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(III) John, eldest son and third child of Deacon Nicholas and Mary (Cutting) Noyes, was born in Newbury, January 20, 1645. He was made a freeman January 9, 1674. He was a house carpenter, and lived in what was afterward known as the "farms district." There he built a substantial house in a style unusual for a farm house in those early days. The front hall is wainscoted, and a handsome stair- case, with elaborately carved balusters, then fashion- able for first-class mansions, leads to the second story. The kitchen fireplace was huge even for that period, and an ox could have been roasted whole in its capacious recess. This house, built in 1677, was owned by Noyes in 1879. John Noyes died in Newbury, intestate, in 1691, and his widow and son Nicholas were appointed administrators, and made their account September 28, 1694; the personal es- tate was £309 and the real estate £246. He married in Newbury, November 23, 1668, Mary Poore, of Andover. Their children were: Nicholas, Daniel, Mary, John, Martha, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Moses and Samuel.
(IV) Samuel, youngest child of John and Mary (Poore) Noyes, was born in Newbury, February 5, 1691. He went to Abington with his brother Nicho- las, about 1712. He was elected selectman in 1719, and town clerk in 1726. He was the progenitor of more descendants of the name than all his five brothers. He married Hannah Poore, in 1714, and died November 16, 1729. Their children were: Samuel, Daniel, Mary, John, Benjamin, Abigail, Jacob and Ebenezer.
(V) John (2), fourth child and third' son of Samuel and Hannah (Poore) Noyes, was born in Abington, April 7, 1720, and died May 30, 1770. After the death of his father, his uncle, Samuel
Poore, of R ey, was appointed his guardian, 1736.
He settled Pembroke, New Hampshire, at what was .then called "Ox Bow." He was the progenitor of the large branch of the family from the fourth generation, h .ving eight sons who had seventy-five children. A ter his death his son Benjamin was appointed adi ministrator of his estate, which consisted of the home in Bow, valued at £115; an island in the Merrimack river, £9; house and farm in Pem- broke, £170; personal property, £92. He married, June 11, 1741, Abigail Poor, and they had eight sons : Benjamin, John, Samuel, Daniel, Enoch, Aaron, Moses and Nathan. (John and descendants receive mention in this article).
(VI) Benjamin, eldest son of John (2) and Abi- gail (Poor) Noyes, was born April 29, 1742, in Bow, New Hampshire, and died March 16, 18II. He served in the Revolutionary war as an ensign in Colonel Moses Nichols' regiment in the expedition to Rhode Island in August, 1778. He probably set- tled in Vermont after the close of the war. He mar- ried Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Thompson, and their children, born in Bow, were: Abigail, Cle- ment, Hannah, Thomas, Judith, Mary, Benning, Jane, Elizabeth, Phoebe and Sally, beside three who died in infancy.
(VII) Judith, third daughter and fifth child of Benjamin and Hannah (Thompson) Noyes, was born October 15, 1777, in Bow, and became the wife of Robert Thompson, who died in 1803, leaving two children. She subsequently married a Currier. (See Thompson, VI).
(VII) Mary (Polly), fourth daughter and sixth child of Benjamin and Hannah (Thompson) Noyes, was born June 11, 1779, in Bow, and died May 26, 1858, in Peacham, Vermont. She married Truman Martin. (See Martin, IV).
(VI) John (3), second of the eight sons of John (2) and Abigail (Poor) Noyes, was born in Bow, New Hampshire, March 13, 1744. He was a captain in the Revolutionary army. He married Mary Fow- ler, and died October 7, 1825. Their children were: Abigail, John, Sarah, Abner, Jacob, Nancy, Isaac C., Mary, George and Martha.
(VII) Nancy, sixth child and third daughter of John (3) and Mary (Fowler) Noyes, was born in Bow, June 29, 1779, and married John Robinson.
(VIII) Nancy, daughter of John and Nancy (Noyes) Robinson, born November, 1808, in Bow, was married November 25, 1840, to Samuel Dakin. (See Dakin, II).
