Susan C. Mason1

b. 1848 or 1849, d. before 1920
  • Reference: 0060fgs
  • Last Edited: 28 Nov 2012

Family: Edwin C. Langley b. December, 1843

Citations

  1. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, , Vol: 200 ; Page: 126.
  2. 1880 United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 federal population census, Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Service, ([19--]) , Census Place: Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: 543; Family History Film: 1254543; Page: 362C; Enumeration District: 433; Image: 0367.
  3. 1920 United States. Bureau of the Census. 14th census, 1920 population census schedules, Washington, District of Columbia: The National Archives, ([193-?]) , Census Place: Somerville Ward 7, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: T625_718; Page: 3B; Enumeration District: 453; Image: 340.
  4. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, , p. 105, no. 264.
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Susanna Mason1

b. September, 1729
  • Last Edited: 19 Oct 2016

Family: Samuel Soden of Cambridge b. perhaps 1727

Citations

  1. Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, , at https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam121bond . Boston: Little,Brown & Company, (1855) , p. 357-358.
  2. Henry Bond, Family Memorials: Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston; to which is Appended the Early History of the Town, Vol. 1, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=fIc-AAAAYAAJ . Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1855) , p. 441.
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Susanna Mason1

b. September 25, 1775, d. March 19, 1856
  • Last Edited: 18 Dec 2015

Citations

  1. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Boston: Wright & Potter Print. Co., (1914) , Vol. 1, p. 470.
  2. Walter Eliot Thwing, The Livermore Family of America, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=88xHAQAAMAAJ . Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, (1902) , p. 56.
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Susanna Mason1

b. September 25, 1779
  • Reference: 0442bds
  • Last Edited: 19 Aug 2016

Citations

  1. Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1635-1850, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=vs8UAAAAYAAJ . Boston: Beacon Press, ([1891?]) , p. 248.
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Susanna Ellen Mason1,2

b. 1846/47
  • Last Edited: 12 Dec 2016

Citations

  1. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZ6-55Q : 9 November 2014), Semeon Mason, Madison county, Madison, Missouri, United States; citing family 651, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  2. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZV-44Z : 30 December 2015), Simeon Mason, 1860.
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Susie Ada Mason1

b. June 11, 1859, d. February 2, 1903
  • Reference: 0240bfbc
  • Last Edited: 16 Apr 2022

Citations

  1. https://archive.org/details/COLL_132.3.2.1/page/n143/mode/2up?q=mason+susie
  2. 1870 United States. Census Office. 9th census, Population schedules of the ninth census of the United States, 1870, Washington, District of Columbia: The National Archives, (1962, 1968) , Census Place: Bethel, Oxford, Maine; Roll M593_550; Page: 32; Image: 66. (With few exceptions, names are listed exactly as they appear on the census.).
  3. 1880 United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 federal population census, Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Service, ([19--]) , FHL Film 1254484; National Archives Film T9-0484; Page 27C.
  4. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1962/images/31515_204295-01632
  5. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113811736/susie-ada-mason
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Thaddeus Mason Esq.1

b. December 27, 1706, d. May 1, 1802
  • Reference: 6148hbae
  • Last Edited: 25 Apr 2022

Citations

  1. http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Cambridge/Images/Cambridge_D653.shtml
  2. Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=3MUMAAAAYAAJ . Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., (1913) , p. 412.
  3. http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Cambridge/Images/Cambridge_M258.shtml
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Thomas Mason1

b. January 28, 1758, d. March 28, 1841
  • Last Edited: 5 Sep 2016

Family: Lydia Dane of Gloucester b. perhaps 1760, d. May 27, 1791

Citations

  1. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Boston: Wright & Potter Print. Co., (1914) , Vol. 1, p. 470.
  2. Lucius Robinson Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630-1877: With a genealogical register, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc00AQAAMAAJ . New York, Cambridge: H. O. Houghton and Company, (1877) , p. 607.
  3. Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
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Thomas Mason1

b. perhaps 1575
  • Thomas Mason was born perhaps 1575. Parentage uncertain.1
  • He was the son of Hugh Mason.1
  • Last Edited: 17 Jan 2016

