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died in 1720. He died Jan. 25, 1743-44, and was buried in the old Kickemuit
Cemetery, in what is now Warren, R. I. He was a resident of Rehoboth,
Mass., and also probably of both Seekonk and Swansea. His children,
all born in Rehoboth, Mass., were; Samuel, born June 9, 1683; James,
March 18, 1684-85; Elizabeth, May 5, 1689; and Amos, Feb. 18, 1699.
(III) James Mason, born March 18, 1684-8.5, in Rehoboth, Mass.,
married (first) July 30, 1713, Rose, born May 30, 1692, in Swansea, Mass.,
daughter of Richard and Mary (BuUock) Hale. She died March 7, 1748,
and he married (second) Jan. 11, 1750, Mrs. Hannah Holden, of Warwick,
R. I., probably widow of John Holden and daughter of Thomas and Mary
(Green) Fry. Mr. Mason hved in Swansea, in Massachusetts Bay Colony,
but some few years before his death the section of the town in which he
resided was given to Rhode Island. His will is dated in Warren, R. I., his
death occurred in 1755. The children of James and Rose (Hale) Mason, all
born in Swansea, were: Nathaniel, born April 6, 1714 (died March 31,
1716); EHzabeth, March 4, 1716 (died in infancy); Ann, March 4, 1716
(died June 29, 1748); Ehzabeth, July 25, 1718; James, March 13, 1720;
Hannah, Sept. 22, 1721; John, Sept. 28, 1723; Rose, Feb. 19, 1725-26;
Mary, March 5, 1730.
(IV) John Mason, born Sept. 28, 1723, in Swansea, Mass., married
April 19, 1743, Sarah Gardner, born about 1726 in Swansea, daughter of
Samuel and Sarah (Smith) Gardner. Mr. Mason hved at Touisset Neck,
in Swansea (but now in Warren, R. I.) He died Nov. 27, 1805. His wife
died Feb. 29, 1808. Their children were: Gardner, born Aug. 28, 1744;
Edward, born June 22, 1746, who died Nov. 27, 1768; Haile, born Nov.
12, 1748, who died in Calcutta aged forty; Holden, born Feb. 18, 1750;
Rose, born Oct. 2, 1752, who died Feb. 13, 1822; Hannah, born Feb. 9,
1755, who died Dec. 28, 1826; Samuel born Oct. 2, 1757; Sarah, born
June 1, 1759; Mary, born about 1762, who died Jan. 16, 1803; and Patience,
born about 1765, who died Feb. 18, 1847.
(V) Samuel Mason (2), born Oct. 2, 1757, in Warren, R. I., married
May 12, 1782, Hannah Anthony, born Feb. 2, 1762, daughter of Job and
Mary (Gardner) Anthony. She died Aug. 14, 1830. He died Oct. 27, 1846.
Their children were: Lydia, born June 15, 1783, died May 15, 1860; Mary,
born July 10, 1785, married Joseph Cole Dec. 14, 1806; Haile was born
March 13, 1787; Esther, born April 7, 1789, married Hanan Wilbur (born
Aug. 5, 1785, died Sept. 17, 1845; she died April 11, 1866); Sarah was born
Sept. 2, 1790; Job Anthony, born Nov. 16, 1792, died June 23, 1855;
Joanna, born Nov. 4, 1794, died July 27, 1856; Aimira, 1798, died March
29, 1870; John was born May 31, 1800; Samuel born Sept. 8, 1802, died
May 22, 1803; Zephaniah S. was born Jan. 27, 1804; Samuel (2) was born
April 22, 1809.
(VI) Zephaniah S. Mason, born Jan. 27, 1804, died Nov. 11, 1844.
On Dec. 18, 1828, he married Susan Vinnicum, and they had three children:
William, born June 5, 1831; Ann Frances, born Nov. 14, 1834; and
CaroUne Cole, born Dec. 12, 1839 (married Dec. 11, 1864, Henry Augustus
Gardner).
Pearse Family
The Pearse family is both ancient and historic in the annals of England,
the lineage of Richard Pearse, the immigrant ancestor of the New England
family being traced to the time of Alfred the Great. In later times were
Peter Percy, standard bearer of Richard III, at the battle of Bosworth
Field (1485), and Richard Percy, the founder of Pearce Hall.
For nearly two and a half centuries the Pearse family has been identi-