Chase family

Chase family
Ethnicity English
Current region New England, New York, Midwestern United States, California, New Zealand
Place of origin Massachusetts and New Hampshire, originally England
Traditions Congregational churches, Episcopal Church, Presbyterianism

The Chase family is an American family whose members included early American pioneers and those involved in politics, the clergy, business and the military. Originating in Chesham, England, brothers Aquila Chase II and Thomas Chase journeyed to New England in 1636. Most of the notable members of the family were descendants of Aquila Chase, whose children settled in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, members of the Chase family, who had previously been wealthy but not particularly influential, began involving themselves in law, politics, and religion. Lawyers such as Scott Lord (whose mother was a Chase) and Salmon Portland Chase, Chief Justice of the United States, were produced. Chase politicians included Dudley Chase, Champion S. Chase, Dudley Chase Denison, and Margaret Chase Smith. Though the Chase politicians were perhaps best known, the family produced several notable clergymen as well, including Episcopal bishop and educator Philander Chase and the Presbyterian theologian John Chase Lord, who were at the forefronts of their respective churches in their prime.

Older version of the Chase family coat of arms with the family motto in Latin. The English translation being "YIELD NOT TO MISFORTUNES".
The seventeenth century John Chase house in West Newbury Massachusetts is the oldest known Chase family home in North America.

Ancestors

In England

Richard Chase, of Chesham, England (1542) (m. Joan Bishop 16 April 1564)

  • Robert Chase, of Chesham (baptized 2 September 1565)
  • Henry Chase, of Chesham (10 August 1567)
  • Lydia Chase, of Chesham (4 October 1573)
  • Ezekiel Chase, of Chesham (baptized 23 April 1576)
  • Dorcas Chase, of Chesham (2 March 1578)
  • Aquila Chase I (14 August 1580) (m. Martha Jelliman)
    • Aquila Chase II (9 April 1618 – 27 December 1670)
    • Anne Chase
    • Martha Chase
    • William Chase
    • Sara Chase
    • Elizabeth Chase
    • Joane Chase
    • Thomas Chase
  • Jason Chase, of Chesham (13 January 1583)
  • Thomas Chase (18 July 1585)
  • Abigail Chase, of Chesham (12 January 1588)
  • Mordecai Chase (31 July 1591)

Indicated in bold are Aquila Chase II and Thomas Chase, who left England to settle in New England in 1636.

$10,000 Gold Certificate, Series 1934, depicting Salmon P. Chase, with signatures of W.A. Julian, Treasurer of the United States, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury.

Aquila Chase II line

  • Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts (9 April 1618 – 27 December 1670) (m. Anne Wheeler)
    • Sarah Chase
    • Anne Chase (6 July 1647)
    • Priscilla Chase (14 March 1649)
    • Mary Chase (3 February 1651)
    • Aquila Chase III, of Newbury, Massachusetts (26 September 1652 – 29 July 1720) (m. Esther Bond)
    • Thomas Chase, of Newbury, Massachusetts (25 July 1654)
    • John Chase (2 November 1655)
    • Elizabeth Chase (13 September 1657)
    • Ruth Chase (18 March 1660)
    • Daniel Chase (9 December 1661)
    • Ensign Moses Chase (24 December 1663)

Of these 11 children, the descendants of the three in bold will be delved into with detail.

Salmon P. Chase photo by Mathew Brady
The Stephen Chase house is preserved as part of the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Aquila Chase III line

