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1. Edmund Blankman, a lawyer, located in New York.
2. Dr. Benjamin Blankman, a physician and lawyer, located in New York.
3. Dr. William Blankman, a physician and lawyer, located in San Franeiseo and was living there at the time of its destruetion by earthquake and fire in 1906.
Dr. . Miehelle Arno Blankman and Jane Beverly Crawford, his wife, had ehildren :
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1. John Sergeant Blankman, a lawyer established in New York; dead.
2. Edward Michelle Blankman, a lawyer; also dead.
3. Lydia Genevieve Blankman. Married Charles L. Coombs, Esq., a lawyer of Washington, D. C., died in 1903.
4. Isabel Livingston Blankman. Married, first, John Jaque- lin Evans, U. S. N .; second, Henry Coleman Chamber- lain, of Camden, New Jersey.
5. Medora Bruner Blankman. Married William P. Sefton of the Hydrographie Office, Washington, D. C.
6. Rosa Barnett Blankman.
7. Eugenia J. Blankman.
Dr. Michelle Arno Blankman had a valuable collection of records of Virginia covering a period of fifty years in a file of several bound volumes of the Virginia Herald, which are now a part of the Congressional Library, in Washington.
Lydia Genevieve Blankman married Charles L. Coombs, a law- yer, son of the Hon. J. J. Coombs, chief of the Pension Bureau and a member of the Legislature of Ohio. They had children :
1. Aliee Sergeant Coombs, dead.
2. Charles Mason Coombs, dead.
3. Genevieve Chamberlain Coombs.
4. Brenda Coombs, dead.
5. Ethel Eugenia Coombs.
Isabel Livingston Blankman married twice : first, John Jaquelin Evans, youngest son of Dr. John Evans, of New Hampshire, U. S. Geologist, and grandson of Robert Mills, the eminent architeet and engineer, who was U. S. Government arehiteet of publie buildings in Washington and elsewhere. He designed the Washington national monument in Washington.
John Jaquelin Evans was born November 29, 1848; died Novem- ber 24, 1877. Married January 17, 1874. He was drowned off Cape Hatteras in the wreek of the U. S. ship of war, Huron, to which he was attached as a ward-room offieer at the time. John J. Evans and Isabel Livingston Blankman, his wife, had one child :
1. Isabel Mason Evans, born April 2, 1876. Married Sept. 10, 1902, to Joel Mintur Coehran of Virginia. They live in Charlottesville, Va., and have issue :
1. Isabel Chamberlain Cochran, b. July 21, 1903.
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Mrs. Cochran is a zealous member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Society of Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Pepperrell Ancestral Association, of Kittery, Maine, and is many times repeated a lineal descendant of Colonial Governors.
Isabel Livingston Blankman married, second, Henry Coleman Chamberlain, of Camden, New Jersey, on September 10, 1888, at Washington, D. C., by the same Presbyterian pastor who had married her to her first husband. No children.
Enfield was a family name among the Masons. Miss Enfield Mason was a frequent visitor at the home of Dr. Michelle Arno Blankman, in Fredericksburg, and was always called cousin by the mother and children.
There were two other children of John Mason and Mary Nelson, of Overwharton Parish, born later than the others, and for some reason (perhaps a change of residence) not registered in that parish. These two children were:
1. Joel Mason, born about 1766.
2. Col. Enoch Mason, born about 1769.
Among the marriage licenses from Culpeper County (see Green's St. Mark's Parish) we find: "Joel Mason and Sallie Brown, 1791."
Joel Mason, b. in Stafford County about 1766, married (Dec. 12, 1791) Sarah Browne (or Brown) of Culpeper County. They had issue :
1. Enoch H. Mason, b. Jan. 1, 1793; d. March 13, 1819.
2. Eliza Mason, b. Oct. 28, 1794. Married Robert Kendall, of Falmouth, Va .* .
3. Enfield Mason, b. Dec. 6, 1796. Married John Tackett, Aug. 28, 1816; d. Feb. 28, 1836 (she was born and married in Stafford County). They had a son, William J. Tackett, b. 1826. His daughter, Mattie Enfield Tackett, b. 1858, married William H. Glen.
4. Lucy B. Mason, b. Feb. 9, 1799. Married Burgess, of Lexington County ; d. March 29, 1827.
" Among some old letters, of date 1833, from Eliza Mason Kendall, daughter of Joel Mason, she speaks of "Uncle Lewis," "Uncle and Aunt Barber," "Aunt Jameson," and claims connection with the Bushrods and Henrys of Virginia.
