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Descendants of John Colson

66. John³ Vinson (Sarah² Colson, John¹, John^A) was born 01 January 1754 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ^95,⁹⁶, and died 23 October 1836 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ⁹⁷. He married Rebecca Clark 19 January 1777 in Braintree, MA^97,⁹⁸, daughter of Ebenezer Clark and Abigail Ager. She was born Abt. June 1756 ⁹⁹, and died 15 December 1850 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA⁹⁹.

Children of John Vinson and Rebecca Clark are:

126	i.	Rebecca⁴ Vinson, born 18 September 1778 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA⁹⁹; died 04 February 1813⁹⁹. She married Silas White 19 March 1797 ¹⁰⁰.
127	ii.	Polly Vinson, born 02 October 1780 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ¹⁰¹.
128	iii.	John Vinson, born 06 March 1783 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA^101,¹⁰²; died 21 February 1788 ¹⁰³.
129	iv.	Sally Vinson, born 06 May 1785 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ¹⁰⁴.
130	v.	Samuel Vinson, born 14 October 1787 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA¹⁰⁴; died 11 November 1809¹⁰⁴.
131	vi.	John Vinson, born 14 September 1789 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA^104,¹⁰⁵.
132	vii.	Hannah P. Vinson, born 06 September 1791 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ¹⁰⁶. She married Silas White 05 June 1814¹⁰⁶.
133	viii.	Ebenezer Vinson, born 16 June 1794 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA¹⁰⁶; died 30 January 1869 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA¹⁰⁶.
134	ix.	Rachel Vinson, born 17 October 1802 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA¹⁰⁶. She married John G. Rogers 21 July 1825¹⁰⁶.

      67. Thomas³ Vinson (Sarah² Colson, John¹, John^A) was born 08 June 1756 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ¹⁰⁷, and died 12 January 1841 in Weymouth, Norfolk Co., MA ¹⁰⁸. He married Hannah Holbrook 27 January 1782 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA¹⁰⁸, daughter of Samuel Holbrook and Elizabeth Shaw. She was born Bef. 01 February 1761 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA¹⁰⁸, and died 28 November 1788 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA¹⁰⁸.

Notes for Thomas Vinson:
Thomas was a Colonel in the Revolutionary Army for four years, and later a Physician in the South Parish.

He wrote an account of his father's and mother's family in which he said:

“My grandfather on my mother's side was John Colson. He was born in the Island of Bermuda in the West Indies in the year 1681. About ye year 1700 he came and settled in Weymouth near the Abington line. About 1705 he was married to Susannah Lincoln, daughter of Thomas Lincoln of Hingham. There children were five sons and six daughters, viz. John, Thomas, Ebenezer, Brackley, Josiah and Susannah, Mary, Elizabeth, Anna and Sarah, the first. She died aged two. Sarah, the second, my mother, was their youngest child. John Colson, the oldest, married a Pettengill and had three children, viz John, Christopher, and Deborah. He enlisted as a soldier in the Indian War and was killed about sunrise on a Sunday morning, being a Sentinel on the walls of the Fort at Old York in Maine. He was shot by a skulking Indian, the ball passing through his neck cutting the life vein. He lived about two hours. Christopher married Experience White and had three children, viz., Abiah, Christopher and Charity. He left his family and his wife married Capt. Moses Curtis and removed westward. Deborah Colson married Joseph Trufant and had Susanna, Joseph, Colson, Deborah, James and John, all removing to Groton, where the parents died." [HISTORY OF WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS IN FOUR VOLUMES: published by the Weymouth Historical Society, H.H. Joy, President, 1923. Vol. III, pg. 167]

      “We recently found a list of young men of about twenty-one years old who died of camp disorders or were killed during the Revolution. The list is from the private notebook of Col. Thomas Vinson, a well-known resident of South Weymouth. It may not be a complete list. The names are among the familiar names of to-day: Peleg Loud, John Vining, Samuel Holbrook, Noah Torry, Benj. Orcutt, Ebenezer Tirrell, John Hunt, Thomas Porter, Nehemiah Pratt, Asa Reed, John Thayer, James Pratt, Christopher Colson, Noah Joy and Caleb Shaw. These names are familiar ones, and are doubtless ancestors or relatives of ancestors of many of our present citizens. These men we can honor to-day. Their graves may be unknown, but we, recalling the price of American liberty can honor them with worthy lives. From this same private notebook of Col. Thomas Vinson we gather the names of those soldiers who were living in the year 1831, and who at this time received pension for their services. These aged men are remembered by the older ones of our community. We give the names without their titles: Matthew Pratt, John Vinson, Samuel Bates, Abner Blanchard, Daniel Blanchard, Thomas Vinson, Josiah Blanchard, Samuel Bailey, Ezra Reed, David Trufant, Benj. Tirrell, Barnabus Thayer, William Loud, Eliphalet Loud and Azariah Beals. These men were living in 1831. Some of them lived some years after this, but their memories in these days have renewed freshness, and the mention of their names makes our hearts more loyal to the great prinples for which they fought." [HISTORY OF WEYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS IN FOUR VOLUMES: published by the Weymouth Historical Society, H.H. Joy, President, 1923. Vol. I, pg. 335-336.]

It was from the information in this notebook that Donald F. Colson was the first member admitted to the National Society of Sons of The American Revolution based on the service of Christopher Colson (Sr.).


Children of Thomas Vinson and Hannah Holbrook are:

	135	i.	Warren⁴ Vinson, born Abt. 05 September 1782 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ¹⁰⁹; died 11 March 1784 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA.
+	136	ii.	Susanna Vinson, born 01 June 1784 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA; died 05 December 1815.
	137	iii.	Betsey Vinson, born 25 December 1785 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA ¹¹⁰; died 01 August 1787 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA.
	138	iv.	Thomas Warren Vinson, born 28 November 1788 in Weymouth, Suffolk Co., MA¹¹⁰; died 02 June 1819 ¹¹¹.

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