Person:Daniel Mason (1)

From It's About Time^[6]

John Mason married second, July 1639, at Windsor, Conn. to Anne Peck, dau. of Reverend Robert Peck. They had children: Priscilla m. 1664 Rev. James Fitch; Samuel Mason; John Mason (1646-1676) m. Abigail Fitch; Rachel m. 1678 Charles Hill; Ann Mason m. 1672 Capt. John Brown; Daniel Mason (1652-1736) m. (1) Margaret Denison, m. (2) Rebecca Hobart; Elizabeth Mason m. (1) 1671 Thomas Norton, m. (2) 1676 Major James Fitch; and possibly Isabel Mason m. 1658 John Bissell.

In March 1700, basing their claim on the gift of the Mohegan chief, Uncas, to Major John Mason, the so-called "Uncas heirs" laid claim to Colchester. Leaders in this group were the sons of John Mason, Daniel Clark, Nicholas Hallam, Major Palmer, and James Fitch.

The first land grant in the Mystic, Connecticut area was given, 11 September 1651, to Captain John Mason as reward for his military victory. Mason received one hundred acres on the mainland and Chippechauge Island (now known as Mason's Island) at the mouth of the Thames River. John Mason never lived on his island. He gave this land to his sons, Samuel Mason and Daniel Mason, after he founded Norwich in 1659.

John Mason drew his will in 1670, two years before his death. He left his property, mostly in New London County, to his three sons and four daughters. Daniel Mason (1652-1737), then age 18, was left the East or "Neck Farm", land south of the Meeting House, Andrew's Island and Enders Island.

Daniel Mason was living in Lebanon when his father died in 1672. The next year, at the age of 21, he joined the newly formed troop of New London Dragoons, the first cavalry unit in the colony. First Quartermaster, then Lieutenant, he became Captain in 1701.

Daniel Mason was the next to youngest of John Mason's seven children. He was quartermaster in the New London Company A Troop of Dragoons and was later promoted to rank of captain. He inherited the eastern part of his father's acreage on the mainland, Andrew's Island and Enders Island. Samuel Mason received the western half of the mainland and the eastern half of Mason's Island. John Mason, Jr. got the western half of Mason's Island.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Mason, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   2:1228.

   "Daniel (Mason), b. Saybrook April 1652; …"

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Wheeler, Richard Anson. History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900 (1900): With a Genealogical Register of Stonington Families. (New London, Conn.: Press of the Day Publishing Company, 1900)
   461-62.

   "Daniel Mason (No. 8) m. Margaret (No. 29), daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Weld) Denison, of Roxbury, Mass. She was b. Dec. 15, 1650, and d. May 13, 1678. … After Mrs. Margaret Denison’s death Mr. Daniel Mason m. 2d, Oct. 10, 1679, Rebecca Hobart, daughter of Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, Mass. She d. April 8, 1727, and he d. Jan. 28, 1737."

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 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).

   
   2:435; HOBART; PETER; "... 1667; Nehemiah, 21 Nov. 1648, H. C. 1667; David, Aug. 1651; Rebecca, 3 Apr. 1654, m. 10 Oct. 1679, Daniel Mason of Stonington, as his sec. or third w.; Abigail, 19 Oct. 1656, d. unm. Apr. 1683; and Lydia, 1659; and the patriarch d. 20 Jan. 1679. His d. Lydia, the seventeenth ch. bec. 2d w. of capt. Thomas Lincoln ..."
   
   3:166; MASON; DANIEL 2 of 2; "DANIEL, Stonington 1673, s. of major John, rem. that yr. to New London or Norwich, m. Margaret, d. of Edward Dennison, for wh. he obt. liberty to come to Roxbury to her relations in the early spring of 1676, and for this yr. to dwell there, his s. Daniel, b. 26 Nov. 1674, was bapt. at R. 9 Apr. in that ..."
   
   3:167-168; MASON; JOHN 2 of 13; "... certain. Priscilla, b. Oct. 1641; Samuel, July 1644; John, Aug. 1646; Rachel, Oct. 1648; Ann, June 1650; Daniel, Apr. 1652; and Elizabeth Aug. 1654; and d. at N. 30 Jan. 1672, in 72d yr. All that the diligence of Prince, the annalist, could gather to prefix to his Hist. of the Pequot war may be read in 2 Mass. ... E. Ellis. Isabel m. 17 June 1658, John Bissell of Windsor; Priscilla m. 8 Oct. 1664, Rev. James Fitch; Elizabeth m. 8 May 1671, Thomas Norton; Ann m. John Brown of Swanzey, and Rachel m. 12 June 1678, Charles Hill, as his sec. w. Thro. Daniel, the youngest s. the late Hon. Jeremiah deriv. descent."
   
   

4.   Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States. Vital Records of Norwich, 1659-1848. (Hartford, Conn.: Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, 1913)
   1:20.

   "The names & ages of the children of Major Mafon …
   Danell Mafon was borne in Apprill Anno 1652"

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Lieut Daniel Mason Sr., in Find A Grave.
6. ↑ Compiled By William L Decoursey. It's About Time. (1735 - 19th Terrace Nw New Brighton, Minnesota 55112)
   citing, among others.

   Cleveland Genealogy, p.566; Mather, Frederic G. The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut (1972 reprint of the 1913 edition), p.247. Allyn, James H., Major John Mason's Great Island (1976), pp. 20-23.

7. ↑ Mr. Wheeler says that Margaret (Denison) Mason, Daniel's first wife, died 13 May 1678. However, the Stonington Vital Records say that Hezekiah Mason, born 1677, was son of Daniel and his (unnamed) second wife. Thomas Miner's diary notes the burial of Daniel's wife 15 May 1678, but does not name her. It is likely that there was, in fact, an intervening wife of unknown identity between Margaret Denison and Rebecca Hobart.