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"At the age of thirty-eight years, our worthy parent was one of the thousands in New England who heard that son of thunder, the Rev. George Whittiekl. and caught his seraphie fire. Firmly believing in the near approach of the latter-day glory, when the Jews with the fullness of the Gentiles shall hail their Redeemer and how to his gentle sceptre, a number of worthy characters ran to and fro through the Eastern States, warmly exhorting to the prompt adoption of every measure tending to hasten that blissful period. Others sold, gave away, or left their pos- sessions, as the powerful impulse of the moment determined, and, without serip or purse, rushed up to the head of the Susquehanna, to convert the heathens, and set. tled in a town called Onnaquaggy, among the Mohawk Indians. One, and not the least sanguine of these pions missionaries, was my venerable father. Great must have been his faith, great his zeal, when, without the least prospect of a temporal reward, with a much beloved wife and three children, he exchanged his commodi- ous buildings for a miserable hut ; his fruitful fields and loaded orchards for barren deserts; the luxuries of a well furnished table for coarse and seanty fare; and nu- merons civil friends for rude savages! He had the happiness, however, to teach and exhort for eighteen months in this place, with considerable success. A mim- ber of the Indians were, in some degree, impressed with eternal concerns, and sev. eral became cordially obedient to the gospel. But just as the seeds of heavenly truth, sown with tears in this unpromising soil, began to appear in their first fruits. the breaking out of war among the savage tribes occasioned his reluctant removal to Conegocheague, in Pennsylvania. After a short residence in this settlement, he removed to a place near Winchester, in Virginia.
" Here he became acquainted with a Baptist church, belonging to the Philadel- phia association, and as the resuh of a close, impartial examination of their faith
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and order, he and my dear mother were baptized, in the forty eighth year of his life. Ile was now called, as a licensed preacher, to the unrestrained exercise of his gifts; and though they were by no means above mediocrity, be was instrumental in awak- ening attention, in many of his hearers, to the interests of their souls.
"Under the influence of an anxious desire to be extensively useful. he pro- ceeded from Virginia to Hughwarry, in North Carolina, where his faithful and in- cessant labors proved the happy means of arousing and converting numbers. Being so evidently and eminently useful as an itinerant preacher, he continued his pere grinations to Abbot's Creek, in the same State, where he was the instrument in plant. ing a church, of which he was ordained pastor, in the fifty-second year of his age. by his brothers-in-law, the Rev. Messrs. Henry Leadbetter and Shubael Stearns. Soon after receiving this honor, my reverend father, in one of his evangelical jour- neys into Virginia, had the singular happiness to baptize Col. Samuel Harris, with whom he afterwards made several tours and preached, and planted the gospel in several places, as far as James river. It was but a few years after his ordination, before, induced by appearances of increasing usefulness, he took an affectionate leave of his beloved charge, and settled on Beaver creek, in South Carolina. In this place, likewise, a large church was raised under his ministry, and, till brought to a good degree of maturity in divine things, was an objeet of his tender and unremit ted care and solicitude. At the direction of Divine Providence, as he conceived, and as subsequent events have proved, his next removal was to Horse Creek, about 15 miles north of Angusta.
"The fruits of his labors in this place remain in a respectable church, some of whose sons, raised up under his care, have successfully diffused the light of divine truth through various benighted regions. From Horse Creek my aged father made his first visits to this State. On the second or third of these, while in prayer, he was seized in the presence of his audience, for preaching in the parish of St. Paul, and made to give security for his appearance in Augusta, the Monday following, to an swer to this charge. Accordingly he stood a trial, and after his meekness and pa- tience were sufficiently exercised, was ordered to come no more as a preacher into Georgia. In the words of an apostle similarly circumstanced, he replied, 'Whether it be right to obey God or man, judge ye.' Consistently with this just and spirited reply, he pursued his successful course, and on the Ist of January, 1671, came with his family and took up his final earthly residence at Kioka; the following spring the church here was formed, and it is famous for having furnished materials for sov- eral other churches. For this purpose many common members have been dismissed and several ministers have been ordained. Among these are the Rev. Messrs. San- ders Walker, Samuel Newton, Loveless Savage, Alexander Scott, and the writer of this article. Through God's blessing on the ministry of her indefatigable founder and pastor, this church continued to lengthen her cords and strengthen her stakes. breaking forth on the right hand and on the left, till our beloved country was unhappily involved in the horrors of war. No scenes, however, from the com- mencement to the termination of hostilities, were so gloomy and alarming as to de- ter my father from discharging the duties of his station. Neither reproaches nor threatenings could excite in him the least appearance of timidity, or anything in consistent with Christian and ministerial heroism.
