Pelatiah Mason

• General Notes
  • Pelatiah Mason was born April 1, 1669, in Rehoboth, MA. Pelatiah had four marriages, the first to Hepsibeth Brooks, May 22, 1694; the second to Hannah Hale, November 22, 1733; the other two wives remain unknown. Pelatiah, a less than staunch advocate of birth control, raised at least two very large families; the first, containing eleven children, and the second, containing nine. Russell, our possible ancestor, is from the first family (Pelatiah Mason and Hepsibeth Brooks).
    
    SIBAH BROOKS,3 born 1673; married Pelatiah Mason, who was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, in
    1669. He was the son of Sampson and Mary Mason, the former having emigrated to America about the
    year 1649. He resided about seven years in Dorchester, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Rehoboth,
    where ten of his thirteen children were born. The Hon. Francis Baylies, in his History of Plymouth,
    says Sampson Mason was a dragoon in Oliver Cromwell's army, and it is believed that he
    was one of the famous "Ironsides Troop." Pelatiah Mason had many children, including three sons,
    Job, Russell and John, all of whom were esteemed preachers of the Baptist denomination in their day.
    
    He was a tanner and a shoemaker. He resided at
    Swansea, MA. He and Hepsibeth Brooks had 11
    children.
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