A Legacy to My Children

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Excerpt from A Legacy to My Children: Including Family History, Autobiography, and Original Essays Though there is the usual tradition about the three brothers emigrating to America, there is no evidence of any connection between the family Of Sampson Mason and the other New Eng land families Of that name noticed by Farmer in his Register, and I am informed by the Hon. James M. Mason, of Winchester, Vir ginia, that none of his family ever emigrated to the north of Mason and Dixon's line. His ancestor was Colonel George Mason, a member of Parliament from Staffordshire, in the reign of Charles I, and a Colonel of cavalry at the battle Of Worcester, in the army of Charles Stuart, afterward Charles II. Immediately after this battle, that ruined the fortunes Of Charles, Colonel Mason left England and landed at Norfolk, Virginia, before the end Of the same year, 1651. This fact, with the tradition that Sampson Mason had belonged to the victorious armv of Cromwell, renders it probable that those families were as far separated in the Old world as they are in the new. The period Of the birth of Sampson Mason and his wife must be inferred from their history, and from the following account of their children. But the periods of their deaths appear from the well preserved records of the ancient town of Rehoboth, as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.