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Ancesters Stephen Andrus WOOD

Created 3 February 2010

John MASON Jr.
and
Elizabeth SPRING

John was born 22 January 1675, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and married 18 October 1699 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, Elizabeth SPRING, the daughter of John SPRING and Hannah BASHAM. She was born 9 April 1675 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts and died ????. John died 24 March 1737 in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Note: Ens. John Mason Jr. Born Newton, Mass., on 22 Jan 1676. Died Lexington, Mass., on 24 Mar 1738.
Data from Mason. John was active in town affairs being assessor, 1702, 1719, 1721, 1723, 1725, 1730, 1731,
a subscriber for the Purchase of the common, 1711,
constable, 1713,
town clerk, 1729, 1731, 1734, 1735, 1736,
selectman, 1729, 1731, 1734, 1736,
justice of the peace and bore title of Ensign in the Massachusetts Militia. He served in the French and Indian War in Capt. Benjamin A. Reed's Co.
In seating the meeting house in 1699 he was "past in ye second seat in ye gallarye," and he and his wife were admitted to the Church December 19, 1708.
He settled at Cambridge Farms, now Lexington and resided on Main Street, a little below the old Munroe Tavern, hence the name of "Mason's Hollow."

Bond's Info: John, b. Jan. 22, 1677; a tanner; m. Elizabeth Spring [19], and settled in Lexington.

He married Elizabeth Spring, daughter of John Spring & Elizabeth Barsham, on 18 Oct 1699 in Lexington, Mass. Born Newton, Mass., on 7 Apr 1675. Data from Mason.

HISTORY of CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
1630-1877
PREFACE
page 693

Spring, Elizabeth (John, John) b. 7 Ap. 1675, m. John Mason (John, Hugh) 18 Oct. 1699, 606, 659
Elizabeth, of Boston, m. Edmund Trowbridge Hastings (John, Jona., Jona., Walt., John) 1 June 1815, 578

CHILDREN of John MASON Jr and Elizabeth SPRING:

    1. JOHN          b:  4 Aug 1700; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                     d:    Sep `700; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    2. JOHN          b:  8 Aug 1701; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                    md: 15 Jun 1731; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                                     Lydia LORING
                     d: 20 Jan 1787; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    3. ELIZABETH     b: 30 Aug 1703; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
 +  4. MILLICENT     b: 24 Apr 1705; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                    md:  1 May 1714; Woodstock,  Windham, Connecticut.
                                     Jonathan NEWELL
                     d:    Bef 1762; , , .
    5. JONATHAN      b: 27 May 1705; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                    md: 13 May 1730; Dedhan, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                                     Hepzibeth MORSE
                     d: 29 Oct 1779; Shurbridge,  Worcester, Massachusetts.
    6. THADDEUS      b: 17 Dec 1706; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                    md: 17 Feb 1735; Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
                                     Rebecca WILLIAMS
                    md:  7 Nov 1748; Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
                                     Elizabeth SEAWALL
                    md: 18 Oct 1859; Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                                     Anne FAYERWEATHER
                     d:  1 May 1802; Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
    7. JONAS         b: 21 Oct 1708; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                    md:    Abt 1731; Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
                                     Mary CHANDLER
                     d: 18 Mar 1801; North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Maine.
    8. KATHERINE     b:  5 Aug 1710; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                    md:            ; , , .
                                     Joseph BROWN
                     d:            ; Holliston, Middlesex,  Massachusetts.
    9. ESTHER        b:  2 Jan 1711; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
   10. SARAH         b:  7 Jun 1714; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                    md:  3 Jun 1733; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                                     William MONROE
                     d: 13 Apr 1785; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
   11. MERCY         b: 12 Nov 1716; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
   12. SAMUEL        b:  9 Oct 1720; Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
                     d:        1748;

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