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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Sergeant
Birth: 1736 Yarmouth / Barnstable / MA Death: 19 Jul 1833 Harwich / Barnstable / MA
Qualifying Service Description:
1778, he served as a Sergeant in the company of Captain Thomas Nickerson, commanded by Colonel Zenas Winslow - on alarm for nine days of service.
Additional References:
Massachusetts Secretary of State, Muster/Payrolls, and Various Papers (1763-1808) of the Revolutionary War [Massachusetts and Rhode Island], Micropublication FHC, Volume 36, pg 174, Washington: National Archives.
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers, and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Volume III, Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co, 1901, pg 354
Image taken and provided by compatriot David C Schafer (MA) member 159259.
SAR Plaque Placed in cemetery dedicated 17 Jun 2023. Grave site not marked by SAR.
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
From the cemetery entrance at the corner of Depot and Main Streets walk southerly along the iron rail fence 246 feet. Then westerly 22 feet to the grave site of Job Chase.
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Author: John Harding Johnson
Job Chase was born in 1736 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.1
He married on 5 November 1760 to Edith Bassett, the daughter of Richard Bassett. She died sometime before 17 February 1774. Among their known children were:
James [Patriot P-131828] was born in 1761 and married Mercy Eldredge.
Isaiah [Patriot P-131824] was born in 1763 and married Hope Doane.
In 1798, his house and land were taxed for $1,365.00. Ede Chase, wife of Job, died, says Judah E. Chase, of smallpox.6
He married a second time on 17 February 1774 to Mrs. Hope (Sears) Howes, the daughter of Paul and Anna (Atkins) Sears. She was born on 11 February 1730/1731 in Chatham and died at Harwich on 24 May 1816. They had one known child:
Job Jr was born about 1776 and married Polly Eldredge.
Job married a third time, on 22 May 1817, to Hannah Dimmock, who died at Harwich on 2 March 1829, aged 73 years. She was forty-four at the time of their marriage, and no known children were born to this couple.
During the American Revolution, Job served as a Sergeant in the company of Captain Thomas Nickerson, commanded by Major Zenas Winslow, who responded to alarms in Bedford and Falmouth in September 1778.
The Chase family founded something of a maritime dynasty. The fortunes of Job Chase of West Harwich illustrated the matter clearly. From 1800 to about 1840, he was one of the largest owners of coastal vessels on the Cape, a merchant whose name was known from Saco to South America. Business was steady with him from 1805 to 1812, and he had a vessel or two at work in 1813 and again in 1815, despite being the period of the War of 1812. Over the next two years, his fleet grew, and he began to prosper.
In 1808, he deeded to the County, free of cost, 240 rods of land for the use of the road from near the Herring River. Whether it was accepted does not appear.6
Furthermore, by dealing in everything from sheep's wool from Nantucket to mahogany logs from San Domingo, Job contributed as much as any man in his generation to the prosperity of the mid-Cape. Coasting skippers from Orleans on the one hand and Yarmouth on the other applied to him for commands, while Baltimore firms wrote to ask for the privilege to act as his agents, and Boston politicians urged him to swing Harwich into supporting Samuel Lothrop for Governor.
By 1830, a whole fleet of Chase's vessels was sailing coastwise, almost all ringing the changes on the name Hope. There were the Hope's Lady, Hope and Phoebe, and New Hope, all schooners and all at work between 1806 and 1821. Others of the same period were the Hope, the Hope for Pease, Old Hope, and Hope and Polly. Later in the twenties and thirties came the schooners Hope and Susan, Hope for Success, Hope's Delight, Delight in Hope, Hope Mary Ann, Hope and Hannah, Superb Hope, Lovely Hope, Mount Hope, and the brig Lady Hope.
Job Chase was a man of energy and left, at his death, considerable property in his estate.
The Patriot lived to the age of 97 and died on 19 July 1833 in full possession of his mental and physical faculties. He made his Last Will and Testament on 7 May 1822 and was proven in court on 8 October 1833 with sons Isaiah and Job Jr. serving as executors.5
Sources:
Vital Records Harwich, page 434
Vital Records Harwich, Massachusetts page 730, NEHGS 1933
Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, page 354
Some Descendants of William Chase, NEHGS V. 87, pages 317-318
Vital Records Harwich, Massachusetts page 354
Shipmasters of Cape Cod 1935
Author: David Crandall Schafer
Job Chase was born about 1736 in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, the son of William and Dorcas (Baker) Chase.
He married his first wife Edith Bassett on 6 November 1760 at Harwich, and together they had five known children:
James was born about 1761 and married Mercy Eldredge
Zenas was born on 4 December 1761 and married Hepzibah Baker
Isaiah was born on 6 February 1763 and married Hope Doane
Nathaniel was born about 1764 and married Temperance Chase.
Bassett was born about 1766.
Mrs. Edith (Bassett) Chase died before 1774; burial location is unknown.
The record of Job Chase’s intentions of marriage to his second wife, Mrs. Hope (Sears) Howes of Chatham, widow of Thomas Howes, was dated 22 January 1774 at Chatham. Job and Hope Chase had one known child, Job Jr., born in 1776.
With the outbreak of hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain, the defense of the seacoast was of continuous concern to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress. On 28 June 1775, the representatives enacted resolves to provide forces for the seacoast defense, including five companies stationed in Barnstable County.
In the first week of September 1778, a British fleet commanded by Major General Charles Grey began its attack on all privateering ships, warehouses, and wharves along coastal communities of Bedford, Dartmouth, and Fairhaven on the western coastline of Buzzard’s Bay. In response, Barnstable County Brigadier General Joseph Otis called an alarm for his militia companies to defend Bedford, Dartmouth, and Falmouth. The payroll of Captain Thomas Nickerson’s militia company in Major Zenas Winslow’s regiment on the alarm at Bedford and Falmouth in September 1778 lists 36 men, including Sergeant Job Chase, with nine days of service.(1) The British fleet, having completed their objective to reduce all aspects of the rebel privateering protected at Buzzards Bay, sailed easterly between the southerly Elizabeth Islands and into Vineyard Sound and threatening the southern coast of Falmouth. British Major General Grey chose the less threatening Martha’s Vineyard with its bounty of livestock to feed the British troops at New Port and New York, along with their arms and armaments. In sight of the Falmouth coast the British sailed from Holmes Hole of Martha’s Vineyard on 15 September. With the threat to Falmouth’s coastal community, Massachusetts militia Brigadier General Otis dismissed the militia companies to return to their homes.
Barnstable County Land records show Job Chase purchased lands for agricultural use from 1791 to 1818 and provided for his family as a yeoman through 1830. With the death of his wife, Mrs. Hope (Sears) Chase, on 24 May 1816 at Harwich, Job married his third wife, Hannah Dimmick, in 1817.
Mrs. Hannah (Dimmick) Chase, aged 73, died on 2 March 1829 and was buried at the North Harwich cemetery. Job Chase, aged 97, died on 19 July 1833 and was buried beside his wife, Hannah, at the North Harwich Cemetery.
Sources:
Muster/Payrolls of the Revolution (MA & RI) Volume 36, page 174 (image 237)
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