Abner CHASE

Abner married Elizabeth WHITTIER on 24 Nov 1721 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph WHITTIER and Mary PEASLEE) was born on 19 Sep 1695 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Excerpt from "Seven Gen. of the Descendants of Aguila and Thomas Chase": He was a wheelwright........ He was 16 when he took the oath of allegiance at Newbury in 1678. He was a snowshoe man in Capt. Hugh March's Co. about 1705, and was a soldier under command of Capt. Thomas Noyes, training in 1688....

Daniel married Martha KIMBALL on 25 Aug 1683 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Martha (daughter of Henry KIMBALL and Mary RIDDLESDALE) was born on 18 Aug 1664 in Wenham, Massachusetts; died before 27 Dec 1728. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will: 10 Dec 1670

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Excerpt from "A Merrill Memorial Vol. 1": Priscilla Chase was a daughter of Aquila Chase, who had come from Cornwall, England, and settled in Hampton, New Hampshire, about 1639. Aquila Chase possessed some skill as a mariner, and for this reason he ws induced by the inhabitants of Newbury, by a grant of land, to join the settlement at the mouth of the Merrimack in 1646. This grant was made "on condition that he do goe to sea and do service in the towne with a boate for four years." His service was probably confined to short coastwise and fishing cruises. Through ten of his eleven children, who grew up and married, Aquila Chase is ancestor of a very numerous family.

Aquila married Anne WHEELER. Anne (daughter of Lieut. John WHEELER and Agnes YEOMAN) was born in 1621 in Salisbury, England; died on 21 Apr 1687 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Richard Kimball and Ursula Scott

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Came to New England at the age of 15 on the 'Elizabeth' in 1634 with his parents and siblings, Richard 11, Mary 9, Martha 5, John 3, and Thomas 1, and possibly Elizabeth 13 who traveled with Thurston Rayner. Also on the ship were his uncle Henry Kimball and wife Susan. Settled at Watertown, removed to Ipswich about 1646 and ten years later to Wenham, Massachusetts.

Henry married Mary RIDDLESDALE before 1641. Mary was born in England; was christened on 29 Jan 1621/2 in Assington, Suffolk, England; died on 12 Aug 1672 in Wenham, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Edward and Mary Riddlesdale, and step-daughter of John Wyatt

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• Fact: Son of Richard Chase and Joan Bishop

Aquila married Martha Sarah JELLIMAN in 1606 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England. Martha was born on 10 Nov 1588 in Hundrich, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England; died on 15 Aug 1643 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John Jelliman and Margerie

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• Fact: Son of Dominick Wheeler and Mercy Jelly

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Lieut. John Wheeler was the son of Dominick and Mercy Wheeler. He was born in Salisbury, England on November 4, 1591. In St. Edmunds in Salisbury, Wiltshire Parish Registar it is recorded that John (Wheyler) Wheeler and Agnes Yeoman were married December 1, 1611. He brought his wife Agnes and six children in the Mary and John ship in 1634 and left four children in England. He was in which is now Ipswich for about a year and then relocated to Hampton, New Hampshire soon after the town was settled. He received land in Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1641.

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John married Agnes YEOMAN on 1 Dec 1611 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. Agnes was born in 1593 in Salibury, Wiltshire, England; died on 15 Aug 1662 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]