Wells Chase (1710 - 1785)

Born 4 Oct 1710 in Newbury, Essex, Mass.

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Currier — married 27 Feb 1773 in Amesbury, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 2 Dec 1785 at age 75 in Concord, Merrimac, New Hampshire

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Biography

"Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"

Name: Wells Chase. Gender: Male. Birth Date: 04 Oct 1710. Birthplace: NEWBURY, ESSEX, MASSACHUSETTS. Father's Name: Moses Chase. Mother's Name: Elisabeth. Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C50032-1. System Origin: Massachusetts-ODM. GS Film number: 823653.

"Wells CHASE, born on 1 Oct 1710. Married first Martha MORSE in Newbury on 6 Aug 1734. Martha MORSE was born in Newbury on 14 Feb 1708, the daughter of William MORSE and Sarah MERRILL. She died in Amesbury on 19 Oct 1771. Wells married second Mary CURRIER on 27 Feb 1773 in Amesbury. Wells CHASE died in Concord, N. H. on 2 Dec 1785."

"Well Chase was a Lieutenant in the Lexington Alarm, April 1775; First Lieutenant of Col James Frye's Massachusetts Regiment, May to December, 1775."

Revolutionary War Vet. "Served in Capt Matthias Hoyt's Company of Minute-men; service 9 days; Served in Capt John Currier's co., in Col James Frye's regt. in the list of officers dated May 26 1775; Listed in company's return Oct 1775. In list of men who received money from the public treasury for losses in the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill; amounts allowed in Council June 13, 1776."

"In 1775, after the battle of Lexington, Amesbury took immediate steps to raise volunteers for the common defense. Captain John Currier, of the East Parish, raised a company of fifty-four men, of whom about twenty belonged to the West Parish, and was in the engagement at Bunker Hill. In this company Wells Chase was lieutenant and Timothy Silver corporal, and both were wounded."

FRENCH WAR: A draft was made from the militia company in West Parish to recruit an army under the Earl of Loudon. Wells Chase served in Captain Enoch Bailey's Company, Newbury, MA in service on the Eastern Frontier at and near Norridgewock. Ticonderoga in 1758.

Sources

Birth: Vital Records of Newbury, Mass., p.97

Marriage: Vital Records of Newbury, Mass. p. 344

History of Merrimac - From the History of Essex County Compiled under the Supervision of William Hurd, 1888.

Chase, John Carroll, "Seven generations of the descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase". Derry, N.H. 1928. p.91.

General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars, 1899-1902: Constitution of ... By General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.), page 593.

History of Merrimac, History of Essex County, William Hurd.