Aquila Chase II (1652 - 1720)

Born 26 Sep 1652 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

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

Descendants

Died 29 Jul 1720 at age 67 in Newbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Aquila Chase, was born September 26, 1652 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, He was the son of Aquila Chase and Anna Wheeler Chase, ^[1]

Aquila was married in Newbury about 1673 to Esther Bond, daughter of John Bond and Esther Blakely Bond. Their children include:

1. Esther (Chase) Merrill
2. Joseph Chase Sr
3. Anne (Chase) Folsom
4. Rebecca (Chase) Savory
5. Priscilla (Chase) Hills
6. Hannah (Chase) Hoyt
7. Abigail (Chase) Robinson
8. Benjamin Chase
9. Jemima (Chase) Ordway

He and Esther lived in that part of Newbury that is now Newburyport, Aquila was active in local affairs and in the local militia,

Aquila Chase died in Newbury on July 29, 1729 in the 68th year of his life and was buried in the First Parish Burying Ground, in Newbury, Although he had written a will. he neglected to sign it, and was declared to be intestate, His estate was settled by agreement among his heirs.

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

1. ↑ 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
2. ↑ 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 (lcstuck added 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 (1936)
• Chase, John Carroll and Chamberlain, George Walter: "Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase"; Aquila Chase and his Descendants; Second Generation, page 35. New Hampshire, 1928,
• U S and International Marriage Records 1560-1900; Marriage in 1673,
• Essex County Massachusetts Depositions 1645-1687; Aquila deposed in 1678 that he was 26 years of age.
• Pope, Charles Henry: "Pioneers of Massachusetts; page 95 (Chase) - date of birth.* Savage, James; 'Genealogical Dictionaary of the Forst Settlers of New England"; Volume I, page 364 (Chase) - birth, marriage.