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5. John W. Mason, b. Dec. 20, 1804. Married Anna Maria Thornton, seeond eousin of General William Fitzhugh Thornton.
6. Mary H. Mason, b. Dee. 8, 1806.
7. Sarah E. Mason, b. June 15, 1808.
8. Susan F. Mason, b. Nov. 23, 1810, in Fredericksburg, Va. Married, first, Mathew Harrison; seeond, Alexander Dunbar, of Bolton, Ky.
We are favored with the above pedigree by Mrs. L. C. Heely, 165 W. 140th St., New York City, and it is, no doubt, entirely reliable.
The will of Joel Mason was recorded in Stafford Co., Liber BB, 1813, 1817. This is one of the books stolen or destroyed during the war between the states.
The reference to the store aeeount book, bearing date 1786, must refer to John Mason, father of Enoeh and Lewis, and what was read in the book, "Joe Y. Mason, son of John Mason," might prove to be "Joel Mason, son of John Mason." The other names on the list of dealers at the store, John T. Mason, Lewis Mason and Mrs. Elizabeth Mason, may all readily be seen in names of John Mason's children, ineluding the wife of one of them, either John or William. At all events, the quotation from the Aquia aeeount book should come into the chapter as a note to the statement of the marriage. John Mason married (Nov. 27, 1747) Mary Nelson, b. about 1722 (Overwharton Register, b. about 1727).
In a merehants' day book kept at a store at Aquia, Stafford Co., the MS. volume being now in the Congressional Library, Washington, D. C., the date of which is 1786, and the store is sup- posed to have belonged to one of the Brent family. It appears the following Masons had accounts at the store in 1786: Daniel Mason, Mrs. Elizabeth Mason, John Mason, Joseph Y. Mason (son of John Mason), John T. Mason, Lewis Mason, Richard Mason, Thomas Mason.
Colonel Enoeh Mason, the youngest ehild of John Mason and Mary Nelson, was born about 1769, and died about 1830. He re- sided on his estate, "Clover Hill," Stafford County, where he died and was buried. He married (about 1793) Luey Wiley Roy, of "Cleveland," King George County, Virginia. She was the
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daughter of Wiley Roy and Sarah Fowke. Sarah Fowke was the daughter of Gerard Fowke, son of Capt. Chandler Fowke, of Gunston Hall, Md., and Elizabeth Dinwiddie, daughter of John Dinwiddie and Lympha Rosa Enfield Mason, daughter of Col. George Mason and Mary Fowke. This Col. George Mason was the son of Col. George Mason, the immigrant, and grandfather of George Mason of Gunston Hall, Virginia.
John Mason (Uncle Jack), eldest son and child of Col. Enoch Mason and Lucy Wiley Roy, was born about 1795, and married (about 1822) Eliza Roy, and had two daughters.
Eliza Roy, after the death of John Mason, married (second) Mr. Temple, and had two sons and a daughter.
The children by the first marriage :
1. Mary Camm Mason, b. Feb. 20, 1824; d. Jan. 15, 1895. Married (April 27, 1846) James Anthony Hayes, D.
D., who was born Dec. 15, 1822; d. March 30, 1880. 2. Lucy Roy Mason, died unmarried.
Mary Camm Mason married James Anthony Hayes, D. D., and had children :
1. Eliza Roy Hayes, b. Feb. 22, 1847. Married (Dec. 1, 1869) W. H. Adams.
2. Charles Browne Hayes, b. Oct. 26, 1851; d. Nov. 12, 1901. Unmarried.
3. Lucy Mason Hayes, b. Aug. 7, 1854 ; d. Aug. 14, 1854.
4. Genevieve Hayes, b. April 12, 1856.
5. Thomas Mason Hayes, b. Jan. 21, 1858. Palestine, Texas ; has family.
Married in
Eliza Roy Hayes. Married (Dec. 1, 1869) William Henry Adams. They have children :