  • Aquila Chase III, of Newbury, Massachusetts (26 September 1652 – 29 July 1720) (m. Esther Bond)
    • Esther Chase (15 January 1674)
    • Joseph Chase, of Littleton, Massachusetts (25 March 1677) (m. Abigail Thurston 8 November 1699)
      • Nathan Chase (2 August 1701)
      • George Chase (17 February 1703)
      • Rev. Stephen Chase, of New Castle, New Hampshire (26 October 1705 – 1 January 1778) (m. Jane Wingate 1732)
        • Rhode Island Governor William Sprague IV and his wife, Katherine Chase.
          Abraham Chase (25 March 1734 – 25 March 1734)
        • Stephen Chase (22 February 1735 – 1 December 1739)
        • Joshua Chase (March 1738)
        • Jane (Chase) Wallace (7 January 1740) (m. Samuel Wallace)[1]
          • Joseph Chase Wallace
        • Bishop Philander Chase of the Episcopal Church.
          Stephen Chase, of Strawbery Banke (now Portsmouth, New Hampshire) (22 June 1742) (m. Mary Frost, granddaughter of Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet)
          • Joseph Chase (22 April 1772) (m. Margaret Chesley)
          • William Chase (10 February 1774 – 30 August 1834) (m. Sarah Blunt)
          • Mary (Chase) Toppan (15 November 1776) (m. Edmund Toppan, Esq.)
          • Harriet (Chase) Crosby (14 August 1778) (m. Oliver Crosby, Esq.)
          • Sarah (Chase) Woodman (23 October 1780) (m. J. H. Woodman, Esq.)
          • Theodore Chase, of Boston, Massachusetts (16 March 1786 – 13 March 1859) (m. Clarissa (Bigclow) Andrews 26 April 1831)
            • Theodore Chase (4 February 1832) (m. Alice Bowdoin 17 November 1868)
            • George Bigelow Chase, of Boston (1 October 1836) (m. Anne Lowndes, granddaughter of Rawlins Lowndes)
              • Stephen Chase (30 January 1863)
              • Gertrude Lowndes Chase (23 October 1868)
            • Charles Henry Chase (5 March 1841 – 27 February 1849)
        • Mary Chase (19 October 1744)
        • John Wingate Chase (14 August 1749)
      • Anne Chase (11 February 1707)
      • Abigail Chase (27 March 1709)
      • Hannah Chase (25 February 1711)
      • Rebecca Chase (16 November 1714)
      • Benjamin Chase (21 June 1717)
      • Joseph Chase (8 December 1719)
    • Priscilla Chase (15 October 1681)
    • Jemima Chase
    • Rebecca Chase
    • Anne Chase
    • Hannah Chase
    • Abigail Chase
    • Benjamin Chase
US Representative Dudley Chase Denison.
US Representative Dudley Chase Haskell.
Thornton Chase
Warren Chase
Major General Levi R. Chase
Margaret Chase Smith
Meghan Markle is descended from Aquila Chase II of Newbury, Massachusetts


Thomas Chase, son of Aquila Chase II line

  • Thomas Chase, Sr., of Newbury, Massachusetts, N (m. Rebecca Follansby)
    • Deacon Thomas Chase, Jr., of Newbury, Massachusetts (September 15, 1680) (m. Sarah Stevens)
      • Thomas Chase III
      • Abel Chase
      • Jonathan Chase
      • Roger Chase
      • Sarah Chase
      • Ezekiel Chase
      • Rev. Josiah Chase, Sr., of Kittery, Maine (30 November 1713 – 17 December 1778; drowned in Spruce Creek) (m. Sarah Tufts 5 April 1743)[2][3]
        • Bradstreet Chase (19 January 1744 – 1834) (m. Mary _____)[4]
        • Col. Josiah Chase, Jr., of York, Maine (15 April 1746 – 21 September 1824) (m. Hannah Grow)[5]
          • Cotton Chase
          • Josiah Chase III
          • Edward Chase
          • Olive (Chase) Messinger
          • William Chase
          • Hannah Chase
          • Rufus Chase
          • Hadassah (Chase) Webber
          • Sophia Chase
          • Jotham Sewall Chase
          • Lydia Chase
        • Sgt. Cotton Chase
        • Simon Chase
        • Sally (Chase) Carlisle
      • Abigail Chase
      • Martha Chase

Moses Chase line

A large majority of the Chase family in the United States and an overwhelming majority of the notable Chases come from the line of Moses Chase.[6]

