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9 Generations of Robert Mason of England & Matthias Mason of Clinton County NY

Generation No. 2


2. SAMPSON2 MASON (ROBERT1)21,22,23,24 was born March 10, 1624/25 in Bolton, Lancashire, England25, and died September 07, 1676 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA25. He married MARY BUTTERWORTH26,27,28,29 March 09, 1649/50 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA30, daughter of HENRY BUTTERWORTH and MARY ?. She was born August 29, 1629 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA30, and died August 29, 1714 in Rehoboth, Bristol, MA31.

Notes for SAMPSON MASON:
      Sampson Mason was the American root of this family according to Backus Church History, Baylies historical memoir of Plymouth Church history, and the town records of Rehoboth and Swansea, (Bristol County), Massachusetts. He was an officer or a dragoon in the army of Oliver Cromwell, and was a Lieutenant General of the army of Parliament at the battle of Marston Moor in 1644. He came to America by 1649 with Captain Thomas Willett, Rev. John Miles, and others, he was one of the founders of the town of Swansea and an original proprietor of "North Purchase" later Attleborough, Massachusetts.
--Mason Genealogy
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Battle of Marston Moor

      (July 2, 1644), the first major Royalist defeat in the English Civil War. In June 1644, King Charles I ordered a force under Prince Rupert of the Palatinate to relieve the Royalist garrison at York, then under siege by the Parliamentarians. Rupert outmanoeuvred the besiegers, relieved York, and pursued the Parliamentary forces seven miles west to Long Marston. There the parliamentary armies under Sir Thomas Fairfax (later 3rd Baron Fairfax of Cameron), and a Scottish Army under Alexander Leslie, the 1st earl of Leven, surprised Rupert with an early-evening attack. The left wing of the Parliamentary forces under Oliver Cromwell scattered Rupert’s cavalry, then reformed and went to Fairfax’s aid on the right, enveloping the Royalist centre. The Royalists suffered heavy losses—3,000 to 4,000 killed, many prisoners taken, and most of their cannon captured. With the fall of York, the King lost control of the north, and Oliver Cromwell emerged as the leading Parliamentary general.
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More About SAMPSON MASON:
AFN: 229B-6J32,33
Burial: September 15, 1676, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA33,34,35
Christening: December 06, 1625, St. Peter, Bolton, Lancashire, England36
Military service 1: An officer or a dragoon in the army of Oliver Cromwell
Military service 2: 1644, Lieutenant General of the army of Parliament at the battle of Marston Moor37
Miscellaneous: May 26, 1668, Lots were drawn for the meadow lands in the North Purchase (nka Attleborough, MA)

More About MARY BUTTERWORTH:
Date born 2: England37
AFN: 229B-7P38,39
Burial: August 29, 1714, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA39
Christening: July 01, 1632, Rochdale, Worcester, MA39

More About SAMPSON MASON and MARY BUTTERWORTH:
Marriage: March 09, 1649/50, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA39
     
Children of SAMPSON MASON and MARY BUTTERWORTH are:
  i.   NOAH3 MASON40,41, b. October 26, 1651, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA41; d. March 02, 1699/00, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA41; m. MARTHA ?; d. March 16, 1717/18.
  More About NOAH MASON:
Died 2: February 06, 1675/76, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA42
AFN: 229C-3543
Christening: February 22, 1651/52, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA43
  ii.   SAMPSON MASON44,45, b. September 14, 1654, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA45; d. 1676, Massachusetts45.
  Notes for SAMPSON MASON:
King Philip’s War

      (1675-76), in British-American colonial history, war between Indians and English settlers, the bloodiest conflict in 17th-century New England, temporarily devastating the frontier communities but eventually eradicating native resistance to the white man’s westward thrust in that region. For years, mutual helpfulness and trade were fostered by both the early Massachusetts colonists and the Indian leader Massasoit, grand sachem of the Wampanoags. The peace was first shattered by the Pequot War in 1637. By the 1660s settlers had outgrown their dependence on the Indians for wilderness survival techniques and had substituted fishing and commerce for the earlier lucrative fur trade. From 1640 to 1675 new waves of land-hungry settlers pushed into Indian territory, particularly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Tribes had to fight to protect their homelands; otherwise they would become "white men’s vassals," subject to alien law, humiliating limitations on personal freedom, usurpation of favourite hunting grounds, and regulation by a strict Christian morality.