"As a friend to the American cause, he was once made a prisoner and put un- der a strong guard; but obtaining leave of the officers, he commenced and supported so heavy a charge of exhortation and prayer, that, like Daniel of old, while his ene- mies stood amazed and confounded, he was safely and honorably delivered from this den of lions. Even the infirmities of old age and the evident approach of the king of terrors were not sufficient to shake his faith and hope, nor in the least per ccivable degree to abate his zeal. A few months previous to his decease, rising in his pulpit, which he had frequently besprinkled with his tears, and from which he
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often descended to weep over a careless auditory, he said, 'L address you, my dear hearers, with a diffidence which arises from a failure of memory, and a general weakness of body and mind, common to my years; but ] recollect, he that holds out to the end shall be saved, and I am resolved to finish my course in the cause of God.' Accordingly he attended public worship regularly, even through his last lingering mortal illness, till the last Sabbath but one before his dissolution. In his family he invariably performed his usual round of holy duties, till the morning pre- ceding his happy change Fully apprised of this as at hand, and perfectly in his senses, he expressed distinctly and emphatically his steady and increasing conti- dence of future bliss.
"The following, taken by me in the presence of a few deeply-affected friends and relations, are his last words : 'Dear brethren and sisters, I am just gone. This night i shall probably expire; but I have nothing to fear. I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: and henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. God has always shown me that He is my God, that I am his son, and that an eternal weight of glory is mine.' The partner of his care (and I may add, faithful assistant in all his labors), sitting bedewed with tears by his side, he proceeded; 'Go on, my dear wife, to serve the Lord. Hold out to the end. Eternal glory is before us.' After a silence of some minutes, he called me and said, 'My breath is almost gone. I have been praying that i may go home to-night. I had great happiness in our worship this morning, particularly in singing, which will make a part of my exercise in a blessed eternity.' Now gently closing his eyes, he cheerfully gave up his soul to God, with whom, I doubt noi. he walks, 'high in salvation and the climes of bliss.' This solemn event took place at the dawn of the 2d day of November, 1784, in the 78th year of his age. A suita- ble discourse to his memory was delivered by the late Rev. Charles Bussey."
ITis children are all yet living in Georgia, at no great distance from the place in which their venerable father finished his earthly course. They all possess a compe- teney of worldly things, and a number of them are members of the Kioka and other churches, Mr. Marshall, after all his sacrifices for the cross of Christ, was always blessed by a bountiful Providence with a sufficiency of the meat that perisheth, and left behind him an estate of considerable value. Ilis son Abraham inhabits the mansion from which he was removed to the "house not made with hands." Rev. Daniel Marshall m. (1) llannah Drake, 11 Nov., 1742; (2) Martha (sister of Shu- hael) Stearns of Tolland, 23 June, 1747. C'h. (by 1st mar.):
1. Daniel. 2. Abraham (Rev). | 4. Zarchens. 6. Mores.
S. Joseph. ! 10. Mary.
(By 2d mar.): | 3. JJohn. 5. Levi. 7. Solomon. 9. Eunice. 11. Benjamin.
