined Capt's Benjamin Read's (Freetown Company) and Col.
John Hathaways Regmt. He enlisted Aug 2 1780 and was discharged Aug 7,
1780..service..6 days on alarm at Rhode Island (Taken from Full Context of
Massssachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion 17 Vols ..Vol 3
page 351
So it was that several other Chases answered the call to include, Gilbert
(brother), George, (brother), Edward, (brother), Bradley, Augustus, Darius,
Ebenezer.and Fairfax (son of Abiel Chase.)
Greenfield and his brothers are buried in the Hathaway Cemetery in
Assonet...and what is more important..the Chases who went into the Revolutionary War and
enlisted under the name of Chase..were buried as Chace,... Also included in
the Cemetery named "Chace" is Azel Chace...who is listed as being in the War of
the Rebellion. Also in the Rounsville Cemetery are Albert E Chace and Seth H
Chace.
My point is that almost all of the Chases in Freetown who enlisted under the
name of Chase...are buried under the name of Chace. My son and I believe this
was done to separate their name from that of other family members who
remained loyal to the Crown and were Tories.
Somewhere in my notes is a story of a Chase who was a Tory who was caught
hiding arms for the British and he was tared and feathered in Taunton, Mass.
Tories who went on trial May 31st 1777 were...George Chase and George Chase
Jr. Ammi Chase, is included in the list of Prisoners on board the gun ship
"Adams."
Just to point put the division between Tories and Whigs..from the History Of
Freetown..July 30th 1902..
"The war cloud of the Revolution was now gathering on the horizon and the
far-sighted of the colonist were preparing for a storm, a history of which comes
down to us largely by old tradition and the grandmother's tales of "Whigs and
Tories.".....people bitterly divided on the question at issue....In that part
of our town annexed to us from Tiverton in 1747 and still known a s New
freetown, a company of minutemen were training, under Captain Levi Rounsville and
making ready for the call that would be sounded in the "Lexington Alarm."
Southward the dozen households located along the plunging Quequechan were
watchful and brave, liberty men all. who, later in the conflict proved themselves
competent to defenf their own against the marines of England. But while the
southern and eastern portions of the town were preparing to contest the rule of
the mother country, the village of Assonet, under the master spirit of old
Colonel Gilbert, held loyal to the crown.....
Captain George Chase (son of George Bedford Chase) was the Moderator of a
meeting (Province of Ye Massachusetts Bay...Bristol ..January 1774.....Resolved
the following...
"1st That it is ye Duty of this Town at this time to Express our sentiments
in matters which so nearly Concern us more spedely, as there appears to be
Reason to fear there is a Spirit of Anarchy, Disorder and Confusion prevailing in
sum parts of the this Province."
2nd Resolved , That ye Body of People at Boston on ye 16th Day of December
last, taking upon themselves the Stile and Appelation of a Body of People who
did not Indeavor to prevent a number of people (in Indian Dress od Disguise)
from acting there Savage Nature in ye Destruction of ye Tea aforsd, as we
Apprehend, was not doeing their Duety, but was Contrary to Law and we fear will
bring upon the Vengeance of an Affronted Majesty, and also plunge us in Debt and
Misery when ye Injured owners of sd. Tea shall make there Demand for ye Vallue
of ye Same."
There were two more similiar resolutions..
It goes on to state that they in this Town of Assonet.."do hereby declare
that we Abhor, Detest and for Ever bare out Testimony against the proceding of ye
Body and Indians aforsd. or any others have or shall act in ant Riotous
manner, it being so very Contrary to ye Spirit of our Laws and ye Liberty of the
People."
On week before the battles of Lexington and Concord...the Whig Towns of the
County mustered their forces and marched them two thousand strong upon the
"detested" village, dispersed the Tory Battalion and compelled its leaders to seek
safety in flight. (Village was Assonet)
It is truly too bad that the history of the Rebellion does not reflect more
credit on the Whigs of Bristol County..before the action took place in
Lexington and Concord.. they clearly were involved with the Rebellion before Boston
etc.