1. Lucy Mason Adams, b. Aug. 31, 1870. Married (Oct. 7, 1896) D. K. Smith.
2. Edwin Thompson Adams, b. Sept. 28, 1872.
3. Genevieve Hayes Adams, b. Jan. 21, 1876.
4. Mary Elizabeth Adams, b. May 12, 1885.
Lucy Mason Adams married Daniel K. Smith. They have children :
1. Elizabeth Innes Smith, b. July 5, 1897.
2. Harriet Mason Smith, b. June 9, 1904.
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Col. Enoch Mason married (about 1793) Lucy Wiley Roy. Issuc eight sons and two daughters :
I. John Mason (Unele Jaek), b. about 1795. Married Eliza Roy, about 1822, and had issue :
1. Mary Camm Mason, b. Feb. 20, 1824; d. Jan. 15, 1895. Married (April 27, 1846) James Anthony Hayes, D. D., who was b. Dec. 15, 1822; d. March 20, 1880.
2. Luey Roy Mason, died unmarried.
3. Joseph Y. Mason.
Mary Camm Mason. Married James Anthony Hayes, D. D. They had ehildren :
1. Eliza Roy Hayes, b. Feb. 22, 1847. Married William Henry Adams, Dee. 1, 1869.
2. Charles Browne Hayes, b. Oet. 26, 1851; d. Nov. 12, 1901, unmarried.
3. Luey Mason Hayes, b. Aug. 7, 1854; d. Aug. 14, same year.
4. Genevieve Hayes, b. April 12, 1856.
5. Thomas Mason Hayes, b. Jan. 21, 1858. Hc married in Texas. No record.
Eliza Roy Hayes married William Henry Adams. Issue :
1. Luey Mason Adams, b. Aug. 31, 1870. Married Daniel K. Smith, Oet. 7, 1896.
2. Edwin Thompson Adams, b. Sept. 28, 1872.
3. Genevieve Hayes Adams, b. Jan. 21, 1876.
4. Mary Elizabeth Adams, b. May 12, 1885.
Lucy Mason Adams married Daniel K. Smith. They had ehildren :
1. Elizabeth Innes Smith, b. July 5, 1897.
2. Harriet Mason Smith, b. June 9, 1904.
II. Enoeh Mason, seeond ehild of Col. Enoeh Mason and Lucy Wiley Roy, was born about 1797. Married Eliza Mason, of Alexandria, Va., and left a son (nick- named "Barney"), Enoch Mason, who died in Cali- fornia, and a daughter who married in South Carolina during the war and was known as Minnie. Enoeh Mason married, second (in 1832), Frances Payne.
III. Wiley Roy Mason, third ehild of Col. Enoch Mason and Luey Wiley Roy. Married Susan Taylor Smith,
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daughter of Augustine Jaquelin Smith and Margaret Boyd, of "West Grove," near Alexandria, Va. Issue Volume III, Chapters V, VI and VII.
IV. Mary Mason, fourth child of Col. Enoch Mason and Lucy Wiley Roy. Married William Peyton, of Stafford Co., Va
V. Alexander Hamilton Mason, fifth child and fourth son of Col. Enoeh Mason and Lucy Wiley Roy. Married Jane Alan Smith, daughter of Dr. Augustine Jaquelin Smith, of "West Grove," near Alexandria, Va. Hc died in 1857, leaving four sons and four daughters. (Issue, Volume III.)
VI. The sixth child and second daughter of Col. Enoch Mason and Lucy Wiley Roy was Sarah Fowke Mason. Mar- ried William Barber, of Stafford Co.
VII. Selden Mason, the seventh ehild and fifth son of Col. Enoeh Mason and Lucy Wiley Roy. Married Virginia Hooe.
VIII. Gerard Fowke Mason, cighth ehild and sixth son of Col. Enoeh Mason and Luey Wiley Roy. Married, first, Isabella Stephenson ; second, Margaret Holladay, sister of Gov. F. W. M. Holladay, of Virginia.
IX. Beverly Welford Mason, the ninth child and seventh son of Col. Enoch Mason and Luey Wiley Roy. Married Miss Sydney Bayley, of Delaware.
X. Charles Mason, tenth child and eighth son of Col. Enoch Mason and Lucy Wiley Roy. Married, first, Anna Tayloe Braxton, granddaughter of Carter Braxton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Anna Tayloe Braxton was b. 1808; d. May 20, 1831, at Fredericksburg, Va. Issue by this marriage :
1. Charles Taylor Mason, Civil Engineer and Major C. S. A. Married Susan James, of Chillicothe, Ohio, but had no children.