FAM. 10. Eliakim 3 (Eliakim," Capt. Sam'(1), m. Sarah Hodge, 10 Nov., 1743. Ch. (bp. W. C. R.) :
1. Sarah, b. 17. bp. 21 Oct., 1741.
2. Kunice, b. 14 JJan., 1745 6.
3. Rhoda, b. 22 .Inly, 1747.
9. Asenath, b. 9 July. 1758.
1 Dinah, h. 1 Apl., 1719.
10. Lucy, b. 18 Jnly, 1.60.
5. Elisha, b. 31 Dec., 1250. 11. Tryphena, b. 31 Mcb., 1762.
G. Elijah, b. 9 Sept .. 1752.
12. Daniel, b. 18 Mich., 1766.
FAM. 11 David 4 (Darid,3 Darid," Capt. Sam'l'), m. Naomi Griswold, who d. 30 -, 1824, æ. 89; res. Poq., W .; farmer, and prominent in W. (%. :
1. Naomi, b. 30 Sept., 1757: m. Mover Niles of W. 6 Feb., 1761.
2. Olive, bp. 19 det., 176 ( W. C. R.); m. (1) Joseph Holcomb of W .; (2) Alex. Enos of Whites. town, N. Y.
3. Sarah, b. 21 Mch .. hp. 7 Oct. (W. C. R.), 1759; d.
1. Elisha. b. 16 pl., 1763: poss. this the " E. of D .. of Poq. Soc.," who was bp. 3 May. 1761. W. C.A. FAM. 14. [1765. FAM 15.
5. Elihu (Capt.), b. 21 Mch., bp. : Oct. ( W. C. R.).
FAM. 12. Samuel (Sam']," Det. Thos,' C'apt. Sam'(1), m. Joanna (dau. Josiah and Joanna Relay) Cook, 17 Nov., 1743, who d. 13 Mch., 1783; he d. 7 Nov., 1797. - Wby. Ch. Rec. Ch .:
1 Sammel, b. 2; Mch .. bp. 1 Apl. ( W. (. R.), 1714: m. Sabra Mills, 12 Jan., 1760 .- Vby. Ch. Frc. [121
2. Narah, b. 27 July, 1745.
3. Alexander, b. 13 June, 1747.
4 Joanna, b. 27 Oct., 1749.
1 Oliver, b 1 Nov., 1769. | 2. Samuel, b. 8 Nov.,
7. Eliakim, b. 29 (17, are. to F. G. V.) Oct., 1751.
8. Rachel, b. 13 JJune, 1256. IFAM. 13.
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FAM. 13. Eliakim4 (Eliak.,3 Eliak. ,2 Capt. Sam'?1), m. Anne Palmer, 27 Dec .. 1785 (W. C. R.); he d. 26 Dec., 1831; she b. 16 May, 1762; d. 1 Oct., 1842. Ch .:
1. Nancy, b. 5 Dec., 1791: m. 7 Oct., 1822, Hor- ace Beckwith, b. 9 Oct., 1789; he d. 14 Mch., 1825; she d. 28 Oct .. 1889.
2. Almeda, b. 18 Jan., 1788; d. 4 Oct., 1858; m. Henry Sill. 17 May, 1809; he h. 25 Ang., 1786; (. 21 July, 1870.
3. Warren, b. 6 Oct., 1789. FAM. 16.
4. Emilia, b. 18 July. 1204; m. 10 July, 1816, Philip Wolcott, b. 11 Meh., 1724; d. 15 Tx., 1850; < he d. 4 Det .. 1881.
5. Candace, b. 13 Nov., 1598; m. 1 Aug., 1826 ( H. C. R.), Odiah Loomis Sheldon, b. 24 May, 1800. and d. 27 Apl., 1881; she d. 5 Oct., 1827.
FAM. 14. Elisha 5 (Darid,4 Darid,3 Darid," Capt. Sum'l1 ), farmer Poq., W .; m. 1791 Anne Carter of Killingworth, Conn .; he d. 8 Sept., 1791; wid. m. (2) Levi Clark of Granby, Conn., who rem. to Poq. and had two s. and two daus. by him. Children (by 1st mar.) :
1. Sarah, h. at Poq .. W., 2 Dec., 1791; m. Lorrain T. Pease of Enfield, Conn., 28 May, 1809; issue: 1. Elisha Marshall. b. at Enf. 3 Jan., 1812; rem. to Texas 1831; was engag. in Texan War As aid-de-camp to Gen. Houston; and, receiving for his services a large gt. of land in Brazoria V'o .. Texas, hecame one of the wealthiest land owners in that State; lawyer; has been Judge of the Supreme Court of T. and Governor; m. Luradia C. (dan.Col. Richard) Niles of Poq .. W , 22 .Ang., 1850.
