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CHAPTER II. Remarks on the Autobiography.?Mr. Mason's removal to
Portsmouth.?His Marriage.?His Professional Success.?Appointed
Attorney General of New Hampshire.?Friendship with Mr. Webster.?Mr.
Lord's Reminiscences. MR. MASON'S simple and characteristic
autobiography, bringing the record of his life down to 1797, leaves
little to be said by his biographer, either in addition or
illustration. He was correct in his belief that he was descended
from Major John Mason, one of the early settlers of Connecticut,
distinguished for his gallantry and success in the Pequot War in
1637. His third and youngest son, Daniel, was the grandfather of
Mr. Mason's grandfather.1 The town of Lebanon," Mr. Mason's
birthplace, has changed but little since he was born. Its
inhabitants were and are mostly farmers, neither rich nor poor, and
owning the land which they till. It is a good specimen of the
agricultural towns in New England. On this point I am able to speak
from personal observation, for in my early childhood it was my
fortune to pass nearly two years there, in the family, and under
the charge of the Rev. Zebulon Ely, of whom Mr. Mason speaks. I
well remember the brick school-house there, for I have sat many
hours on its benches, attending school by day and religious
meetings by night; and I heartily agree with Mr.Mason in condemning
the bad taste which destroyed this substantial and serviceable
structure, and supplied its place with a fabric of wood. A city of
5,000 in 1900. 1 There was a missing link in the genealogy of the
Mason family, arising from the fact that Daniel Mason, son of Major
John Mason, in the Indian troubles of 1676, sent his wife, for her
expected confinement, to her friends in Roxbury, where her son
Daniel was born in February of that year, and baptized by t...
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