Mason, Bethiah

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bgproperties="fixed" background="096f2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="2cd94a70.jpg" border=0 width="148" height="167" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Families Allied To Daggetts"><U>Families Allied to Daggetts</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="099f0f03.jpg"> <div> <I>Mason, Bethiah</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Generation One</div> <bR> <div> Sampson Mason was at Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1649. This information can be relied on because of town records. </div> <bR> <div> In a history of the Baptist Church in New England, it is stated that he had been a soldier in Cromwell's Army, and upon a turn of events, came to New  England, where he then settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.</div> <bR> <div> He was a shoemaker by trade, and therefore  a valuable member of  the new community.</div> <bR> <div> He married Mary Butterworth, daughter of John Butterworth of Weymouth and sister of John Butterworth of Swansea.</div> <bR> <div> About this time, 1650-1651, he purchased land in Rehoboth. He also sold some land there in 1655-1656</div> <bR> <div> In 1657, he and his wife and three children were of Rehoboth.  The children had been born there.</div> <bR> <div> Mr. Mason was engaged in extensive land speculation. He owned land in the Rehoboth North Purchase, which later became Attleborough. He was one of the original Proprietors of Swansea at the town's incorporation in 1668..</div> <bR> <div> In 1669, the birth of his 11th child was recorded in the Rehoboth Records as "born near Providence Ferry". It is probable that the family was then living on a tract of land  at Watchemoket Neck, now East Providence, RI. In his will he left 95 acres of land at Watchemoket, and a smaller parcel of 8 acres with a house near the ferry. It is very possible the family occupied one of these houses for a short time. The family homestead was located farther inland, within the present town of Seekonk, Massachusetts.</div> <bR> <div> Mr. Sampson Mason was, as stated, an original Proprietor [owner of a large tract of land  at the origination of a town] of Swansea. Swansea was incorporated as a Baptist town, despite the objections from the orthodox faith of the New England Puritans. The followers of Elder John Myles organized the  town as a Baptist settlement. Elder Myles had been a pastor in the town of Swansea, Wales, and had been deprived of his church in Wales at the time of the Restoration. He and several of his followers had left Wales to seek religious freedom. The  new Swansea settlement finally won the approval of the Massachusetts Bay Colony on March 5, 1668 and the "the Town of Swansey, Township of Wannamoisett and the parts adjacent were established". [Plymouth  Records]  It was at this time Sampson Mason was converted to the Baptist faith by Elder Myles. Mr. Mason was then allotted 12 acres in the town.</div> <bR> <div> Sampson Mason died in 1676. His burial was recorded in Rehoboth on September 15, 1676.  At his death he left a considerable personal estate consisting of several hundred acres.</div> <bR> <div> His widow, Mary, spent the rest of her years with  her daughter, Mary, who married Elder Ephraim Wheaton, then pastor of the First Baptist Church of Swansea.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>