Citations

  1. Jane Fletcher Fiske, "The English Background of Hugh Mason of Watertown, Massachusetts", The American Genealogist, Vol. 78, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=tQ8oAQAAMAAJ . (2003) , pp. 161-4.
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Thomas Mason1

b. March 12, 1787, d. May 8, 1843
  • Last Edited: 5 Sep 2016

Citations

  1. Lucius Robinson Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630-1877: With a genealogical register, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=Yc00AQAAMAAJ . New York, Cambridge: H. O. Houghton and Company, (1877) , p. 607.
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Virginia Mason of Salt Lake City1

b. perhaps 1959
  • Last Edited: 24 Dec 2021
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Dr. Walter Harry Mason Ph.D.1

b. between 1934 and 1935, d. April 24, 2012
  • Reference: 0240bfbeab
  • Last Edited: 2 Jan 2022
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William Mason1

b. July 31, 1779, d. December 13, 1798
  • Last Edited: 18 Dec 2015

Citations

  1. Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Boston: Wright & Potter Print. Co., (1914) , Vol. 1, p. 470.
  2. Walter Eliot Thwing, The Livermore Family of America, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=88xHAQAAMAAJ . Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, (1902) , p. 56.
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William Mason1

b. January 22, 1614/15
  • Last Edited: 17 Jan 2016

Citations

  1. Jane Fletcher Fiske, "The English Background of Hugh Mason of Watertown, Massachusetts", The American Genealogist, Vol. 78, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=tQ8oAQAAMAAJ . (2003) , pp. 161-4.
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William Bond Mason1

b. February 9, 1769, d. September 26, 1814
  • William Bond Mason was born on February 9, 1769 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

    At the age of 21, he joined the little band of 48 pioneers and under command of Rufus Putnam arrived at Marietta, April 7, 1788. Senator Hoar said of the 48 pioneers at his speech in Marietta, "Of all the men of the world they were the first to form the government. There were never men better calculated to settle the country. We can measure them, they are the high water mark."

    President Hayes said, "They went to school, and are miniature George Washington's, all of them." G.R. Gear, said on July 15, 1888, "They were men of industry, integrity and uprightness. They were God-fearing men, men who respected God's word and the Sabbath." In July 1888, Mary A Livermore said, "They were Grand Men. Some of the best blood of the world ran through their veins. The world has never seen grander more versatile, more self-poised men." Too much can scarcely be said in praise of them. It could be said of them as it has been said of the earlier Pioneers. "They built indeed better than they knew. Of the full meaning of their works, and of their own future fame as its authors, some of them had any adequate conception, and but few had dimly dreamed. Neither they nor their works could be fairly judged in their time, for they saw but the beginnings of an experiment.

    Only in the light of a hundred years of trial can the works of the pioneers and the pioneers themselves be fairly judged. Looking back across the years we see their figures stand out clear on the sky line of our history."

    Agree with Senator Hoar that there could have been chosen no better men to settle the country and thus have a part in shaping the future of the state than these pioneers of who William Mason was one. He was sober, honest and just, quiet, industrious and religious. He was not always foremost in civil affairs because of his retiring nature, but every good enterprise had his support. giving one's every effort to the upholding of all good and the destruction of all evil in whatever guise or station is noble. The homely saying of "Jack of all trades and master of none" did not prove true in his case. He was a soldier and Minister, cabinet maker and farmer all at one time, and was eminently successful in every one. He filled all positions of trust and with what devotion he served his God.

    William Mason's cabinet-work was perfect. Some of the household furniture of Rufus Putnam, as well as that of many other early settlers was his handiwork. His son William, inherited this love for fancy carpentry. In fact a love for this work, as well as his tools descended to the fourth generations of William's. Some furniture made by him is the possession of his descendants. At his death the farm went to Jonas Mason, and from him to Jonas' nephew and his sons. The northern portion of the original farm was sold to William Mason and came by inheritance to Mary Eliza Mason and her brother at the time of Mary's fathers death, but was sold by them in 1891.

