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  John Mason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Captain John Mason (1586 1635) was born in Norfolk.
Mason arrived on the island in 1616 and explored much of the territory, mapping the island for the first time and writing a book on his findings.
In 1622, Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received a patent from the Council for New England for all the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.
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 JOHN MASON - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN MASON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
From 1625 to 1629 Mason was engaged as treasurer and paymaster of the English army in the wars which England was waging against Spain and France.
Towards the close of 1629 Mason and Gorges agreed upon a division of the territory held jointly by them, and on the 7th of November 1629 Mason received from the Council a separate grant of the tract between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua, which he now named New Hampshire.
Mason became a member of the Council for New England in June 1632, and its vice-president in the following November; and in 1635, when the members decided to divide their territory among themselves and surrender their charter, he was allotted as his share all the region between the Naumkeag and Piscataqua rivers extending 60 m.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MASON_JOHN.htm   (359 words)

  
 John Mason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Mason was born in Dunmow, Essex, and died at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire.
Mason argues that self-knowledge is foundational to other kinds of knowledge.
Mason also wrote on the use of numbers, including a schema for rhetoric based on numbers, after the fashion of Hippocrates and Gorgias.
www.thoemmes.com /encyclopedia/mason.htm   (279 words)

  
 John Mason
MASON, John, soldier, born in England in 1600; died in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1672.
Mason was the involuntary cause of the repeal of the charter of the United States bank.
Mason was early interested in sanitary reform, and was a founder of the Inebriates' home for Kings county, and of the American association for the cure of inebriates, of which he became president in 1875.
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 John Alden Mason Papers, American Philosophical Society
Mason was curator of the University Museum at Penn from 1926 until his retirement in 1958.
The archaeologist John Alden Mason was Curator of the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania from 1926 until 1955.
Mason's extensive correspondence covers all aspects of his life, from reports on his fieldwork to answering casual questions referred to him through the University of Pennsylvania Museum, where he was a curator from 1926 to 1955.
www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/m/mason.htm   (1610 words)

  
 Stevens Thomson Mason - Background Reading
Mason who had diligently read law with a group of friends at the barroom in Uncle Ben's Steamboat Hotel bar, was admitted to practice law on December 11, 1833.
Mason replied with a bill in the Territorial Council making it unlawful for any person not a citizen of Michigan to exercise official functions anywhere within its borders on pain of a $1,000 fine and five years' imprisonment.
Mason decided that he could make a graceful exit on the reasoning that he had served two terms and that it was contrary to national precedent to serve a third.
www.michigan.gov /hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-52864--,00.html   (3028 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / John H. Mason, 58; was appellate judge
John Homans Mason, a seventh-generation direct descendant of Abigail and John Adams and a justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, was in many ways the quintessential Bostonian.
After his honorable discharge from the Army, Judge Mason attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as editor in chief of the Law Review and graduated with honors in 1973.
Judge Mason began practicing law with the Boston firm of Ropes and Gray in 1974 and was promoted to partner in 1982.
www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/07/18/john_h_mason_58_was_appellate_judge   (478 words)

  
 CD Baby: JOHN-ALEX MASON: Time Will Come
Mason began his solo career in South Carolina and was quickly dubbed "Big John" by locals for his enormous stage presence and his "commanding Southern voice" as described by Blues Revue magazine.
Mason, an acoustic guitarist and singer wrote every song on the album- a fine batch of varied tunes from light-footed country shuffles “Going Out the Country” to more traditional Blues smokers “Rescue.” Mason’s a master at laid back intensity, and he has a great band.
Mason’s third release takes us back to the roots of the blues, with his exceptional National slide work, and the work of his longtime blues harp buddy, Gerry Hundt.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/jamason?cdbaby=20301203114e569da9e18670d9dfa1a8   (1486 words)

  
 PR Newswire: Radio One, Inc. Hires John Mason in Detroit.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mason joins Radio One from WJLB-FM in Detroit, where he had hosted the morning show for 18 years.
Mason's first show on WDMK-FM was broadcast on July 30, 2001.
Commenting on this hire, Alfred C. Liggins, III, the Company's CEO and President, stated, "John Mason is an icon in the radio...
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:76922957&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (187 words)

  
 US People--Mason, John Y., Secretary of the Navy, March 1844 - March 1845 and September 1846 - March 1849.
John Young Mason was born in Greensville County, Virginia, on 18 April 1799.
Mason was nominated as Secretary of the Navy by President John Tyler in March 1844, serving to near the end of Tyler's term a year later.
John Y. Mason left office at the end of the Polk Presidency and returned to Virginia, where he remained active in public affairs.
www.history.navy.mil /photos/pers-us/uspers-m/jy-mason.htm   (529 words)

