Joseph MASON

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7-Joseph Mason, (1-Sampson)
Born in Rehoboth, Mass, March 6, 1663; Married first, March 12, 1683, Anne Daggett, daughter of John and Anna (Sutton) Daggett. She was born in Rehoboth, the middle of August, 1653. Joseph Mason
married a second, Sept. 4, 1686, Lydia Bowen, daughter of Obadiah and Mary (Clifton) Bowen, she was born in Rehoboth, April 23, 1666. Joseph Mason held many offices in the town of Swansea and served as one of the Selectmen during the years 1704, 1705, 1706 and 1707. He served as Representative to the General Court of Mass. and in July of the year 1709 was ordained pastor of the Second Church of Swansea and so continued until his death. He was a shoemaker by trade.
A few years before his death the Province line was changed and the section of Swansea in which he lived was set off to Rhode Island. His will was therefore dated and recorded in Warren, Rhode Island,
which town, in greater part, was formed from territory taken from Swansea given to Rhode Island. He died May 19, 1748 and is buried in the old family cemetery on his son's homestead in Warren, a short
distance from the Mass. line. His widow, Lydia, died March 25, 1758.
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Joseph married Anne DAGGETT on 12 Mar 1683. Anne was born in Aug 1653 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Lydia BOWEN on 04 Sep 1686 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Lydia (daughter of Obadiah BOWEN and Mary CLIFTON) was born on 23 Apr 1666 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died on 25 Mar 1758 in Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ann MASON was born on 28 Aug 1688 in Swansea, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.

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Of his early history nothing more is known than is contained in the following extract from the History of the Baptists in America, compiled by the Reverend Isaac Backus. "Sampson Mason was a soldier in the Cromwell's army and he came to America upon the turn of the times in England and settled in Rehoboth and his posterity are now as numerous as, perhaps those of any man who came to our country in his day" (Vol. 2, page 435). Backus probably gained his information from grandsons of Sampson Mason who were pastors of the Second Church of Swansea at the tie the history was written, and possibly his wife, who was a great-granddaughter of Sampson Mason, may have related to him some of the family traditions. However this may be, the authenticity of the statement can scarcely be doubted.

Sampson married Mary BUTTERWORTH. Mary was born in England; died on 29 Aug 1714 in Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]