    William Mason was a member of the A.U.L. No. 1 Freemasons until his death. On their books of more that 150 years ago is the "Register of Names of the Members of the A.U.L No. 1 holding at Marietta." They held their meetings in Union Hall. He was Stewart and Tyler. After moving to Adams Twp. he could not attend the meetings regularly, but paid his dues and was a member in good standing at the time of his death. In the same old book Belpre, Ohio is spelled Bellepre. Their accounts were kept in dollars, dimes, cents and mills, and even the half mill.

    The men who came here April 7, 1788 were not adventurers, drawn hither by a love for gold. They came with high and lofty purpose. Their impelling motive was to obtain homes for themselves and their families. They were accustomed to good society and good government, and desired to continue the same. Thomas Ewing says, "The physical difficulties to be overcome in the way and the dangers attending settlement would have appalled any but the hardest of men impelled by a great and unselfish purpose." Their first acts after those of preparing a defense were to establish government, homes, churches and schools.

    The Ohio Company had ordered that 4 surveyors and 22 men to attend them should be employed, and that there would be added to this number 20 other men. This company was composed of 6 boat builders, 4 house carpenters, 1 blacksmith, and 1 common workmen. They were to be boarded and paid by the company, at the rate of $4.00 per month. The whole number consisting in all the 48 men, was divided into two companies. The boat builders and mechanics, in all about 20 or 22 men, under the charge of Major Hatfield White, formed the first party and started from Danvers, Massachusetts, on December 1, 1787, and reached Simmerill's Ferry on the Youghiogheny River, 30 miles from Pittsburgh on the 23rd of January. The surveyors, Col. Ebenezer Sprout, Col. Putnam, John Matthews, Jonathan Meigs, Anslem Tupper, and their attendants at Hartford, Connecticut and started the last of January. On account of the heavy snow on the mountains they did not join the first party until February 14. Crossing the mountains, they had to stop and build sleds to which they harnessed the horses' the men had to go on and break the way through the snow for the horses. That they surmounted this and all trials and hardships with great perservance cannot be denied. This was only a foretaste of what they were to endure in the near future. The rest of February and all of March was spent in getting the boats ready. The flotilla consisted of a galley, a flat boat and 3 canoes. Union Galley or Adventure Galley as the larger boat was sometimes called but afterward was found to be too large and unwieldy for practical use. She was decked over, high enough for a man to walk under without stopping. The second boat was a flat boat of about three tins burden, which was designed to be used as a ferry boat and was called the Adelphia.

    It was April, and the trees that bordered either side of the river were putting on their robe of green. Trees of such magnitude gave evidence of depth and richness of soil such as was not seen in New England, a sight that most of these emigrants had never seen in any country before. It was very encouraging no doubt, to the emigrants to know that THE OHIO COUNTRY was to be their future home, was so near and was such a land of promise.

    They started down the Youghiogheny River on April 1st. On the morning of the 7th clouds obscured the sun and rain fell during a considerable part of the day. as they passed Kerrs Island, Captain Devol said to General Putnam, ÒI think it is time to take an observation. We must be near the mouth of the Muskingum.Ó The clouds and fog and spreading branches of the sycamore trees so obscured their vision that although many were watching anxiously for the long talked of Muskingum, they did not see it until they had gone past. They landed below Fort Harmar and Major Doughty, the commander, sent some men from the fort to help the others make a landing. It was high noon when they landed on the east bank of the Muskingum and planted, not a leaden plate, but the corner stone of the Buckeye state. Monday, April 7, 1788 was thus made memorable. The workmen began at once to clear the forest and erect temporary habitations. In a few days the surveyors began their work of laying out the town. During a meeting of the Directors, it was resolved that the city be called Marietta.

