Samuel Mason (1719 - 1787)

Born 24 Jul 1719 in Newton, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Mirick) Mason — married 26 Sep 1745 in Newton, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 17 May 1787 at age 67 in Ashburnham, Massachusetts

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Biography

Samuel Mason is the son of Daniel Mason and his first wife, Experience (Newcomb) Mason.

Samuel's occupation was a housewright --somebody who built houses in Colonial Times. A Housewright is similar to today's carpenters because they both build houses but housewrights also chopped down the trees, carved the wood into boards, and shaped the boards to fit properly together to frame a house. Some of the tools that a housewright used were the ax, chisel, saw, hammer, auger, and brace and bit. Housewrights also used simple tools like wooden wedges and wooden pegs to make the floor boards fit tighter together.

On September 26, 1745, in Newton, Massachusetts, Samuel married Esther Mirick, daughter of Samuel Mirick and Mary (Stratton) Mirick.

Samuel and Esther made their home first in Newton, then in Watertown, and then in Ashburnham, all in Massachusetts.

Children of Samuel and Esther are:

Esther, born Newton, July 12, 1746, died young;

Mary, born Newton, October 22, 1748;

Elizabeth, born Newton, September 25, 1750;

Esther, born Newton, December 22, 1752;

Samuel, born Newton, February 15, 1754, died March 5, 1756;

Abigail, born Newton, June 15, 1756;

Samuel, born Watertown, September 3, 1758;

Elijah, born Watertown, February 27, 1760, baptized there, by Reverend Storer, March 1, 1761;

Daniel, baptized in Watertown, August 24, 1766, by Rev. Storer;

Isaac, baptized in Watertown, December 13, 1768, by Rev. Storer.

Sources

• Descendants of Capt. Hugh Mason in America, Mason, Edna Warren, 1882, p 75