Ancestry of
Gerald Ford

38th U.S. President

William Chase

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Gerald Ford — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 114 
  • Father:
  • Ezra Chase 
  • Mother:
  • Judith Davis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Apr 1756 
  • Birth Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Dec 1838 
  • Death Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Abigail Gove
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Oct 1783 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Kensington, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
  • Child:

  Mary Chase (Ahnentafel No:57 )

• Sources for William Chase

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Marriages, Vol. 2, Page 139, Marriage for William Chase and Abigail Gove.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Births, Vol. 1, Page 63, Birth record for William Chase.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Deaths, Vol. 2, Page 373, Death record for William Chase.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Haverhill Births, Vol. 1, Page 62, Birth record for daughter Polly Chase.
  • ⁵ Chase, John Carroll and George Walter Chamberlain, Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Record Publishing Company (1928), 76, 148.
  • ⁶ Gove, William Henry, The Gove Book: History and Genealogy of the American Family of Gove and Notes of European Goves, Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley (1922), 91.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 159 (gives death date as 08 or 09 DEC 1838), 443, 494.