(III) James, fourth son and eighth child of Nicholas and Mary (Cutting) Noyes, was born May 16, 1657, in Newbury, Massachusetts, and re- sided in that town. In the records of the town he is styled lieutenant-colonel. He was the first dis- coverer of limestone in the colony at Newbury, and this discovery is said to have created much excite- ment at the time, which was quite natural. In 1683. he married Hannah Knight. In his will he bequeaths to his eldest son his silver-headed staff and hilted rapier. His children, born in Newbury, were: Re- becca, Joseph, Hannah, Nicholas, Nahum, Benjamin, Mary and James.
(IV) James (2), youngest child of James (1) and Hannah (Knight) Noyes, was born August 19, 1705, in Newbury, and resided in that town and in Atkinson, New Hampshire. He was probably a sol- dier in the French and Indian war and was also a sergeant in the Revolutionary army, serving from September 27 to October 31, 1777. He was mar- ried in 1729 to Sarah Little, and their children were: Enoch, Sarah, Mary, James and Nathaniel.
(V) James (3), second son and fourth child of
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James (2) and Sarah (Little) Noyes, was born March 31, 1745, in Atkinson, New Hampshire, and resided in that town where he died in 1831. He was married in 1770 to Jane Little, and they were the parents of a daughter and a son, Polly and Henry. (VI) Polly, only daughter of James (3) and Jane (Little) Noyes, was born March 15, 1771, in Atkinson, New Hampshire, and became the wife of Enoch (2) Little. (See Little, V).
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CHASE quently embellished by this name, which has been borne by statesmen, jurists, soldiers, clergymen and others honored in the various walks of life. New Hampshire has been highly honored by many prominent in the councils of the nation, and its annals may well give prominence to the name.
(I) For many years the earliest known ancestor of the American family of this name was Aquila Chase, who was among the founders of Hampton, New Hampshire, and he was said to be from Corn- wall, England, by several antiquarians whose author- ity was tradition. A long search has established beyond a reasonable doubt that he was front Chies- ham, in Buckinghamshire, some thirty miles north- west of London. The family is said to have been of Norman origin, and it has been suggested that the name was formerly LaChasse. In the old Eng- lish records it is spelled Chaace and Chaase, and in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was modified to the present form most in use-Chase.
Matthew Chase, of the parish of Hundrich, in Chesham, gives his father's name as John, and the father of the latter as Thomas. As the name of Matthew's wife is the first female found in the line, this article will number Matthew as the first. His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Bould.
(II) Richard, son of Matthew and Elizabeth (Bould) Chase, married Mary Roberts, of Welsden, in Middlesex. He had brothers, Francis, John, Matthew, Thomas, Ralph and William, and a sister Bridget.
(III) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) and Mary (Roberts) Chase, was baptized August 3, 1542, and was married April 16, 1564, to Joan Bishop. Their children were: Robert, Henry, Lydia, Ezekiel, Dor- cas, Aquila, Jason, Thomas, Abigail and Mordecai. (IV) Aquila, fourth son of Richard (2) and Joan (Bishop) Chase, was baptized August 14, 1580. The unique name of Aquila is found nowhere in England, before or since, coupled with the name of Chase, which makes it reasonably certain that this Aquila was the ancestor of the American family. Tradition gives the name of his wife as Sarah. Record is found of two sons, Thomas and Aquila, the latter born in 1618. It is generally believed that William Chase, the first of the name in America, was an elder son, and that the others came with him or followed later. The fact of their being minors would lead to their ab- sence from the records of the earliest days of Wil- liam in this country. Some authorities intimate that Thomas and Aquila were employed by their uncle, Thomas Chase, who was part owner of the ship "John and Francis," and thus became navigators and so found their way to America. This theory is strengthened by the fact that Aquila was granted a house lot and six acres of marsh by the inhabitants of Newbury, Massachusetts, "on condition that he do go to sea and do service in the Towne with a boat for foure years." (Aquilla and William and de- scendants receive mention in this article).
