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in Roxbury, lying between the present Centre and Old 

 Heath streets. 



Jonathan Mason, Sen. was a merchant in Boston, 

 a selectman of the town of Boston, member of both 

 branches of the Legislature and of the governor's 

 council. He was a deacon of the Old South church; 

 deceased in 1798. 



Jonathan Mason, Jr. (1752-1831) was a lawyer; 

 graduate of Princeton College; member of both 

 branches of the Legislature, representing Boston; 

 member of the governor's council; member of Con- 

 gress in the Senate from 1800 to 1803 and in the 

 House during two terms. He owned a large farm in 

 Brookline. 



AzoR Orne (1731-1799) lived in Marblehead; was 

 a member of the provincial and continental congresses, 

 major-general of militia in 1775 and 1776, member of 

 both branches of the Legislature and of the conven- 

 tions of 1780 and 1788. 



Samuel Phillips (1751-1802) was a graduate of 

 Harvard in 1771 ; a member of the provincial congress 

 and the constitutional convention; a member of the 

 State senate, representing Essex, twenty years, and its 

 president from 1786 to 1801, and lieutenant governor 

 in 1801 and 1802. He founded Phillips Academy in 

 Andover. 



Samuel Salisbury (1739-1818) was a prominent 

 merchant of Boston ; deacon of the Old South church, 

 and lived in a fine mansion on Summer street about 

 opposite to Hawley street. 



David Sears (1752-1816) was a wealthy merchant 

 in Boston; a patriot of the Revolution; owned and 

 fitted out a privateer in 1779; was chairman of the 

 committee of merchants who built a frigate in 1798 as 

 a gift to the national government, his subscription 



