John Mason (1586 - 1635)

Born 1586 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

Husband of Ann (Unknown) Mason — married 29 Oct 1606 in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

Descendants

Died Dec 1635 at about age 49 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

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Disputed Associations

John Mason (died 1636) was not the same man as the John Mason (1600-1672) who married 1639 to Ann Peck.

Ann, the wife of John Mason (died 1635) might have been a Woolaston or a Greene, as Mason's 1635 will mentions two brothers-in-law, Mr Joshua Green and Mr John Woolaston.^[1]

Biography

According to his 1635 will, John Mason was born at Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England.^[2]

Mason was appointed as governor of what became New Hampshire. Ironically, he died as he was preparing to depart England for the New World.^[3]

His will, dated 2 Nov 1635, proved 22 Dec 1635, names wife Anne, brothers-in-law Mr Joshua Green and Mr John Woolaston, grandchildren Ann, John and Robert Tufton (suggesting he had a daughter married a Tufton), and cousin Dr. Robert Mason, Chancellor of the Diocess of Winchester.^[4]

Research Notes

Was his wife Ann Green? See John Mason, Ane Grene 29 October 1606 marriage,^[5] "October [1606] John Mason wed Ane Grene D to mr Edward of London Golldsmith : 29."

This marriage is attributed to John Mason by John Ward Dean and Charles Wesley Tuttle (1887) in Capt. John Mason : the founder of New Hampshire ...^[6]

Two pedigrees appear regarding John Mason.

• Sir Henry Saint-George, The visitation of London, anno Domini 1633, 1634, and 1635 ..., 2 vols. (London, 1880-83), 2:85 (Mason); digital images, Hathi Trust.
• In Jeremy Belknap and John Farmer, The History of New Hampshire ... vol. 1... to which were added Notes (Dover [N.H.] : S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, 1831), 253; digital images, Hathi Trust.

More associations. See the comments on G2G by collaborators Ann Browning and Vance Mead.

Sources

1. ↑ Nathaniel Boulton, Documents Relating to the Province of New Hampshire ... 1623-1686 as New Hampshire State Papers (Concord, N. H.: George E. Jenks, state printer, 1867), 1:41-44 (14. Will of Capt. John Mason, dated Nov. 26, 1635); digital images, Hathi Trust.
2. ↑ Nathaniel Boulton, Documents Relating to the Province of New Hampshire ... 1623-1686 as New Hampshire State Papers (Concord, N. H.: George E. Jenks, state printer, 1867), 1:41-44 (14. Will of Capt. John Mason, dated Nov. 26, 1635); digital images, Hathi Trust.
3. ↑ John Mason (governor); Wikipedia.
4. ↑ Albert Stillman Batchellor, Otis Grant Hammond and Ezra Scollay Stearns, Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire, vol. 1 (1635-1717), as New Hampshire State Papers, 31:1-12 (John Mason, 1635, London England); digital images, Hathi Trust.
5. ↑ Mason-Grene 1606 marriage in "England, Norfolk, Parish Registers (County Record Office), 1510-1997"; digital images, FamilySearch, from "Parish registers for St. Margaret's Church, Lynn," 1559-1653, FHL film 1471534, Item 9, DGS 4115449, image 42 of 89.
6. ↑ John Ward Dean and Charles Wesley Tuttle, Capt. John Mason, The Founder of New Hampshire (Boston: Prince Society, 1887), 35; digital images, Hathi Trust.

See also--

• John Ward Dean and Charles Wesley Tuttle, Capt. John Mason, The Founder of New Hampshire ... (Boston: Prince Society, 1887), ix-xii (table of contents); digital images, Hathi Trust.
• Albert Stillman Batchellor, Laws of New Hampshire ..., 10 vols. (Manchester, N. H., The John B. Clarke company, 1904-22), 1:xxiii, xxiiin-xxivn ; digital images, Hathi Trust.
• Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, Documents Relative to The Colonial History of The State of New York, 15 vols. (Albany : Weed, Parsons, 1853-1887), 3:568n; digital images, Hathi Trust; footnote mentions his grandson Robert Tufton. "Robert Tufton, grandson of Capt. John Mason, proprietor of New Hampshire, having succeeded to his grandfather's estate, assumed the name Mason. He was in the fifty-ninth year of his age when he died. He left two sons, John and Robert, who sold their rights in 1691 to Samuel Allen of London, merchant, for the sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds."
• Jeremy Belknap, The History of New Hampshire, 3 vols. (Philadelphia [Pa.] : Printed for the author by Robert Aitken [and others], 1784-92), 1:24-30, 25n, 28n, 29n, 2:158+; digital images, Hathi Trust.
• Jeremy Belknap and John Farmer, The History of New Hampshire ... vol. 1... to which were added Notes (Dover [N.H.] : S. C. Stevens and Ela & Wadleigh, 1831), 15-16, 15n, 16n, 253 (including pedigree chart); digital images, Hathi Trust; pedigree chart for Capt. John Mason's daughter Jane, married Joseph Tufton and had children: Anne, died 1677 sine prole, John who took the name Mason died sine prole, and Robert who took the name Mason and died 1688, age 56.
• HistoryInPortsmouth.co.uk Captain John Mason (1586-1635 A.D.), born in King’s Lynn, Co. Norfolk, England & resident of Portsmouth, Hampshire on the south central coast of England (near the Isle of Wight). He was assigned to assist Scottish episcopalian bishop, Andrew Knox, in subduing the Scottish Highlands & establishing 'Protestant Plantations' in Ireland's northernmost province of Ulster. After supporting English colonies in eastern Canada & New England, he helped the British military during 'The Anglo-French War' during 1627-1629 A.D. -