(V) Thomas, assumed by some authorities to iv-22
be elder son of Aquila (1) Chase, of Chesham, Eng- land, was born, probably about 1615, in England. He was in Hampton, New Hampshire, as early as 1640, and died there in 1652. Ile married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Thomas Philbrick, of Newbury, and probably lived in that town for a short time. His widow Elizabeth administered his estate. She was married (second), October 26, 1654, to John Garland; and (third), January 19, 1674, to Henry Roby. She died February 1I, 1677. Thomas Chase's children were: Thomas, Joseph, James, Isaac and Abraham.
(VI) James, third son and child of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Philbrick) Chase, was born 1649, 111 Hampton, where he resided. He was married No- vember 2, 1675, to Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Green, and they had four daughters.
(VII) Abigail, second daughter and child of James and Elizabeth (Green) Chase, was born Au- gust 27, 1681, and married John (2) Chase (q. v.), a grandson of Aquila (2).
(V) Aquila (2), son of Aquila (1) Chase, set- tled in Newbury, Massachusetts (that part which is now Newburyport), about 1646. He was formerly in Hampton (now part of New Hampshire), where he and his brother Thomas received grants of land in June 1640, along with fifty-five others. As owner of a houselot he was listed among those entitled to a share in the common lands, December 3, 16.45. This he subsequently sold to his brother, as shown by town records, after his removal to Newbury. His wife, Ann Wheeler, was a daughter of John Wheeler, who came from Salisbury, England, in September, 1646. According to the county records Aquila Chase and his wife, with her brother David Wheeler, were presented and fined "for gathering pease on the Sabbath." They were admonished by the court, after which their fines were remitted. Mr. Chase died December 27, 1670, aged fifty-two years. His widow was married June 14, 1672, to Daniel Mussiloway, and died April 21, 1687. Aquila's children were : Sarah, Ann, Priscilla, Mary, Aquila, Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Ruth, Daniel and Moses. Mary became the wife of John Stevens. (See Stevens, II). (Men- tion of John, Daniel and Moses and their descend- ants forms part of this article.)
(VI) Thomas, second son and sixth child of Aquila (2) and Anna (Wheeler) Chase, was born July 25, 1654, in Newbury, Massachusetts, and made his home in that town throughout life. He sub- scribed to the oath of allegiance there in 1678. His will was made August 3, 1732, and proved on the twenty-fifth of February following, indicating his death to be near the end of the former year. He was a carpenter and resided near the road leading to Amesbury Ferry. He was married (first), Novem- ber 22, 1677, to Rebecca Follansbee, who died before August 2, 1714. On that date he was married to Elizabeth Mooers. All of his children except the youngest were probably born of the first wife. They were : Thomas, Jonathan, James, Aquila, Ruth, Mary, Josiah, Rebecca, Nathan, Judith and Eliza- beth. (Mention of Jonathan and Nathan and de- scendants appears in this article).
(VII) Thomas (2), eldest child of Thomas (I) and Rebecca ( Follansbce) Chase, was born Septem- ber 15, 1680, in Newbury, where he resided. His will was made December 10, 1748, and proved March I, 1756. He probably died about the close of 1757, at the age of seventy-seven years. He married Sarah Stevens, daughter of Deacon Thomas and Martha (Bartlett) Stevens, of Amesbury. Their children were: Thomas, Abel, Jonathan, Roger, Sarah, Eliz- abeth, Josiah and Abigail.
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(VIII) Abel, second son and child of Thomas (2) and Sarah (Stevens) Chase, was born February 25, 1702, in Newbury, where he passed his life and died January, 1778. He was twice married, but no record of his first wife appears. The christian name of his second wife was Sarah.
(IX) Abel (2), son of Abel (I) and eldest child of his second wife, Sarah Chase, was born September 1I, 1732, and died November 15, 1787, at the age of fifty-five years. He married Judith Gale, daughter of Isaac and Judith (Sargeant) Gale, of Sutton, Massachusetts. She was born April 12, 1734, and survived her husband more than seventeen years, dying February 10, 1805.
