Gone "Mackerlin" - Paying Off A Step Father's Debts / George Washington Chase of Yarmouth, MA

 Gone “Mackerlin" - Paying Off A Step Father’s Debts


George Washington Chase

1821-1889

Yarmouth, MA

 


George Washington Chase was born in Harwich, Massachusetts on 19 July 1821; he died at Yarmouth of heart disease on 11 January 1889.  His parents were Jeremiah Chase and Betsey Nickerson.  Jeremiah Chase died before 28 December 1833 when marriage intentions were recorded for George W.’s mother Betsey and Lewis Long of Yarmouth.  


George W. married Nancy J. Brooks of Yarmouth who was a descendant of the indigenous tribe at Yarmouth through her father Thomas Greenough Brooks.  George W. Chase and Nancy J. (Brooks) Chase are my great great great grandparents; they had nine children.  I have posted a separate report on Nancy J. Brooks.  George Washington Chase appears in various records as “white” while his wife and children are identified as “Indian.




George W. was a boy of approximately 10-12 years when his father Jeremiah died.  Lewis Long and family lived in the Weir Village area of Yarmouth.  Lewis Long, mariner, was indebted to Edmund Robinson, mariner, of Yarmouth for a large sum of money - approximately $30.00.  In the Yarmouth Bill of Sales, Book 11, records show that on 25 January 1839 in consideration of $25.00 paid, Lewis Long gave to Edmund Robinson, one calf, a yearling steer, one clock, and one time piece.  Edmund Robinson gave an additional $10 to Lewis Long in consideration of Long transferring and assigning to Robinson and his heirs, all of Lewis Long’s right and interest in George Washington Chase, minor son of Jeremiah late of Harwich and Betsey Long (wife of Lewis Long) in connection with a demand Long had against David Hall of Yarmouth.  This record shows that Washington Chase, aged 17, had agreed to go on a “mackerlin” voyage on the Schooner Hall of Hingham at the rate of $18 a month.  George W. Chase did go on the voyage with David Hall from 3 June 1838 to 24 October 1838, and Lewis Long promised transfer of this debt due for George W.’s service to Robinson. According to the Hingham, Massachusetts History of Hingham Inner Harbor, in the 19th century mackerel was the primary fish sought by Hingham fishing schooners.



George’s sister Mary Ann married Edmund Robinson, and his brother Jeremiah married Cordelia Robinson who is Edmund’s niece and daughter of Edmund’s brother James.


Children of George W. and Nancy J.:


1. George Washington Chase, Jr. b. 1841, m. Sarah Hope (Ayre) Brown, 

            married  second Mary E. (Rogers) Baker.
2. Franklin Howes Chase b. 1843; m. Julia Etta Covill.
3. Nancy J. Chase b. 1841, m1. James Baker Nickerson; m2. William Baker.
4. Betsey Nickerson Chase b. 1847, m. David Howes.
5. Mary Ann Chase b. 1849; m1. Frederick Long, m2. Jacob Dunham.
6. Timothy Taylor Chase b. 1851, m. Adelia Covill (sister of Julia Etta).
7. Lucy Williams Chase b. 1854, d. 1871 of Typhoid Fever at age 17.
8. Luella Augusta Chase b. 1859, d. 1921, m.1 Bangs Howes, m.2 Charles

    Greenleaf.
9. Juan Chase b. 1861, m. Ellen May Anderson (Juan changed name to Charles).



Sources:


Yarmouth Book 11, Town Meeting Records 1790-1848, Yarmouth Historical Accounts, Records, Meetings, Militia Other, pp. 89-91.


Yarmouth Vital Records, Ancestry.com.


The Nickerson Family, Pauline Dixon Derick, The Nickerson Family Assoc., Inc. 1976.


Earle, John Milton, Report to the Governor and Council, Concerning the Indians of the Commonwealth Under the Act of 1859, Boston, 1861.










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