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- 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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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
Bef 1631 - Aft 1653 (> 24 years)