There is quite a bit more that I could write about concerning the strong
feelings between the Whigs and Tories...Is it any wonder why Greenfield would not
take exception to his brother George who was the Moderator at th Tory meeting?
Is it any wonder that the Chases who answered the Call came home and
changed their name to Chace....and to do so to recognize their allegiance to the new
Country?
Since I startd to write about our opinion as to why the Chase name became
Chace and the proliferation of the Chace name from about 1775... I have received
several e-mails still defendinfg the fact that Chase became Chace through
clerical error in Freetown..and these e-mails were less than sympathetic to my
explanation.. I have no doubt that somewhere clerical errors were made..just as
I have spent a lifetime convincing people that my name is spelled with two
"C's" ..however, just as Greenfield changed his name..all of his children...he
and Sarah had 11 eleven......so it was that his son James, for example, who
married his second cousin Phebe Chase, they had 17 seventeen.. children
Gilbert, Greenfield's brother had 8 eight children...A son of Gilbert, Allen
had 8 children..
Edward, Geenfields brother had 12 children... a son Edward had 9..another son
Philip had 9..Another son Walter had 5..and another son George had 11
James Chase a Tory....brother of Grenfield..born in Freetown in 1744 married
Betty Douglass in 1766...moved to New Brunswick had 12 children named
Chase.. His son James had 6.....his son Seth had 12.. his son Daniel had 5.. His
son James had 11...so here you have 46 Chases ..whose name did not change ..
As for the reason I started out to answer Barry Price from Vancover about Hop
ey Chace marrying Thomas Chase/Chace
From the office of the City Clerk in Fall River, Mass.... Registered # 634
Date of death..December 9, 1871
Name..Hopey Terry Chace
Age 59 yrs 6 months
Cause of death Tphoid Fever
Residence.. South Main Street
Place of Death.. Fall River, Mass.
Place of Burial..Oak Grove Cemetery
Name of Father James
Mother Phebe
Date of Record..Dec 28, 1871
Reg. # 360 Date of Death June 24th, 1872
Name Thomas Chace
Age 62 yrs 5 months 27 days
Cause of Death ..Consumption
Residence Osborn St.
Place of death Fall River Mass
Place of Burial Oak Grove
Occupation..Mule Spinner
Place of Birth Dennis, Cape Cod
Name of Father Obed
Name of mother Sarah
Date of Record july 18th, 1872
I have copies of these if needed....
Children
Andrew 1840 1916
Hiram 1842 1907 married Annie Palmer
Amy
Hope
Phoebe married Thomas Wilkerson
Caroline married a Brownell
Other interesting facts:
On Greenfields grave
In Memory Of Mr. Greenfield Chace
OiBi March 29th 1810
AE'T 56 years
"Depart my friends,
Wipe you tears.
Here I ...lie..
Till the Christ appears"
Sarah's Grave
Sarah Chase
Wife of Greenfield
departed this life
April 3,1841
Note: Sarah did not change her name to Chace
Hopey and Thomas graves are marked "Mother and Father"
They are buried right next to my father and mother Frank and Alice Chace in
Oak Grove Cemetery, Fall River..
