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William Chase

Also Known As: "William Chase of Portsmouth Dartmouth Freetown & Swansea", "William Chace", "later married Priscilla Perry 12/6/1732"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Swansea, Plymouth Colony
Death: between 1733 and 1737 (87-92)
Portsmouth, Newport County, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Place of Burial: Swansea, Bristol County, MA, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of William Chase, Jr. and 1st wife of William Chase
Husband of Hannah Chase and Priscilla Chase
Father of William Chase; Nathaniel Chase; Isaac Chase; Ebenezer C Chase; James Chase and 3 others
Brother of Jacob Chase; John Chase, of Yarmouth; Abraham Chase and Elizabeth Baker
Half brother of Benjamin Chase; Joseph Chase and Samuel Chase

Managed by: Byron Leonard Spice
Last Updated:

About William Chase

William Chase (3rd)

  • Born: about 1645  Yarmouth, MA  
  • Parents: William Chase, 1st wife
  • Married: Hannah Sherman, Priscilla Perry
  • Died  between 1733 / 1737  Dartmouth, MA   [1]

William, of Portsmouth, Dartmouth, Freetown, and Swansea. [1]

Married

  1. Hannah Sherman b: 1647 Married: ABT 1678. Daughter of Philip Sherman & Sarah Odding
  2. Priscilla Perry Married: 6 DEC 1732 in Portsmouth, RI.

Children of William Chase & Hannah Sherman

  1. William Chase
  2. Nathaniel Chase b: ABT 1679 in Dartmouth, MA
  3. Isaac Chase b: ABT 1682 in Dartmouth, MA
  4. Eber Chase b: in Swansea, MA
  5. Joseph Chase b: in Swansea, MA
  6. Hezekiah Chase b: in Swansea, MA

Notes

  • He was probably born in Yarmouth, MA
  • He moved to Swansea around 1700 and was a member of the Society of Friends there.
  • He died between 1733 and 1737

Anderson, in his Great Migration series, provides no name for either wife, adding:

”All of the dates for the son [of Wm Sr] William Chase [Jr] are rough estimates and largely unsupported by contemporary evidence. This Wililam's apparent eldest child, another William, was married by the early 1672, and would therefore have been born about 1645, which roughly dates the first marriage of William Chase [jr], the son of the immigrant, and also suggests a year of birth for the son of the immigrant. In his article of 1933 John Carroll Chase stated that 'it has been claimed that the four youngest children of William Chase were born of his second wife,' but no evidence other than this is offered.[NEHGR 87:50]. The evidence for the list of children for this William is itself slim, and so all dates for this William are subject to alternation."[11]“

Sources:

  1. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 1995. Page: 337
  2. New England Historical & Genealogical Register. Page: 87:50
  3.  Some of the descendants of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth, Mass.  George Walter Chamberlain.  H.P. Chase, 1983
  4.  Ancestry.com. U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012. Original data: Torry, Clarence A. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.  Page 147

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Biography

Birth

: 1645: Yarmouth , Barnstable , Massachusetts<ref>Source: #S646 </ref><ref>Source: #S647 </ref><ref>Source: #S645</ref> : Note: While Yarmouth is currently in Barnstable County, the county did not exist at the time of his birth. "Yarmouth was organized and incorporated as part of the Plymouth Colony on September 3, 1639..." - (Yarmouth article on Wikipedia). "Barnstable County was formed as part of the Plymouth Colony on 2 June 1685..." - (Wikipedia: Barnstable County).

Marriage

: Date: ABT 1670 : Place: Portsmouth, RI : Husband: William Chase : Wife: Hannah Shearman : Child: Isaac Chase

: 21 SEP 1676: Portsmouth , Rhode Island<ref>Source: #S646 </ref><ref>Source: #S647 </ref><ref>Source: #S645</ref>

Death

: 21 SEP 1696: Portsmouth , Rhode Island<ref>Source: #S646 </ref><ref>Source: #S647 </ref><ref>Source: #S645</ref> Note: This reference may be a different William Chase: Birth and death dates align. Spouse Hannah Sherman aligns as well as a sibling John.Place of death does not align. There are several members of a Chase family buried in Dartmouth, MA including a William, spouse Hannah Sherman, parents and siblings: :http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=95065531

: Burial: :: Date: 1737:: Place: Swansea, Bristol Co., MA<ref>Source: #S15321 Data: Text: Date of Import: Oct 31, 2003</ref>

Notes

: Note H638[Elizabeth Chase.ged.FTW] : : REFN: 1466: Information on William and Hannah was given to me by Milly Faklis e-mai : mmousejuno.com* {{MLA citation |publisher = [s.n.] |publication-place = Washington, D.C |author = Chase, George Whitefield |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7169594M/Genealogy_of_a_portion_of_t... |title = Genealogy of a portion of the descendants of William Chase |year = 1886 | repository = Open Library}}* Crane, Ellery. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts (The Lewis Pub.co., New York, Chicago, 1907) Vol. 1, Page 86

Footnotes

  • Source: S1114149811 Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
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William Chase's Timeline

1645
August 16, 1645
Swansea, Plymouth Colony
1677
1677
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
1679
1679
Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
1680
1680
Yarmouth, Plymouth Colony
1682
January 21, 1682
Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Province of New York (presently Massachusetts)
1684
1684
Swansea, Plymouth Colony
1685
1685
Swansea, Massachusetts, United States
1687
1687
Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts
1688
1688
Swansea, Bristol County, Dominion of New England