Sarah (Tufts) Chase (1725 - 1799)

Born 21 Apr 1725 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Josiah Chase — married 5 Apr 1743 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 23 Oct 1799 at age 74 in Kittery, York County, Maine, USA

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Biography

Sarah Tufts was born at Newbury, 21 Apr 1725, the daughter of The Rev. John Tufts and Sarah Bradstreet; ^{[1] [2] [3]} died at Kittery, Maine, 23 Oct 1799, ^[4] and was buried with her husband in the Chase Lot (Town of York Cemetery No. 56). ^[5] She was a descendant of Gov. Simon Bradstreet. ^[6] She married at Newbury, 5 Apr 1743, The Rev. Josiah Chase, ^{[7] [8]} born at Newbury, Massachusetts, 30 Nov 1713, the son of Dea. Thomas Chase and Sarah Stevens; ^{[9] [10] [11] [12]} drowned by missing his path and falling into Spruce Creek during a violent snow storm on his way home from attending a wedding, 26 Dec 1778; ^{[13] [14] [15]} and is buried in the Chase Lot; ^[16]

Biographical sketch of The Rev. Josiah Chase from Piscataqua Pioneers:^[17]

[The Rev. Josiah Chase] was the first ordained minister of the Middle Parish of Old Kittery, and was installed, 9 September 1750. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1738. He followed teaching for several years, and during the time he studied for the ministry, and preached as occasion opened for him to try his gifts in ministerial work, but he was not regularly admitted to the ministry until he came to Kittery; he remained there as minister for nearly forty years, an able, faithful and devout pastor and useful citizen of the town. He met with an untimely death, 26 December 1778, as he was on his way home from a wedding in the parish. During the wedding ceremonies, a blinding snow storm set in; the host urged him to stay the night, but he thought it better for him to go home. On the journey, he lost his way and fell into a creek, when near his home, and was drowned. His body was recovered the next day, or soon after, and the parish was in great distress over the loss of their beloved pastor.

Children, born at Kittery, Maine, except the eldest, born at Newbury: ^[18]

1. Bradstreet Chase, b. 19 Jan 1743/44
2. Josiah Chase, b. 15 Apr 1746
3. Thomas Chase, b. 14 Aug 1747
4. John Chase, b. 15 Jun 1749
5. Cotton Chase, b. 21 Feb 1750/51; d. in infancy
6. Simon Chase, b. 8 Jan 1754
7. Sally Chase, b. 31 May 1757; m. Stephen Carlisle of York; d. at Boston, 1850.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-ZSCS : 29 November 2018), Sarah Tufts, 21 Apr 1725; citing Birth, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009724.
2. ↑ The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, VOLUME I. - BIRTHS (Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, 1911, 564 pages), Vol. 1 (Births), p. 532. Cit. Date: 14 Mar 2021
3. ↑ Larkin T. Tufts and Edward C. Booth, Tufts Genealogy - Earlier Generations (The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.), Vol. 51, p. 303. Cit. Date: 14 Mar 2021
4. ↑ John Carroll Chase and George Walter Chamberlain, Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase (Derry, New Hampshire (Record Publishing Company, Haverhill, Mass.), 1928, 624 pages), p. 64. Cit. Date: 14 Mar 2021
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 13 March 2021), memorial page for Sarah Tufts Chase (unknown–23 Oct 1799), Find A Grave: Memorial #210500539, citing Chase Lot, York, York County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by aimme (contributor 47910557).
6. ↑ Chase and Chamberlain, op. cit., p. 64
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHLK-CVW : 10 November 2020), Josiah Chase, 5 Apr 1743; citing Marriage, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009725.
8. ↑ The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, VOLUME II. - MARRIAGES AND DEATHS (Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, 1911, 759 pages), p. 92. Cit. Date: 4 Mar 2021
9. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ9M-QBJ : 15 January 2020), Josiah Chase, 1713.
10. ↑ The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, VOLUME I. - BIRTHS (Newcomb & Gauss, Printers, Salem, Massachusetts, 1911, 564 pages), p. 92. Cit. Date: 16 Feb 2020
11. ↑ Chase and Chamberlain, op. cit., p. 47. Cit. Date: 11 Mar 2021.
12. ↑ George B. Chase, A 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 (H. W. Dutton & Son, Boston, Massachusetts, 1869, 19 pages), p. 15. Cit. Date: 12 Mar 2021.
13. ↑ "Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4Z2-HZR : 16 January 2020), Josiah Chase in entry for Josiah, Rev. Chase, 1778.
14. ↑ Chase and Chamberlain, op. cit., p. 64
15. ↑ Chase, loc. cit. Cit. Date: 12 Mar 2021.
16. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 13 March 2021), memorial page for Rev Josiah Chase (30 Nov 1713–26 Dec 1778), Find A Grave: Memorial #210500510, citing Chase Lot, York, York County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by aimme (contributor 47910557).
17. ↑ John Scales, editor, Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775 (Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, New Hampshire, 1919, 226 pages), pp. 56-57
18. ↑ Chase and Chamberlain, op. cit., p. 64