    Sixty chains from the Ohio and at a short distance from the Muskingum a stockade fort was built at the expense of the company. In form it was a regular parallelogram the sides of which were each 180 feet in length. They were all 2 stories high, of sawed logs, the required length, 4Ó thick and put together with hand made nails and were covered with shingle roofs and furnished with brick chimney made on the grounds by men of experience. It must be remembered that the logs for this building were sawed by hand and the shingles were split from oak blocks previously sawed the required length. After the shingles were spilt were sloped at one end with an axe. Besides the row of windows in the first and second story, there were loop-holes for musketry. at he four corners there were block houses higher than the houses which formed the curtains or sides of the fort. The blockhouses also protected beyond the sides of the stockade about 6 feet. The first story was 20 feet square, and the second projected two feet over the first, making it 24 feet square. These housed were each covered with roofs which were four square. Three of these houses were mounted by watch towers enough for 4 men. On the other was a tower capped with a cupola in which the bell was placed. The watch towers were found inconvenient of access after the Indian War broke out and small, square bastions were built at each angle of the stockade for the accommodation of the sentries. The sides were about 6 feet. They were not roofed and were supported by posts at the angles. The floor was lower than that of the second story of the blockhouses. Cannon were placed in the Northeast and Southwest Towers. Gates were hung in the south and west sides of the square. Over them was a house, like the corner blockhouse, intended for protection of the gate in case of an attack. Public religious worship and court was held in the northwest blockhouse. The open yard or court within was 140 feet square and inside this, probably in the center, a well was dug 80 feet deep. Rows of palings were placed from corner to corner of the blockhouse, sloping outward at an angle of 45 degrees, and supported by posts and railing. At a distance of 20 feet from these sharp pickets, and surrounding the entire work was a line of heavy palings 8 or 10 feet in height; and again outside of this there was an abatis formed by bough of trees with the smaller limbs pointed and projecting outward. This fortification was called Campus Martius. At a place father down the Muskingum, called ÒThe PointÓ there were 25 dwellings erected this same season.

    Six families came on the 19th of August. Among them, were the families of Major Asa Coburn, and his son-in-law Andrew Webester. Miss Susannah Coburn then a young girl was afterward married to William Mason. Col. Ichabod Nye says ÒThe winter began with a hundred or more in the settlement.Ó They passed through a pestilence of smallpox, a famine and a five year war. Thomas Ewing was given a public dinner at Marietta Sept. 2,1837. Judge Ephraim Cutler was President of the day, and on of the Vice President was William Mason.

    William Mason owned and probably built, one of the two story houses which composed the west or southwest side of Campus Martius, as shown in both views. Here he and his family dwelt until 1796 when he removed his farm which was in Adams Township, ten or twelve miles up the Muskingum. Here the conqueror of all found him Sept. 13, 1813, but death had no victory, for now he lives in fame though not in life. Having been one of the "Hardy, heroic, devoted men who , fearing God feared nothing else, erected here and everywhere in our land alters to the true God, founded schools for their children, established institutions of law, liberty and a pure morality of general and exalted Piety.Ó ÒA life well spent reaches forward and influences the ages."

    Mary A Livermore says, "Men never grow grand, never very great, never become Godlike unless they are associated with and stimulated by women of equal magnitude of character. The women of early times were as heroic and patriotic as the men."

    The endurance of one was only equaled by that of the other. In times of peace they were real helpmates and in times of war they were the greater sufferers. The work of patient waiting was harder to bear than active serving.

    The women of these times are worthy to be held in grateful remembrance as having had a large share in securing for us a free country, in which the inhabitants are blessed with civil and religious liberty.

    The men of the Revolutionary War, and the men composing the settlement at Marietta, never could have accomplished what they did if the women had not borne well their part. It is surprising the amount of hard work they did. This whit their exposure and constant dread of savage warfare, was enough to destroy both mind and body.

