Sarah Chase

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• Name: Sarah Manter

Sarah married Jonathan Manter on 15 Nov 1755. Jonathan was born on 3 Mar 1730 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; died on 11 Apr 1820 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in South End Cemetery, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rebecar Manter was born on 22 Dec 1772; died on 25 Jan 1831 in Maine, USA; was buried in Libby Hill Cemetery, Albion, Kennebec County, Maine, USA.
2. Thomas Manter was born on 12 Feb 1777 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1821; was buried in Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA.
3. Waitstill Manter was born on 30 Nov 1764; died on 5 Apr 1848; was buried in West Tisbury Village Cemetery, West Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA.
4. George Manter was born on 7 Apr 1772 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Sep 1787 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in South End Cemetery, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA.
5. Rebecca Manter was born on 14 Sep 1774; died on 16 Jun 1849 in Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in West Tisbury Village Cemetery, West Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA.

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Resided in Homes, Hole, MA. Was a mariner

Thomas married Elizabeth Athearn on 16 Aug 1733. Elizabeth was born on 13 Apr 1715; died on 2 Sep 1789. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died during a coasting voyage in his sloop "Vineyard". His estate was divided October 15, 1725. His gravestone can be found at Crossways Cemetery.

Thomas married Jane Smith on 21 Feb 1702 in Edgartown, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA. Jane was born about 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Gravestone in Crossways Cemetery:
Here lies the body
of Lt Isaac Chase
who died May ye 19
1727 aged about
80 years

Lt. Isaac Chase was a Tisbury blacksmith, and a Quaker. He married (1st) Mary Perkins, and (2nd) Mary Tilton. He was the son of Thomas Chase.

One of the original settlers of Tisbury, his estate comprised nearly the whole of the present village of Vineyard Haven.

ISAAC CHASE.
The progenitor of the Chase family of Martha's Vineyard, was born in Hampton, N. H., April 1, 1650, the third son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Philbrick) Chase. The family genealogies state that Thomas came from County Cornwall, England, to New England, and was the son of Aquila Chase of the Chesham, County Bucks family, whose pedigree extends back several generations. In what way Isaac Chase came to be interested in this distant island is not known, but the neighboring town of Salisbury, Mass., had already furnished many settlers for Nantucket, men of Quaker faith, and through this source it is probable that his knowledge of the Vineyard was acquired. At the age of 24 he came to Tisbury to settle (1674), but the townsmen refused the privilege to him for some reason at that time. Possibly it was because of his religious beliefs, which were of the Quaker doctrinal variety. 'The townsmen of Tysbury,' so reads the record, 'do not give unto Isack Chace of Hampton liberty to settle in the town.' [Tisbury Records, 8. We may surmise that they finally gave him permission to inhabit at Homes Hole, in the uttermost part of the town, many miles from the dwellings of any settlers. He was of Hampton in October 1673 (Norfolk Co. Deeds).] However he must have overcome this refusal before long, as we find him in less than two years making purchases of land in the town limits.

He must have been possessed of more than the average wealth at that time as he became, before 1700, one of the largest landholders on the Vineyard. He began his purchases of Homes Hole neck in 1676, as elsewhere related, and finally became its sole proprietor. His property in the Chickemmoo region was second in extent of acreage. His initial purchase in 1682 became a subject of dispute with the Sachem and the town, and was relinquished; but in 1692 he bought the entire eastern half of Chickemoo of Thomas Tupper, consisting of 1200 acres, and was continually adding to his domain in that region. [Deeds, I, 130, 187, 281, 391.] He rarely sold any portion of these acquisitions and all of it, practically, became the heritage of his heirs.

His occupation, as elsewhere detailed, was that of blacksmith, inn-holder, and ferryman, and these he followed until his death. Although by religion a Quaker, yet he does not seem to have been ultra orthodox in the faith, for he took military office as Lieutenant in the Company of Foot in Tisbury before 1692, and thus broke one of the principal tenets of that sect. In the political upheavals of that time Simon Atheam thus refers to him: 'Mr. Isaac Chase the Leueten't without oath he pleading for the quakers.' [Mass. Arch., CXII, 424. This is the only reference to the Quaker proclivities of Chase to be found in the record. The allusion to the oath relates to their objection to swearing, although willing to affirm to an act or statement.] During the remainder of his life he was generally called Lieutenant in the records of that period.

He died May 19, 1727, and his will, dated Feb. 12, 1721-2, was proven in July, 1727. By it he bequeathed what lands he had not given away in his lifetime to his widow and surviving children and grandchildren. The Chickemmoo property was mostly deeded to his several sons, 1706-1718, and the Homes Hole neck was to a large extent, 1705-1717, similarly disposed of to Thomas, Isaac and Abraham. In 1725 this remained undivided and Lieut. Isaac and his son Abraham entered suit against the heirs of Thomas and Ebenezer Rogers for a partition. This was done, and the division then made by the jury is the basis of all land titles in Vineyard Haven north of the creek in front of the hospital.

Isaac Chase was twice married; first to Mary, daughter of Isaac Perkins of Hampton, Feb. 20, 1673, by whom he had no issue; second to Mary Tilton, probably sister of Samuel of Hampton and Chilmark, Oct. 5, 1675, by Rev. John Mayhew. By his second marriage he had six sons and six daughters, who left a large progeny here and in Nantucket. He was a man of sterling worth and scrupulous honesty, and his life was singularly free from contentions and litigations with his neighbors.

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Isaac married Mary Tilton on 5 Oct 1675 in Vineyard Haven, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA. Mary was born about 1658 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 14 Jun 1746 in Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in South End Cemetery, Vineyard Haven, Dukes, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Chase