Narrative of early history of the Master family

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John Brandon

Narrative of early history of the Master family

Legg inn av John Brandon » 05 jun 2006 19:18:16

Descendants of Mr. William Sargent of Charlestown, Malden, and
Barnstable, may be interested in the following narrative of the early
history of the Master family of Kent (ancestors of Agnes Master, wife
successively of Thomas Colwell and Nicholas Gifford), from _Some
Notices of the Family of Master, of East Langdon ..._, pp. 60-61:

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/docum ... 391&REC=15


Letter from Mary Master, "dated from her father's house at East
Langdon, April, 1660."

"I have minded my Brother James oft to answer yr desires in ye
relations of our famellys: he says yu demand more yn he knowes: ye
oldest writtings my father has shows us all ways to be gentel men: my
grandfather Sr Edward was all ye knights yt euer was in our famelly.
Our great grandfather James Master had a good Estate: was a great
scoller: a prudent wise man in his old days: in his yuth wilde: spent
and lost all most all by Cards and Dise: but heareing people oft saye:
"yunder gos Master had Land:" it so strucke him: yt he resolved: as he
had, so would he have: & so recalling himselfe: he became a very greate
husband, & quickly purchesed his lost lands: and added to it 100s. We
have very good things of his writing and many Manescrips: yn it was not
so usall to print all things: as now it is: we have writings no further
yn our greate greate granfather John Master [i.e., father of Agnes
Gifford]: for our great grandfather James was his second sun: had but
200 pounds a yeare: his eldest sun had daughters only, and so ye estate
went awaye: and yt is ye Reason we haue writings can shewe no further
yn Langden: and wh our last father's purchised: but old John [Agnes'
father] had 15 hundred or 2000 pounds a yeare: liued nobly: keept 3
score Men in Blue Cots, wch was ye Liuerry all gentel men formerly
gaue: one St Johns daye or in Christmas spend a Brenner for Breakefast,
yn Judge wt must be spent all ye daye and Christmas besids: This is all
I know. ...

See also:

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/docum ... 9391&REC=1

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