Person:Ralph Mason (3)

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Ralph Mason
b.Cal 1600
d.Bef 27 Jan 1678/79
  • HRalph MasonCal 1600 - Bef 1678/79
  • WAnne UnknownCal 1600 - Aft 1679
m. Bef 1630
  1. Richard MasonCal 1630 -
  2. Samuel MasonCal 1632 - 1691
  3. Susanna MasonCal 1634 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Ralph Mason
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 1600
Marriage Bef 1630 Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Anne Unknown
Emigration[1][2] 1635 On the Abigail.
Residence[1] 1635 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Will[1][2] 11 Jan 1672/73
Occupation[1][2] Joiner.
Probate[1][2] 23 Jan 1678/79 … will … proved 23 January 1678[/9?].
Death[1] Bef 27 Jan 1678/79 Before date of inventory.
Estate Inventory[1] 27 Jan 1678/79 £112 12s. 3d., £100 in real estate.
The Abigail (1635)
The Abigail sailed in the summer of 1635.
Sailed: summer 1635 from England under Master H. Hackwell
Arrived: late summer? 1635 at New England

Passengers:
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Mathew Abdy - William Almy family - Wm Bassett - Ruth Bushell - Dennis Geere family - Tho Goade - Henry Bullocke family - Hugh Burt family - Jo. Emerson - William and John Fuller - Jo. Harbert - Edward White family - Geo. Hadborne family - Christopher Foster family - Joseph Flood family - Henry Collins family (servant Hugh Alley) - Wm Potter family - Edmond Freeman family - Philip Drinker family - Ralph Mason family - Ralph Sheppard family - Wm Tilly - Thomas Jones family - John Winthrop and wife

Resources: Founders of New England (NEHGR) and additional pages

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Ralph Mason, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    5:81-84.

    ORIGIN: St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey.
    MIGRATION: 1635 on the Abigail (on 4 July 1635, "Ralph Mason," joiner, aged 35, with a certificate from the minister at St. Olave, Southwark, Surrey, "his wife Anne," aged 35, and "3 children, Richard," aged 5, "Samuell," aged 3, and "Susan," aged 1, were enrolled at London as passengers for New England on the Abigail [Hotten 99]).
    OCCUPATION: Joiner [Hotten 99; SLR 3:458-59, 10:43-44, 181-82].

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:169.

    Ralph (Mason), Boston, came in the Abigail, from London, 1635, was a joiner of Southwark, aged 35; with w. Ann, 35, the age perhaps careless. insert. and ch. Richard, 5; Samuel, 3; and Susan, 1; had here Zuriel, b. 11 Apr. 1637; John, 15 Oct. 1640; Jacob, 12 Apr. 1644; and Hannah, 23 Dec. 1647. But his will of 11 Jan. 1673, pro. 23 Jan. 1679, names only aged w. and the ch. Richard, Samuel, Susanna, John, and Jacob. Susanna m. 14 Dec. 1659, William Norton.