Charles Mason married, seeond, Maria Jefferson Carr Randolph, granddaughter of President Thomas Jeffer- son, being the daughter of Col. Thomas Jefferson Ran- - dolph and Jane Nicholas, of "Edge Hill," Albemarle Co., Va. They had issue :
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1. Jefferson Randolph Mason, Judge, San Antonio, Texas; d. unmarried.
2. Luey Wiley Mason. Married Edward J. Smith, of Freder- icksburg, Va., and had issue:
1. Charles Mason Smith:
2. William Taylor Smith.
3. John Enoeh Mason, Judge; in turn Commonwealth Attor- ney for King George Co., Va .; member House of Dele- gates, State Senator and Cireuit Judge. Married Kate Karney Henry, of Washington, D. C. They have ehildren :
1. Flora Randolph Mason.
2. Charles Mason (1842-1846).
3. Thomas Jefferson Mason.
4. Wilson Cary Nicholas Mason (1858-1866).
Gerard Fowke Mason, M. D., b. July 15, 1815, Stafford Co., Va. Married, first (1842), Isabella Stephenson, who died 1848. She was the daughter of William Stephenson, of Frederiek Co., Va. Gerard Fowke Mason, M. D., married, seeond, Margaret J. Holli- day. Margaret J. Holliday was the daughter of Dr. J. McK. Holliday, of Winehester, and sister of Lieut. Gov. Holliday, of Virginia.
Issue by the first marriage, two sons :
1. William L. Mason, C. S. A. Married Miss Yates, of Charleston, W. Va., and has Virginia Mason. William Mason is a large stock raiser and prominent planter. Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of his County in 1904.
2. Gerard Bell Mason.
Issue by the second marriage, one daughter, who became Mrs. B. D. Gibson, of Charlestown, W. Va.
Dr. Gerard Fowke Mason survived all his brothers and sisters, dying at an advanced age. He studied medieine and was graduated from the Jefferson Medieal College, of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1841. Early in 1842 he located in Charlestown, W. Va., and began the practice of his profession, by which he accumulated a consider- able fortune. His eldest son, William L. Mason, enlisted in Baylor's Company, 12th Cavalry, C. S. A., 1861-5. When Baylor was made Captain of Mosby's command he took with him ten of his best men, one of whom was Mason.
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THE LOWER NORFOLK MASONS.
[Notes with respect to the Early Representatives.]
The following is copied from the Baltimore Sun of April 9, 1905 :
Two depositions, from Lieut. Franeis Mason, are quoted. Coneerning his age, the statement that he was 42 in 1637. and, therefore, born in 1595, is generally aeeepted. Another that he was 40 in 1628, or seven years older. Holten is on record that the emigrant eame over on the "John and Fran- eis," with his wife, Mary, and daughter, Ann, in 1613. The first date would have made him 18; the latter, therefore, seems the more probable.
A son, Franeis, was born in Virginia, but Mr. Ellis, in the "Virginia Historieal Magazine," Volume II, was of the opinion that both his son and daughter died in early infaney, thus finding no relationship between the Surry and Norfolk families.
In the year 1623, ten years after emigration, Lieut. Franeis Mason's wife was Aliee, the mother of a son and daughter, Lemuel and Elizabeth, and when he died, in 1648, his wife, Aliee, and son, Lemuel, administered on his estate. He was magistrate, justiee and vestryman of Lower Nor- folk. His second wife eame to Virginia in 1622, in the "Margaret and John.". She was born 1626 (1626) (Dep.).
There are other aeeounts, which affirm that an early Franeis and James were half brothers of Colonel Lemuel Mason. The destruction of early records must ever render all sueh investigation well-nigh hopeless. And just here, it may be remarked that James Mason was as prominent in Surry as was Lemuel in' Lower Norfolk. He held large grants there, as well as in Isle of Wight, and in 1652 was a member of the Couneil.
Colonel Lemuel Mason is one of the first names of the old record of Portsmouth. As written it might stand for any and every word exeept one, and that one Lemuel. He was born 1628, just twenty years of age when his father died, and he was twenty-one when he married Aliee Seawell, five years younger than himself. She was a daughter of Henry Seawell, merehant, Burgess for Elizabeth City in 1632, and for Norfolk County in 1639. He died about 1644 (1649. The estate of Mr. Matthew Phillips (Phripp?), for estate of said Henry Seawell, as it was left at the deeease of the said Aliee, wife of the said Henry.) The administratrix was Anne, wife of said Phillips, whom Aliee had married soon after her husband died. Her death was speedily followed by that of her seeond husband, but not before he had married Anne. Henry Seawell was then to be sent to Holland for his education, in charge of Mr. Thomas Lee, spoken of as his kinsman. A deposition shows this son as born May 1, 1639, and another mentions his deeease in 1672, and that his sister and heir, then the wife of Col. Lemuel Mason, was thirty-seven or thirty-eight years old.
