Ahnentafel #1086 - John Mason

Major John Mason

Born: ca. 1600, England

Died: between May 9 & June 6, 1672 Norwich, Connecticut

Buried: Norwich Burying Ground

Married: 

1) (--?--) by 1638 in England or in Connecticut. 

2) Anne Peck, July 1639, Hingham, Massachusetts

Occupation:  Soldier, served in English army under Lord Fairfax in the Netherlands fighting on behalf of the Dutch against Spain. In 1630 he was in Sir Horace Vere's forces engaged in the battle of Bois-le-Duc.

• Made Captain by 1637
• Made Major June 1654

Magistrate:

• Deputy for Dorchester to Massachusetts Bay General Court, March 4, 1634/35, Sept. 2, 1635
• Connecticut Deputy Governor: May 1660, May 1661, May 1662, October 1662, May 1663, May 1664, May 1665, May 1666, May 1667, May 1668

Notebooks - Dad's Families No. 7 - Part 2

Branthover, W.R. Revolutionary War Soldiers Buried in Franklin County, Vermont, Georgia, VT: Georgia Historical Society, nd

Rowland Powell b. ca. 1750, d. 1838, bur. Troy Street Cemetery, Tombstone (old) RP 37. Tombstone (new) Rowland Powell died 1838, Revolutionary War Veteran and his wife Mary Janes 1753-1813.  Military Record: Served in Capt. Joshua Hazen's Company, Col. Wood's Regt., which marched to the alarm at Brookfield, Oct. 1780.

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Draper, Cecil. A Branch of the Draper Family, Denver, CO: Draper, 1969.

References:

• Draper, Thomas. The Drapers of America, New York, 1892
• Sellers, Edwin. Early History of the Draper Family of Sussex County Delaware, Philadelphia, PA: Sellers, 1929

1. James Draper, the first of this branch of the family thus far identified with certainty, was probably born in Delaware, or rather in one of "the three counties upon the Delaware," as the area was then called, most likely in either Sussex or Kent County, at a guess about 1746 to 1748. He

Notebooks - Dad's Families No. 5

New England Towns in 1700

Calder, Isabel. The New Haven Colony, New Haven, CT: Yale University President, 1936

At this stage in the evolution of a colonial government the plantation-colony of New Haven was invited to join a confederation of the Puritan colonies of New England. Such a confederation had first been proposed in August, 1637, soon after the arrival of the Davenport company in New England, when representatives of the towns on the Connecticut River visited the Bay Colony in connection with the Pequot War and the Hutchinsonian controversy. At this time five proposals made by some of the assistants of Massachusetts Bay proved acceptable to the magistrates and people of Connecticut, but a sixth, providing for the reference of intercolonial disputes to commissioners to be appointed by the colonies, the decision of a majority of the commissioners to be accepted as final, met with opposition. In May, 1638, John Haynes, William Pynchon, and John Steele of Connecticut laid before the general court of Massachusetts Bay at Newtown revised articles providing for the reference of intercolonial disputes to commissioners, the decision of the latter to be accepted as final only if unanimous. The Bay Colony seized upon this opportunity to advance its claim to Agawam or Springfield, most northerly of the river towns. The delegation from Connecticut assented to the claim, but Massachusetts demanded the assent of the general court of the colony. When

Notebooks - Dad's Families No. 4, Part 2

Allen, James, comp. Joshua Perry of Granville, Bute & Warren Counties, North Carolina, Rocky Mount, NC, Allen, 1999.

The purpose of this research is to provide historical and genealogical information about Joshua Perry, who came to North Carolina from (probably) Virginia in the 1740s. The data presented herein as accurate as I could make it, but I realize that there are errors and omissions. Therefore, I urge extreme caution when using and citing this report. 

This report is constructed as a research tool, and a beginning point for others conducting genealogical research. . . . It has been said by authorities in the field that genealogical compilations such as this one should never be cited without verifying that original sources are correct. I agree completely with this philosophy. Whenever possible, primary documents rather than secondary sources should be consulted. 

