Family talk:Dean Chase and Lucretia Bigelow (2)

probably wrong [2 February 2014]

Lucretia would have been 16 in 1775, very untypical age to marry in New England. Therefore she was probably not the mother of all the children listed here. The will of her father identifies her as the wife of Dean Chase in 1786, and based on gaps in births, it looks like Lucretia, b. 1781, when she is 22, is her first child. The earlier two children probably belong to another mother, and sometime between 1777 and 1781, the first wife died, and the husband remarried to Lucretia. --Jrich 16:45, 2 February 2014 (UTC)