  
 John Mason
Mason’s ability to manipulate spatial concepts is striking as always, for these pieces have an undulating yet monumental presence as they wind their way through space.
Mason’s huge, rough pots, walls, monumental rectangles, x shapes and crosses are a testament to the enormous vitality and artistry that he pours into his work to the present.
Mason’s uncanny spatial facility and his underlying ability to endow the simplest piece with a massive grace flows through these vertical sculptures.
artscenecal.com /ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2000/Articles1100/JMasonA.html   (478 words)

  
 John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale, an eminent English clergyman and author, the son of Rev. Cornelius Neale, was born in London on Conduit Street January 24, 1818.
John Keble was an Anglican priest, a theologian, and a poet who originated and helped lead the Oxford Movement, which sought to revive in Anglicanism the high-church ideals of the later 17th-century church.
John Keble (1792-1866) was born April 25, 1792, Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, the son of the vicar of Colne.
www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com /Hymns_and_Carols/Biographies/john_mason_neale.htm   (5513 words)

  
 Street Savvy: John Mason brings the voice of the people and power of personality to a new place on the dial, WDMK-FM
The move of Mason is the second blockbuster switch of a Detroit morning radio star this summer.
Though in his 40s, Mason never lost touch with the younger end of the audience and managed to hold listeners as they aged along with him, employing gritty urban populism.
Mason, he says, "gets a following, attacks an issue and moves things forward," recalling how Mason marshaled his audience to patrol schools following the rapes of Detroit Public Schools girls, and how he helped organize protests following the Fairlane mall death of shopper Frederick Finley at the hands of a security guard in June 2000.
www.freep.com /entertainment/tvandradio/mason29_20010729.htm   (1314 words)

  
 The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1637 John Mason
When the invaders reached the foot of the hill on which this fort stood, quite undiscovered, and arranged their camp, the sentinels could hear the sounds of noisy revelry among the savages in the fortress, which ceased not before midnight.
In the bright moonlight the little army crept stealthily up the wooded slope, and were on the point of rushing to the attack when the barking of a dog aroused a sentinel and he gave the alarm to the sound sleepers within.
When all was over, the pious Captain Mason, who had narrowly escaped death by the arrow of a young warrior, exultingly exclaimed God is over us He laughs his enemies to scorn, making them as a fiery oven.
www.colonialwarsct.org /1637_john_mason.htm   (1567 words)

  
 HOASM: John Mason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The career of the John Mason, the composer who has left just four surving works, is not easy to trace, because references to two or even three namesakes need to be disentangled.
In February 1509 a Dominus John Mason was admitted to the degree of Mus.B. at Oxford, having studied at the university for a year; since the title Dominus (sometimes anglicised as 'Sir') was generally restricted to priests, this is very likely to have been Lady Margaret's newly-ordained singer.
Between 1521 and 1525 Mason acquired a number of lucrative benefices, including the rectorship of Pewsey, an exceptionally well-paid chantry in Chichester Cathedral and prebends at Salisbury and Hereford.
www.hoasm.org /IVM/Mason.html   (462 words)

  
 John Mitchell Mason
John Mitchell Mason was born on March 19, 1770 in New York City.
Following this second recovery, Mason accepted a position as president at the newly reopened Dickinson College, beginning his term in the fall of 1821.
During his time as president, Mason altered aspects of the college curriculum and initiated the issuance of reports twice a year to parents and guardians of the students.
chronicles.dickinson.edu /encyclo/m/ed_masonJM.html   (354 words)

  
 Profiles of Governors: John Mason, 1615-1621
John Mason, born in 1586 at King's Lynn, Norfolk, was renowned as an explorer, cartographer and colonizer.
It is also likely that Mason spent several years serving in the navy before being promoted to commander in 1610 and sent by James I to help Andrew Knox reclaim the Hebrides.
However, in 1621, Mason was in New England consulting with Sir William Alexander about the possible colonization of Nova Scotia and with Sir Ferdinando Gorges about founding a colony in the province of Maine.
www.heritage.nf.ca /govhouse/governors/p02.html   (477 words)

