Prior to the year 1800, Methodism had scarcely gained a foothold in Vermont. The first Methodist society in the State is said to have been formed at Vershire by Nicholas Suethen in 1796. Two years later, only one hundred church members were returned as residents in the Vershire Circuit, then including the whole of eastern […]
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12. MOSES6 CHASE (John5, Moses4, Daniel3, Moses2, Aquilla1) was b. Dec. 20, 1799. A farmer and lumberman, owning and running the sawmill built by his father; m. May 1, 1832, Fidelia, dau. of Isaac and Hannah (Perry) Alden, b. Aug. 12, 1805, and d. March 11, 1864. He d. May 17, 1864. Children, all b.
7. MOSES5 CHASE (Moses4, Daniel3, Moses2, Aquilla1) b. Nov. 9, 1772: m. Jan. 20, 1800, Deborah Bull. Shed. Aug. 17, 1837. He was a graduate of Dartmouth College. But little can be learned of him. It is supposed that he left town in early life and his home and occupation have not come to our
9. JACOB6 CHASE (Joseph5, Caleb4, Daniel3, Moses2, Aquilla1) was b. March 20, 1799; m. Oct. 27, 1825, Sarah Tinkham of -, b. Sept. 25, 1793, and d. Aug. 1, 1972. He d. March 10, 1852. He was a farmer and lived in the western part of the town. Children, all b. in town: i. FREDERIC
Zina Goldthwait Chase late of Cambridge, son of Alden and Abigail (Chase) Chase, was born in Cambridge, August 9, 1830. His educational advantages were derived from the common schools and he steadily followed farming as an occupation, at the same time dealing largely in cattle. Mr. Chase twice enlisted in the ranks of his country’s
Arthur B. Chase, book-keeper and paymaster of the Sugar River Mills, was born in Newport, N.H., January 3, 1833, son of Joseph T. and Elizabeth D. (Allen) Chase. Caleb Chase, the grandfather, came to Newport in 1822. He was a native of West Newbury, Mass., and a farmer by occupation. He was a member of
From the town records it appears that the first attempt to divide the town into school districts, was at a town meeting held November 19, 1782, when John Slafter, Elijah Brownson, Ithamar Bartlett, Joseph Loveland, Paul Bingham, Joseph Hatch, Daniel Baldwin, Abel Wilder and Samuel Brown, Jr., were made a committee for that purpose. Soon
1. SAMUEL4 CHASE (Daniel3, Moses2, Aquilla1) commonly called “Judge Chase” was the eldest son of Daniel,, and b. in Newbury, Mass., Sept. 2S, 1707. He m. in May, 1725, Mary Dudley, dau. of Samuel Dudley, Esq. She was b. Feb. 22, 1711, and d. in Cornish Feb. 12,17S9. The “memory of the just is blessed.”
NORTON CHASE AMONG the rising young men of Albany who have reflected no little credit upon their native city by their earnest efforts for the advancement of worthy causes, is the Hon. Norton Chase. Born in this city on the 3d of September, 1861, he is a son of Nelson H. Chase, a useful and
14. DUDLEY TAPPAN7 CHASE (Lebbeus6, Jonathan5, Samuel4, Daniel3. Moses2. Aquilla1) was b. April 2, 1823, on the old General Chase homestead in the first two-story house built in town. Lived there till 1840. Graduated Kimball -Union Academy, class of 1844; Dartmouth College. class 848. Studied law. Admitted to the bar in 1849. Practiced at Windsor,
The Tripp family first at Portsmouth, R. I., among the earliest inhabitants there, soon spread into the adjoining territory both in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and in the march of civilization advanced with it until they became one of the numerous and substantial families of our country. Hon. John Tripp, the first American ancestor of the family in question, was one of the founders and proprietors of Portsmouth, R. I., 23d of 6th month, 1638. In the following is briefly considered a line of Tripps which descended through the settler’s son who located in Dartmouth, Mass., later generations settling in Westport, and a still later generation in Freetown and Fall River. It is with the special Westport-Freetown-Fall River family, the heads of which were Philip J. and Azariah S. Tripp, this article is to deal. These gentlemen were long substantial men and citizens of their respective communities, the former being a resident of Freetown, State senator and much respected citizen, and the latter especially prominent and useful, for years the cashier of the Metacomet National Bank from its inception, in 1853, for seventeen years a member of the school committee of Fall River, prominently identified with many of the manufacturing enterprises and at the time of his death president of the Fall River Savings Bank.
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1. MOSES4 CHASE (Daniel3, Moses2, Aquilla1) the tenth and youngest child of Daniel3 and Sarah (March) Chase, was b. March 16, 1727, in -Newbury, Mass. When about five years of age, he, with his parents rem. to Sutton, Mass. He came to Cornish at, or soon after, the first settlement of the town in 1765.