      Upon Massasoit’s death (1661) his successor and second son, King Philip (Indian name Metacom; q.v.), vowed to resist further English expansion and attempted to organize a federation of tribes; eventually Philip won support from the powerful Narraganset and almost all of the other New England tribes. When three Wampanoags were executed (June 1675) for the murder of an informer, John Sassamon, King Philip could no longer hold his young warriors in check, and bloodshed erupted before either side could coordinate campaign plans. The war actually resolved itself into a series of ruthless Indian raids on frontier settlements from the Connecticut River to Massachusetts and Narragansett Bay, followed by brutal retaliatory assaults on Indian villages by the colonial militia. By the end of 1675 many frontier towns had been devastated, and the Narraganset had been wiped out in the Great Swamp Fight (December). The Indians maintained a distinct advantage in the fighting until the spring of 1676, when their morale was undermined by the threat of starvation after the destruction of their crops and when the English finally agreed to use "Praying Indians" (those who had been converted to Christianity) as scouts. Following Philip's death in August, Indian resistance collapsed, although Articles of Peace were not signed for two years.

      King Philip’s War was one of the costliest confrontations in colonial history: Edward Randolph, an agent of the crown, estimated that some 600 settlers and 3,000 Indians lost their lives. It is believed that more than half of the 90 settlements in the region had been attacked and a dozen destroyed. Whole Indian villages were massacred and entire tribes decimated; scattered remnants fled westward and northward. Thereafter settlers felt free to expand without fear into former Indian territory across southern New England.
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  More About SAMPSON MASON:
AFN: 229C-4B45
Military service: Bet. 1675 - 1676, Soldier in King Philip’s War46
  iii.   JOHN MASON47,48, b. February 12, 1656/57, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA48; d. March 18, 1682/83, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA48.
  More About JOHN MASON:
Died 2: March 18, 1683/84, Age 2649
AFN: 229C-5H50
  iv.   SAMUEL MASON51,52, b. February 12, 1656/57, Dorchester, Suffolk, MA52; d. January 25, 1742/43, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA52.
  More About SAMUEL MASON:
AFN: 229C-6N52
Burial: Kickemuit Cemetary, Warren, Bristol, RI52
  v.   SARAH MASON53,54, b. February 15, 1657/58, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA54,55,56.
  More About SARAH MASON:
AFN: 229C-7T57
Burial: February 07, 1658/5957
  vi.   MARY MASON58,59, b. February 07, 1659/60, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA59,60; d. August 29, 1714, Swansea, Bristol, MA61.
  More About MARY MASON:
Date born 2: February 07, 1660/6162
AFN: 229C-8163
Burial: November 1727, Rehoboth Cemetary, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA63
  vii.   JAMES MASON64,65, b. October 30, 1661, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA65,66.
  More About JAMES MASON:
AFN: 229C-9667
  viii.   JOSEPH MASON68,69, b. March 06, 1662/63, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA69,70; d. May 19, 1748, Swansea, Bristol, MA or Warren, Bristol, RI71.
  More About JOSEPH MASON:
Date born 2: March 06, 1663/6472
AFN: 229C-BC73
Burial: May 1748, Massachusetts73
  ix.   BETHIAH MASON74,75, b. October 15, 1665, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA75,76,77.
  More About BETHIAH MASON:
Name 2: Bertha Mason78
AFN: 229C-CJ79
3. x.   ISAAC MASON, b. July 15, 1667, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA; d. January 25, 1741/42, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA.
  xi.   PELATIAH MASON80,81, b. April 01, 1669, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA81,82,83; d. March 29, 1763, Swansea, Bristol, MA84.
  More About PELATIAH MASON:
AFN: 229B-4684
Burial: March 1763, Massachusetts84
  xii.   BENJAMIN MASON85,86, b. October 20, 1670, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA86,87,88; d. August 22, 1740, Swansea, Bristol, MA89.
  More About BENJAMIN MASON:
AFN: 229C-FV89
Burial: September 1740, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA89
  xiii.   THANKFUL MASON90,91, b. October 27, 1672, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA91,92,93; d. 1743, Rehoboth, Bristol, MA94.
  More About THANKFUL MASON:
AFN: 229C-G294

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