Sylvanus Chase was born
about 1732 in Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., Mass., the son of William Chase and his
wife Dorcas Baker. Although his birth isn’t recorded, he is mentioned in his
father’s 27 September 1771 will. His name is spelled in a variety of ways
including Silvanus. He is my 6th great-grandfather on my grandmother
Milly (Booth) Rollins’ side.
The marriage intentions
of Silvanus Chase of Harwich and Charity Chase of Yarmouth were published in
Harwich and Yarmouth on 31 December 1756 (Harwich and Yarmouth Vital Records).
Charity was Sylvanus’ first cousin. She was born in Yarmouth on 15 July 1736, the
daughter of Isaac Chase and Charity Pease.
Harwich Vital Records
gives births of his children by wife Charity: Dorcas, Mehitable and Silvanus. The
NEHGR article on William Chase’s descendants gives them six more children, all
believed to be born Harwich:
Charity, Lydia, Desire,
Gamaliel, Jason, Jerusha.
I have lines of descent
from Dorcas who married Patrick whom I wrote about here as well as Desire who
married Job Wixon whom I wrote about here.
Sylvanus died in Dennis,
Massachusetts, on 4 April 1815, at age 83.
Charity died 7 January
1819. Her gravestone says she was 87 but she would have been 82. They are buried
in South Dennis Cemetery (also called the Ancient or Town Hall Cemetery):
Charity, widow of
Silvanus, died 7 January 1819, age 87
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| Charity's gravestone |
Sylvanus, died 4 April
1815, age 83
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| Sylvanus's gravestone |
Source Not Listed Above:
Some
of the Descendants of William Chase of Roxbury and Yarmouth, Mass.,
contributed by John Carroll Chase, compiled for him by George Walter
Chamberlain, NEHGR, January 1933
