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Rh ::Ezekiel,$3$ bap. April 23, 1576.
 * Dorcas,$3$"March 2, 1578.
 * ,$3$ " Aug. 14, 1580,
 * Jason,$3$ " Jan. 13, 1583.
 * ,$3$ " July 18, 1585.
 * Abigail,$3$ " Jan. 12, 1588,
 * Mordecai,$3$ " July 31, 1591.

The discovery of the unique name of Aquila, found no where else in England, before or since, In any records of families bearing the name of Chase, was deemed conclusive proof by Mr. Somerby, as it has been since by other distinguished antiquarians, of the identity of the American with the English families. The date of birth coincided with another tradition lingering in some branches of the American family, that Aquila Chase, of Newbury, had called his first son, but the fifth child that was born to him, after his father's name as well as his own, "that Aquila the first was Aquila the second, too." The register at Chesham contains no other mention of Aquila, Thomas and Mordecai than the record of their births. Of the seven remaining children of Richard Chase, their marriages or deaths, in some cases both, are recorded. This shows that the three younger sons left Chesham, and lived and died elsewhere.

Aquila$3$ Chase married, and had


 * Thomas.$4$
 * Aquila,$4$ b. 1618.