Mary Chase

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Mary (Briggs) Chase (1711 - 1786)

Mary Chase [uncertain] formerly Briggs aka Chace

Born 1 May 1711 in Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Daughter of Amos Briggs and Sarah (Paine) Briggs

Sister of Mercy (Briggs) Phillips, Sarah (Briggs) Clark, Hannah (Briggs) Winslow, Amos Briggs, Thomas Briggs, Abigail (Briggs) Chase, John Briggs, Nathaniel Briggs and Nathan Briggs

Wife of Benjamin Chase III — married 27 Sep 1730 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

Mother of Abiel Chace, Job Chase and Mary (Chase) Hathaway

Died 16 Mar 1786 in Berkley, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Mary Briggs, daughter of Amos Briggs and Sarah (Paine) Briggs, was born on 1 May 1711.[1]

She married Benjamin Chase (Chace).[1]

Mary died 16 March 1786[1]

Date: 16 Mar 1786 Berkley, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

Date: 16 Mar 1786 Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Biography by Robert M. Gerrity:[2]

MARY BRIGGS, (Sarah Pain, Ralph), was born in Freetown on 1 May 1711, and died on 16 March 1786. She married at Little Compton RI on 27 September 1730, BENJAMIN CHACE, son of Benjamin and Mercy (Simmons) Chace, who was born in Freetown on 28 March 1704, and died in Westerly RI. The family had resided there from about 1742. ["CFG-Briggs%E2%80%9D[3]; CB I 28[4]; Reg. 87:108[5]; VR Freetown.[6]] Deeds and probate in both Bristol County and Westerly RI need to be checked.

Children (CHACE) first four born in Freetown:

i. Abiel, b. 20 Jan. 1732. See also his wife, Ruth Baggs 1732-. ii. Thomas, b. 18 Oct. 1733. Ch. at Reg. 87:108.[5] iii. Job, b. 27 Jan. 1739. Ch. at Reg. 87:109[5] iv. Mary, b. 18 April 1741, m. 7 Aug. 1760, Job Hathaway. Line cont. in Hathaways of America.[7] v. Benjamin, Ch. at Reg. 87:110.[5] vi. Elizabeth, named in her grandfather Amos Briggs will.

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ebenezer W. Peirce. A brief Sketch of the Early Branch of the Pain Family, settled at Freetown, Bristol Co., MS. In The New England historical and genealogical register New England Historic Genealogical Society Vol. XV 1861. Published 1874. ↑ Gerrity, Robert M., Ralph Pain and Descendants: Four Generations (A Work in Progress) 1992. [Under revision by author, 2020-2022.] Personal copy in the files of DLG; and at the Old Colony Historical Society Library, Taunton MA. ↑ Old Colony Historical Society, Taunton, MA, LINK ↑ Hannibal, Edna Anne, and Claude W. Barlow. 1966. Clement Briggs of Plymouth Colony and his descendants, 1621-1965. 2 volumes. Library Search ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 The New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register. I - . Boston, 1798 - . https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_England_Historical_Genealo... ↑ Thomas, Helen Gurney. 1988. Vital records of the town of Freetown, Massachusetts, 1686 through 1890. Bowie, Md: Heritage Books. http://books.google.com/books?id=G4UlAQAAMAAJ. ↑ Elizabeth S. Versailles, Hathaways of America. Northampton MA, 1970; 2nd ed. 1980. Library Search Acknowledgments

WikiTree profile Briggs-1219 created through the import of TKFarrell & family.ged on Nov 24, 2011 by Lori Farrell. Thank you to Kay Martin for creating WikiTree profile Briggs-2211 through the import of Martin-Rowe Family Tree.ged on Oct 22, 2013.

GEDCOM Note

I am not sure who her mother is. I found another entry on that shows her born on an earlier date and it shows her name as Baggs with the parents John Baggs and Rebecca Paine. This needs to be looked into.