The mother of Mrs. Aliee Seawell was Alee, daughter of Thomas Wil- loughby, who emigrated to Virginia in 1610 and became a leading merehant of the Colony; also justiee of Elizabeth City in 1628, Burgess in 1629-32,
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and Councilor in 1644, 1646, 1650. lIc patented very large tracts of land in Lower Norfolk.
Col. Lemuel Mason was justice from 1649, sheriff 1664-68, burgess from 1654 to 1657 to 1692, mayor in 1656, presiding justice in 1680, colonel of militia in Lower Norfolk, and holding the same office in North Carolina in 1699.
His will was dated June 17, 1695, and probated seven years later. He names his three sons, Thomas, Lemuel and George; daughters, Frances, wife of Mr. George Newton; Alice, wife of Samuel Boush, and widow of William Porter; Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Cocke; Margaret, wife of [paper torn], in England; Anne, wife of Mr. Cron [or something like this, but the paper here is also mutilated]; Mary, wife of Walter Gee, and Dinalı.
Mrs. Mason's will is also recorded, of date 1704. It recites Frances Sayer, Alice Boush, Mary Cocke, Dinah Thoroughgood. Still another will from the New England Register, Volume 42, throws light on these daughters of Lemuel Mason-that of Mrs. Margaret Checseman in 1679, when only Frances, the eldest, could have reached marriagcable agc. She is not named, having doubtless received the share to be given to cach "on marriage or age of 21." The others are Alice, Elizabeth, Anne, Abi- gail, Mary and Dinah. Margaret Mason, who lives with --- , god-
mother, we suppose to be the daughter Margaret of Colonel Lemuel, named by him, though she is made [paper torn] with Mrs. Mary Childs, and according to the order in which written in her father's will, could not have been more than twelve years of age. To her was devised "£150, the lease of the house I live in, and the plate I had of John Har- rison." To Alice there was given "a great Beaker" a tankard, each to Elizabeth and Ann a great ring; and the rest of the plate to be divided among the others. She names her "Coezin, Elizabeth Thelabell," from which we can put her down as aunt to Colonel Lemuel and his sister, the said Mrs. Thelabell.
Thomas Mason, the eldest son, "gent and planter of Tanner's Creek," as he styles himself in his will of 1710, was born in the middle of the previous century. That he was Justice in 1699, survived a wife, Elizabeth, and left a son and three daughters, is all that is known of him to be recorded here. Lemuel, the son, died at a grammer school in 1712, aged eighteen, and with him the name of Mason in his branch. The daughters were: Ann, Mrs. Thomas Willoughby; Mary, Mrs. William Ellison. A deed from her husband specifies land left by Lemuel to his three sisters and Margaret.
Lemuel Mason, Jr., married his first cousin, Mary Thelabell, whose mother was Elizabeth Mason.
George Mason, the youngest son, died in 1710. In his will he named his wife, Philia, and children, George, Thomas, Abigail, and Frances. There were several indentures, 1734-35, between Thomas Mason, Gent, and Col. John Phipp. Gent, of "Princess Anne," in which the land sold is
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"that left him by his mother Philia." His brother George also sells land to Colonel Phipp, which he states was given him by his mother Philia. Who is Philia? The widow of Thomas, "Mary Mason, daughter and heiress of Nathaniel Newton, deceased," deeds lands to John Wishart, adjoining Col. John Phipp. As the wife of this last was Frances, it is not improbable that she was daughter of the above George and Philia, his wife. Do any records show ?
We are not to suppose that Elizabeth, Mary and Philia were the only wives of Col. Lemuel Mason's sons. They were mentioned in the wills as last. Two, if not three, seemed the matrimonial adventures of most (men and women), and how it all could have been so adequately arranged is the marvel to us now. Death, not divorce, was the great divider then, and its shafts knew no loiter. But not less fast came the jingle of marriage bells, and scant time was accorded tears.
