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This is the profile for Aquila Chase of Hampton and Newbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who immigrated to New England by 1640.
Relationship to Thomas Chase and William Chase
Aquila Chase and Thomas Chase were brothers, as established by a deed dated May 11, 1667 in which Aquila Chase of Newbury confirmed the conveyance to his "brother" Thomas Chase of Hampton of most of his land in Hampton, which he had agreed to convey 20 years earlier.[1][2]
Aquila and Thomas Chase were not related to William Chase of Yarmouth. No reliable evidence of any familial connection between William and either Aquila or Thomas has ever been found.[3] In addition, the YDNA test results in the FamilyTreeDNA Chase Project show that male lineal descendants of William Chase are in an entirely different haplogroup (I-M253) than male lineal descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase (R-M269),[4] which indicates that William Chase did not share a common male ancestor with Aquila and Thomas Chase for at least 50,000 of years.[5]
Parentage; Origin
Original Origin Tradition: Cornwall
According to Philander Chase's 1841 Reminiscences,[6] which was quoted at length by Joshua Coffin in his 1845 Sketch of the History of Newbury, family tradition said that Aquila came from Cornwall.[7] No doubt in reliance on Chase and/or Coffin, Savage repeated the claim that Aquila came from Cornwall in his 1860 Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England.[8] Despite a diligent search of the Cornwall records,[9] however, no evidence supporting a Cornwall origin has ever been found.
Disproven Parentage/Origin: Aquila Chaase of Chesham
In the 1860's, investigations in England by H.B. Somerby discovered the record of the baptism of an Aquila Chase, son or Richard Chase and Joan (Bishop) Chase in Chesham, Buckinghamshire on August 14, 1580.[10][11] (The parish records apparently actually spell the name "Chaase."[12]) As reported by George B. Chase in his 1869 Genealogical Memoir of the Chase Family:
The discover of the unique name of Aquila, found no where else in England, before or since, in any records of families bearing the surname Chase, was deemed conclusive proof by Mr. Somerby, as it has been since by other distinguished antiquarians, of the identity of the American with the English families.[10]
Based on the 1580 baptismal date, Aquila Chaase of Chesham was clearly born too early to have himself been Aquila the immigrant (and, in addition, his brother Thomas was 5 years younger than Aquila, not older). Instead, the theory proposed in Genealogical Memoir of the Chase Family was that Aquila of Chesham was the father of immigrants Thomas Chase and Aquila Chase, although no records were found that showed that Aquila of Chesham had sons by those names.[10] Despite the evidentially thin basis for the claim, from the time of its publication in 1869 until 1928, it was repeated in many published genealogical works containing profiles of immigrant Aquila Chase, including Cutter's 1908 Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts,[13] Stearns' 1908 Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire[14] and Reynolds' 1911 Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs,[15] and has continued to be repeated in online family trees.
The theory that Aquila Chaase of Chesham was the father of immigrants Thomas and Aquila Chase was shown to be highly questionable, however, by research published in the 1928 Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase. The authors of that book found records of the marriage in London in 1606 of an Aquila Chase and Martha Jelliman and the births and deaths of their children there (including a son Aquila, who was born in 1626 and was buried in London in 1649) and asserted that those records no doubt related to Aquila Chaase who was baptized in Chesham in 1580.[16] Although the authors did not explain the reasoning behind that assertion, it was presumably based on (1) the close similarity of relatively rare names, (2) a good match between the date of baptism (1580) and the date of marriage (1606), (3) the absence of later records of Aquila Chaase in Chesham or earlier records of Aquila Chase of London, (4) reasonable proximity between Chesham and London (30 miles) and (5) evidence that at least one other member of the Chaase family of Chesham (Stephen Chaase, a probable cousin of Aquila Chaase of Chesham)[17] moved to London.
