Sgt. Aquila Chase

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chase-288

Aquila Chase, born Sep. 26, 1652, Newbury, MA and died Jul. 29, 1720, Newbury, MA. Buried First Parish Burying Ground , Newbury Old Town, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. He was the son of Aquila Chase & Ann Wheeler.

Family

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bond-451

Hester “Esther”, daughter of John Bond and Hester Blakely, was born in September 1655 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. The various sources have two different birth dates – September 3 [1] and September 25.[2] It is unknown which is correct, but the records are mostly in chronological order and Hester’s birth is listed after a birth of a child on September 13.

Esther was married in Newbury about 1673 to Aquila Chase II, son of Aquila Chase and Anna Wheeler Chase. No marriage record has been found.

Esther’s husband, Aquila, “…was a husbandman and inherited his father’s homestead on North Atkinson street in what is now Newburyport.” [3]

Children of Aquila and Esther, all born in Newbury:

• 1. Esther, b. 18 Nov. 1674, married Daniel Merrill. Jan. 15, 1674. [4]
• 2. Joseph, b. 25 March 1677, married Abigail Thurston. [4]
• 3. Anne, b. 4 June 1679, married Abraham Folsom. [4]
• 4. Priscilla, b. 15 Oct. 1681, married Joseph Hills. [4]
• 5. Jemima, b. ____, married Peter Ordway.
• 6. Hannah, b. about 1687, married Joseph Hoyt. (Estimated from age at time of death.)
• 7. Abigail, b. about 1690, married Joseph Robinson.
• 8. Benjamin, b. about 1691, married Sarah Bayley.
• 9. Rebecca, b. about 1694, married first Jonathan Moulton, second Robert Savory. (Estimated from age at time of death.)

After Aquila’s death in 1720, “Esther Chase, widow and Joseph Chase son of Aquila Chase of Newbury dec’d, were appointed administrators of the estate of Aquila……”[3] It is unknown exactly when Esther died, but on 8 July 1723 she signed (with an ‘X’) Aguila’s probate papers.

Brief Biography

• from http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=20886239

Sergeant Aquila was born in Newbury (now known as Newbury Port), Massachusetts, the son of Aquila Chase (Sr.) and Ann Wheeler. Sgt. Aquila and his six sisters and four brothers were of the first generation of Chase's to be born in the United States, as their father, Aquila Chase, Sr., and his Brother Thomas, who were born in England, are believed to be the first Chase's to immigrate to America, in about 1640.

Sgt. Aquila married Esther Bond (dau. of John Bond and Esther Blakeley) in 1673 in Newbury, where they raised nine children: Esther, b. 1674, Joseph, b. 1677, Anne, b. 1679, Priscilla, b. 1681, Rebecca, b. 1684, Jemina, b. about 1687, Hannah, b. 1689, Abigail, b. about 1690, and Benjamin, b. about 1692.

He was a farmer and inherited his father's homestead on North Atkinson St. in Newbury Port.

He was chosen to be a "fence viewer" (town official who administered fence laws and settled property line disputes) at the upper end of Newbury March 18, 1683/4 and took the oath of allegiance in 1678.

He was a member of the town committee Dec. 12, 1702, and a soldier under the command of Capt. Thomas Noyes in 1688. Later he was sergeant of that company. He also owned many acres of salt marsh by the Plum Island River which was known as "Chase Island".

Sgt. Aquila Chase died 29 July, 1729, in Newbury, MA.

(Source: Seven Generations The Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase)

Headstone reads:

• HERE LYES BURIED
• THE BODY OF MR
• AQUILA CHAS WHO
• DIED JULY THE 29
• 1720 & IN THE
• 68 YEAR OF HIS AGE

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• Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via father Aquila Chase by SmartCopy: Aug 1 2015, 11:11:39 UTC

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• Updated from WikiTree Genealogy via father Aquila Chase by SmartCopy: Aug 1 2015, 11:13:05 UTC

Aquilla CHASE Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 Vital Records (incl. Bible, Cemetery, Church and SSDI) Birth 1652. Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Volume: Newbury - V1, Page(s): 87 Aquilla, s. Aquilla, Sept. 26, 1652. [Sept. 27. S. dup.]

• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Jan 15 2018, 21:31:28 UTC

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Sgt. Aquila Chase

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Chase-288

Sergeant Aquila Chase II [uncertain]

Born 26 Sep 1652 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Son of Aquila Chase and Anne (Wheeler) Chase

Brother of Sarah (Chase) Annis, Anne (Chase) Barber, Priscilla (Chase) Merrill, Mary (Chase) Stevens, Thomas Chase Sr, James Chase, John Chase, Elizabeth (Chase) Ayer, Ruth Chase, Daniel Chase [half] and Moses Chase Sr

Husband of Esther (Bond) Chase — married about 1673 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Father of Anne Chase, Benjamin Chase, Jemima Chase, Esther (Chase) Merrill, Joseph Chase Sr, Anna (Chase) Folsom, Priscilla (Chase) Hills, Hannah (Chase) Hoyt, Abigail (Chase) Robinson and Rebecca (Chase) Moulton Died 29 Jul 1720 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 9 May 2019 | Created 3 Jan 2011 | Last significant change: 9 May 2019

12:31: Esmé (Pieterse) van der Westhuizen edited the Prefix for Aquila Chase II (1652-1720). (Minor Data Base error corrected) [Thank Esmé for this]

Biography

Aquila5 Chase, of Newbury, a Sergeant in the Essex Regiment, was born September 26, 1652, and died July 29, 1720. He married Esther, daughter of John Bond of Newbury (Chase - p11)[1] Birth

Date: 26 SEP 1652 Place: Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Source: #S320 Page: Volume 1, Page 87 Death

Date: 29 JUL 1720 Place: Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Source: #S320 Page: Volume 2, Page 560 Military Service

Essex Regiment Title: Sergeant[2] Sources

↑ George B Chase, Genealogical Memoir of the Chase Family of Chesham, Bucks, in England, and of Hampton and Newbury in New England, with Notices of Some of Their Descendants, Boston: H. W. Dutton & Son (1869), p 11 ↑ Chase, p 11 See also:

Connie Lull Frey and Carmen W. Missildine, Ancestors and Descendants of Timothy Seymour Lull, Chase Family and our connection to Salmon P. Chase" Salmon Portland Chase (1808-1873) was a member of Abraham Lincoln's "Team of Rivals". He was an overly ambitious, pompous and self-serving man who usually chose to further his own aspirations for fame over serving Lincoln (see Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, Team of Rivals ). He served as Lincoln's Sec of Treasury during the Civil War. Lincoln later named him to the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I had a hunch that the Chase members of our family tree might be related to Salmon Chase and, indeed they were. Salmon's father, Ithamar (1762-1817) is the son of Dudley (1730-1814) who is the son of Samuel (1707-1800) who is the son of Moses (1663-1743). Moses is the brother of our Thomas Chase. Thomas and Moses were the sons of Aquila Chase of Chesham, England [origins not yet proven]. Aquila is the first member of the Chase family to emigrate from England to New England in 1640. Cutter, Historic Homes of New England Aquila Chase in Hampton New Hampshire (lcstuckadded this on 19 Feb 2008) Gary Boyd Roberts, Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston, MA: NEHGS 2009 NEHGR, John Carroll Chase, Robert Lincoln O'Brien, Vol. 90:214 (