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Isaac was born in Swansea, Mass. circa 1708. His parentage is uncertain; see the research notes below. Some show him as the son of Isaac & Mary (Monroe) Chase. Detached him from Isaac Chase as father due to research notes.
He married Mary Easterbrook, daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth (Thurber) Easterbrook, on 24 Jan 1732/3 at Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts. They were the parents of Rachel, Naomi, Benjamin, Isaac, Rufus, Russell, James, Mary, Elizabeth & Sarah Chase.
He married Mary Estabrook in 1733 at Swansea.[1] Although they seemingly removed to nearby Bristol as early as 1749 (see the land record below — Bristol had been ceded to Rhode Island in 1747), they recorded all of their children at Swansea. Perhaps they maintained the connection with the church after moving.
Children, all but the final twins recorded at Swansea:
The final pair is given by Chamberlain.[2], but is supported by the 1774 Rhode Island census, which shows two girls under age 16 in Isaac Chase's household at Bristol.
Isaac was a whaling ship captain. During the Revolutionary War, he was at his home in Swansea when the British burned the town. He took his family and moved to Providence, Rhode Island, after that. [1]
He passed away in 1796. [3]
24 Jarnuary 1748/9 — Isaac Chase of Swanzey, yeoman, purchased 14 acres 54 rods of land at Bristol from Ephraim and Ruth Cole of Swanzey.[4]
19 July 1773 — Isaac Chase and Mary his wife of Bristol, Rachel Remington of Prudence in Newport County, widow, and Sarah Lewin of Warren, widow, sold the lands set off to them after the deceased of their mother Elizabeth Child when her dower portion was divided.[5]
12 March 1778 — Isaac Chase of Bristol, yeoman, and Mary his wife sold the land purchased in 1749, i.e. 14 acres 54 rods of land and a dwelling house, at Bristol to their neighbor Nathan Munro.[6]
There were six Isaac Chases born within 35 years in early southeastern Mass. Four of them had wives named Mary. Three of the Isaacs lived in Swansea at about the same time. So be careful when adding or unlinking children. Most early Chases born on Nantucket or Martha's Vinyard were probably descendants of Thomas Chase of Hampton, NH.
There were THREE Isaac Chases in Swansea. This Isaac was not the Isaac who was born in 1710 and was not the one who died in Cumberland, Rhode Island.
Some of the records for Swansea were listed as being in Rhode Island and some in Massachusetts. In 1747, parts of Bristol Co. Mass were transferred to RI. Part of the town of Swansea was transferred to the new Bristol County, RI. Some of the town records were indexed as being from Rhode Island even though they were in the part of Swansea that remained in Mass. Probably the majority of the records indexed as from Swansea in RI abstracted records were probably records from Mass. This Isaac lived for a while in Bristol Co. RI. Hence the same records for his family that look like they were both in Mass and RI.
Parentage Some ascribe to Isaac the record of the son born to Isaac and Elizabeth at Swansea.[7] They did have a son Isaac in 1710. But he is very unlikely to be the man who married Mary Eastabrooks, because (1) Isaac and Elizabeth were Quakers, and (2) there is a contemporary marriage record for a different Isaac, and the record names him the son of Isaac. Isaac son of Isaac married Amey Anthony in 1729, given in the Quaker records. The year 1729 is quite early for a marriage of a man born in 1710, and wife Amy was actually born in 1708. But it is not so unlikely as to be dismissed, and with the naming of his father Isaac along with it being a Quaker record, there can be no doubt he was the child recorded in 1710 to Quaker parents Isaac and .Elizabeth.
Isaac and Amy were having children with her through the late 1740s, so he could not have been the Isaac who married Mary Eastabrooke in 1733. Chamberlain makes the above placement of Isaac recorded in 1710. He assigns Isaac who married Mary Easterbrooks to the parents Jacob and Mary Chase. Jacob died at Swansea in 1734, at which time his eldest son Isaac was still alive and made a division of the land left to him and his mother.[8]
Census
Isaac appears as head of household in Bristol in the 1774 Census of Rhode Island.[9] His household distribution and inferred attributions are
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Categories: Swansea, Massachusetts | 1774 Census of Rhode Island, Bristol
Isaac b 1710 is the son of Isaac Chase b1681 and Elizabeth Blethen.
Isaac b 1708 is the son of Isaac Chase b 1675 and Mary Munro.
They would be cousins, descended from immigrants William Chase and Elizabeth Holder, if my tree is correct.
https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/stream/namespaces/1093/media/a7f30e6e-b60c-4bd6-a138-80dbc473eb56.pdf?client=Trees&filename=Descendants%20of%20William%20Chase
edited by Mari (Bledsoe) Houghton
Rachel Chase b: 1 Sep 1735 in Swansea, Bristol county, Massachusetts Naomi Chase b: 1736 Benjamin Chase b: 18 Oct 1739 Isaac Chase b: Mar 1743 Rufus Chase b: 29 Sep 1746 in Swansea, Bristol county, Massachusetts Has No Children Russell Chase b: 30 Jun 1749 James Chase b: 30 Oct 1751 in Warren, Bristol county, Rhode Island Mary Chase b: 6 Apr 1754 Elizabeth Chase b: 11 Jul 1759 Sarah Chase b: 11 Jul 1759