(X) Abel (3), eldest child of Abel (2) and Judith (Gale) Chase, was born October 29, 1754, in Sutton, Massachusetts. He was married September 24, 1779, to Hannah Bond, daughter of Jonas and Hannah (Hicks) Bond, of Sutton; she was born March 13, 1757.
(XI) Jonas, third child of Abel (3) and Han- nah (Bond) Chase, was born August 20, 1783, in Sutton, Massachusetts, and died in 1827, in Sutton north parish, now Millbury, Massachusetts. He married Lavinia Boyden, and they had five sons : Jonathan, Ira, Leonard, whose sketch follows, Abel and Albin Bond.
(XII) Leonard, third son of Jonas and Lavinia (Boyden) Chase, was born August 7, 18II, in Mil- bury, Massachusetts, and died June 7. 1868, in Mil- ford, New Hampshire. He received a common school education and the knowledge thus acquired was supplemented by a course at Andover Acad- emy and by a two years' course at Yale, from the latter institution being forced to retire on account of impaired health. Shortly afterward he took up his residence in Milford, New Hampshire, and be- gan the manufacture of agricultural implements, which proved highly remunerative. He took an active and prominent part in the affairs of his adopted city and state, and served as state repre- sentative, senator and member of the governor's council, in all of which capacities he rendered ef- ficient and valuable service. He was an anti-slavery man. was one of the come-outers of the Congrega- tional Church, and a member of the Free and Ac- cepted Masons. Mr. Chase married (first), in 1834, Mary I. Dickey, of Milford, New Hampshire, daughter of Adam and Mary (Gordon) Dickey. She died December 16, 1842. Their children are: Mary I., widow of the late Elbridge Wason. of Brookline, Massachusetts. Hannah Cornelia Elizabeth, married Charles B. Tuttle. She died De- cember 25, 1893. Mr. Chase married (second), March 21, 1844, Susanna Williams, born May, 1807, in Groton, Massachusetts, and died in 1869. She had one child, Frank W., born December 8, 1844, died May 14, 1906.
(VII) Jonathan, second son of Thomas and Rebecca (Follansbee) Chase, was born in New- bury, Massachusetts, in 1683, and died at Strat- ham, New Hampshire. in April, 1740. He was one of the principal proprietors of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and married, in 1703, Joanna Palmer, of Bradford, Massachusetts.
(VIII) Jonathan (2), second son of Jonathan (I) and Joanna Palmer) Chase, was born at New- bury. September, 1707, and died at Stratham, New Hampshire. in 1744. He married Lydia Rollins. (Mention of their son, Nathaniel, and descendants appears in this article.
(IX) Jonathan (3), eldest son of Jonathan (2) and Lydia (Rollins) Chase, was born at Stratham, May 1, 1730, and died in Loudon, September 18,
1808. He was active in promoting the settlement of several New Hampshire towns and also in land speculation. He married, in 1749, Anne Taylor.
(X) Edward, second son of Jonathan (3) and Anne (Taylor) Chase, was born in Stratham, November 24, 1754, and died in Canterbury, June 19, 1814. May 30, 1775, he enlisted in the Second New Hampshire Regiment, commanded by Colonel Enoch Poor, and on September 23, 1776, re-enlistel in Colonel Thomas Tash's regiment, New Hamp- shire Continentals. He married, in 1779. Polly Moore, of Stratham.
(XI) Levi, eldest son of Edward and Polly (Moore) Chase, was born in Canterbury, April 8, 1782, and died there April 12, 1854. He married, June 8, 1808, Sally Page, of New Sharon, Maine. a descendant of Robert Page, of Ormsby, county of Norfolk, England. Their children were: Charles, of Grafton, New Hampshire, selectman and jurist ; William Plummer, a Free-will Baptist clergyman ; Uriah. mentioned below; and Levi Badger, of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, who served in the Civil war, compiled the Plympton genealogy and is the author of a history of Sturbridge.
