Members of the Chase family, as has been mentioned earlier, were among
our earliest settlers. William Chase, 1st, and Mary, his wife, came to
America with Governor Winthrop in 1630 and settled in Roxbury, Mass.
One of his descendants, Stephen Chase, 5th, born in Durham, Maine, and
his wife, Hannah Blethen, born in Swansea, Mass., came to Unity in
1782. They raised a family of ten children, three boys and seven girls,
nearly all of whom settled in Unity. Descendants of the Chase family
have always remained with us as men respected and influential. George
C. Chase, born in this town, is now the president of Bates College, a
man well known in the educational circles of New England.