Husband of Deborah Wing
Taken from the "Annals of Hoosick"
John Chase (the miller) was a man whose name and deeds should be mentioned in terms of respectful commendation. He came from the district of Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, NY about 1770, and settled first at West Hoosick where he taught school for one or two winters. From thence he removed to House 'a Mills (now called Johnsonville) from thence to St. Croix and in 1789 he removed to Hoosick Falls and in 1796 in a company with Theophilus Cornstock purchased the grist mill. He was a member of the Society of Friends or Quakers and along with the religious belief, adopted the language, customs and manners of that people and was always classed among its worthiest members. Sometime previous to 1805 Mr. Chase sold his interest in the mill but continued to tend it assisted by his son Tallman Chase till 1810 when he removed to West Hoosick where he died in 1812 at the advanced age of 91 yrs. The Quakers having no place of worship nearer than White Creek, it was resolved to hold the funeral service in the Dutch Reformed church at Buskirk's Bridge and there at the appointed time a large concourse of people assembled. To the surprise of every one, the offices of the church at the last moment refused admission to the building for the reason that the deceased was a Quaker and in consequence the services were held in the street. Mr. Joseph Wilbur preaching the funeral sermon at the close of which the body was taken back and buried on the farm of Mr. Jonathan Case.
Taken from the "Annals of Hoosick"
John Chase (the miller) was a man whose name and deeds should be mentioned in terms of respectful commendation. He came from the district of Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, NY about 1770, and settled first at West Hoosick where he taught school for one or two winters. From thence he removed to House 'a Mills (now called Johnsonville) from thence to St. Croix and in 1789 he removed to Hoosick Falls and in 1796 in a company with Theophilus Cornstock purchased the grist mill. He was a member of the Society of Friends or Quakers and along with the religious belief, adopted the language, customs and manners of that people and was always classed among its worthiest members. Sometime previous to 1805 Mr. Chase sold his interest in the mill but continued to tend it assisted by his son Tallman Chase till 1810 when he removed to West Hoosick where he died in 1812 at the advanced age of 91 yrs. The Quakers having no place of worship nearer than White Creek, it was resolved to hold the funeral service in the Dutch Reformed church at Buskirk's Bridge and there at the appointed time a large concourse of people assembled. To the surprise of every one, the offices of the church at the last moment refused admission to the building for the reason that the deceased was a Quaker and in consequence the services were held in the street. Mr. Joseph Wilbur preaching the funeral sermon at the close of which the body was taken back and buried on the farm of Mr. Jonathan Case.
Husband of Deborah Wing
Taken from the "Annals of Hoosick"
John Chase (the miller) was a man whose name and deeds should be mentioned in terms of respectful commendation. He came from the district of Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, NY about 1770, and settled first at West Hoosick where he taught school for one or two winters. From thence he removed to House 'a Mills (now called Johnsonville) from thence to St. Croix and in 1789 he removed to Hoosick Falls and in 1796 in a company with Theophilus Cornstock purchased the grist mill. He was a member of the Society of Friends or Quakers and along with the religious belief, adopted the language, customs and manners of that people and was always classed among its worthiest members. Sometime previous to 1805 Mr. Chase sold his interest in the mill but continued to tend it assisted by his son Tallman Chase till 1810 when he removed to West Hoosick where he died in 1812 at the advanced age of 91 yrs. The Quakers having no place of worship nearer than White Creek, it was resolved to hold the funeral service in the Dutch Reformed church at Buskirk's Bridge and there at the appointed time a large concourse of people assembled. To the surprise of every one, the offices of the church at the last moment refused admission to the building for the reason that the deceased was a Quaker and in consequence the services were held in the street. Mr. Joseph Wilbur preaching the funeral sermon at the close of which the body was taken back and buried on the farm of Mr. Jonathan Case.
Taken from the "Annals of Hoosick"
John Chase (the miller) was a man whose name and deeds should be mentioned in terms of respectful commendation. He came from the district of Nine Partners, in Dutchess County, NY about 1770, and settled first at West Hoosick where he taught school for one or two winters. From thence he removed to House 'a Mills (now called Johnsonville) from thence to St. Croix and in 1789 he removed to Hoosick Falls and in 1796 in a company with Theophilus Cornstock purchased the grist mill. He was a member of the Society of Friends or Quakers and along with the religious belief, adopted the language, customs and manners of that people and was always classed among its worthiest members. Sometime previous to 1805 Mr. Chase sold his interest in the mill but continued to tend it assisted by his son Tallman Chase till 1810 when he removed to West Hoosick where he died in 1812 at the advanced age of 91 yrs. The Quakers having no place of worship nearer than White Creek, it was resolved to hold the funeral service in the Dutch Reformed church at Buskirk's Bridge and there at the appointed time a large concourse of people assembled. To the surprise of every one, the offices of the church at the last moment refused admission to the building for the reason that the deceased was a Quaker and in consequence the services were held in the street. Mr. Joseph Wilbur preaching the funeral sermon at the close of which the body was taken back and buried on the farm of Mr. Jonathan Case.
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