Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register

3. Joseph, s. of Hugh (1), was also a tanner, and inherited the homestead in Watertown. He m. Mary, dau. of John Fiske, 5 Feb. 1683-4, and had Mary, b. 22 May 1684, m. Thomas Learned; Esther, b. 8 July 1686, m. Capt. Joseph Coolidge 10 Nov. 1737, being his second wife; Joseph, b. 2 Oct. 1688; Sarah, b. 17 Nov. 1691, m. Thomas Chamberlin 22 June 1709. Joseph the f. d. 22 July 1702.

4. Daniel, s. of Hugh (1), grad. H. C. 1666, was a physician, in which capacity he sailed with Capt. Ellson, 1679; he was taken prisoner, carried to Algiers, and never returned.

5. John, s. of John (2), settled in Lex., where he was Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Spring of Newton, 18 Oct. 1699, and had a son, b. and d. 14 Aug. 1700; John, b. 8 Aug. 1701, d. in Lex. 1787; Elizabeth, b. 30 Aug. 1703; Mellicent, b. 24 Ap. 1705; Thaddeus, b. 27 Dec. 1706; Jonas, b. 21 Oct. 1708; Catherine, b. 5 Aug. 1710; Esther, b. 2 Jan. 1712-13; Sarah, b. 7 June 1714; Mercy, b. 12 Nov. 1716, d. 30 Nov. 1717; Samuel, b. 9 Oct. 1720. John the f. d. 24 Mar. 1738.

6. Joseph, s. of Joseph (3), inherited the homestead in Wat., was elected Deacon in 1726, and appointed Justice of the Peace 1734. He m. Mary, dau. of Elias Monck of Dorchester, 14 Sept. 1710, and had Mary, b. 23 Oct. 1711, m. Ebenezer Hovey of Camb. 7 Oct. 1737; Joseph, b. 9 Oct. 1713; Abigail, b. 10 Oct. 1715, m. Thomas Biscoe 8 Sept. 1737; Benjamin, b. 14 July 1717; Elizabeth, b. 3 Feb. 1718-19, m. Nathaniel Perry of Sherburne 11 Oct. 1739; Nehemiah, b. 14 June 1721; Elias, b. 24 Ap. 1723, m. Ruth Cheney 7 Nov. 1740; Esther, b. 14 Nov. 1725, m. Jonathan Brown, Jr., 25 Jan. 1749-50, d. 14 July 1802; Lydia, b. 6 Nov. 1727, m. Micah Whitney of Natick 11 Nov. 1747; Susanna, b. 22 Sept. 1729, m. Samuel Soden of Camb. 16 Dec. 1755; Ebenezer, b. 1 Mar. 1731-2; Josiah, b. 3 Oct. 1734. Of this numerous family it is remarkable that all lived to maturity and were married. Joseph the f. d. 6 July 1755.

7. Thaddeus, s. of John (5), grad. H. C. 1728, and was the earliest graduate who survived until the present century commenced. He outlived all his classmates about nine years, and was the eldest living graduate about five years. He taught school at Woodstock a short time after leaving college, but was soon appointed by Gov. Belcher as his private Secretary; he was appointed Deputy Naval Officer 1731, Deputy Secretary of the Province in April 1734, and Clerk of the Middlesex Courts Feb. 1735-1736, which last office, by which he was best known, he held for the long period of fifty-four years. He was also Register of Deeds from Ap. 1781 to Dec. 1784. He resided principally in Chs. until shortly before the Battle of Bunker Hill, when he removed to Lex. leaving his mansion to the flames which consumed the village. After a temporary residence in Lex., Stoneham, and Medf., he rem. here and purchased the Monis estate 11 Feb. 1786, at the S. E. corner of Brighton and Winthrop streets, where he closed his long life. He had previously, from 18 Sept. 1738 to 7 Jan. 1749, owned the estate at the N. E. corner of Holmes Place; but whether he resided there is not ascertained. Mr. Mason m. Rebecca, dau. of Deac. Jonathan Williams of Boston, 17 Feb. 1736-7; she d. in childbed 2 Ap. 1748, and he m. Elizabeth, dau. of Jonathan Sewall, Esq., of Boston, 7 Nov. 1748; she d. 12 Feb. 1755, and he m. Ann, dau. of Thomas Fayerweather, Esq., 18 Oct. 1759. His children were Jonathan, b. 15 Dec. 1737, d. unm. 18 Nov. 1760 (he was drowned on a voyage to the West Indies); Rebecca, b. 17 Dec. 1738, m. William Harris 20 Aug. 1767, and d. 2 Feb. 1801 (she was mother of the late Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D., of Dorchester); Thaddeus, b. 1 Aug. 1740, d. Dec. 1740; Thaddeus, b. 19 Aug. 1741, d. 10 Jan. 1747-8; Martha, b. 25 Nov. 1742, m. Dr. Isaac Foster of Chs.-July 1765, and d. 21 Sept. 1770; Hugh, b. 16 May 1745,d. 8 Mar. 1746; a child, b. and d. 2 Ap. 1748; John Alford, b. 10 Dec. 1750, grad. H. C. 1771, was Clerk in the Boston Post Office, afterwards res. here with his sisters, and still later with Rev. Dr. Harris at Dorchester, where he d. unm. 16 Feb. 1831,