My research and that of others has failed to find a single primary source that

Notebook - Dad's Families No. 4, Part 1

French, Janie & Zella Armstrong. Notable Southern Families, Vol. V, Chattanooga, TN: Lookout Publishing, nd - available on Ancestry

Shenandoah Valley Pioneers, by Cartmell - Names of pioneers who settled South of the line between the Augusta and Frederick Counties, where deeds were recorded in Orange County between the years 1739 and 1744. This class of pioneers purchased large tracts from what has been called the Beverly Grant . . . The pioneers who had deeds represent a large class of the English, Scotch and Irish immigrants, who pressed further south, beyond the mountains north of Harrisburg. Among this class . . . George Robinson, James Robinson . . . and many more settled in Augusta about the time of the 1st court of Augusta 1745. 

Margaret Crockett, daughter of Samuel, Jr. - born 1776, md. Col. John Ingles in 1794. She died 1810. John Ingles was the youngest son of William Ingles & Mary Draper, who was captured by the Indians, held captive for many years,

Notebook - Dad's Families No. 2

Bridgman, Thomas. Inscriptions on the Grave Stones in the Grave Yards of Northampton and of Other Towns in the Valley of the Connecticut, as Springfield, Amherst, Hadley, Hatfield, Deerfield, &c. with Brief Annals of Northampton, Northampton, MA: Hopkins, Bridgman & Co., 1850.

Account of the Battle Monument at Bloody Brook

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Descendants of Rev. John Lathrop, unidentified handout, nd

Rev. John Lathrop was born at Etton, Yorkshire, England 20 December 1581, Later he came to the colonies and died 8 November 1653 in Barnstable, Massachusetts. John had nine children. The following list six of them. John was one of 22 children of Thomas Lowthroppe, who was born at Cherry Burton, England 19 Jun 1536 and died in October 1606.

Much of the following was furnished to me by Dr. Frederic Lathrop, a pediatrician of Plainfield, NJ and other parts were compiled by my late grandmother, Emma Reed Clark, who was the wife of George Burt Clark who is listed herein.

Lines of descent to famous people, numbers indicate generation

1. Rev. John Lathrop
2. Jane Lathrop
3. John Fuller
4. Thomas Fuller
5. Nathan Fuller
6. Elihu Fuller
7. William Fuller
8. John Fuller

Ahnentafel #543 - Priscilla Mason

Priscilla Mason

Born: October 1641 in Windsor, Connecticut
Died: after 1710

Buried: Unknown

Married: Rev. James Fitch, October 2, 1664 in Norwich, Connecticut as his second wife.

Records:
1651 - July 24 - Hingham, Norfolk, England - Priscilla age ten and her six siblings mentioned in their grandfather Robert Peck's will:

Item I give to the children of Anne Mason my daughter wife of captain John Mason of Seabrooke on the river connecticut in new England the sume of Forty pounds to be devided equally unto them and to be sent to my sonne John Mason to dispose of it for their use within 2 years after my death.  

The will was probated in London April 10, 1658. 

1664 - Oct. 2 - Norwich, CT - Mr. James Fitch Pastor of the Church of christ at Norwich was maried With Mrs. Prissilla Mason the Daughter of Major Mason of Norwich was in October Ano Dom: 1664.  

Research Log: Fitch Sermon re: Anne Mason, Part II

The conclusion of Rev. James Fitch's sermon honoring Anne (Peck) Mason.  

The Second Particular follows, what our duty is in observing these observable things; The Lord calls us to mark and behold:

Quest. What is the making and beholding?

Ans. It's an affectionate Attention of the minde, It's as when the eye affects the heart, and the heart being affected keeps the eye looking upon the Object, you have the like expression in another place, used by Jobs friends to Job Job 33:31, Mark well. Oh Job, and hearken to me, hold thy peace and I will speak, Oh mark well the life and latter end of the upright! Oh hearken to what the Lord improves to the Prophet, when he would prepare him for the Visions of the Ordinances of his House, Ezek 44.5 The Lord said, Son of Man, mark well, and behold with thine Eyes, & hear are with thine Ears all that I say to thee, concerning the Ordinances of mine House, and mark well the entring into it; But in my Text the Lord Saith, Mark the perfect and behold the upright, it's as if the Lord had said, as I wou'd have you mark well and behold mine Ordinances, so I do require you

Research Log - Fitch Sermon re: Anne Mason

Anne (Peck) Mason was born 1618 in Hingham, Norfolk, England, the daughter of the Rev. Robert & Anne (Lawrence) Peck.  She immigrated to Massachusetts with her family at age 19 arriving in 1638.  The next  year she married Major John Mason and moved to Windsor, Connecticut.  Two years later her parents went back to England during the Long Parliament and the English Civil War.  Anne & John Mason had seven children.  Anne (Peck) Mason died in Norwich, Connecticut in 1672 and this is the sermon her son-in-law the Rev. James Fitch wrote in her honor.