  • Ensign Moses Chase, Sr., of West Newbury, Massachusetts (24 December 1663) (m. Anne Follansby; m. Sarah Jacobs 13 December 1713)
    • Moses Chase, Jr. (20 September 1685–died young)
    • Daniel Chase, Sr., of Sutton, Massachusetts (20 September 1685 – 28 May 1769) (m. Sarah March 6 January 1706)
      • Samuel Chase, of Cornish, New Hampshire (28 September 1707 – 12 August 1800) (m. Mary Dudley)
        • Samuel Chase II
        • Gen. Jonathan Chase, of Cornish, New Hampshire (6 December 1732 – 12 January 1800) (m. Thankful Sherman 28 November 1759; m. Sarah Hall)
          • Jonathan Chase II, of Cornish, New Hampshire (m. Jeanette Ralston)
          • Lebbeus Chase
            • Dudley Tappan Chase (2 April 1823)
        • Dudley Chase, Esq. (1730–13 April 1814) (m. Alice Corbet 23 August 1753)
        • March Chase
        • Sarah Chase
        • Elizabeth Chase
        • Solomon Chase
        • Anne Chase
        • Mary Chase
      • Daniel Chase, Jr. (18 September 1709)
      • Anne (Chase) Putnam
      • Joshua Chase
      • Judith (Chase) Hall
      • Nehemiah Chase
      • Sarah Chase
      • Caleb Chase
      • Moody Chase
      • Clement Chase (1776–1867) (m. Olivia Spalding)
      • Moses Chase, of Cornish, New Hampshire (3 March 1726 – 18 October 1799)[8]
    • Moses Chase II (20 January 1688) (m. Elizabeth Wells)
      • Moses Chase III (1 July 1713 – 9 October 1789) (m. Judith Bartlett)
        • Wells Chase
        • Enoch Chase
        • Moses Chase IV
    • Samuel Chase, of Newbury, Massachusetts (13 May 1690 - 24 July 1743)
    • Elizabeth (Chase) Carr (25 September 1693)
    • Stephen Chase (29 August 1696)
    • Hannah (Chase) Jackman (13 September 1699)
    • Joseph Chase (9 September 1703)
    • Benoni Chase (5 April 1708)

Thomas Chase line

  • Thomas Chase, of Hampton, New Hampshire (d. 1653) (m. Elizabeth Philbrick)
    • Joseph Chase, of Hampton (1645–12 January 1718) (m. Rachel Partridge 31 December 1671)
    • Isaac, of Edgartown, Massachusetts (1647–9 May 1727) (m. Mary Perkins)
    • Thomas Chase, of Hampton (1648–28 October 1714) (unmarried)
    • James Chase (1649) (m. Elizabeth Greene 2 September 1675)
    • Abraham Chase (6 August 1652 – 1676, "slain in ye warres"[2])

Other notable members and descendants

  • Thornton Chase, was a distinguished officer of the United States Colored Troops during the American Civil War, and the first western convert to the Bahá'í Faith. He was descended from Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
  • Reuben Chase,was an officer in the Continental Navy and served during John Paul Jones' daring raid into British waters. Reuben Chase was descended from Thomas Chase, of Hampton, New Hampshire.
  • Warren Chase was an American pioneer, reformer, and politician. He was descended from Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
  • Levi R. Chase was an American fighter pilot and double flying ace during World War II. He was descended from Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
  • Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator from Maine, was descended from Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts.[9]
  • Chester A. Arthur, was an American attorney and politician who served as the 21st President of the United States from 1881 to 1885. He was descended from Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
  • Gerald Ford, was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.. He was descended from Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
  • Meghan Markle, is an American-born member of the British royal family and a former film and television actress. She is descended from Aquila Chase II, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
  1. ↑ "Jane Chase, wife of Samuel Wallis of New Castle, N.H." The Slovak Yankee. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  2. 1 2 Chase, George Bigelow (1869-01-01). 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.
  3. ↑ "Rev. Josiah Chase". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  4. ↑ "Bradstreet Chase". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  5. ↑ "Josiah Chase, Jr., Col". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
  6. ↑ Cutter, William Richard (1912-01-01). Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation. Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
  7. ↑ "Dudley Chase Denison 1819-1906 - Ancestry". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  8. ↑ "Moses Chase | WikiTree: The FREE Family Tree". www.wikitree.com. Retrieved 2015-12-25.
  9. ↑ Wallace, Patricia Ward (1995). Politics of Conscience: A Biography of Margaret Chase Smith. Praegar Publishers.
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