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Surname: MASON
Source:  A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby, 
          Columbus, Ohio, 1901, page 14

BENJAMIN MASON was fifer in Capt. Salmon Stone's Company, Col. Moses Nichols's regiment, July 21
to Sept. 25, 1777. This regiment was present at the battles of Bennington and Stillwater. He died
in Dublin, May 16, 1840, æt. 79 years. 

FRANCIS MASON was a private in Capt. Samuel Blodgett's company, Col. Nathan Hale's regiment, 
1777, and then returned by Jaffrey. Later he is credited to Dublin and reported as absent from 
the same company. As a member of 7th Co., 2d N. H. Regt. (Col. George Reid's) he is said to be 
of Dublin. He was 34 years old in 1777. His later history is unknown.

JOSEPH MASON was a member of Capt. Salmon Stone's company, Col. Moses Nichols's regiment, which 
marched to Bennington and Stillwater, 1777. He died in Dublin March , 1806, æt. 58. 

MOSES MASON was in Capt. Joseph Parker's company, Col. Nathan Hale's regiment, 1776, marched to
Ticonderoga; he marched to relieve same place in Capt. John Mellen's company June-July, 1777; in
Capt. Salmon Stone's company July-Sept. 1777, he fought at Bennington and Stillwater; he went 
with the troops under Col. Daniel Reynolds in 1781 to West Point. May 5, 1786, he gave a receipt
for rations and travel money to Springfield, Mass. He removed from Dublin to Bethel, Me., in 
1799, was much employed there in public business, and died, Oct. 31, 1837, aged 80.