Mary Townley [5397]

  Medical Notes:

"Mary Chase, the wife of William Chase. She had a paralytic humor which fell into her backbone, so that she could not stir her body, but as she was lifted, and filled her with great torture, & caused her backbone to go out of joint, & bunch out from the beginning to the end of which infirmity she lay 4 years & a half, & a great part of the time a sad spectacle of misery. But it pleased God to raise her again, & she bore children after it."
In October 1659 a coroner's jury "having made search and inquiry, according to our best light and understanding, into the cause of the death of Mary Chase, viz: of our town of Yarmouth, do with joint consent present, the day and year abovesaid, that we can find no other but that she died a natural death through inward sickness, as is evident to all men naturally." ¹

Mary married William Chase [5396] [MRIN: 2034], son of Benjamin Chase [6577] and Martha Jelliman [6578], about 1627 in England. (William Chase [5396] was born on 4 Jan 1606/07 in Hundrick Parish, Chesham, Buckingham, England, died on 4 May 1659 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts and was buried in West Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.)

  Marriage Notes:

Children:
William Chase +
1621 \endash 1685
Mary Chase
1624 \endash 1637
Mary Chase +
1637 \endash
Benjamin Chase +
1639 \endash 1686