AMERICA THE GREAT MELTING POT

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FATHER

John Wheeler

MOTHER

Agnes or Ann Yeoman

HUSBANDS

Aquila Chase

Daniel Mussiloway

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

Ann Wheeler
by Susan Brooke
Oct 2022

Ann Wheeler was baptized on 13 May 1621 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.  Her father, John Wheeler, was listed a a barber. (1) She probably came to the Colonies with her father between 1635 and 1639 when she was a teenager.  Based on the birth of their first child, she probably married Aquilla Chase about 1644-1646. They were definitely married by 29 Sep 1646 in Hampton, MA as they were admonished in the town meeting there that they had been gathering peas on the Sabbath. (2) At the next town session once again Aquilla Chase and his wife and David Wheeler were accused of the same thing, but they had moved to Newbury, Essex, MA.  Ann and Aquilla had 11 children in an 18 year period and she gave birth to her last child when she was 42. Her father, John Wheeler, wrote his will on 28 Mar 1668 naming as his daughter, Ann Chase which verifies she was married to Aquilla Chase.  Her husband Aquilla died in 1670 when her youngest child was about 7 years old.   She married Daniel Mussiloway in Newbury, Essex, MA  two years later on 14 Jun 1672. (3)  Ann died 21 Apr 1687, named as Anne, wife of Daniel Mussiloway." (4)

  Sources

(1) FHL film1279311

as found on Ann Wheeler Wikitree

(2) 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.
 

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.'  ----

(3) Massachusetts town records, Newbury, Essex, MA

"Daniel Missilloway & Anne Chase, sen'r was marryed June 14, 1672"

(4) Massachusetts town records. Newbury, Essex, MA
"Anne the wife of Daniel Mussiloway dyed April 21, 1687"

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