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​MASON, JOHN (1586–1635), founder of New Hampshire, only son of John and Isabella Mason (born Steed), was born at King's Lynn, and was baptised in St. Margaret's Church in that town on 11 Dec. 1586. He matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, as ‘of Southants, pleb.,’ on 25 June 1602 (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714). He is said to have obtained a place in a commercial house in London, and had probably conducted successful voyages prior to 1610, when he was appointed by James I to the command of two ships of war and two pinnaces, despatched to assist Andrew Knox [q. v.] in his reclamation of the Hebrides. While Mason was engaged upon this service the first English plantation of Newfoundland was effected under John Guy of Bristol. Guy resigned the governorship in 1615, and partly, it would appear, by way of compensation for disbursements made on his Scottish expedition, Mason was appointed in his place John mason artist biography.