Lt. John Mason

1674 - 1736  (62 years)

• Name	Lt. John Mason  [1]
  Birth	29 Jan 1674	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	Aft 4 Feb 1735  [3]
  Death	3 Nov 1736	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [1]
  Burial	Plain Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I39763	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel Mason,   b. Abt 1632, England d. 20 Sep 1691, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 59 years)
  Mother	Mary Holman,   b. Abt 1639, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. Aft 5 Aug 1700 (Age ~ 61 years)
  Marriage	29 May 1662	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 4]
  Notes	They were married by Governor John Endicott.
  Family ID	F23358	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mercy Merrick,   b. Oct 1674, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 16 Nov 1754, Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 80 years)
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Mason,   b. 1705   d. 8 Jan 1749 (Age 44 years)
  Family ID	F23356	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  "Just where and how he received his titles of Ensign and Lieutenant is not clear, but in 1700 he was a member of the first military company of Taunton and resided at the west end of the town. He was one of the selectmen there in 1718, 1719, 1723 to 1726, 1729 to 1731, 1733 and 1734. The History of Taunton states that he was ordered to impress soldiers into Queen Ann's War." [Josephine C. Frost, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2003] Ancestors of Amyntas Shaw and His Wife Lucy Tufts Williams by Josephine C. Frost. 1920. [S7126] Alfred Lyman Holman, "John Holman of Dorchester, Mass., and His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 72:185, 1918. [S7124] Genealogy of the Merrick-Mirick-Myrick Family of Massachusetts 1636-1902 by George Byron Merrick. Madison, Wisconsin: Tracy, Gibbs & Company, 1902. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.