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"We are tracking the Mason family that came to Nashville area in
1790 after a trip down the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers out of
the area south of Uniontown, PA and north of Morgantown, now WV.
Prior to that they had come from Delaware. Shute surname, they
came out of Fayette, PA and we think they were on the river trip
out in 1790 with the Masons. We have been trying to put
together the 18 or so families that came out of that area and
through Pittsburgh and down the Ohio and up the Cumberland .
Isaac Mason purchases land from Philip Shute (Sute in records
some places) and Isaac's last son is born 1797 in Sute Hall,
probably the Philip Shute homeplace that was sold to Isaac."
"I have a deed between James Collinsworth and Isaac Mason in
Davidson Co TN 12 Oct 1798 where Isaac sells to James
Collinsworth. The Indian massacre is described in one of Abram
Mason's letters. Isaac Mason came to area of Nashville in 1790."
"Isaac Mason was a tailor who came to Nashville, Tenn ( at the
time it was Nashboro) ca 1784 with his brother-in-law Jordan
Hall. Jordan later went back to Delaware and brought Isaac's
Mother -in-law, who was a widow, to Tennessee."
The Family of Isaac Mason and Parthena Hall Mason by Major E.B.
Mason, a grandson
Isaac Mason was decended from an English family who settled in
Delaware in 1720. He had one brother who settled in Virginia;
they were left orphans while young. He was connected with the
will known family of Masons of Virginia. His cousin, Ann Mason,
was the mother of General Winfield Scott.
Isaac was bound to a tailor, where he completed his
apprenticeship, and for many years followed his trade. His wife
was born and raised Pennsylvania (Delaware) and was connected to
a large and respectable family. She had two brothers, wone of
whom was named Ryner and the other Allen.
Isaac Mason and wife were Episcopal Methodist and lived in the
days of John Wesley, Asberry and McKindrew. During the
Revolutionary War he was a soldier under Washington, Green and
Lafayette and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at
Yorkwton on the 19th of October, 1781. He was the discharged and
returned to his family.
The following year he moved to Sussex Co., Virginia and remained
there until 1787. He sold off his loose property and moved his
familly to Monongalia(sic) Co., Virginia, in order to prepare a
boat on which to move his family and hosehold goods to French
Lick, now Nashville, Tennessee.
On the way to thier new home, they were obliged to pass the
falls of the Ohio River which was then considered dangerous. He
took all his family on shore and hired an experienced hand to
take his boat over. In the meantime, his family were in danger
of being attacked by hostile indains, for they were bitterly
opposed to the whites advancing further West. The water was not
at a very good stage for passing the falls and a large number of
movers having accumulated at that place and fearing an attack
from indians they remained longer, a council was held by the
interested parties and it was resolved to attempt to pass the
falls.They pledged to each other if anyone was so unfortunate as
to lose his boat and cargo that he would not be left behind. Out
of the sixteen boats and cargoes thirteen passed in saftey. One
of the boats lost belonged to Isaac Mason and was the most
valuable boat and cargo out of the sixteen boats. He was thus
left without means but his companions, true to their promise,
proceeded to build a boat to accommodate him and his family who
had lost all. This work took but a little time and they were
soon on their way again but had not gone more than twenty miles
when they were attacked by a large force of Indians from the
Ohio sideand in canoes. The whites were successful in the fight,
killing a number of the enemy and capturing their canoes.
Several of the whites were badly wounded, among the number being
a woman and her little child. During the attack the women
steered while the men gave battle. One of the women proved
herself a better axe-man than steersman for she ran the boat too
near her enemies on the shore and two of the savages tired to
board the boat; one lost his hand by a single blow of the axe
and the other lost his life, having his head split open.
They were attacked again as they began to ascend the Cumberland
River but not in such numbers as before and they were easily
dispersed. The gallant little company of boats had hard work in
ascending the Cumberland River with its strong currents. They
were met by several men who had heard of thier coming who came
to give them a helping hand. Thus, through much toil and danger,
this heroic band of hardy adventurers landed at the mouth of
Lick Branch, (now Nashville, Tennesee) on the 18th day of March,
1789, at which place there was a fort known as "French Lick"."
Isaac Mason was thirty-six yars of age and had a wife and six
living children when he arrived at his destination and having
lost all, had no means of support but his trade, for which there
was little demand, on account of the scarcity of cloth.
Necessity, however, caused the people to have their pants and
hunting shirts made out of deerskins, so he and his wife, who
was an excellent seamstress, soon got as much work as she could
do and made enough to support the family. He was the first
Tailor at the place where Nashville now stands.
Here are some abstracts from leters of Ezekiel Brownlee Mason
who was my Joseph Mason's nephew. He also wrote the second piece
quoted above.
