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The following brief memoir of the Chase Family was written for the Heraldic Magazine, at the request of the Editor, and is found in the number for October, 1868.

At the request of several of the descendants of the family living in New England, it is now reprinted. It was not the writer's intention to prepare at this time any extended account, from the materials at his command, of the history of the family in England or America. The present memoir embraces all of general interest to the descendants of the founders of Hampton and Newbury. It gives the pedigree of the family in several branches from the early part of the sixteenth century to the present time, and the arms which, in accordance with the rules of Heraldry, the lineal descendants of Thomas and Aquila Chase have the right to claim.