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in 1647, an d removed to Swansea, Massa-
chusetts, where he acquired much prop-
erty, and died in his eighty-seventh year.
For many years he kept a tavern in that
part of Swansea that is now Warren,
Rhode Island, near the State line. Jacob
Chase's will was dated January 25, 1734,
and proved April 16, 1734. It is recorded
in the Bristol, Massachusetts, County
Probate Records, vol. 8, page 95. The
probate proceedings refer to his widow,
Mary, and his children : Isaac, Jacob,
Samuel, Ephraim, Joseph, Joshua ; Oliver,
mentioned below; Hannah, and Mary.
Oliver, therefore, appears as the youngest
son and not the second as stated in some
genealogies.
(IV) Oliver Chase, youngest son of
Jacob and Mary Chase, was born about
1700 to 1705, in Swansea, and was an extensive
trader in real estate. He married
(first) October 24, 1729, Priscilla Round,
daughter of John and Sarah (Carter)
Round, of Swansea, who were married
there on November 26, 171 1, all as shown
by the vital records of that town. In the
will of John Round, made July 19, 1758,
he refers to his daughter Priscilla Chase.
The children of Oliver and Priscilla Chase,
all of whose births are recorded in the
Swansea records, were : David, mentioned
below; Oliver, born March 5, 1733;
Mary, born May 6, 1735; Freelove, born
June 3, 1738; and Samuel, born June 15,
1741. Oliver Chase married (second)
after the death of his first wife, Priscilla
Chase, Mary Wheaton, of Rehoboth, Au-
gust 9, 1764, as shown by the records of
that town. That Priscilla Round and
Mary Wheaton were both married to the
same Oliver Chase is shown by the different
recorded deeds of the said Oliver and
by his will which was probated July 7,
1777. Here is corrected an error appearing
in some genealogies giving Comfort
Horton as the first wife of the said Oliver.
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Here is also corrected an article in the
January, 1919, issue of "The Chase Chron-
icle" entitled: "An Interesting Discov-
ery," in which Oliver Chase was given as
the second son of Benjamin and Mercy
(Simmons) Chase, and in which Oliver's
birthplace was given as Freetown, Massa-
chusetts, and the birth date as September
22, 1709. In discovering one error set
forth in said article, an assumption was
made which was also erroneous. The
"missing link," referred to in that article,
was due to the fact that the vital records
of the Swansea-Rehoboth section do not
show the relationship between Jacob and
Oliver Chase which was claimed in some
publications after this branch of the
family made its original searches in 1864.
This has now been substantiated by land
and probate records.
(V) David Chase, eldest child of Oliver
and Priscilla (Round) Chase, was born
September 20, 1730, in Swansea, and was
married there, August 5, 1756, by Elder
Russell Mason, to Susanna Pierce, of Rehoboth,
according to the Swansea Quaker
Records. They afterwards lived in Rehoboth.
With their two sons, Edward and
Samuel, they removed to Killingly, Connecticut,
in 1779, and settled near East
Killingly, a short distance westerly of the
present Chase Reservoir on the farm on
the old Hartford and Providence turnpike,
now known as the Wilcox place, and
land westerly thereof running northerly
to include the old homestead of Judge
David Chase, below mentioned. David
Chase purchased this farm from David
Hulet, of Killingly, for nine hundred and
seventy-five pounds, as shown by Kill-
ingly Land Records in vol. 16, page 218.
David Chase died early in November,
1805, leaving his widow and the two sons
before mentioned. His estate was settled
in the Probate Court at Plainfield, Con-