1 Robert Mason, was born in England about the year 1590. He was probably one of John Winthrop's Company which settled the town of Roxbury in 1630 [Anderson finds no record of him in New England before 1636]. His wife died at Roxbury in April, 1637. He moved to Dedham, Mass. and was an original land holder there in 1642. Died there in 1667, October 15th.