2. Joli J. R., b. 25 June, 1817: m. 1851, Cornelia M. (dan. Rev. Thos. J.) Ruger of Janesville. Wis .. where he res. 1859.
3. Sarah Maria, b. 22 Sept .. 1822; m. 1842, John ('. Robinson, Capt. 5th Regt. Inf. U. S. A., now Maj. - Gen., the defender of Fort Mellemry in early part of Civil Rebellion : of Binghamt'n, N. Y.
4. Caroline A . b. 8 Oct., 1826; m. 1858, Hamilton Richardson of Janesville, Wis.
5-7. Names unknown.
FAM. 15. Elihu 5 (Capt.) (Darid,4 Darid,3 Darid,? Capt. Sam'l1), m. Sabrina Gris- wold, ? Mch., 1793 ( W. C. R.), who d. 11 Ang., 1837, æ. 65. Ile d. 18 Sept., 1810, 1. 48. Children :
1. Chauncey, b. 1294. FAM. 17.
2. Elizabeth. b. 1796; m. Guy Griswold of of Pog., W .; no issile.
3. Elihu, d. 24 Sept., 1803, æ. 5.
4 Elihu, b. 1800. FAM. 18.
5. Gaylord, d. 15 Sept .. 1803, x. 12.
6. Elisha Gaylord (M. D.), grad. Y. C. Med. Coll .: res. Pittsburgh, Pa .; wid'r; no issue.
7. David.
FAM 16. Warren 5 (Eliakim,4 Eliak. 3 Eliak. " Capt. Sam'(1 ), mn. Elizabeth Wol- cott, 26 Sept., 1811; he d. 27 Ang., 1837; she b. 19 Jan., 1792; d. 27 Dec., 1832. Ch. :
1. Elizabeth, b, ? Ang., 1812; d. 1 Ang., 1845; m. 11 Nov., 1828, Joseph Il. Baker, b. 180"; d. 8 Mch .. 1533. /xxlle :
1. JJoseph W., b. 23 Mch., 1830; d. 2 Nov., 1886.
2. Edward Warren, b. 27 Dec., 1813. FAM. 19.
3. Incy Ann, b. 5 Dec., 1815; d. 21 Feb., 1817.
3. Elizabeth Serene.
4. Elihn.
5. Elisha Gaylord, en). cadet U. S. Mil. Arad., West Pt., N. Y., June, 1845: in 1863 was Capt. 6th Iuf. l'. S. A., and Col. of 13th Reg. N. Y. Vols., Army of Potomac; Brevet Brig.Gen. U. S. A. 6. Adaline Lonisa. 7. Joseph Toule.
FAM. 18. Elihu 6 (Elihn,5 Darid,4 Durid,8 David,? Capt. Sim'?1), m. Mary Caroline Griswold, 10 June, 1829; res. Poq., W., at the old homestead; member Conn. Legislature. Children :
1. Frances Elizabeth, h. 21 Mch., 1830; d. 21 July, 1×13.
2. Mary d'aroline, b. 13 Mch., 1833.
3. Ellen Griswold, b. 24 Oct., 1831; d. 18 Dec., 1811.
4. Annette Rebreca, b. 27 Nov., 1836.
5. Estelle Wilhemina, b. 1 JJuly, 1840.
6. David Elihn, b. 11 Ang .. 1843.
7. Ellen Elizabeth, b. 8 Aug., 1846.
FAM. 19. Edward Warren ( Warren, Eliak.,4 Eliak.,3 Eliak.," Capt. Sam'l'), m. 10 Nov. 1836 ( IN'. C. R.), Julia Ann Hayden, b. 28 Ang., 1815; d. 12 Meh., 1885. Children :
1. Frances Julia, b. 13 Ang., 1837; m. 6 June, 1861, George McClung, b. 1824. Ixalle :
1. Albertie, b. 29 Ang., 1862.
. . Julin, b. 10 Oct., 1866.
