Ancestry of Ethel Blanch Miles - Urs Boxler Photography

Occupation: Innholder
Residence: Boston, Mass, USA
iii. ABIGAIL MASON, b. December 16, 1679.
iv. SAMUEL MASON, b. January 22, 1689/90.
v. HANNAH MASON, b. January 26, 1695/96.
vi. DANIEL MASON, b. November 10, 1698.
More About DANIEL MASON:
Occupation: farmer
Residence: Newton, Suffolk, Mass, USA
Ancestry of Ethel B. Miles
Endnotes
1. Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of New England, (1965), HUGH, Watertown, a tanner, came in the Francis,
from Ipswich, Co. Suff'k. 1634, aged 28, with w. Esther, 22, freem. 4 Mar. 1635, had Hannah, b. 23 Sept. 1636;
Elizabeth 3 Sept. 1638, d. young; Ruth, bur. 17 Dec. 1640; Mary, b. 18 Dec. 1640; John, 1 Jan. 1645; Joseph, 10
Aug. 1646; Daniel, 19 Feb. 1649, prob. H. C. 1666; and Sarah, 25 Sept. 1651; was rep. 1644, 5, 60 and oft. later
to 1676 and 7; in 1632 a capt. and d. 10 Oct. 1678, and his wid. d. 21 May 1692. Hannah m. 17 Oct. 1653, Joshua
Brooks of Concord; Mary m. 20 May 1668, Rev. Joseph Estabrook; and Sarah m. the same day capt. Andrew
Gardner of Muddy riv. Of ano. HUGH we may be led to inq. the resid. by the passage in Drake's Hist. of Boston,
418, of expedit. into the Ind. country, 1676, by one of this name, when we may justly presume, that our Watertown
rep. was too old for such severe duty.
2. Bond, Genealogy Of Families & Descendants of Early Settlers Of Watertown, Middlesex County, Mass, [source
of date of birth].
3. Documents in Public Record Office, London. Chancery Proceedings before 1714, Mitford's Division, Bundle
469/3 [source of place of birth] FROM CHANCERY PROCEEDINGS. 19 June 1702. To the Right Honorable Sir
Nathan Wright, Knight, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England. Humbly complaining shew unto your Lordships
your orators, John and Joseph Mason, sons of Hugh Mason, late of Water Towne in New England, in parts beyond
the seas, yeoman, and of Hester his wife, both deceased, which Hester was one of the daughters and devisees of
Thomas Wells the Elder, deceased, and one of the sisters and coheirs of Thomas Wells, son and heir of the
aforesaid Thomas Wells, late of Maulden in the county of Essex, yeoman, likewise deceased, and Benjamine
Franckling of London, dyer, administrator not only of all the goods, chattels, rights, and credits which were of and
did belong to the said Hugh Mason at the time of his death but also of all the goods, chattels, rights and credits
which were of and did belong to. her, the said Hester, who survived the said Hugh Mason, at the time of her death,
that the said Thomas Wells, the father, in his lifetime, that is to say, on or about the seventeenth day of December,
which was in the year of Our Lord 1624, being seised in fee or of some other estate of inheritance of and in all that
piece or parcel of meadow or pasture land called or known by the name of Little Portland, containing by estimation
four acres and a half, more or less, with the appurtenances, lying and being in Mauldon aforesaid, and which was
then in the tenure or occupation of Michaell Coop(er) or his assigns, and also of and in all that messuage or
tenement in which he then dwelt, lying and being in Fulbridge Street in Maulden aforesaid, ..., with the
appurtenances, made his last will and testament in writing duly executed, and hearing date on or about the said
seventeenth day of December, in the year of Our Lord 1624 ...
4. Bond, Genealogy Of Families & Descendants of Early Settlers Of Watertown, Middlesex County, Mass, [source
of date of death].
5. Vital Records of Watertown 1630-, (1900), vol 1, p45, [source of date / place of death].
6. Bond, Genealogy Of Families & Descendants of Early Settlers Of Watertown, Middlesex County, Mass, [source
of spouse] ; [major source of children's names and their birth dates / places].
7. LDS IGI, [source of wife's family name].
8. Mckenzie, Colonial Families of the United States, Vol III, p. 588, arrived with husband on Francis, aged 22
years.
9. Bond, Genealogy Of Families & Descendants of Early Settlers Of Watertown, Middlesex County, Mass, [source
of date of death].
10. Vital Records of Watertown 1630-, (1900), vol 1, p8, source of date / place of burial.
11. Mckenzie, Colonial Families of the United States, [source of parents].
12. Mckenzie, Colonial Families of the United States, [source of place of birth].
13. Mckenzie, Colonial Families of the United States, [source of date / place of death].
14. Vital Records of Watertown 1630-, (1900), vol 1, p8, [source of date / place of birth].
15. Lemuel Shattuck, History of Concord, Massachusetts, (1835; http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/bios.doc), 162,
The Rev. Joseph Estabrook died September 16, 1711 [The Rev. Dr. Ripley, Half Century Sermon, p.28 says, May
23d but all other authorities concur in the 16th of September] aged 71. He was born in Enfield, England and after
receiving a preparatory education, emigrated to this country, entered Harvard College and was graduated in 1664.
Register Report of HUGH Mason, Capt.: 185