Samuel CHASE ³

  Notes:

It has not been possible to trace Samuel's ancestry, in part because he was a Baptist which limits the records, but there is convincing documentary evidence to show that he was a 'yeoman of Chesham' who subsequently moved to Luton. The coat of arms used by the Chase family of Buckinghamshire was inscribed on the Chase family tomb in the Baptist Burial ground in Luton. His two marriages are speculative: the first to Elizabeth Davey is the only one in Chesham to fit the date of birth of his son Samuel (qv); while the second to Mary Southen at Nettleden (mid-way between Chesham and Luton) is more certain as Mary was the sister-in-law of Thomas Marsom, the first Baptist Minister of the Luton Meeting House who was succeeded there by Samuel Chase jnr. Samuel snr was recorded in the 1722 Poll Book of Bedfordshire as a voter of Luton, but resident of Chesham. The burial register for St Mary Luton records him as 'rich man, dissenter', but his monumental inscription has not been traced, nor his will. At least some of his wealth was acquired through his second marriage.

Additional sources:
Freeman, C. E. (1947) Luton Baptist minute book, 1707-1806. Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, Volume XXV, p138-166.
PCC: Nathan Southen PROB11/518 dated 20-11-1710 (father-in-law)

Samuel married Elizabeth DABEY on 12 Oct 1676 in St Mary, Chesham, Buckinghamshire.¹

Samuel next married Mary SOUTHEN on 28 Sep 1714 in St Laurence, Nettleden, Buckinghamshire.² (Mary SOUTHEN was christened on 7 Jun 1658 in St Mary, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire ⁵.)