Genealogy of the Fitch family in North America - citizen hylbom blog

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Island, (then belonging to Connecticut), was, "we do not
judge it convenient, that you should in your own person, make
after any Indians in the woods," &fi.
In further testimony of their appreciation of Mason's ser-
vices and gratitude for them, they made him grants of con-
siderable tracts of land, to two of which only can we refer.
On the 5th of June, 1041, "that Captain Mason shall have 500
acres of ground for him and his heirs, about Pequot Country.
On the 11th of September, 1651, also the island commonly
called Chipachange, (now Mason's Island), in Mistic Bay, as
also 100 acres near Mistic, when he shall make a choice. A.
portion of this Island is still owned and occupied by the
descendants of Mason.
But not only were the military affairs and Indian affairs of
the Colony almost entirely entrusted to the charge of Major
Mason, or governed by his counsel. For a series of years (from
1037 to '41, he was a Magistrate ; and, from 1641 to '59 an assis-
tant or member of the General Court, and from 1659, he was
Lieutenant Governor, for ten successive years when he de"
clined a re-election, and for two years, during the absence of
Governor Winthrop, in England, endeavoring to obtain a
charter for the Colony, he was acting Governor. He was also
one of the Commissioners of the United Colonies (Conn.,
Mass., and Rhode Island), for the years 1047, '54, '55, '50, '57
and '01.
Captain Mason was by far the most prominent person in the
company that removed from Saybrook, and founded the town
of Norwich. The deed of the town which was executed on
the 0th of June, 1059 by Uncas Owaneco and Attawanhood;
was executed in the presence of John Mason and Thomas
Tracy. This was the third town in Connecticut of which
Major Mason had been the founder. The other two were