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| With respect to the Newbury Aquila, there is record of a deposition filed in the Quarterly Court at Ipswich, MA in September 1666 which states him to be "aged about 48 years". This would make the year of his birth about 1618. This is apparently the only record which has ever been found that provides any clue to his birth. The only record that apparently exists linking Aquila to Thomas as brothers is a reference in a 1667 land sale document by Aquila to Thomas that refers to Thomas as his brother. No record apparently exists that gives any information about Thomas's birth. He is presumed to have been older based upon peripheral evidence. Aquila was a mariner. He had grants of land in Hampton, New Hampshire in 1640. He was induced to abandon Hampton eleven years after the first settlement of Newbury upon the banks of the Parker River and about a dozen miles away. He took up his residence in Newbury by the offer of certain grants of lands in what is now the city of Newburyport, "on condition that he go to sea and do service in the towne with a boate for four years". That he was a seafaring man goes without saying. There is a well established fact that he was the first person to pilot a vessel across the bar at the mouth of the river. His "house lott at the newtowne" was sold in 1609 and appears on the county records. The "six acres of upland for a planting lott" were laid out "beyond the newtowne" and this is thought to be the spot where he ended his days in 1670. Aquila was probably buried in the First Parish Yard at Oldtowne as that and the original yard at the river were the only ones in use at the time of his death. By the terms of his will the place passed into the hands of his oldest son Aquila, who died in 1720. Will - 10 DEC 1670; Will (proved) - 28 MAR 1671 467Aquila Chase settled in Newbury, Mass. (that part which is now Newburyport.) His wife, Ann Wheeler, was a daughter of John Wheeler, who came from Salisbury, England in Sept. 1646. According to the county records, Aquila Chase and his wife and her brother, David Wheeler, were presented and fined "for gathering pease on the Sabboth." Mr. Chase died 27 Dec 1670, aged 52 years. His widow married 14 June 1672, Daniel Mussiloway, and died 21 Apr 1687. Children: Sarah, Ann Priscilla, Mary, Aquila, Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Ruth, Daniel and Moses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 468Aquila fist appears at Hampton, NH. A company under the leadership of Rev. Stephen Bachiler is supposed ot have commenced the settlement on 14 Oct 1638.469 Early in the year 1639, a new band of settlers came with Mr. Timothy Dalton, who became associate pastor of the Hampton Church. The town was incorporated by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony 22 May 1639. It is probable that Aquila and Thomas Chase came with the second company as it appears that emigration was greatly diminished by the year 1640. Various traditions are extant about the date and manner of their arrival in this country, but they are only traditions with little likelihood of ever being anything else, due to the lack of preservation, or later loss, of the shipping lists of that period. The first town meeting of Hampton, of which there is a record, was held 31 Oct 1639, and 23 December of the same year land was allotted to fifteen grantees, the first grants being small house lots. In June 1640 other persons became grantees, among them being Aquila Chase and Thomas Chase. The Hampton records show that in 1640 there was granted to Aquila Chase six acres for a house lot. In 1644 an additional grant was recorded of six acres of "upland meadow and swamp," which he sold to his "brother Thomas" on his removal to Newbury. The home lot of Aquila Chase was a part of what has long been known as the Perkins homestead. Here undoubtedly he erected a log house which he occupied until the summer in 1646. The homestead was located south of Meetinghouse Green, near the marshes on the road to the ancient Tide Mill. The town made an agreement with Richard Knight 4 Aug 1640, that he should build and keep a mill at the Landing about half a mile south of the "Green." It is likely that this was called "The Landing" on account of being the place where the first settlers brought their shallop to shore. The common lands were granted to the proprietors of house lots in Hampton, 23 Feb 1645/1646, Thomas Chase receiving two shares and his brother Aquila one share.470 Thomas Chase had at this date a wife and two children while Aquila had probably only a wife. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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