ELEVENTH GENERATION

1292. John Masters (19584) was born on 8 Mar 1581 in Tiverton, co. Devon, England. He took the oath of freeman on 18 May 1631. (19585) (19586) He signed a will on 19 Dec 1639. (19587) He died on 21 Dec 1639 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. (19588) (19589)(19590) He was married to Jane Cox in 1606 in Tiverton, co. Devon, England.

1293. Jane Cox was born about 1586 in England. She died on 26 Dec 1639 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.(19591) (19592) Children were:

child i. Abraham Masters(19593).
child ii. Sarah Masters(19594) was born about 1609. She died on 13 Oct 1703.(19595) Notes for Sarah Masterson:

Sarah was the daughter of Nathaniel Masterson and Elizabeth Coggswell. She was captured in 1692 and, as "Sarah Braginton of Yorcke", was, "yett in the Indians Hands in January 1698/1699". Ann Jenkins testified in 1695 that Sarah Bragginton had been
bought by the Indian minister Prince Waxaway and was thus freed from "hard usage." That princely Indian could not have kept her long for she was at home and was killed in 1703 when her daughter Abial was captured. From Pike's Journal we learn that on
13 October 1703, "about sunset the Indians stole in upon Arthur Bragdon's house at York, (hard by the garrison), killed his wife and two children and carried his daughter away.

Penhallow says: "Another Company of Indians, commanded by Sampson fell on York, where they slew Arthur Bragdon's wife and five children, carried Captive with them the widow Parsons and her Daughter."

Abial in on the 1710/1711 list. Her fate is unknown.

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Mrs. Sarah (Masterson) Bragdon, wife of Arthur Bragdon . . . was another woman who had more than one experience with marauding Indians. She was probably living in the home of her parents, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Masterson, on Cider Hill about where the
gravel pit is now, when they were killed and their house burned. She, with her young daughter Abial, was captured and marched to Canada and not redeemed and returned to York until nearly ten years later. Only three years after their return, it was
Arthur Bragdon's fate again to come home to find that Indians had attacked. This time he found his wife Sarah and two of his children killed by tomahawk; and his eldest daughter Abial was again carried off to captivity.
Arthur Bragdon III became a noted Indian fighter, and as a captain led a company in the first raid of Narridgewock in the Fourth Indian War. Later he moved to Scarboro with a new wife and family. His descendants have been notable and prominent
eastward of York ever since.
A new generation of Prebles, Banks, Bragdons, Weares, Donnells, Saywards, and Plaisteds took up where their forefathers had left off.
child iii. Elizabeth Masters(19596) was born about 1612.
child646 iv. Nathaniel Masters.
child v. Lydia Masters(19597) was born about 1615. She died in 1672.