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Excerpt from A Memorial of Theodore Lewis Mason, M.D., Late of Brooklyn, N. Y
IN the year 1632 there came to the then recently founded town of Boston, Mass, a young Lieutenant of the King's army by the name of John Mason. A younger son of a family of respectable position and property in the county of Shropshire or Salop, on the Welsh borders of England, as was the custom of his times he had left his ancestral home to try his chances as a soldier of fortune, and had served with some distinction with Sir Thomas Fairfax, as a volunteer in the English forces which were the allies of the Dutch Republic during some por tion of the Thirty Years' War with Spain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
