Abigail (Thurston) Chase (1678 - abt. 1763)

Born 17 Mar 1678 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Chase Sr — married 8 Nov 1699 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died about 1763 at about age 84 in Littleton, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Abigail Thurston-Chase was the daughter of Daniel and Anne (Pell) Thurston and was born in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts on March 17, 1788,. She married Joseph Chase, born March 25, 1677, son of Aquila and Esther (Bond) Chase of Newbury, Essex County, and ancestor of Hon. Salmon P. Chase, former Secretary of the United States Treasury and Chief Justice of the United States. They moved to Littleton, Middlesex County about 1726, and it is thought they died there.

Sources

• Chase, George B., 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, Published by H. W. Dutton & Son, 1869, Pg. 12.

• Thurston, Brown, Thurston Genealogies, 1635-1892, Second Edition, published by Brown Thurston, Portland, Maine, 1892, Pg. 16.

• New England Marriages prior to 1700; page 147.

• Aquila Chase and his Descendants; Third Generation; page 46

• Littleton Town Records; Births and Deaths from 1715. From the records of

Samuel Smith in the Reuben Hoar Library. page 29

• Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001. Edmund West, comp..