Anne MASON

Anne married Capt John DENISON in 1690 in Connecticut, USA. John (son of John Borodell DENISON and Phebe LAY) was born on 01 Jan 1669 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died between 1699 and 1700 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; was buried in Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John DENISON was born on 30 Mar 1692 in Saybrook, Massachusetts; died in 1732 in Saybrook, Massachusetts.
2. Daniel DENISON was born on 13 Oct 1693 in Saybrook, Middlesex County,Connecticut; died in 1756 in Saybrook, Massachusetts.
3. James DENISON was born on 16 Feb 1695 in Saybrook, Mass.; died in 1717.
4. Abigail DENISON was born on 25 May 1696 in Saybrook, Massachusetts; died after 08 Sep 1756.
5. Jabez DENISON was born in Aug 1698; died on 04 Jun 1788.

Anne married Samuel COGSWELL on 03 Mar 1701. Samuel was born on 3 Aug 1677; died on 21 Mar 1752. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Capt. John Mason m. Abigail, daughter of the Rev. James Fitch of Norwich, Conn., and represented that town several times in the Colonial Legislature, and was one of the assistants of the colony. He commanded a company in King Phillip's was and was mortally wounded in the swamp fight at Narragansett, Dec. 19, 1675. He was carried to New London, where he lingered until Sept. 18, 1676, when he died.

John married Abigail FITCH on 19 Dec 1665 in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, USA. Abigail (daughter of Rev James FITCH and Abigail WHITFIELD) was born in Aug 1650 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA; died on 18 Sep 1676 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Maj. John Mason was born in England in the year 1600, was bred a soldier and served in the English army, and after his election as lieutenant, served under Sir Thomas Fairfax. He emigrated to America in 1632 and settled first in Dorchester, Mass., and represented that town in the General Court. In 1635 he removed to Windsor, Conn., in company with he Rev. John Warham, Henry Wolcott and others, prominent settlers of that town, where he was elected an assistant or magistrate of the Connecticut Colony in 1642. In May, 1637, he commanded the successful expedition against the Pequot Indians, when he and his famous ninety men immortalized themselves in overthrowing and destroying the prestige and power of the Pequots and their fort near Mystic River, on Groton side, which event is commemorated by a boulder monument on Mystic Hill upon the pedestal of which is a life size statue of Maj. Mason drawing his sword, when he heard the war-shoop of 'Owanux', 'Owanux', by the Indians in their fort. In 1647 he removed his family to Saybrook, where he continued to live until 1660, when he united with a number of distinguished families in the settlement of Norwich, Conn., where he was Deputy Governor and Major General of the forces of Connecticut, and held other prominent official positions. After a life of great usefulness and eminence, he d. Jan. 30, 1672. His widow d. shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, the first wife of Maj. John Mason is not known, but she did not live long, but was the mother of one daughter.

John married Anne PECK in Jul 1640 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Anne (daughter of Rev Robert PECK and Anne LAWRENCE) was born in Hingham, Norfolk, England; was christened on 18 Nov 1619; died in 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rev. Mr. James Fitch arrived in this country in 1638, aged sixteen years, as stated by the inscription on his gravestone in the old cemetery at Lebanon, Conn. He was born at Bocking, County Essex, England on December 24, 1622, son of Thomas and Anne (Reeve) Fitch.

Rev. Mr. Fitch finished his theological training at Hartford, Conn., under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Hooker, who is named as a friend in the ill of Thomas Fitch of Bocking, and of Rev. Samuel Stone whose daughter married Joseph Fitch I.

The Rev. Mr. James Fitch is placed by Cotton Mather in his "second Classis" of New England ministers, consisting of "young scholars, whose education for their designed ministry not being finished, came over from England with their friends, and had their education perfected in this country before the college was come into maturity enough to bestow its laurels." (See Magnalia, I, 215, Hart. Edition).

In 1646, a church was organized at Saybrook, Conn., and the Rev. Mr. James Fitch was ordained as its first minister. This ceremony, a Congregational ordination in the strictest sense of the term, was graced by the presence of the Rev. Mr. Hooker, and Rev. Mr. Stone, and probably of Rev. Mr. Henry Whitfield, first minister of Guilford, Conn.

In the year 1701, the Rev. Mr. Fitch retired to Lebanon to spend the few remaining days of his eventful life. A Brief summer he passed inits quiet, secluded shades while death gently approached. Truly the inscription on his gravestone say, "he fell asleep in Jesus, Nov. 18, 1720, in the 80th year of his age."

James married Abigail WHITFIELD on 1 Oct 1648 in Connecticut. Abigail died on 09 Sep 1659 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]