Mary Mason1

d. 7 January 1813
Mary Mason|d. 7 Jan 1813|p1990.htm|Jonathan Mason|b. 1716\nd. 1793|p1991.htm|Mary Crocket||p1992.htm|||||||||||||

2nd great-grandmother of Louise Underwood.
4th great-grandmother of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     Mary Mason was the daughter of Jonathan Mason and Mary Crocket.1 She married Benjamin Morris, son of Morris Morris and Gwently Thomas, on 7 April 1770 (license date) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.1,2,3 She died on 7 January 1813 in Hilltown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.4,5 She was buried in Lower Hilltown Baptist Church Cemetery.4 Click to view thumbnails
     

Additional Data

Mary Morris was mentioned in her father Jonathan Mason's will dated 17 February 1790 in New Britain township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.6

Children of Mary Mason and Benjamin Morris

Citations

  1. [S329] "A Memorandum Containing some account of the birth, life and Ministry of Joseph Mathias. With a diary of his Exercises and various events which came under his notice. Together with an account of his Progenitors and Connexions. Likewise a short notice of the First settlement of the part of the Country, which gave him birth, and where he still resides," (MS, 1831-1851; Bucks County, Pennsylvania), 47, The Bucks County Historical Society; Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
  2. [S349] John B. Linn and William H. Egle, comp., Names of Persons for whom Marriage Licenses Were Issued in the Province of Pennsylvania Previous to 1790 (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Volume II, Second Series, Pennsylvania Archives, 1890), 180.
  3. [S385] John B. Linn and Wm. H. Egle, ed., Pennsylvania Archives Second Series, vol. II (Harrisburg: B F Meyers, State Printer, 1876), 211.
  4. [S348] Mary Morris tombstone, Lower Hilltown Baptist Church Cemetery, Hilltown, Pennsylvania; photographed by Roland Morris October 1999.
  5. [S329] "Mathias Journal", 51.
  6. [S384] Jonathan Mason will (1793), Bucks County Wills 5: 332, The Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
  7. [S329] "Mathias Journal", 47-48.
  8. [S330] Interview with William H. Morris (William H. Morris; Leesburg, Florida), by Laura Munson Cooper, 1999. Transcript held in 2004 by Cooper (1804 Holm Oak St.; Arlington, TX 76012-5608).
  9. [S329] "Mathias Journal", 50.
  10. [S350] DAR, comp., Lineage Book, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 165 (Washington, D.C.: Press of Judd & Detweiler, Inc., 1938), 55.
  11. [S348] Jehu Morris tombstone, Lower Hilltown Baptist Church Cemetery, Hilltown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.