3. Albert E., b. 1 Aug., 1871.
1. Addison 11., b. 10 May, 1873. 5. Edie F., b. 8 Feb., 1875.
2. Albert Hayden, b. 10 Sept., 1×43; d. 20 Nov .. 1869.
3. James Oliver, b. 22 Meh., 1818; d. 27 Sept., 1854
4. Mary Sevilla, b. 5 Aug., d. 19 Sept., 1851.
5. Charles Wolcott, h. 6 Sept., 1951. FAM. 22.
6. Alle Elmetie, b. 3 Feb., 1858; m. 27 Dre., 1478. Ralph Armentraut, b. 15 Mch., 1:53. /satte; 1. Julin Cleona, b. 18 Nov., 1879.
2. Ella May, b. 15 Feb., d. 18 Ang .. 1851.
3. Verna .A., b. 10 Mch., 1852.
4. Edward E., b. 19 May. INS3.
5. Charles H., b. 14 May, 1885.
6. Robert, b. 13 Nov., d. 8 Dec., 1887.
4. Oliver Wolcott, b. 19 Nov., 1816; d. 20 Ort , 1875. FAM. 20. [1888.
3. James Christopher. b. 18 Sept., 1818; d. 11 Jan .. 6. John Randolph, b. 6 July, 1822. FAM. 21.
7. Lucy Ann, b. 14 Nov., 1822; m. 25 Nov., 1850. Ellsworth N. Phelps. Sce Phelps.
FAM. 17. Chauncey 6 (Capt. Elihu,5 Darid,4 Darid,3 Darid,? Capt. Sam'l1 ), b. at the old M. home in W .; rem. to Little Falls, N. Y .; in. Mary Hotchkiss Ward, gd .- dan. of John Wilcox and Grace Griswold, a descendant of the Lyme Griswolds). HIe d. 8 May, 1838. Children :
1. C'alista Sabrina, b. May, 1823; m. Joseph Her- rin, Esq .; has (1) Fred. M .; (2) Culista S.
2. Edward Chauncey (Rev.), b. 8 July, 1824; in- structor in Mil. School at West Pt., N. Y .; Senior Tutor in Geneva Coll., 1845, 7: Assistant Prof. Math. N. Y. U'niv., 1848 '9; author of The Ancestry Of Gen. Grant, pub. 1869; A History of the U. S. Nural Acad-my, ett.
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FAM. 20. Oliver W.6 ( Warren, 5 Eliak. ,4 Eliak. ,3 Eliak ? Capt. Sam'(1), m. (1) 1 Jan., 1838, Julia A. Barnes, b. ? May, 1819; d. 3 May, 1849, æ. 30; (2) 14 Nov., 1865, Lucinda Ward. Child:
1. Marion W., b. 26 Jan., 1868.
FAM. 21. John Randolph " ( Warren,5 Eliak.,' Eliak.,3 Eliak.,' Capt. Sam'( 1), m. 29 Feb., 1852, Louisa M. Lusk, b. 17 Ang., 1832; d. 11 June, 1873. Ch. :
1. Mary. b. 16 July, 1-53; d. I June, 1855. 5. Ida, b. 4 Feb., 1861; d. 11 Sept., 1862. 6. Oliver Walcott, b. 26 Mch., 1865.
2. Julia, b. 18 June, 1555.
3. Lucy, b. 1 Mch., 1857. 7. Thurman Franklin, 22 Apl., 1867; d. 31 July, 1568. 1. John Warren, b. 22 Jan., 1859. 8. Amat Harris, b. 18 Sept., 1869.
