Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties

Nicholas Mason

Male Bef 1631 - Aft 1653  (> 24 years)


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  • Name Nicholas Mason 
    Birth Bef 1631 
    Gender Male 
    Death Aft 1653  Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I27414  Tree1
    Last Modified 29 May 2023 

    Father Francis Mason,   b. 1595, Bermondsey, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Nov 1648, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Alice Gayney,   b. 1596, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 17 Nov 1653, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 57 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1624  Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F18161  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary MNU Fowler   d. Aft 1653, Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Bef Nov 1663  Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F18160  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 May 2023 

  • Notes 
    • not proved as a son
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      Lower Norfolk County Records, Wills and Deeds C, 15th December 1651 - Beverly Fleet.

      p.65. A Court held 15 December 1653. Present: Leift Coll Cornelius Loyd, Mr Wm Moseley, Major Tho. Lambert, Mr Francis Emperor, Leift: Coll: John Sidney, Mr Tho: Bridge, Mr Lemuel Mason, Mr Tho: Goodrich, Com'rs.

      p.67. On petition of Nicholas Mason, who married the relict of Robert Fowler, showing that Oct last it was ordered that Mr Emperor and four others lay out a certain tract of land in dif betw Henery Snayle and the widow and extrx of Fowler, which was done. Snayle is now ordered to make a firm bill of sale to Nicholas Mason for the use of Robert Fowler, son of the said Robt Fowler, deceased. [Note: There is a certain literary convention of the cruelty of step parents to the children of former marriages. I see no sign of this whatsoever in these old Virginia records. Again and again I've come upon suits instituted by step-parents, and wills left by them, in which the children were always being protected and cared for by them. While of course there were such cases, I never happen to have seen any record of any thing that would indicate that the children were treated in any way but with regard and affection. B. F.]
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      http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/ CommunityArchives/Bletsoe/BletsoeChurch.aspx

      - Nicholas Mason - 1 Mar 1659 [on death of Christopher Lawry; matriculated at Christ's College Cambridge, 17 Dec 1614; BA 1618; MA 1621;
      - Thomas Becket AM - 30 Nov 1671 [of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1671; on death of N.Mason];
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      The Lower Norfolk County Virginia antiquary By Edward Wilson James

      THE CHURCH IN LOWER NORFOLK COUNTY. (Continued from Vol. 2, page 128.)

      "Decemb: 15th: 1654:

      Wee of ye Grand Inquest after due Inquire made doe prsent unto ye Court ye genrall breach of ye Sabboth day throughout the whole County, wch we conceive is most cheifly occasioned through want of a godly Minister amongest Us in ye County, Where fore we humbly pray & desire yt some speedy Course may be taken to procure an able Minister, & some imployed for yt purpose, lett ye Charge be what it will We for of pts (and hope all ye rest of ye County) shalbe verry willing & ready to Undergoe

      Will: Voscombe Henry Brakes Edward Cannon
      John Porter: Senr Richard : ffoster John Workeman
      Wm : Robinson : Richard Starnell John Carraway
      Christopher Rivers Thomas Greene Nicholas Mason
      John Godfrey Richard Hargrave Richard Jenings
      Edward Cooper Lancaster Lovett Edward Hall
      Henry Westgate Christo : Bustion George Ashall
      John Stratton John Greene Thomas Ivey

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