General Notes

[1235643.ged]

[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 12, Ed. 1, Tree #2528, Date of Import: Sep 28, 1998]

                 Genealogy of the Sampson Mason family
                              Page 29-30
    10-Pelatiah Mason, (1-Sampson) born 1, 1669 near Providence Ferry in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He married, May 22, 1694, Hepsibeth Brooks, daughter of Timothy and Mary (Russell) Brooks. She was born probably in Woburn, Massachusetts. about 1673 and died in Swansea, Massachusetts., Aug. 24, 1727. A tradition, probably from the records gathered by a gramdson of Pelatiah Mason, says that he marriage and the conveyances by Pelatiah Mason recorded after the death of his wife Hepsibeth, make no mention of a wife nor is there any release of dower. He was a tanner and shoemaker by trade and his homestead was on the highway leading from the Great Bridge now known as Myles Bridge -- to Mattapoisett, now Gardner's Neck in Swansea.  He made no will, having distributed his real estate among his sons some years prior to his death. April 28, 1724, he conveyed to his eldest son, Job Mason, a lot of forty acres of land probably adjoining his own homestead. Aug. 31, 1747, he coveyed to his sons Job, Russell and John, several lots of land for love and small sums of money and it is probable that these lots included all his real estate. He held several minor town offices in Swansea and appears to have to have been an active member of the Second Church. He died March 29, 1763 and is buried in a small family burial lot in an orchard  probably a part of the homestead conveyed to his son Job in 1724. The location is a little more than a mile north-west from the meeting-house of the Second Church. His grave is marked by a rough field stone bearing the inscription P. M. - 94 -1763. The grave of his wife is marked by a similar stone inscribed H. M. 1727.
      --          -         -
                 The Children were born in Swansea, Massachusetts