Colonel Josiah Chase, Jr.

• Daughters of American Revolution Ancestor #: A021162
• Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank: LIEUTENANT
• Birth: 4-16-1746 KITTERY YORK CO ME DIST MASSACHUSETTS
• Death: 9-21-1824 YORK YORK CO MAINE
• Service Source: MA SOLS & SAILS, VOL 3, P 359
• Service Description: 1) ALSO QUARTERMASTER; CAPT DANIEL CLARK, COL JOSEPH PRIME, 2) GEN PELEG WADSWORTH

 Josiah's second son, also named Josiah (1746-1824), distinguished himself in a different way: he joined the Revolutionary Army in 1780 and rose to the rank of colonel. In his seven and a half months of service, he was a quartermaster and paymaster. The decision to volunteer entailed considerable sacrifice; his brother Simon had been killed in the war in 1776, and Josiah already had a family. He had married Hannah Grow in 1765, and when he entered the army they already had six children, the oldest of whom was ten. Eventually they had twelve children. The family lived in York, Maine, where Josiah was a clothier

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