Lydia Chase

GEDCOM Note

She is Lydia Coffin who married Joseph Chase (Memorial# 59000723). Death records show: Lydia [Chase], wid. Joseph, July 17, 1749, a. 52 y. 2 m. 11 d. G.R.1 Jos[eph] [Chase], May 1, 1749, a. 60 y. 2 m. 20 d. G.R.1 --- Vital Records of Edgartown, Massachusetts (1906), Deaths, p 208.

Birth records show: Provides Lydia's birth as 16 May 1697 --- Mayflower Sources, p 257. Joseph [Chase], h. Lydia (d. Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris), s. Lt. Isaac (Memorial# 8975408) and Mary Tilton (Memorial# 8975413), 26th, 2 mo. 1689, P.R.38. --- Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Vol 1 Pg 204.

Lydia was born on May 6, 1697 in Nantucket, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris Gayer. [1] She was the fourth child and third daughter born to Nathaniel and Damaris.

On July 26, 1714, Lydia married Joseph Chase in Nantucket. [2] The couple had ten children together: Abel, Mary, Damaris, Lydia, Priscilla, Rachel, Sarah, Benjamin, Joseph Jr., and Thomas. [3] According to Banks, Joseph was a hatter. He and Lydia lived out their lives in Edgartown. Joseph owned a lot on the harbor front in Edgartown, one of the "five and twenty" south of Main Street."[3]

Lydia passed away on July 17, 1749 in Edgartown and is buried alongside Joseph in the Tower Hill Cemetery in Edgartown. She was 52. [3][4]

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Lydia Chase formerly Coffin

Born 16 May 1697 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts

Daughter of Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris (Gayer) Coffin

Sister of Dorcas Coffin, Christian (Coffin) Edwards, William Coffin, Charles Coffin, Benjamin Coffin, Gayer Coffin, Nathaniel Coffin and Catherine Coffin

Wife of Joseph Chase Sr. — married 26 Jul 1714 in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay

Mother of Abel Chase and Lydia (Chase) Dunham

Died 17 Jul 1749 in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay

Profile last modified 23 Feb 2019 | Created 3 Apr 2011

Sources

↑ Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850. http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Nantucket/Nantucket/Images/NantucketV... ↑ Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850. http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Nantucket/Nantucket/Images/NantucketV... ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks: Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 71 - 80, http://history.vineyard.net/chase.htm#joseph26 ↑ Vital records of Edgartown, Massachusetts to the year 1850. http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Dukes/Edgartown/Images/Edgartown_D208...