Ancestors

Betsey Hadlock

Betsey Hadlock was born at Weare, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, on 24 March 1779, and recorded there as Betty, daughter of Jonathan Hadlock and Betty Pettee. Her father's family had come to Weare from Kingston. He served the Revolution in short militia turns, and in the summer of 1777 he marched with the Weare men under John Stark. She was the sixth of ten children: Abigail, who died a baby in 1769, Samuel, Hezekiah, Jonathan, Joseph, then Betty, Peter, Miriam, Rhoda and Stephen.

Before she was grown the whole family moved north to Bath, a farming town on the Ammonoosuc River in Grafton County. By 1798 her father and her brothers Samuel, Jonathan and Hezekiah were all on the Bath tax list, and her brother Joseph was there too. Every Hadlock household in the town that year was her father's or one of her brothers'. She was of Bath when she married Samuel Chase there on 13 November 1800. He was a joiner and a veteran of the Continental army, some eighteen years older than she was.

Her brothers stayed close. Samuel Hadlock was sued together with her husband in 1802. In 1811 her husband sold twenty-seven acres at Bath to Samuel and Hezekiah, who later sold the farm on and called it the land "formerly owned and occupied by Samuel Chase." Her children carried her family's names: Rhoda for her youngest sister, Jonathan for her father, and Joseph and Hezekiah for two of her brothers. Her daughter Dorothy Ann married Henry Dearborn Hadlock at Jay in 1837.

They were poor. Her husband's house burned in January 1817 with everything in it, and for three years the town of Bath helped support the family. In August 1820 he described her to the county court as "weakly of late years and unable to work but little." Three of the eight children were sickly: Rhoda and the six-year-old Anna "subject to the Phthisic," a word then used for asthma or a wasting cough, and Jonathan "subject to fits from his birth." The whole household was valued at forty dollars and fifty cents, down to two cracked cups and saucers and a broken chair.

Her children were born at Bath: Rhoda about 1801, Jonathan about 1803, Catherine, Joseph, Moses in 1810, Hezekiah in 1812, Dorothy Ann in 1814 and Christopher Columbus in 1816, and perhaps more after. The death record of her son Hezekiah H. Chase, who died at Monroe, New Hampshire, in 1884, names his parents as Samuel Chase and Betsey Hadlock.

Her father took the whole Hadlock family on from Bath to Jay, in Orleans County on the Canadian line of Vermont, and he and her mother died there. Her husband followed in 1829 to make a farm for their sons. On 5 August 1833 Betsey Chase of Jay, for 150 dollars, released to her sons Moses and Hezekiah Chase all her right in lot 11 of the second range at Jay, about one hundred acres. She could not write and signed with her mark. The first witness was an Anna Chase, very likely her daughter Dorothy Ann, who married at Jay four years later under that name. The deed puts Betsey alive a year after the death date of 1832 that a family genealogy gives.

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Cite: Heirology, "Betsey Hadlock (b. 1779)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/betsey-hadlock-1779-1832-9a75e4.