Also there are Hopey and Thomas' sons Andrew and Hiram and others of the
Chace family
I have pictures of most graves from William 1 down to my parents...but not
all
From William Chase 1
2 Benjamin Chase b 1639 Roxbury Mass...................William Chase Jr
(Willy) 1627
3 Walter Chaseb Freetown 1684 ......................John Chase b.1649
Yarmouth
4 George Bedford Chase b 1719 Freetown ........... Thomas Chase b. 1679
Yarmouth
5 Greenfield Chace b 1754 Freetown .......... Joseph Chase b, 1718 Yarmouth
6 James Chace b 1786 Freetown ................. Joseph Jr. 1744 Yarmouth
7.....................................................................Obed b
1772 Yarmouth
8 Hopey Terry Chace b 1811 Freetown Thomas Chase/Chace 1808 Dennis
9 Hiram King Chace b1824 Freetown
10 Ellery Wyatt Chace b 1873 Fall River
11 Frank Clinton Chace b1905 Fall River
12 Frank Clinton Chace Jr b 1929 Fall River
13 Christopher Bruce Chace b1954 Fall River
14 Stephen Deane Chace b 1957
15. Stephen Deane Chace Jr, b.1986 San
Diego Calif
16. Alexander Chace b. 1988 Richmond Va
Would be glad to work out a way of getting pictures or birth/marriage
cetificates where needed..and help into DAR/SAR along my family lines.... can
provide detailed location of William 1 and the Chase boys grave marker through the
Civil War in West Harwich..Mass..including pictures and inscriptions on
monument...
I hope the information herein is helpful
Colonel Frank Clinton Chace Jr US Marine Corps (Ret)
my web site...click here.. http://web.infoave.net/~pgwar/stub.htm
Does anyone know which George Chase was a Tory? Was it George Bedford born in 1753? Was he the one on board the "prison ship"?
Also I saw somewhere on the list that Capt James Chace was "quite a famous sea Captain". Can anyone tell me more about that? Which James was that? James P. Chace b 1744 or James Chace b. 1786? What did he do?
I have so many relatives that have the same name it gets confusing!
Many thanks to anyone who knows my answers!!
Ruth Chase Hill in Florida
Hey Dave,
I was just in Topeka at the Kansas Historical Society about a month ago
doing research. Enoch Chase must be your ancestor. If I remember
correctly, Enoch is a descendent of Aquila Chase. There was also another
very interesting Chase that I ran across while researching my own family.
His name was Dr. James S. Chase and he has a very interesting distinction
to his credit.
After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, his body was placed on a funeral
train that went through Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dr. Chase, who at the
time was one of the youngest soldiers in the Union Army, was detailed to
guard Lincoln's body while the train was depoted there that night. After
a funeral service the next day, Chase was again detailed to guard the
coffin until the train left Harrisburg.
James S. Chase was born 3 July 1848 in Meadeville, Pennsylvania. After
being mustered out of the Union Army at the age of 16, he eventually
removed to Lyons, Kansas, in 1879, where he practiced medicine. And in
1910 he moved to Topeka where he lived until he died in 1930.
Cheers,
Jeffrey Chace
http://www.chace.demon.nl
Chase sightings in the Jefferson County Genealogical Society's book,
"Tombstone Inscriptions, Jefferson County, KS, 1854-1986":
Chase, Charles Edward, 9 Jan 1845 - 24 Apr 1907, h/Mary A Worswick.
PLVW.
Chase, Edwin Delbart, 1 Jan 1911, 1 Aug 1925, s/Edwin & Edith Chase.
MCLH.
Chase, Effie May. see Silvis, Effie May . PLVW.
Silvis, Effie May, d 28 Jan 1955, age 85y, w/J C Silvis, PLVW.
Silvis, Mary E d 29 Dec 1886, age 3d, d/JC & EM Silvis, PLVW.
Silvis, John C, 1857-1930 PLVW.
(plus several more Silvis listings, all at PLVW, p 324.)
Chase, Ethel A, see Fickle [sic], Ethel A. MCLH.
Fickel , Ethel A (Chase), 15 May 1893 - 2 Aug 1879, d/Harry & Annentta
Larhard Chase, w Samuel B Fickel, MCLH.
Fickel, Samuel Berton, 23 Mar 1885- 15 Sep 1969, MCLH.
Chase, John W, 3 Apr 1809 - 11 Feb 1867. OPNR.
Chase, Mary Ann (Worswick), 6 Nov 1845 - 16 June 1918, w/Chas. E Chase,
PLVW.