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Peace

The End of the Perfect and Upright,

Demonstrated and usefully Improved in a

Sermon,

Preached upon the Occasion of the Death and Decease of that

Piously Affected and truly Religious Matron,

Mrs. Anne Mason

Sometime Wife to Major Mason, who not long

After finished his Course, and is now at rest.

Notebook - Connecticut No. 2

Cutter, William, ed. Genealogical & Family History of the State of Connecticut, Vol. II, New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1911.

Thomas Fitch, the English progenitor, was born in England about 1590, died in 1645. He inherited an estate near Braintree, Essex county, England.  He married, August 8, 1611, Annie Pew. After his death the widow and three sons came to New England, where two sons had already located. Children, mentioned in will: 1. Thomas, came to America in 1638, settled in Norwalk; in 1663 was one of the wealthiest citizens, from whom in three generations each bearing the name of Thomas Fitch, descended Governor Thomas Fitch, who was at the head of the colony of Connecticut from 1754 to 1760.  2. John, of Windsor; left no issue.  3. James, mentioned below. 4. Nathaniel. 5. Jeremy. 6. Samuel, of Hartford. 7. Joseph, settled in Norwalk in 1652; in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1655; of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1660; married Mary, daughter of Rev. Samuel Stone, a founder of Hartford; removed to Windsor. 8. Mary. 9. Anna. 10. Sara. The will of Thomas Fitch, of Bocking, Essex county, England, is dated 11 December, 1632, proved 12 February, 1632 (O.S.).

Research Log - New London County, Connecticut

There are a couple places where many of our families meet and stay for more than a generation.  New London County Connecticut is one of these places.  More specifically the towns of New London, Norwich and Lebanon.  Dates are approximate times when person lived in the named town

New London - settled 1646, named 1658 is located at the mouth of the Thames River on Long Island Sound and has an excellent harbor. 

"The Indian name of New London," says Trumbull, "was Nameaug, alias Towawog." The first was undoubtedly the prevalent name: it was used, with many variations in the spelling, to designate both the site of the town and the natives found upon it. The Indian names are all descriptive, and this is supposed to mean a fishing place, being compounded of Namas, fish, and eag, aug, eak, terminations which signify land. 

The other name, Tawaw-wog, is not often found on record: it occurs however, as an alias, in several deeds, about the date of 1654. It is probable that this also has a reference to fish; and may be derived from Tataug or Tatau-og, black-fish, for which the neighboring waters are still renowned.

Research Log - Map of Norwich

Notebook - Connecticut No. 1

Allis, Marguerite. Historic Connecticut, New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, nd.

Further excursion among the stones revealed monuments to five Lathrops and six Leffingwells.  Still musing, the Pilgrim trudged off beside the meadows to where the two Old Lathrop Houses face one another across the brink of Washington Street. [Norwich, CT]

The lower one stands on land Samuel Lathrop inherited from his mother, but his seventeenth century house was burned in 1745.  Dr. Daniel Lathrop, his grandson, was responsible for the present structure, yet it cannot be said that he built it, for there is no way of knowing how much was reclaimed from the former damaged abode.  It is quite possible that this very kitchen saw Mohegan Indians lying before the fire of an autumn night, for the Lathrops would never close their doors against the original owners of the soil, and Colonel Simeon, one of Samuel's sons, was a great sympathizer with the wrongs of the Mohegans. 

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Barber, John. Connecticut Historical Collections, New Haven, CT: Durrie & Peck & J.W. Barber, nd

Norwich, Lebanon, New London, Windsor, New Haven, Farmington, Norwalk, Saybrook, Guilford, Stonington, Hartford, East Hartford

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Barbour, Lucius. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1977. 

Notebook - Massachusett No. 1

Barber, John. History and Antiquities of Every Town in Massachusetts, Worcester, MA: Dorr, Howland & Co., 1839. 