(XII) Uriah, third son of Levi and Sally (Page) Chase, was born in Canterbury, September 28, 1819, and received his education at Gilmanton Academy. He entered the ministry of the Free-will Baptist church, and was licensed to preach by the New Durham quarterly meeting held in May, 1843. Thenceforth he labored as an evangelist until March 14, 1850, when he was ordained at East Parson- field. His principal pastorates were at Limington. Raymond, Brixton, Parsonfield, Shapleigh, Hollis and Waterboro, Maine, and Alton, Belmont, An- dover. Wolfboro, Nottingham, Strafford, Barring- ton, Epsom and Raymond, New Hampshire. He was a powerful preacher, with a reputation as an orator. His poetical works, which were published in three volumes under the nom-de-plume of Wil- liam Canterbury, attracted much attention. He died in Waterboro, Maine, August 1, 1888. He married, October 25, 1855, Harriet Ann, daughter of John and Susan (Weeks) Kimball, of North- field, New Hampshire. She died in Andover, November 18, 1862. leaving one son, John, born July 16, 1855, now a merchant in East Parish, Maine. Mr. Chase married, February 17, 1863, Lizzie Guilford, of Saco, Maine, and they have two children: Mary Nettie, born January 19, 1864; and Charles L., mentioned below. Miss Chase attended the North Parsonfield Academy and the Auburn high school. graduating from Bates Col- lege. She secured a free scholarship by winning the first prize awarded a woman in declamation. She was principal of Gilmanton and Proctor acade- mies, and is president of the New Hampshire Equal Suffrage Association. She is a brilliant lecturer, and her services in the cause are in great demand. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon her by Bates College.
(XIII) Charles L., only son of Uriah and Liz- zie (Guilford) Chase, was born July 15, 1865, at Strafford Ridge, New Hampshire, and attended the North Parsonfield Academy and the Auburn and Gorham high schools, graduating from the latter. He was afterward a pupil at the Main Central Institute. He taught two years and was afterward engaged in real estate in Boston, where he re- mained fifteen years. He now resides in Concord and is a member of the firm of Chase & Bailey, real estate brokers. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, the Good Templars, the Sons of Tem- perance and the Grange. He is a Republican of
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the staunchest sort and a member of the Free- will Baptist church. He has been twice married. His first wife was Meda Tarbox, of Hollis, Maine. and his second, Margarette, daughter of John Otter- son, a shipbuilder of Bath, Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Chase have two children: Ralph W. and Royal E. (IX) Nathaniel, son of Jonathan (2) and Pa- tience (Heath) Chase, was born April 5, 1750, prob- able in Hampton or Pittsfield, New Hampshire. In March, 1773, he married Sarah Sanborn, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth (Ward) Sanborn, who was born at Hampton in 1755. Reuben Sanborn lived both at Hampton and Epsom. New Hamp- shire, and was prison keeper in 1755. Nathaniel Chase lived both at Seabrook and Pittsfield, New Hampshire.
(X) Jonathan (3), son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Sanborn) Chase, was born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire. He lived in that town the greater part of his life, and was a farmier, drover, stone contractor and bridge builder. On February 25, 1805, Jonathan (3) Chase married Abiah Han- son, daughter of Solomon Hanson, and they had ten children: Nathan, Lydia, Hanson S., whose sketch follows, John, Mary, Nathaniel E., Rou- hamia, Elizabeth, Lavinia and James. Mrs. Chase died about 1835, and the father placed the younger children in the care of the Canterbury Shakers. Jonathan (3) Chase died at Canterbury, New Hampshire.