Worswick, Mary Ann, see Chase, Mary Ann. (Lots of Worswicks listed.)
Chase, Nioma, d 19 Aug 1866, age 60y, w/ J W Chase. OPNR.
Chase, Sadie May, see Gamble, Sadie May. PLVW.
Gamble, Sadie May (Chase) d 3 Nov 1957, age 75y PLVW. Not clear from
Gamble listings if her husband is Ed Gamble 1843-1943 PLVW.
Gamble, Lillie, 24 Aug 1909-17 Jun 1955, d/Mr & Mrs Edward Gamble PLVW.
PLVW stands for Pleasantview Cemetery, Oskaloosa, KS;
MCLH is McLouth, KS cemetery;
OPNR is Old Pioneer cemetery (Grasshopper Falls KS).
No CHACE listings. I hope these folks belong to somebody. My aunt is a
Worswick, so we may have more info on any Worswick connections.
JT
From the Jefferson County Genealogical Society's book, "Marriage Licenses of
Record, Jefferson County, Kansas, 1855-1930":
Chase, Effie May, 17, Oskaloosa KS
Silvis, J C, 28, Oskaloosa KS
m 2/24/1886
Chase, Ella F, 20, Oskaloosa KS
Trapp, John, 27, Oskaloosa KS
m Dec 15 1897
Chase, Emma D (no age given), Jeff Co KS
Lyman, Frank (no age given), Jeff Co KS
m. May 14, 1866.
Chase, Ida F, 17, Jackson Co. Ks
Helm, John T, 23, Jeff Co Ks.
m March 12, 1868.
Chase, Sabra, 21, Jeff Co KS.
Merry, Charles H, 33, Jeff Co KS.
m July 14, 1879.
I didn't find anybody spelled CHACE, and no men named CHASE.
I hope these folks belong to somebody
JT
On page 158 of Elmer Leroy Craik's 1922 book "History of the Church of the
Brethren in Kansas," a section dealing with the Hutchinson, KS, congregation
says that it was officially its own church on December 31, 1916, and the
charter members included:
Ernest Chase
Sister Chase
Ethel Chase
May Chase
Ernest's wife, alas, is another of those anonymous females known only as
"Sister Chase."
JT
Found in the ministerial lists in Brethren Encyclopedia, p 1583, a pastoral
bio for:
Chase, Orville Earl (CB); 6-19-1905/4-6-1972; lic. 1958 at Granada
KS; Washington Creek, KS (part time p 1959-72); Appanoose IA
(part time p 1960-68) BHLA MIS.
First you have his name, affiliation (Church of the Brethren), birth & death
dates. Then the date and place of his licensing and his pastorates. The
last two citations BHLA and MIS I believe indicate national committee
memberships within the church.
Hello All,
Hoping to connect with any and all Chases/Crawfords/Cappers
from Kansas. GGGrandfather was a founding father of Topeka
and would love to share information.
Thanks for your time,
DaveChase
davechase(a)cavtel.net
Does anyone know who H M Chase, born in Nova Scotia, could be? He was
married to Margaret McKenzie; she was was born in Sackville, NB. They had a
daughter, Lulu Maud Chase, born in Albany, NH. Both Margaret and Lulu Maud
died in Conway, NH in early 1900s.
Conway NH Vital Statistics
Deaths 1900 - 1919
Last Name First Name DOD Place of Death Age Place of Birth M / F Fathers
Birth Mothers Birth Fathers Name Mothers Name
Chase Lulu Maud 11 Oct 1902 14 yrs 6 ms 12 ds ---- Female Albany Nova
Scotia H M Chase M McKenzie
Chase Margaret 24 Feb 1911 57 yrs 10 ms 10ds Sackville N B Female Scotland
Scotland K McKenzie -----------
http://www.conway.lib.nh.us/vitals/vitalstoc.htm
Linda