  
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Joseph Overton Mason was a son of Rev. Caswell Mason and Frances (Holeman) Mason, was born in Caldwell Co., KY Feb. 1, 1842.
Joseph Mason, her father-in-law, had prepared and furnished this promising couple a most beautiful little home near that of his own for no other pay than the joy in his lst days of seeing them reap the reward of the high hopes and resolute ambitions so characteristic of each of them.
Rachel's brother John was living on the edge of Centralia when she died in 1968, and her other siblings and half siblings all attended her funeral and didn't come from any further that Belleville, although I don't remember where they were all from.
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 AllRefer.com - John Mason, c.1600–1672, American colonial military commander (U.S. History, Biography) - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Mason, c.1600–1672, American colonial military commander, U.S. History, Biographies
John Mason c.1600–1672, American colonial military commander, b.
After this campaign : generally called the Pequot War : Major Mason was a distinguished political leader in Connecticut until his death.
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 john mason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
SEAN JOHN COMBS, the rap and clothing impresario still best known as Puff Daddy, a sobriquet he has now abandoned, stood before a conference table in his company's Midtown Manhattan headquarters recently, addressing his designers.
Nancy Shanahan Mason, 72, of Benton, AL died on Sunday, June 26, 2005, in a Montgomery hospital after an extended illness.
She was born on September 8, 1932 in Selma, AL She was a member of the 1950 graduating class Albert 0.
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 Mason, John, 1586-1635, founder of New Hampshire. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After serving (1615–21) as governor of Newfoundland, he and Sir Ferdinando Gorges received (1622) a patent from the Council for New England for all the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.
In 1629 they divided the grant, Mason taking as his share an area 60 mi (95 km) deep between the Merrimack and Piscataqua rivers, which he named New Hampshire.
The inhabitants were finally compelled to recognize the Mason rights, which were sold (1746) by one of Mason’s descendants to a group of 12 Portsmouth men, who became known as the Masonian Proprietors.
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 Memorable Quotes from The Rock (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Mason: "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious," according to Oscar Wilde.
John Mason: All I know is that you were big in Vietnam.
John Mason: When all this is over, you'll go back home driving Carla and your baby insane in your beige Volvo.
us.imdb.com /Quotes?0117500   (2408 words)

  
 John Mason (Sons of the Serpent)
Powers/Abilities: Mason was a clever manipulator of information, and had access to a bioethnic virus designed to kill non-whites (in fact, it killed both white and non-white people), and sophisticated energy weapons supplied to him by the Wizard.
History: (Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty#8) - John Mason reorganized the Sons of the Serpent as "the Sons of the Shield," a pro-white political group, and claimed that Captain America was one of his organization's supporters.
Mason tried to fight back against the Falcon with his dying breath, before exposure to the virus finally slew him.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix2/masonjohn.htm   (575 words)

  
 USGenweb Page for Mason, NH
Mason, NH is located on the southern border of Hillsborough County and bordered on the north by Temple and Wilton, on the east by Brookline, the west by New Ipswich and on the south by Townsend and Ashby, MA.
The land upon which Mason now exists was surveyed and laid out into townships in 1749 by John Mason's great great grandson.
Mason, NH, then called "Township No. One" was born on October 16th, 1749, in Dunstable, at the house of Captain Joseph French where lots were drawn by twelve gentlemen and others who had been invited to join in the venture.
home.earthlink.net /~georgeo/mason_nh.htm   (968 words)

  
 John Mason Neale
John Mason Neale was born in London in 1818, studied at Cambridge, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1842.
Only nine years earlier, John H. Newman had encouraged Romish practices in the Anglican Church, and had ended up joining the Romanists himself.
This encouraged the suspicion that anyone like Neale was an agent of the Vatican, assigned to destroy the Anglican Church by subverting it from within.
www.satucket.com /lectionary/JMNeale.htm   (568 words)

  
 John Mason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Mason has been teaching mathematics ever since he was asked to tutor a fellow student when he was fifteen.
Mason, J. 1997, The Role of Mental Imagery in Mathematics: practice, in S. Rhodes (Ed.) Mental Imagery in Mathematics, in press.
Mason, J. 1978, The Concept of a Jewel or Why Course Units are Too Coarse a Unit, Teaching at a Distance 12, p72.
cme.open.ac.uk /JHMFurthPartics.htm   (3494 words)

  
 Jane's Addictions: Art & Artists: John R. Mason
John R. Mason was born in 1900 in Dinwiddle County Virginia.
Mason sat in a back booth at a Hardee's fast food restaurant everyday but Sunday drawing and because of this, some of his drawings have food stains and water marks.
John R. Mason's work can also be found for sale at America Oh Yes!
www.janesaddictions.com /jrmason01.htm   (122 words)

  
 John Mason, reluctant crusader - 07/03/00
In October 1997, John Mason joined a parade to celebrate the opening of the newly rebuilt Davison Freeway in Detroit.
   John Mason, the veteran morning host of Mason and Company, broke out of his regular format.
Today, many in Metro Detroit feel Mason is the most powerful African-American media voice in town.
www.detnews.com /2000/features/0007/03/c01-85151.htm   (1451 words)

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