Letter dated April 28, 1877......."I have this day forwarded
from Trenton, Tennessee, a cast kettle which was brought to
America by my great-great-grandfather John Mason in the year
1620..... This piece of casting was brought to French Lick, now
Nashville, by my grandfather, Isaac Mason, in March,1788 and was
used as a cooking vessel in the fort built by Col. James
Robertson. My grandfather was a tailor by trade and was the
first tailor at the French Lick, now Nashville. He remained in
Nashville and its vicinity until 1799. He then moved to
Williamson County...... My father, Abram Mason was married to
Peggy Curry in 1800. I was born near Nelensville in 1802 and was
raised there until 1820. My father moved to Rutherford Co., . In
1830 he moved to Madison Co., Tennessee, where he died in
1862....... I came to where Madison co. in 1821 and was one
among the old surveyors in the settling of West Tennessee. I
served my county 53 years..... I will try to come to the
Centennial if I am able and will expect a free ticket..... I
have a sermon preached by one of my Uncles in England in 1802.
It is in good condition..... Would it be of intrest or not?"
Isaac's proposed ancestry and traditions about his life are
included in THE MASON FAMILY by Naomi Hailey of Nashville, Tenn.
The above information reguarding his children is from Abram
Mason Bible, Williamson Co. Tenn. Marriage Records, Rutherford
co., Tenn. Marriage Recorsd , Tombstone in Mason Family Cemetery
and from Gregory material furnished by Naomi Hailey.
Note that some of his dates are different from what he wrote for
the Hall Records but the story is basically the same. Dates are
also different from what Abram Mason (Isaac Mason's son) wrote
in a letter to Dr. John Henry Curry in 1860. Part of this letter
was published in AMERICAN HISTORICAL MAGAZINE Vol. III (1898)pp.
88-90.
In part"..... Father moved to Virginia when I was young and
settled in Monomgahela Co., . He stayed there until I was about
12... he and 18 of his neighbors, in the spring of 1790, built a
large keel bottomed boat. We did not start until May....We got
to the falls of the Ohio in June and the river had got so low we
could not get the boat over the falls. He stayed in Kentucky the
balance of the summer...In September 1790, nine families out of
the nineteen built perogerrogs, one to each family...."
Children:
2 Mary Polly MASON + William DUGAN
2 Abram MASON + Margaret CURRY
2 Isaac MASON + Patsy CURRY
2 Jacob MASON + Martha CURRY
2 Catherine MASON + Timothy TWIGG
2 Rebecca MASON
2 Joseph MASON + Edith MCCLURE
2 Thomas MASON d. Dec. 31,1847 (age 55) in Schyler Co., Ill. +
Elleanor THURSTON
2 Elizabeth MASON
2 Rynear Hall MASON + Elizabeth MOSS + Harriette BURNETTE +
Roberta STILL
__ | _John "the elder" MASON _| | (1680 - 1755) | | |__ | _Isaac MASON I_______| | (1728 - 1758) | | | __ | | | | |_Elizabeth_______________| | (1680 - ....) | | |__ | | |--Isaac MASON II | (1753 - 1832) | __ | | | _________________________| | | | | | |__ | | |_Ann PETWAY _________| (1732 - ....) | | __ | | |_________________________| | |__
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_________________________ | _____________________| | | | |_________________________ | _William MONTGOMERY _| | | | | _________________________ | | | | |_____________________| | | | |_________________________ | | |--William MONTGOMERY | | _Joseph LANE Jr._________+ | | (1700 - 1776) m 1730 | _Jesse LANE _________| | | (1733 - 1806) m 1755| | | |_Patience MCKINNE _______+ | | (1715 - 1759) m 1730 |_Elizabeth LANE _____| (1786 - ....) | | _William AYCOCK _________ | | (1705 - 1765) m 1736 |_Winifred AYCOCK ____| (1741 - 1794) m 1755| |_Rebecca Poythress PACE _+ (1706 - 1760) m 1736
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__ | _(RESEARCH QUERY) PORTER of CT or RI_| | | | |__ | _Robert PORTER ______| | (1620 - 1689) m 1644| | | __ | | | | |_____________________________________| | | | |__ | | |--Sarah PORTER | (1657 - ....) | __ | | | _____________________________________| | | | | | |__ | | |_Mary SCOTT _________| (1624 - ....) m 1644| | __ | | |_____________________________________| | |__
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Mother: Lucy Ingram ALEXANDER |
_____________________ | _John WASH ___________________________| | (1751 - 1839) m 1779 | | |_____________________ | _John WASH Jr.__________| | (1792 - 1847) m 1817 | | | _William GATEWOOD ___+ | | | (1720 - 1771) | |_Ann "Nancy" Frazier Fraser GATEWOOD _| | (1765 - 1818) m 1779 | | |_Patience GATEWOOD __+ | (1725 - 1780) | |--Phillip Frasier WASH | (1825 - 1826) | _____________________ | | | ______________________________________| | | | | | |_____________________ | | |_Lucy Ingram ALEXANDER _| (1801 - 1832) m 1817 | | _____________________ | | |______________________________________| | |_____________________
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