The probability that Aquila Chase of London was the same person as Aquila Chase of Chesham has recently been substantially strengthened by the discovery of his apprenticeship records. The parish records for Aquila Chase of London refer to him as a "talyor" or "taler" and sometimes as a "marchant tayler".[18] Based on these references, the authors of Seven Generations had reviewed the records of the Company of Merchant Taylors for Aquila's apprenticeship records, but found nothing.[16] A Company of Drapers apprenticeship record has recently been found, however, that shows that Aquila Chase of London, tailor, became a freeman of the Company of Drapers in January 1605/6.[19] Most significantly, the record states that Aquila of London's father's name was Richard Chase, consistent with his being the son of Richard Chase of Chesham. Moreover, Company of Drapers records also that show a Thomas Chase apprenticed with the same master draper and became a freeman in 1611.[20] This Thomas Chase was very probably the Thomas Chaase who was the son of Richard Chaase (and brother of Aquila Chaase), who was baptized in Chesham 1585.[16]
As a result of this new evidence, it seems very probable that Aquila Chaase of Chesham was the same person as Aquila Chase of London, whose son Aquila was buried in London in 1649, and thus it is very improbable that Aquila Chaase of Chesham was the father of immigrants Thomas Chase and Aquila Chase.
Probable Parentage/Origin: Thomas Chasse of Woolverstone
In 2013, Laurence Chase sent an email to the Chase rootsweb.com email list stating that he had discovered an entry in the Woolverstone parish register for the baptism in January 1619/20 of Aquila, son of Thos. Chaffe. He noted that Woolverstone was the village where Timothy Dalton was rector before he emigrated to Hampton in New England and asked if others had followed up on this line of enquiry. The only response he received suggested that others had not heard of this theory but that it was worth investigating.[21] A Google search in August 2019, however, suggests that it was never pursued further. Laurence Chase himself stated that he was not a descendant of Aquila so may have had limited interest and no other Chase researchers seem to have taken it up or discussed it.
A thorough review of the evidence relating to the proposition that immigrant Aquila Chase was the Aquila who was baptized in Woolverstone, Suffolk in January 1619/20 shows that it is even more promising than first appears and is in fact reasonably probable. First, a search on familysearch.org for people with the first name Aquila (or variants thereof) born in England in 1610-1625 shows that the 1619/20 Woolverstone baptismal record for Aquila Chaffe is the ONLY baptismal record for any person with a surname even close to Chase. Second, a close examination of the Woolverstone baptismal record (an image of which is attached to this profile) shows that it is actually for Aquila Chasse, not Aquila Chaffe, as the elongated middle letters are typical of long s's during that time period[22] and have none of the crosses or loops that would indicate that they are f's.[23] The entry thus properly reads: "Aquila ye sonne of Tho. Chasse was bap. ye 7th of January". Third, although no baptismal record has been found in Woolverstone parish register for a son Thomas Chasse, the fact that the father's name is Thomas is consistent with immigrant Aquila Chase having an older brother named Thomas. Fourth, immigrants Thomas and Aquila Chase were mariners by occupation[24] and Woolverstone, which is located on River Orwell outlet from the port of Ipswich, is an appropriate place for mariners to come from. Fifth, as Laurence Chase correctly noted, it is well established that Rev. Timothy Dalton was the minister in Woolverstone before emigrating to New England,[25][26] and the authors of Seven Generations concluded that it was likely that Aquila and Thomas Chase came to Hampton with the second company of settlers under Timothy Dalton's leadership. Sixth, not only was Woolverstone the town of origin of Rev. Timothy Dalton, it is also the place of origin of New England immigrants Nathaniel Colburne, John Dwight, Richard Everard, William Goodrich and Humphrey Wythe.[27] As shown in the image attached to this profile, the baptismal record of Aquila Chasse appears on the same page of the Woolverstone parish register as the baptismal records of children of Rev. Timothy Dalton, Humphrey Wythe and Richard Everard.
It thus seem reasonably plausible, if not probable, that Aquila Chase the immigrant was Aquila, son of Thomas Chasse, who was baptized in Woolverstone in January 1619/20.
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