I'AM. 22. Charles Wolcott? (Edu'd W.,6 Warren,5 Eliak.,' Eliak.," Eliak. ," Capt. Som'(1), m. (1) 14 Mich., 1878, Rebecca C. Lover ; (2) 19 Sept., 1886, Della M. Kirkpatrick, b. 25 May, 1865. Children :
1. Myrtle Estelle, b. 22 Dec., 1878.
2. Edward Clyde, b. 25 Feb., 1880; d. 24 Dec., 1886. |
3. Wolcott Warren, b. 28 Nov .. 1851.
Josiah (prob. s. of North, Det. Thos,2 Capt. Sam'(1), m. Keziah --. Ch. (M.C.R.):
1. Simon, 4 hp. 6 Sept., 1778. 5. George Loomis. )
3. Justin, bp. 21 May, 1750.
4 Ruth, bp. 6 July, 1783.
6. Sarah, bp. 22 June. 1794.
7. Noah,
Mixcellmons .- Alexander, had Lydia, bp. 31 Mch., 1971 (Wbg. ('h. R.c.); Zerninh, bp. 2 Aug., 1778. Asenath, had Job, b. 27 Ang., 1771. Edward had wife Martha, who d. 28 Sept., 1697, and dan. Abigail, b. 20 Sept., 1697. James (see p. 161, Vol. 1). Lydia (Wid.), had Ruth, bp. 1 Nov., 1801 .- Why. Ch. I.c. Wid. Lydia, d. ? Nov., 1804, a. 53. Elisha (s. Elisha), bp. 26 July, 1722 .- H. C. R. Sarah (of Eliakim), bp. 29 Feb., 1756. Rev. Eliakim, pastor at No. Canter- bury, Conn., 1759-68, and in the active ministry until 1813 .- Ree. W. HI. Moore.
Marriages,- Marion m. Hiram Wells of W. Htfd, 22 July, 1824 .- Why. Ch. Fr. Mary, m. Nath. Stanley of Htfd., 12 Jan., 1731/8 .- W. C. R. Thomas, m. Mary Drake, 2 Mch., 1636.
Duiths .- Alexander, d. 25 Apl., 1801, æ. 54. David d. at Seneca Falls, N. Y., 19 Ang., 1831, æ. 25 .- Poq. Dorothy (dan. Thos.), d. 25 Oct., 1736. Eliakim (s. Eliakim), d. 8 Aug., 1720. Mary, d. 25 Aug., 1683. Noah (s. Thos.), d. 22 Dec., 1712. Oliver, d. 18 Apl., 1801, æ. 31. Samuel, d. 4 June, 1813, a. 39. Thomas (s. Thos.), d. 15 Dec., 1736.
MARSHFIELD, Thomas, b. at Exeter, Eng .; came to Dorchester, 1630; rem. to W. (and gr., see p. 161, Vol. I); Hinman says he came to W. early in 1639, and left the Colony, 1613, apparently on account of some difficulty in the Church; was a gentleman of good standing, and presumed to have been the father of Sunuml. one of the proprietors of Westfield, who d. in Springfield, 1692; Priscilla Marshfield, whose death (Oct. 20, 1639) is chronicled by O. C. R., may have been his wife or dau.
MARTIN, Sylvanus (E. W.), had Nabby, b. 2 Nov., 165; William, b. 13 Feb., 1756. MASSEN (prob. Mason), Ann, d. 7 Oct., 1640. - 0. C. R.
MASKELL, Thomas, m. (0). C. R.) Bethia Parsons, 10 May, 1660 (0. ('. N'.) ; was early at Sims., where he was freeman 1669; doubtless d. there and was buried at W. 12 Ang., 1621. His wid. bought the Bartlett house 1671/2. Ch. (O. C. R.) :