    The wife of William Mason was one of these heroic women, who through perils of every kind surrounded her on all sides, lived a long and useful life. She, like most others of her day was moral and religious and unswerving in allegiance to right and duty; evidence of this is her church history. It is not known when she firs united with the church, but her name is found on the first records, and if it is true, as has been supposed, that she was a member before 1788 then she must have been a Christian for nearly 70 years. Susannah was 14 years old when she came to Marietta with her parents, Major Coburn and Mary (McClure) Coburn. They were in the company of first families to arrive August 19, 1788. Her brother in-law, Andrew Webster, then a widower came in the same company bringing with him part of his family. His son Andrew was a baby and was carried by Susannah all the way. Adelphia came afterward and was married to his cousin. Susannah's mother died probably between January and April 1790 of smallpox. Her father died at Waterford 1797 during the Indian War. What her life was before she came to Ohio can only be guessed at. What other girls in Revolutionary times did, no doubt she did. She was on year old when her father joined the Army; and for eight years war was all around her. The 5 years between 1783 and 1788 are the years about which very little can now be learned. she spent some of this time undoubtedly in acquiring the various household duties and in study, for she was a good student and well informed. The new home that her parents had chosen for the family was the border land of another battle ground, but fortunately only the border. After they left "The Point" and dwelt inside the stockade they were never attacked by the Indians.2
  • He was the son of Joseph Mason and Grace Bond.2
  • William married Susannah Coburn on July 14, 1790, by Benjamin Tupper, Judge of County Court of Common Pleas.1
  • William died on September 26, 1814 in Adams Township, Washington County, Ohio, at age 45.1
  • Last Edited: 30 Nov 2016

Family: Susannah Coburn b. March 17, 1774, d. September 1, 1855

Citations

  1. http://www.ohgen.net/ohwashin/mason-william.html
  2. Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, , at https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam121bond . Boston: Little,Brown & Company, (1855) , pp. 358-62.
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William Bond Mason1

b. October 12, 1799, d. August 6, 1853
  • Last Edited: 30 Nov 2016
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William Wallace Mason1

b. March 10, 1834, d. June 27, 1892
  • Father: Ayers Mason1 b. December 30, 1800, d. June 14, 1890
  • Mother: Eunice Hale1 b. December 8, 1799, d. July 19, 1865
  • Reference: 0240bfe
  • D.O.T.
  • William Wallace Mason was born on March 10, 1834 in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine.1
  • He was the son of Ayers Mason and Eunice Hale.1
  • William Wallace Mason was a farmer, also a dealer in cattle, sheep and meats He had interests in timber lands and lumbering, in which he was very successful.2
  • He was a member of Bethel Lodge, No. 97, being the first Mason in Bethel, an acting officer and also on a committee to open a lodge at Bethel Hill on June 14, 1860.
  • In 1861 William Wallace Mason was in the militia.
  • William married Hepsibah Eames Kimball on November 3, 1865.3
  • The census of June, 1880 shows:
    William Mason in the household of
    Ayers Mason
    living at Bethel, Oxford County, Maine.4

  • William Wallace Mason died on June 27, 1892 in Bethel, Oxford County, Maine, at age 58 on the homestead of his father, Ayers Mason.
  • Last Edited: 22 Aug 2016

Family: Hepsibah Eames Kimball b. July 27, 1834, d. February 5, 1925

Citations

  1. "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F43J-QXH : 4 December 2014), William Wallace Mason, 10 Mar 1824; citing CIVIL, BETHEL, OXFORD, MAINE; FHL microfilm 10,606.
  2. William B. Lapham, History of Bethel: formerly Sudbury, Canada, Oxford County, Maine, 1768-1890; with a brief sketch of Hanover and family statistics, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=4vUgAQAAMAAJ . Augusta, Me.: Press of the Maine Farmer, (1891) , p. 588.
  3. William B. Lapham, History of Bethel: formerly Sudbury, Canada, Oxford County, Maine, 1768-1890; with a brief sketch of Hanover and family statistics, , at https://books.google.com/books?id=4vUgAQAAMAAJ . Augusta, Me.: Press of the Maine Farmer, (1891) , p. 575.
  4. 1880 United States. Census Office. 10th census, 1880 federal population census, Washington, District of Columbia: National Archives and Records Service, ([19--]) , FHL Film 1254484; National Archives Film T9-0484; Page 28B.
  5. "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N48H-S68 : 17 February 2016), Herman Mason and Pauline Wilson Dodge, 27 Jun 1906; citing Gleasondale, , Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,298.
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