Barnstable County incorporated in 1685, description of the county

Barnstable is the county town of Barnstable county, and is a port of entry.  It was incorporated September 3d, 1639. There is no particular account to be found of the first settlement of this town.  Probably there was none made much before its incorporation, as but two persons are named in the original grant.  "The Indian name of the place appears to have been Mattacheese, Mattacheest, or Mattacheeset,.   The church at Scituate being in a broken condition, the Rev. John Lothrop of that place removed with part of the church to Barnstable, in October, 1639, the same year the town was granted by the Old Colony.  It appears from the records which have been preserved, that all the south side of the town was amicably purchased of Wianno, and several other sachems, about 1650.  Three is reason to believe that all the north part was likewise purchased of the natives, although no record of it now remains.

The Rev. John Lothrop was the first minister in this town, as has been stated; his successor was the Rev. Thomas Walley, who was ordained in 1663 . . .

It has been stated "the West Barnstable church is the first independent Congregational church of that name in the world."  It was organized in 1616, in England, principally through the instrumentality of Rev. Henry Jacob, who was chosen and constituted its first pastor. 

Research Log

Janes Family Notes taken by me July 8, 1987

Greenwood Cemetery, St. Albans, Vermont
Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Catherine Janes who died Decr. 27 AD 1808 aged 24 years.  She was Catherine Bradford

In memory of Mrs. Mary wife of Horace Janes who died at St. Albans on the 18th day of June D. 1822 aged 44 years.  She was Mary Brown.   


Sacred to the memory of Jonathan Janes son of Horace & Catharine who died Dec. 9 AD 1808 AE 9.

John Mason

Major John Mason was born in England ca. 1601.  He was a lieutenant in the English army in the wars of the Netherlands, with his friend and companion-in-arms, Lord Thomas Fairfax, who was in General Horace de Vere's command at the siege of Bois-le-Duc from April to July, or about five months in 1630.

Norwich, Connecticut

Norwich, Connecticut is a hub of the Lathrop family.  Samuel & Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop moved there in 1668.  They were the first of four generations to live there through the American Revolution.  Their children married into Norwich families: Adgate, Crow, Perkins, Hodges, Leffingwell, Bushnell, Mason and Fitch among others. This is also the place where the name changes from LOthrop to LAthrop.

October - No Dates

Birthdays: 

1641 Priscilla Mason in Windsor, CT.  She was the daughter of Capt. John & Anne (Peck) Mason. 

1653 Hannah Adgate in Saybrook, CT the daughter of Thomas Adgate.  She died in 1695.

1655 Sarah Lathrop in New London, CT the daughter of Samuel & Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop.  She died in Wallingford, CT. in 1706

June no date

1650 – Anne Mason in Saybrook, CT the daughter of Capt. John & Anne (Peck) Mason.

1776 – Daniel Janes & Annie Saunders in Richford, VT.  Daniel born 1751 the son of Jonathan & Irene (Bradford) Janes.  The couple had 9 children.  Daniel died 1809 in Richford, VT.

1878 – Omer Cotterell son of Abraham & Clarinda (Lathrop) Cotterell.  He died in 1922.

June 17th

Happy Birthday!

1624 – Major William Bradford in Plymouth, MA the son of Gov. William & Alice (Carpenter) Bradford.  He married 1) Alice Richards ca. 1652 and they had ten children 2) Mary (Fitch) Wiswall in 1673 and had 1 son and 3) Mary Wood ca. 1676 and they had four children.  Alice Richards was born 1627 in England and died 1671 in Kingston, MA.  Mary Fitch the daughter of Thomas & Anne (Stacey) Fitch was born in 1643 and died 1675.  Mary Wood died ca. 1715.  William served as representative in Massachusetts government in 1657, was wounded in the Great Narragansett fight in 1675 at age 51 and served as deputy governor of Massachusetts from 1682 to 1687.  He died in Kingston, MA in 1704 and is buried at Burial Hill, Plymouth, MA.

Epitaph:

Here lies the body of ye honorable Major William Bradford, who expired Feb. ye 20th 1703-4, aged 79 years.

He lived long but still was doing good,

And in his countrys service lost much blood;

After a life well spent, he's now at rest,

His very name and memory is blest.

1909 – Hazel Henry in Sumner, IL the daughter of E.C. Henry & Rosa Shick.  She died 1983 in Onarga, IL and is buried in Sumner Cemetery, Sumner, IL.