Pg 7 From the records it is evident that Samuel Mason had acquired considerable property when he removed to Rehoboth and he then entered extensively into the land speculations so common in his age. He appears as the holder of one share of the seventy-nine and one half shares in the Rehoboth, North Purchase, which afterward became the town of Attleborough and also on of the Proprietors or shareholders of the town of Swansea in which his descendants for many generations were prominent.83012

Image987of1080 Nat’l #3964 State 364, MN Socy, Gen Edwin Cooley Mason - 4G Grandfather Samson Mason was a volunteer at the battle of Bennington, VT. Samson Mason was a Dragoon in the Republican Army of Oliver Cromwell and according to Bayliss belonged to the celebrated Ironsides Regiment of Horse.20553

Pg 69 Sampson Mason was a soldier in Cromwell’s army and a shoemaker by trade181529

Image14of25 Pg 15 Sampson1 Mason had fought with the Dragoons in Oliver Cromwell’s Army in 1645181570

Pg 6 Sampson Mason was a soldier in Cromwell’s army and he came to America upon the turn of the times in England and settled in Rehoboth and his posterity are now as numerous as, perhaps those of any man who came to our country in his day (History of the Baptists in America compiled by the Rev Isaac Backus Vol 2 Pg 435)83012

Mason Family: The Rev Isaac Backus in the “History of the Baptists in America” says “Sampson Mason was a soldier in Cromwell’s army and he came to America upon the turn of the times in England and settled in Rehoboth..”72595