-William and Mary Chase migrated as part of the John Winthrop Fleet in 1630 to Salem, Massachusetts. They were part of Stephen Bachilor’s company.  They were Puritans. They relocated to Scituate and then settled at Roxbury until the fall of 1637. During this period of time Mary was paralyzed for 4 and a half years, she could only be moved by being lifted and carried, then in great pain. They relocated to Yarmouth in November of 1637. William was Constable for Yarmouth in in 1639. On 1 September 1640 he was brought before the court and was censured for his “miscarriages” against Rev. Marmaduke Mathews and disturbance of the proceedings of the church, Court and country. He was a “Housewright”. He went to court against Nicholas Simpkins in a civil case. In addition he was brought before the Grand Jury for driving a yoke of oxen five miles on the Lord’s day. In 1645 he enlisted as a drummer in the expedition against the Narragansetts and was paid 5 shillings extra pay.   
 
In 1655 their son William Chase junior, was brought to court for going into the house of Richard Berry and taking away by violence a parcel of flax and a small parcel of hose yarn and was sentenced to sit in the stocks an hour a day at Yarmouth. In the next generation their son John married Elizabeth Baker, a daughter of Frances Baker and Elizabeth Twining.