I. Frances Mason, the eldest daughter of Col. Lemuel Mason, was born about 1661. Married, first, George Newton, who died 1694. When her mother's will was made she had become Mrs. Frances Sayer. Mr. Cincinnatus Newton, deceased, was a descendant of the Masons through this daughter.
II. Alice Mason, named in her father's will as the wife of Mr. Samuel Boush, and the widow of Mr. William Porter, must have had an earlier marriage. A will is on record wherein one Robert Hodges, 1681, states that his father-in-law was Lemuel Mason, and Alice was the name of his wife. Lieutenant Maximilian Boush, of the Royal Navy, devises to an uncle, Lemuel Boush.
III. Elizabeth Mason was the wife of Mr. Thomas Cocke. She had two daughters, Mary and Anne, and died before her husband. His will was recorded in 1697. To each he leaves a plantation, a gold chain, plate and jewelry. They cannot be traced in the Cocke pedigree.
IV. Margaret Mason comes next in her father's will, but from the torn page nothing can be known except that she married and lived in England.
V. The name of Anne Mason's husband is also lost for the same reason. Looking as far as the meager information afforded by old records may permit, to find . some "Anns" born about that time, married to a Mr. C., with a descendant Lemuel, perhaps (assured sign of Mason derivation), we discover those four conditions only in Mrs. Sampson Trevethan. At any rate, she was "Anne," born as was Anne Mason, near the years 1670-72. She had a grandson, Richard Conner, which might show a previous mar- riage of her own to Mr. Conner, and also a grandson, Lemuel Tennent. Her will was made in 1643, when she was a very old woman, and had only grandchildren as legatees, viz .: Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Scott; Mary Anne Thoroughgood, Katherine Wright, Richard Conner, Stephen Wright, Lemuel Tennant. "Sister Frances Corbil" is a clue. But there may be some mistake in its rendering, and besides the "in-laws" bore no dis- tinguishable marks in those old wills, where so many mourning rings were bequeathed among them. It is true that the "Critic" makes this Mrs. Anne
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Trevethan a widow of Argall Thoroughgood, nee Church, but that may have been because there was a Thoroughgood grandchild and because Argall died in very good time for the marriage to Mrs. Sampson Treve- than. However, it does not do to challenge any Thoroughgood marriage,- they are sandwiched in everywhere,-and its widows were always on hand and being wed. Only in the instance above quoted, marriage bonds show that Mrs. Trevethan's daughter Mary Trevethan married (1724) Thomas Thoroughgood, and when he died (will 1726), she married (1728) Stephen Wright. The one child by the first marriage was legatee in her grand- mother's will.
VI. A deed of gift from Lemuel to "his children, George, Craford, and Abigail, his wife," in 1690, provides for this sixth daughter, not otherwise benefited in will. They were to have the third part of an island situated in Coratuck Inlet, N. C., and all the stock. There can be but little doubt that she was the wife Abigail, who was bereaved the second time, at least, when her first cousin, Francis Thelabell, died 1826. There were five children by this marriage, second of whom was Lemuel. And later the will of the eldest son, James Thelabell, states that his mother was Abigail Moscley, wife of Anthony Moseley.
VII. Mary Mason, at the writing of her father's will, was the wife of Mr. Walter Gee. If the copying of the mother's made no mistake, she was mentioned as Mary Cocke, and thus would end all further concern . regarding her matrimonial adventures, but for an entry on the pages of an old bible. In the handwriting of Col. George Blow, it is set forth therein that the grandparents of his mother were Matthew Phripp and Mary Mason. Mary Mason Wright was moreover a sister of Mrs. Blow. They could only have been great-grandparents, because the grandparents were Mr. John Phripp and Frances, above mentioned. Still, all great- grandparents are grandparents, and if we go back a generation Mary G'ce was old enough to have made an earlier marriage and to have been the mother of one or two Phripp children.
Mr. Cincinnatus Newton, in a letter a few years ago to the writer of this sketch, expressed the opinion that the names Matthew Phillips and Matthew Phripp were one and the same. Considering the difficulty of deciphering old manuscript, much less names generally misspelled, the wonder is some error did not occur. It will be recalled that the mother of Mrs. Lemuel Mason married Mr. Matthew Phillips, and while we hear no more of the Phillips family in the connection, that of Phripp is very prominent, and frequently thereafter associated with that of Mason.
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