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State of Service: NH
Qualifying Service: Civil Service
The stone is an upright slate stone, in reasonable good shape and mostly legible
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
The Cemetery is located on Smith Corner Road, almost near the intersection of Williamine Drive
Author: David J Perkins
Deacon Francis Chase (son of Samuel Chase), was born in Newbury, MA on 18 Aug. 1715; died in Newton, N.H. on 25 Dec 1806. He married in Amesbury, on 29 Sept. 1737, Sarah Pike, probably daughter of Robert Pike, baptized in Salisbury, 27 Nov. 1715. Her death at Newton, at the age of 77, was caused by falling from horse, 14 Oct. 1794. They lived in Amesbury (now Newtown, NH). He owned a saw and grist mill in Litchfield, N.H. He deeded his lot there to his sons Samuel, Simeon and Joseph in 1774. He and his wife Sarah were received into the Second Church of Amesbury (now Merrimac), 14 May 1738, and later one of the founders of the Baptist Church of Newton. He was a soldier in the French and Indian War in 1755, and was in the expedition to Crown Point and Lake George. During the American Revolution, Deacon Chase was paid by the town. “Ordered to Frances Chase for money which we hired of him to hire soldiers the sum of 21-18-0” Town Records of Newton – Vol 2, page 141. Children, first six born in Amesbury, others born in Newton: Hannah, b. 22 Sept. 1738; m. about 1761, Col. Joseph Welch of Plaistow, NH; 13 children. Samuel, b. 23 Oct. 1739. Amos, b. 6 July 1741, m. Hannah Carleton, 21 Oct 1762; d. 15 May 1815. Frances, b. 15 July 1743. Joseph, b. 25 Feb. 1744/5. Abner, b. 19 Nov. 1746. Simeon, b. 26 Aug. 1748. Sarah, b. 24 July 1750; m. Abner Currier; d. in Unity N.H. in 1840. Betsey, b. 18 Sept. 1752; d. 28 Nov. 1757. Daniel, b. 21 May 1755. Betty, b. 27 Oct. 1758; m. 4 Dec. 1777, Richard Whittier; d. in Canann, N.H., 1820. Molly, b. 12 Feb. 1760; m. Jonathan Carleton; d. Canaan, N.H., 1830. Moses, b. 2 Mar. 1763. Ruth, b. 25 July 1765; d. 28 Nov. 1769.
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