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854 SOUTHEASTEKN MASSACHUSETTS
chosen selectman and town clerk. He was
styled "Capt. Eead." He died June 3, 1753,
and his wife passed away Dec. 5, 1751. Their
children were: Alice, William, Obadiah, Ebenezer,
Alice (2), Daniel, James, Solomon, Ja-
cob, Moses, and Alice (3).
(IV) Daniel Eead, born Dec. 6, 1713, married
(first) Sept. 15, 1739, Euth White, and
(second) in 1776 Sarah Hamlyn. He was
one of the first settlers of Cummington, and
died April 5, 1781. He, too, was captain.
Their children were: Eachel, Micah, Jesse,
Enoch, Seth, Euth and Noah.
(V) Seth Eeed, son of Daniel, bom July
16, 1750, married (first) in 1773, Thankful
Whitmarsh, who died in 1775, and (second)
in 1776 Mary Lazell. His children were, Olive
and Seth.
(VI) Seth Eeed (3), born in 1777, married
Jan. 10, 1801, Catherine Brown, and their
children were : Lucy, bom July 20, 1802 ; Seth,
born May 2, 1804; Mehetable, born June 4,
1806, and Noah, born Feb. 20, 1810.
(VII) Seth Eeed (3), son of Seth (2),
Torrey, bom Dec. 24, 1833, married Eliphalet
E. Bates; Sarah Dean, born April 17, 1839,
died in infancy; Seth Dean, born June 19,
1840, married Sarah Isabelle McConihe, and
had children, Alice Weston, a son who died
young, Emma Estelle, Marie Antoinette and
Agnes Isabelle ; a daughter, bom April 10,
1842, died May 6, 1842; Sarah Weston, born
Oct. 9, 1847, married Joseph Warren Eandall,
and their children were Edith May, Annie,
Luetta and Harry.
CHACE (Fall Eiver family). The Chace
ful characters who have left their impress for
good in the various walks of life in which their
lots were cast. For generations members of
the Society of Friends, among them were ministers
of distinction and usefulness. But it is
the purpose of this article to review only a
special line of the Swansea-Fall Eiver family
of the name, whose head was the late Charles
Frederic Chace, of Fall Eiver and New York,
who was identified with the manufacturing
interests of the former city, his son, the present
Hon. Frank M. Chace, for years a successful
business man of Fall Eiver, and a prominent
public official of long and distinguished service
in both city and State, representing his district
in both branches of the Massachusetts Assembly.
There follows in chronological order the
family iustory and genealogy of the special
Chace family alluded to, beginning with the
immigrant
bom May 2, 1804, married Sept. 13, 1826,
Sarah Blanchard, daughter of Dean and Annie
(Merrell) Blanchard, and their children were
as follows: Ann Merrell, born Nov. 15, 1829,
married John F. Whitmarsh, and had children,
Ella Ann, Mary Vinson, Sarah Etta, Elizabeth
Dean, Emma Frances and Willard Francis,
the latter a pliysician of ;
Bridgewater Euth
settler.
(I) William Chase, born about 1595, in
England, with wife came to America in
Mary and son William
the ship with Governor
AVinthrop and his colony in 1630, settling first
in Eoxbury. He soon became a member of the
church of which the Eev. John Eliot, the
Apostle to the Indians, was pastor. On Oct.
19, 1630, he applied for freemanship and was
made a freeman May 14, 1634. In 1637, or
thereabouts, he became one of the company
who made a new settlement at Yarmouth, of
which town he was made constable in 1639.
He resided at Yarmouth the rest of his life,
dying in May, 1659. His widow died the fol-
lowing October. Their children were : William,
born about 1622, in England; Mary, bora in
May, 1637, in Eoxbury; and Benjamin, born
in 1639, in Yarmouth.
(II) William Chase (2), son of William and
Mary, born about 1622, in England, came to
America with his parents, married and was a
resident of Yarmouth. He died Feb. 27, 1685.
His children were : William, Jacob, John,
Elizabeth, Abraham, Joseph, Benjamin and
Samuel.
family — the name in earlier generations being
spelled Chase, though both spellings are now
in use— in and about Fall Eiver, on either side
of the line separating the States of Massachusetts
and Ehode Island, springs from the
old Eoxbury-Yarmouth race of the name and
is one of the oldest in New England, the coming
hither of William Chase from England
dating back to within a decade of the landing
of the Pilgrim Fathers themselves; and this
race, too, finding its way to Swansea and Somerset
and Fall Eiver and into Ehode Island,
has given to these localities (III) Samuel Chase, son of William (2),
married Sarah, daughter of Samuel and
Martha (Tripp) Sherman, and granddaughter
of Philip and Sarah (Odding) Sherman, ol
Portsmouth, E. I. Mr. Chase came from
Ehode Island to Swansea, Mass., about 1700,
and with his father's family was a member of
the Society of Friends. The children of Sam-
some strong, force-
uel and Sarah were: Phebe, bom Jan. 22,
1700, married .Edward Slade ; Martha, born
Feb. 24, 1702, married Ezekiel Fowler; Susanna,
born April 7, 1704, married William
Buffington; Elisha, born May 5, 1706, married