HOVEY Sarah^[1]

1737 - 1814  (77 years)

• Name	HOVEY Sarah
  Birth	8 Sep 1737	Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [2, 3]
  Baptism	11 Sep 1737	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [4]
  	(Byfield Church.)
  Gender	Female
  _UID	FADA645B23DCD5118A064445535400003833
  Death	5 Oct 1814	Chester, Hampton, Massachusetts, United States   [2]
  Burial	Aft 5 Oct 1814	Auburn, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States   [5]
  	(Long Meadow Cemetery.)
  		Pike Chase monument Sarah (Hovey) Chase
  Notes	She was brought up by her uncle, Benjamin Pike, who apprenticed her at the age of 16 to Mrs. John Pearson, to learn the trade of dressmaker.
  Person ID	I45658	Noyes Family Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 May 2017

  
  

  Father	HOVEY Samuel   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	ILSLEY Mary,   b. 6 Oct 1707, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 18 Sep 1753, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (Age 45 years)
  Marriage	15 Sep 1732	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [6, 7]
  Family ID	F12714	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	CHASE Wells,   b. 9 Sep 1737, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 28 Dec 1824, Chester, Hampton, Massachusetts, United States (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	21 Feb 1760	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States   [2]
  Notes	For three years the young couple got a living, Chase by working as carpenter, laborer, farm hand, fishing and boating hay. Then for several years he carried on a farm on shares. In 1771 he bought for a small price 50 acres of wild land in Chester, and there he dug in and made his home. Now for the family finances in 1760 of Wells Chase. At his trade he got 45 cents a day, as laborer he got two shillings, 34 cents a day; hand moving he got 45 cents a day; one trip boating salt hay, employer 24 hours on [page 11] a stretch brought him 78 cents. He dug a grave for 28 cents, he sold fish he caught for 2 1/2 and three cents a pound. Sarah worked at her trade of dress making, both before and after their marriage, both in Newbury and Chester. Her pay was 24 cents a day; she made a whole dress for 28 cents. A most interesting entry was work done in Chester for a Gerrish family there. There were three women in the family and their combined weight was over 1,000 pounds. Mrs. Chase made careful entry of the amount of cloth, amount of whalebone used for "stays" and told how she made the dresses quilted in from hips to armpits. Also in her account book, she made an entry of the fact that in the winter of 1764 at Newbury and West Newbury she used snowshoes to go to her work. As one reads the story of these three generations of Ilsley blood and of the three generations that follow, with the Ilsley blood mixed with the Chase family the reader must remove his hat with reverence. Such courage, such industry, such frugality, such self sacrifice, such intelligence, resourcefulness all unite to make us see we are today so essentially inferior in so many ways to our ancestors. To them the serious minded man and woman of today pay homage. They were brave men and women, fine men and women, yes, great men and women. [Published in the The Newburyport Daily News; August 29, 1949; Vol. 22, No. 199] [8]
  Children	1. CHASE Benjamin Pike,   b. 28 Jun 1762, Newburywest Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States d. 16 Mar 1852, Auburn, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F17959	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Feb 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S7155] Periodical-The Descend-O-Gram, Volume XXVII - Number 4 Winter 2009, pages 10 and 11. [S2582] Book-Aquilla Chase and His Descendants, p.190. [S288] Book-VR Rowley, MA, 1:102. [S244] Book-VR Newbury, MA; Vol. I - Births, 1:229. [S86] Death-gravestone, Long Meadow Cemetery; Auburn, NH. [S876] Book-Descendants of George Abbott of Rowley, p.95, Gc 929.2 Ab28a v.2. [S281] Book-VR Newbury, MA; Vol. II - Marriages & Deaths, 2:240. [S7155] Periodical-The Descend-O-Gram.