1 Betbia, b. 6 Mch., 1600; d. prior to 74. 1. Thomas, h. 2 Jan., 1665.
1. Thomas, b. 19 Mch., 1661; d. prior to fl. 5. John. b. 19 Nov., 1667.
3. Abigail, b. 27 Nov., 1663. 6. Elizabeth, b. 19 Oct., 1660.
MASON, (Major) John, b. in England, 1600; had a military training, and (with Miles Standish, John Underhill, and Lyon Gardiner, all afterwards captains, and famous in the military annals of New England) served under Sir Thomas Fairfax, with the rank of lieutenant. lle is supposed to have been a member of the Dor-
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chester emigration of 1630; and in 1632 the General Court of Massachusetts sent him, with John Gallop and twenty men, in a shallop of twenty tons burden, to break up a gang of pirates which were infesting the coast, an undertaking which he prosecuted with courage and prudence, despite the hardships of the winter sea- son. For this he received $10 from the Colony, and in November of that year was made Captain. In September, 1634, he was one of a committee of military men appointed to select sites for fortifications in Boston harbor, and personally superin- tended the erection of works on Castle Island. In 1635 he represented Dorchester in the General Court, and, while a member of that body, June 3d, the second appli- cation of the Rev. John Warham and church of D. to remove to Connecticut was received and granted. He would seem, from the date of lands recorded to him at Windsor (see p. 161, Vol. 1), to have settled among his old friends at W. in 1637. When, soon after, the Connecticut River settlements were threatened by Indians, Mason led the gallant little band of settlers, and in the famous " Swamp Fight " crushed the Pequots. His services as the savior of the infant Colony were properly recognized by the Gen. Court at Ilartford, which created him "the public military officer of the Plantations of Connecticut," with a salary of £40 per annum, a position which he held until within two years of his death, a period of about 35 years - tirst with the title of "Captain, " afterwards of " Major." and being the only major in the Colony, he was frequently named in the public acts of the Court as "the Major," no other designation being necessary to distinguish him. He was also drill-master of the Colony, being authorized to " train " all the inhabitants thereof ten days in each year. In 1647 he removed to Saybrook, it being the post of most importance and greatest danger, and was there empowered to have command, not only of all soldiers, but the inhabitants of the town (similar orders being issued in 1652). Thus the habeus corpus act was practically suspended by the dictatorial authority thus con- ferred upon Major Mason.
So important, indeed, was Major Mason's presence to the infant commonwealth that his request for permission to embark in a project for a settlement in Delaware was met with the following reply from the General Court: " That it is much in the desires of the whole Court that he would not entertain the thought of removing his abode out of this Colony, whereunto they cannot give the least allowance or appro- bation." But the Court could not wholly deny him, and so expressed their consent " that he shall attend the service for three months, provided. he will engage him- self to return within that time, and continue his abode as formerly:" also, in a let- ter of complaint to the Commissioner of the United Colonies they say that the Nar- ragansetts had fired eleven bullets into a house, "in hopes, as they boasted, to have slain him whom we have cause to honor, whose safety we cannot but make ourselves bound to protect, our Deputy Governor, Major Mason." The Major, indeed, seems to have been less careful of his own safety than the General Court were for him; the last of the instructions to him, when he was sent at the head of an expedi- tion to Long Island (then belonging to Connecticut) being, " we do not judge it con- venient that you should in your own person make after any Indians in the woods, " etc.
In further testimony of their appreciation of his public services, they made him grants of considerable tracts of land, to two only of which can we now refer. June 5, 16-11, it was ordered "that Capt. Mason shall have 500 acres of ground for him and his heirs, about Pequot country "; and Sept. 11, 16.11. he was granted the island of Chipachauge (now Mason's Island), in Mystic Bay, besides 100 acres of upland and ten acres near Mystic, " when he shall make a choice." A portion of this island is still owned and occupied by his descendants.
- Besides his military offices and cares, he was, also, from 1637 to '41, a Magis- trate: from 1641 to '59, he was Assistant, or member of the Gen'l Court; and from 1659, he was Lient. Governor for ten successive years, when he declined a re- election; and for two years, during Gov. Winthrop's absence in England upon the VOL. 11 .- 60
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Charter business, he was acting Governor; also, in the years 1647, '54, '55, '56, '57. and '61, he was one of the Commissioners of the United (Conn., Mass., and R. 1.) Colonies. In the company which removed from Saybrook and founded the town of Norwich, Conn., Capt. Mason was by far the most prominent person, the deed which was executed June 6, 1759, by Uneas, Owaneco, and Attawanhood, being made in his presence and that of Thomas Tracy. This was the third town in Conn. of which he had been a founder - Windsor, Saybrook, and Norwich - we may, indeed, add Dorchester, Mass.
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