On April 23, 1968, Thomas Mason and Margery Partridge were married by Major Eleazer Lusher, of Dedham. … This was the first wedding in Medfield. Of this marriage there were six children, between the years 1655 and 1669, four sons and two daughters. For twenty-three years peace and prosperity were enjoyed by this family. But in 1676, a terrible affliction came upon them. On February 21 of that year occurred the Indian attack upon Medfield, when thirty-two houses were burned, besides barns and other buildings, and sixteen of the inhabitants were killed. No other family suffered as much as that of Thomas Mason. He and two of his boys, Thomas and Zachariah, aged sixteen and fourteen years, were killed that morning by the Indians. His house and barn were burned, with the furniture, "a dozin head of cattell" and "many sheep."' … One year later the eldest son, John, was killed in the "Indian war at the east." He was twenty years of age. Thus in one year, not only the husband, but three of the four sons perished at the hands of the Indians. 7:53-54
