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- From the church records kept by Rev. John Eliot: "William Chase, he
came with the first company, 1630; he brought one child his son
William. a child of ill qualitys and a sore affliction to his parents:
he was much afflicted by the long and tedious affliction of his wife;
after his wives recovery she bare him a daughter, which they named
Mary, born abt May 1637. he did after remove to Situate, but after
went with a company who maide a new plantation at Yarmouth." "Mary
Chase, the wife of William Chase. she had a paralitik humor which fell
into her back bone, so yt she could not stir her body, but as she was
lifted, and filled her with great torture, and caused her back bone to
go out of joint and bunch out from the begining to the end of which
infirmity she lay 4 years and a half and a great pt of the time a sad
spectakle of misery: But God pleased to raise her again and she bore
children after it."
In 1639 he removed to Yarmouth on Cape Cod, was appointed constable
for the town of Yarmouth by the General Court of the Plymouth Colony,
5Mar1639. His life at Yarmouth was not a peaceful one. Trouble with
Marmaduke mathewes brought him before the Court almost immediately, on
01Sep1640 he was censured for his "miscarriage" against Mr. Mathewes
and disturbance of proceedings of the church.
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