William Mason (1727 - 1819)

Born 21 Nov 1727 in Newton, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Died 10 Apr 1819 at age 91 in Dedham, Massachusetts

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Biography

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

William'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 February 22, 1749, in Newton, Massachusetts, William married Hannah Child, daughter of Benjamin Child and Elizabeth (Greenwood) Child.

William and Hannah were the parents of ten children. The first six were born in Newton and the last four were born in Dedham, Massachusetts:

Hannah, born, August 4, 1751;

William, born September 21, 1753;

Thaddeus, born June 6, 1756; died April 17, 1759;

Olive, born December 21, 1758;

Rhoda, born August 8, 1760, died February 1, 1781, unmarried;

Thaddeus, born November 28, 1761;

Elizabeth, born December 17, 1764;

Borridel, born February 10, 1767, baptized April 12, 1767

Abijah, born May 24, 1769, died August 18, 1796;

Moses, born June 21, 1772, died June 28, 1798

Sources

• Descendants of Capt. Hugh Mason in America, Mason, Edna Warren, 1882, p 70-71