Moses, Ens. [Dr., per church record], died in the 80th year of his age. (sources: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Newbury, MA to the end of the year 1849).
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Ensign" Chase was born in Newbury and settled in Sutton, NH. In early life he moved up the Merrimac River to a point about seven miles from Newbury and now called West Newbury. He was a weaver, made a living as a farmer, owned a good deal of real estate, traded in it, and made money. He was in Capt. Hugh March's Company, "Snowshoe Men", Essex North Regt., 1710. He was Ensign in the Essex Regiment. He was a town officer, "a Godly man" and held an office in the church. His descendants, and those of his brother, Daniel, were men large in frame and big in intellect.
Brown's History states that in 1689 Moses (Ensign) Chase purchased a lot in the upper woods (now West Newbury) and the consideration was "a horse and one gallon of new rum.
His headstone in the old Ferry Lane (now Bridge street) cemetery in West Newbury reads:
HERE LIES BURIED
THE BODY OF
ISIGN MOSES CHASE
WHO DIED SEP 6th
1743 in Ye 80 th YEAR
OF HIS AGE
He was the first Chase to settle in the "Upper Woods" (in 1689). That was what the territory above the Artichoke river was called back then. His farm that he had was one hundred acres, one hundred and six rods fronting along the "Branford Road" and extending back all the way to the Merrimack river.
Contributor: J.S.Paetsch (49120957)
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Ensign" Chase was born in Newbury and settled in Sutton, NH. In early life he moved up the Merrimac River to a point about seven miles from Newbury and now called West Newbury. He was a weaver, made a living as a farmer, owned a good deal of real estate, traded in it, and made money. He was in Capt. Hugh March's Company, "Snowshoe Men", Essex North Regt., 1710. He was Ensign in the Essex Regiment. He was a town officer, "a Godly man" and held an office in the church. His descendants, and those of his brother, Daniel, were men large in frame and big in intellect.
Brown's History states that in 1689 Moses (Ensign) Chase purchased a lot in the upper woods (now West Newbury) and the consideration was "a horse and one gallon of new rum.
His headstone in the old Ferry Lane (now Bridge street) cemetery in West Newbury reads:
HERE LIES BURIED
THE BODY OF
ISIGN MOSES CHASE
WHO DIED SEP 6th
1743 in Ye 80 th YEAR
OF HIS AGE
He was the first Chase to settle in the "Upper Woods" (in 1689). That was what the territory above the Artichoke river was called back then. His farm that he had was one hundred acres, one hundred and six rods fronting along the "Branford Road" and extending back all the way to the Merrimack river.
Contributor: J.S.Paetsch (49120957)
Moses, Ens. [Dr., per church record], died in the 80th year of his age. (sources: gravestone inscription & Vital Records of Newbury, MA to the end of the year 1849).
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Ensign" Chase was born in Newbury and settled in Sutton, NH. In early life he moved up the Merrimac River to a point about seven miles from Newbury and now called West Newbury. He was a weaver, made a living as a farmer, owned a good deal of real estate, traded in it, and made money. He was in Capt. Hugh March's Company, "Snowshoe Men", Essex North Regt., 1710. He was Ensign in the Essex Regiment. He was a town officer, "a Godly man" and held an office in the church. His descendants, and those of his brother, Daniel, were men large in frame and big in intellect.
Brown's History states that in 1689 Moses (Ensign) Chase purchased a lot in the upper woods (now West Newbury) and the consideration was "a horse and one gallon of new rum.
His headstone in the old Ferry Lane (now Bridge street) cemetery in West Newbury reads:
HERE LIES BURIED
THE BODY OF
ISIGN MOSES CHASE
WHO DIED SEP 6th
1743 in Ye 80 th YEAR
OF HIS AGE
He was the first Chase to settle in the "Upper Woods" (in 1689). That was what the territory above the Artichoke river was called back then. His farm that he had was one hundred acres, one hundred and six rods fronting along the "Branford Road" and extending back all the way to the Merrimack river.
Contributor: J.S.Paetsch (49120957)
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Ensign" Chase was born in Newbury and settled in Sutton, NH. In early life he moved up the Merrimac River to a point about seven miles from Newbury and now called West Newbury. He was a weaver, made a living as a farmer, owned a good deal of real estate, traded in it, and made money. He was in Capt. Hugh March's Company, "Snowshoe Men", Essex North Regt., 1710. He was Ensign in the Essex Regiment. He was a town officer, "a Godly man" and held an office in the church. His descendants, and those of his brother, Daniel, were men large in frame and big in intellect.
Brown's History states that in 1689 Moses (Ensign) Chase purchased a lot in the upper woods (now West Newbury) and the consideration was "a horse and one gallon of new rum.
His headstone in the old Ferry Lane (now Bridge street) cemetery in West Newbury reads:
HERE LIES BURIED
THE BODY OF
ISIGN MOSES CHASE
WHO DIED SEP 6th
1743 in Ye 80 th YEAR
OF HIS AGE
He was the first Chase to settle in the "Upper Woods" (in 1689). That was what the territory above the Artichoke river was called back then. His farm that he had was one hundred acres, one hundred and six rods fronting along the "Branford Road" and extending back all the way to the Merrimack river.
Contributor: J.S.Paetsch (49120957)
Inscription
HERE LIES BURIED
THE BODY OF
ISIGN MOSES CHASE
WHO DIED SEP 6th
1743 in Ye 80 th YEAR
OF HIS AGE
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