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- From FindaGrave:
S/o Barachias Mason and Freelove Whitney.
Married Caty Hartshorn, June 23, 1791 in Medfield, MA.
They had 5 children - Lowell, Lucretia, Arnold, Johnson and Timothy B.
Cause of death - old age.
William S. Tilden, History of the Town of Medfield Massachusetts - 1650-1886 (Boston; Geo. H. Ellis, Publisher, 141 Franklin Street. 1887 Third Reprinting - 1991), 432. "#44. Johnson came into possession of his father's estate on North Street. He married in 1791 Catherine Hartshorn (9). He was commissioned as captain in 1800, lieutentant-colonel in 1803. He served as town clerk nineteen years, 1803-1821, as treasurer one year, as a member of the board of selectman three years, and as representative to the General Court in 1842. At the beginning of the century, he was engaged in mercantile business in company with George Ellis, and kept a store on North Street, opposite Dale. He manufactured straw goods, and went with them to New York. This journey was considered a great and perilous undertaking. Before starting, the minister was called in to offer prayers for success and safe return. He died in 1856, and his wife in 1852."
Catalog of Graves in the Old Section of Vine Lake Cemetery - Medfield, MA (Compiled in 1976), 36. Lot 205, Mason, Johnson, birthdate - Aug. 7, 1767; date of death - Nov. 13, 1856.
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1767 - 1856 (89 years)
