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Rh II. Stephen,$8$ b. Feb. 22, 1735; d. Dec. 1, 1739. III. Joshua,$8$ b. March, 1738. IV. Jane,$8$ b. January 7, 1740. V. Stephen$8$ b. June 22, 1742. VI. Mary,$8$ b. October 19, 1744. VII. John Wingate,$8$ b. August 14, 1749.

Stephen$8$ Chase, Merchant, of Portsmouth, was graduated at Harvard College in 1764. In 1778 he removed from Newcastle to Portsmouth, where he died in 1805. He was a gentleman of much literary culture, and was one of the founders of the Portsmouth Athenæum, for which he drew up the Constitution and By-Laws. He married Mary, daughter of Joseph Frost, Esquire, of Newcastle, and grand-daughter of the Honorable John Frost, who was born at Kittery, March 1, 1683, and who in early life, as an officer in the Royal Navy, commanded a British ship of war, and was of the Governor's Council in 1727. He married Mary, daughter of "William, and sister of the first Sir William Pepperrell, Baronet. The mother of Mary (Frost) Chase was Margaret, daughter of Samuel Colton of Springfield.

The children of Stephen$8$ Chase, of Portsmouth, were I. Joseph,$9$ b. April 22, 1772, m. Margaret Chesley, of Durham. II. William,$9$ b. Feb. 10, 1774, a merchant of Portsmouth m. Sarah Blunt, of Portsmouth; died, s. p., Aug. 30, 1834. III. Mary,$9$ b. Nov. 15, 1776, m. Edmund Toppan, Esq., of Portsmouth. IV. Harriet,$9$ b. Aug. 14, 1778, m. Oliver Crosby, Esq., of Dover, N. H.