Aquila Chase

 

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Aquila Chase   see FAMILY TREE

Born: Bef. 7 Jan 1620 Woolverstone, Suffold, England

 

   
Married: Between 1644-1646 Hampton, MA

 

   
Died: Abt. 21 Dec 1670 Newbury, Essex, MA    

WIFE

Ann Wheeler

CHILDREN

1. Sarah Chase
    b. Abt. 1645
    m. 15 May 1666 Curmac Amis in Newbury
    d. 6 Jun 1726 Newbury, Essex, MA

2. Anne Chase
    b.  06 Jul 1647
    m. 17 Apr 1671 Thomas Barber in Newbury
    d. 1691 Suffield, Hartford, CT

3. Priscilla Chase
    b. 14 Mar 1647/48
    m. 10 Feb 1671 Abel Merrill in Newbury
    d. Aft. 1 Nov 1697 Newbury, Essex, MA

4. Mary Chase
    b. 03 Feb 1649/50
    m. 9 Mar 1669 John Stevens in Newbury
    d. 6 Apr 1725 Newbury, Essex, MA

5. Aquila Chase
    b. 26 Sep 1652
    m. Abt. Esther Bond in Newbury
    d. 29 Jul 1720 Newbury, Essex, MA

6. Thomas Chase
    b. 25 Jul 1654
    m. 22 Nov 1677 Rebecca Follansbee in Newbury
    m. 2 Aug 1714 Elizabeth Woodhead in Newbury
    d. 25 Feb 1734 Newbury, Essex, MA

7. John Chase
   
b. 02 Nov 1655
    m. 23 May 1677 Elizabeth Bingley in Newbury
    m. 21 Dec 1687 Lydia Challis in Newbury
    d. 26 Feb 1740 Newbury, Essex, MA

8. Elizabeth Chase
    b. 13 Sep 1657
    m. 27 Jun 1678 Zachariah Ayers in Newbury
    d. Aft. 21 Apr 1709 Andover, Essex, MA

9. Ruth Chase
    b. 18 Mar 1658-59
    d. 30 May 1676 Newbury, Essex, MA

10. Daniel Chase
    b. 16 Nov 1661
    m. 25 Aug 1683 Martha Kimball in Newbury
    d. 8 Feb 1707 Newbury, Essex, MA

11. Moses Chase
    b. 24 Dec 1663
    m.10 Nov 1684 Anne Follansbee in Newbury
    m. 13 Dec 1713 Sarah Jacobs
    d. 19 Sep 1743 Newbury, Essex, MA

Aquilla Chase
by Susan Brooke
Oct 2022

Aquilla Chase was born about 1618-1620. (1) He had a brother named Thomas Chase. (2)  The first record of Thomas and Aquila Chase in New England is the grant to them by the town of Hampton of house lots in June 1640. (3) In 1646 they moved to Newbury, Essex, MA with the condition he go to sea for four years.  He was probably, therefore, a mariner.
He married Ann Wheeler about 1644. (4)  He and his wife had 11 children in an 18 year period.  Aquilla Chase wrote his will on 10 Dec 1670 and it was proved on 10 Dec 1670. (5)
Anne Chase, the daughter of Aquilla Chase married Thomas Barber and was an ancestor of Elizabeth Zimmerly.  John Chase married as his 2nd wife Lydia Challis and was an ancestor of Joe White.    Joe White and Elizabeth Louise Zimmerly married and were 8th cousins, once removed.  (6)

Sources

(1) Aquilla Chase on Wikitree
 A deposition presented at the Quarterly Court held in Ipswich 25 Sept. 1666, mentions 'Acquilla Chas, aged about forty-eight years,'

(2) Aquilla Chase on Wikitree
Deed dated 11 May 1667

(3) Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase by John Carroll Chase, 1928

"Aquila Chase appears first at Hampton, N.H. --- The first town meeting of Hampton, of which there is a record, was held 31, 1639, and 24 Dec. of the same year land was allotted to fifteen grantees, the first grants being small house lots. In June 1640 other persons became grantees, among them being Aquila Chase and Thomas Chase.  -  In 1644 an additional grant was recorded of six acres of 'upland meadow and swamp,' which he sold to his 'brother Thomas' on his removal to Newbury.

In 1646 he was induced to remove to Newbury, as evidenced by the following extract from the Newbury records for that year.
 

  'Granted to Aquila Chase, Anno 1646, fower acres of land at the new towne for a house lott and six acres of upland for a planting lott, where it can be had, and six acres of marsh where it can be had, also on condition that he doe goe to sea and do service in the towne with a boate for four years.'  

