Eleazer Chase (1722 - 1808)

Born 25 Jul 1722 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Elder) Chase — married 1748 in Falmouth, Cumberland, Maine

Husband of Mary (Bubier) Chase — married 1759 in Windham, Cumberland, Maine

Husband of Mary (Bubier) Landcaster — married 29 Jun 1759 in Falmouth, Maine

Descendants

Died 1808 at about age 85 in Buckfield, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Eleazer CHASE was born in Newbury, Massachusetts 25 July 1722 to Moses Chase, Jr. and Elizabeth Wells Chase.^[1], and christened on August 5, 1722^[2]

He married twice: first, in 1748, to Jeannette ELDER of Falmouth, Maine, daughter of Samuel ELDER^[3]; and second, in 1759, to Mrs. Mary Bubier BROWN 24 Jun 1759, widow of Ezra BROWN^[4].

Eleazer moved to York County, Maine about 1745 to aid in defending infant settlements along the river from Indian attacks. He appeared in a 1746 Compiled Census residing in Falmouth Maine. After his marriage to Jeannette/Jane Elder, the couple moved to New Marblehead/Windham, Maine and had 4 children:

1. Mary Chase
2. Isaac Chase
3. Nathaniel Chase
4. Joshua Chase^[5].

Jeannette Elder Chase died in Windham, Maine 24 June 1759. Eleazer married Ezra Brown's widow, Mary, shortly thereafter. They had children Betsy, Nathaniel (born 1761), Joseph and a child who died in infancy.

He fought in the Revolution as one of the state's first minutemen, & then moved to Buckfield in 1782 with his son, Nathaniel. Nathaniel had walked 40 miles in snowshoes in 1781 to what is Buckfield & built a log cabin on 12 acres of forest he had cleared. ^[6]

Eleazer Chase died in 1808 in Buckfield, Maine.

Burial: Buckfield Village Cemetery, Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine.^[7]

Eleazer Chase was born on 25 July 1722 in Newbury, Massachusetts^[8].

He married Jane Elder on 30 September 1748 in Falmouth, Maine^[9]. They settled in Windham, Maine, where they had four children^[10]:

1. Nathaniel, born 14 Jul 1750^[11]

2. Joshua, born 25 Feb 1752^[11]

3. Mary, born 10 Apr 1755

4. Isaac, born 12 Dec 1757

After Jane's death, he married Mary (Boobier) Brown, widow of Ezra Brown, on 29 Jun 1759 in Falmouth^[12]. They had one son^[10]:

1. Joseph, born ca. 1766

Eleazer and Mary relocated to Buckfield, Maine, after the birth of their son, and Eleazer passed away there in 1808^[13].

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ9Q-8HP : 4 December 2014), Eliazer Chase, 25 Jul 1722; citing NEWBURY,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 823,653.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZMY-ST5 : 4 December 2014), Chase, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 823,653.
3. ↑ "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F464-2PV : 4 December 2014), Eleazer Chase and Jane Elder, 30 Sep 1748; citing Falmouth, Maine, reference ; FHL microfilm 9,763.
4. ↑ "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F464-25S : 4 December 2014), Eleazer Chase and Mary Brown, 29 Jun 1759; citing Falmouth, Maine, reference ; FHL microfilm 9,763.
5. ↑ Familysearch shows several family trees with the same information
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRS-RPL : accessed 13 April 2017), Elazer Chase, Machias, Washington, Maine, United States; citing p. 627, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 8; FHL microfilm 218,678.
7. ↑ Findagrave Memorial #150148993 for Eleazer Chase 1722-1808
8. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ9Q-8HP : 10 February 2018), Eliazer Chase, 25 Jul 1722; citing NEWBURY,ESSEX,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm 823,653.
9. ↑ "Maine Marriages, 1771-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F464-2PV : 10 February 2018), Eleazer Chase and Jane Elder, 30 Sep 1748; citing Falmouth, Maine, reference ; FHL microfilm 9,763.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Dole, Samuel Thomas. Windham In The Past. Auburn, Maine: Merrill & Webber Company, 1916. Page 337.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, vol. 3 (Portland, Me.: S.M. Watson, 1886), page 284-285. [1]
12. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HV4-DJ5 : 17 October 2017), Eleazer Chase and Mary Brown, Marriage 29 Jun 1759; citing Division of Vital Statistics, State Board of Health, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,002,392.
13. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #150148993

See also:

Vital Records of Newbury, Mass. p.88, p.89

Maine, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1800-1890, 1846, Falmouth, York County, Maine.

Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937 for Jane Elder, Cumberland Maine and Eleazer Chase. Intention filed 30 September 1848.

Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937 for Mary Brown, Cumberland, Maine, and Eleazer Chase. Intention filed 29 June 1759.

Nathan Goold, Windham, Maine, in the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783.

"Windham in the Past," pages 213, 338.

Chase, John Carroll, "Seven generations of the descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase". Derry, N.H. 1928. p.56. p.93, 94.

McLellan, Hugh D. History of Gorham, ME., published online by Google Books; original publisher: Smith & Sale, Printers, Portland, Maine, 1902.

Webster, Hoyt. D. "The old families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, with some related families of adjoining towns and of York County, Maine Vol 2," Snow & Farnham, printers, 1897, page 648.

File created from Charles Morris Family Group Record; FamilySearch International Genealogical Index v5.0, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, Film number 537473, http://www.familysearch.org.