(XI) Hanson Sylvester, second son and third child of Jonathan (3) and Abiah (Hanson) Chase, was born April 7, 1823, at Portsmouth. New Hamp- shire. During his childhood his parents removed to Pittsfield, where he learned the old fashioned shoemaker's trade of True Tucker. He continued in this work five or six years, and then returned to the Shaker village in Canterbury and engaged in driving one of the wagons used in selling the wares and produce of the Community. He con- tinted in this occupation, which took him all through northern New Hampshire, and even into Canada, until he was twenty-eight years old. In 1850 he moved to West Campton, where he lived on a farm for twenty-three years. At the same time he was engaged in lumbering and in buying and shipping hemlock bark. While at West Campton he was road commissioner and also served on the school board. In 1873 he came to Plymouth, build- ing the house where he now lives. Mr. Chase is a man of force and character, and though past four- score is still active. On May 23, 1850, Hanson S. Chase married Mary Ann Brown, daughter of Jo- seph and Relief (Ordway) Brown, who was born in Bristol. New Hampshire, November 10, 1830. They had four sons: James Whitcher, Warren Green, Irving Hanson, whose sketch follows; and Edward Averill. Mrs. Chase, a woman of un- usually vigorous mind and body, and a kind friend to the sick, died October 21, 1898. Mr. Chase was a Quaker by birth, but they attended the Universa- list Church in Plymouth. Of the sons of this cou- ple, James W., born July 6, 1851, at West Camp- ton, died at Plymouth, August 30. 1874. Warren G., born March 30, 1854, is in the lumber busi- ness with his brother, whose sketch follows. Ed- ward Averill, born May 15, 1869, graduated from the Plymouth high school in 1888, and is now the editor and proprietor of the Plymouth Record.
(XII) Irving Hanson, third son and child of Hanson Sylvester and Mary Ann (Brown) Chase, was born at West Campton, New Hampshire, No- vember 18. 1859. He was educated in the schools of Campton and Plymouth. He then engaged as
clerk for his brother, Warren G. Chase, in the meat and grocery business, at Plymouth. At the end of three years, finding the need of an out-door life, he went to carpentering at which he worked for a year. From this it was an easy transition to the lumber business. The brothers, Warren G. and Irving H. Chase, bought a small timber tract on the Ellsworth branch of the Pemigewasset river, where they built a waterpower sawmill, which they conducted for thirteen years. They finally accu- mulated about seven thousand acres of timber land, and in 1894 they sold the property to George B. James, of Boston. The Chase brothers operated portable sawmills for two years and in 1898 built a small mill on the site of their present property in Plymouth. This was burned out at the end of a year, but they immediately rebuilt on a much larger scale, and are now conducting an extensive business. The motive power is a stationary en- gine of two hundred and fifty horse power. and the mill in one day will turn out more lumber than the early mills could have produced in a year. The pine logs are drawn by team from Plymouth and the adjoining towns, while those from re- mote points are shipped by rail. The firm gives employment to fifty and sometimes eighty men, and daily produces thirty thousand feet of dressed humber. The greater part is recut and sold for packing cases. The firm also owns a sawmill on the Connecticut river at North Thetford, Vermont, which they purchased in 1901 from the citizens' Bank of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. They also own and run three portable sawmills which are oper- ating in different parts of New Hampshire and Vermont. Besides his regular business, Mr. Chase also deals quite extensively in real estate. He is a Republican in politics, and a member of Plymouth Lodge, No. 66, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. He is a trustee of the Universalist Church in Plymouth. On December 7, 1881, Irving H. Chase married Minnie Elliott, daughter of Ephraim and Lucy (Broad) Elliott, who was born in Thorn- ton. New Hampshire, April 7, 1862. They had two children: Mildred, born April 30, 1883, married, July 25. 1907, J. Frank Drake, secretary of Board of Trade, Springfield, Massachusetts; and Richard V., born June 4, 1888, who is now a student at Wor- cester Academy, and will enter Dartmouth College in the fall of 1907.
(VI) John, third son and seventh child of Aquila (2) and Ann (Wheeler) Chase, was born in Newbury, November 2, 1655. He married (first), May 23, 1677, Elizabeth Bingley; and (second), Lydia -. The children by the first marriage were : William, John and Philip; by the second wife: Charles, Jacob, Abraham, Phebe, Mary, Lydia and Elizabeth.
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