The inducement to remove to Newbury would indicate that he was a mariner or fisherman and Joshua Coffin in his History of Newbury states that it is a Chase family tradition that Aquila was the first person to pilot a vessel across the bar at the mouth of the Merrimack river.

Before he removed to Newbury he was seen gathering pease on the first day of the week and at the Quarterly Court held at Ipswich, 29, Sept. 1646, he and his wife, and David Wheeler, his brother-in-law, all 'of Hampton,' were presented for gathering pease on the Sabath. - At the next session of the court held at Ipswich, 30 Mar 1646-47, they were presented again for the same offence and the constable reported that the summon had been sent to Hampton and that the parties were not there but 'were gone to Newbury.'  ----

(4)  The name of the wife of Aquilla Chase is established by her first name Anne in some deeds and in his will.  We know her last name was Wheeler from the will of her father, John Wheeler.

 (5)

The will of Aquila Chase was dated 10 Dec. 1670.

Witness by these presents that I, Aquilla Chase of Newbury in the Countye of Essex in New England being but weake in body, yett of sound and perfect memory, for divers causes and considderrations me therunto moveing, doe make this my last will and testament.  And doe dispose of my lands, goods, and chattells, as followeth:  First I bequeath my soule into the hands of my blessed Saviour & redeemer Jesus Christ in an asured hope of a resurrection, and my body be buryed when it shall please the Lord to call me hence.
to my well beloved wife Ann I give and bequeath, my house barne and orchard and all my lands both Eareable pasture and marsh meadow ground, lyeing and being ye bounds of the towne of Newbury aforesayd together with all my goods and chattels, both within dores and without.
All the sayd house and land before mentioned I give unto Ann my well beloved wife dureing the time of her widdowhood, paying unto my daughter Ann Chase five pounds, in corne or neate cattle, and five pounds more to pay, unto my daughter Prissilla Chase, to be payd within twelve months, after the day of their marriages.
Also I will that my wife give unto my sonn Thomas Chase at the age of one and twenty Tenn pounds in corne or neate cattle, provided the sayd Thomas doe abyde and serve with his  mother to the sd age. And if his mother and hee the sd Thomas see cause, that hee should serve for a trade with any other man soe that hee have ye benefitt of a trade, then his mother my well beloved wife, is to pay unto the sayd Thomas but six pounds in the like pay before mentioned. for the rest of my children my will and testament is, that Ann my wife shall give unto them all shee sees good acording to her abillitye, And at the end of her naturall life, I give and bequath all my house, housing & lands before mentioned unto Aquilla Chase my Eldest sonn, or if Ann my wife marry, my sonne is to possess all my houseing and lands, paying unto his mother three pounds per annum as long as she liveth or thre score pounds which shee pleaseth.  Furthermore my will is that aquilla my sonn shall pay to his brother John Chase the Summ of tenn pounds in corne or neate cattle  And tenn pounds more the sd Aquilla, is to pay unto his Brother Daniell in ye like pay viz. corne, or neate cattle.
furthermore my will is ye sonne-in-law Charles (Annis) shall have my boate loade of grass or sedge of the lower end of Penny Island as long as he liveth, and nobody to molest him till he hath a boateloade.  Furthermore my will is that my sonn, Aquilla pay unto his Brother Moses Chase Tenn pounds in corne & cattle.
Also my will is that Aquilla pay unto my daughter Sarah three pounds within two years after her mothers decease and to apy unto my daughter Mary Twenty shillings.
And further my will is that Aquilla my sonne pay unto his sister Elizabeth Chase foure pounds in the like pay.
Also my will is, that Aquilla pay foure pounds in the like paye to his sister Ruth.
All of which summs are to be payd in two yeares after the decrease of Ann my well beloved wife.  And I doe apoynt Ann my well beloved wife, to be sole executrix of this my last will and testament, & further & doe appoynt Ensigne Stephen Greenleafe and William Chandler to by the overseers of this my last will & testament.  Further my will is that Aquilla my sonne shall pay to his Brother Thomas Chase before mentioned the sum of tenn pounds in the like pay with the rest of my children and if any of my younger children be not of age within two years after the decease of my wife, then they are to stay for their portioned till they be of age.
In witness whereof I have heerunto sett my hand and seals this 10th day of December in ye yeare of our Lord 1670.

 

(6) Descendants of Aquilla Chase
                            
Anne Chase
Thomas Barber
Mary Barber
Thomas Elby Cade
Elisha W. Cade
Phebe Cade
Irena Harbaugh
J Earl Zimmerly
Elizabeth Louis Zimmerly
John Chase
Mary Challis Chase
Elizabeth Abigail Safford
Lucretia Patterson
Ben Shepard
Lewis Shepard
Grace Shepard
Joe White