MARRIAGE: (1) By 1632 Jane Mason, daughter of Rev. Thomas Mason of Odiham, Hampshire [Aspinwall 333]. She must be the same as the wife of Richard Dummer reported by John Eliot; "Mrs. Mary Dummer, the wife of Mr. Richard Dummer," was admitted to Roxbury church as member #57, "she was a Godly woman but by the seduction of some of her acquaintances she led away into the new opinions in Mrs. Hutchinson's time, & her husband removing to Nubery she there openly declared herself, & did also (together with other endeavor) seduce her husband & persuaded him to return to Boston; where she being young with child, & ill, Mr. Clark (one of the same opinions) unskillfully gave her a vomit, which did in such manner torture & torment her with the rising of the mother & other violences of nature that she died in a most uncomfortable manner; but we believe God took her away in mercy, from worse evil, which she was falling unto & we doubt not but she is gone to heaven" [ RChR 77].
Eliot describes a wife Mary who came with Dummer in 1632 and died about 1637 when she was a few months pregnant, and this wife must also be the mother of Shubael Dummer, whose mother is called Jane Mason. Perhaps this conflict can be resolved by research in the Mason family in England.
