Section ABV: Descendants of John Masters

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Generation One

1. JOHN1 MASTERS was born about 1580[10], and died on 21 Dec. 1639[10] in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, United States[10]. He married before 1606[12], JANE _____, who died on 10 Dec. 1639[10] in Cambridge[10]. [2, 3, 5, 9, 10]
Came over in 1630, lived at Watertown, and later in 1633 moved to Newtown (now Cambridge), living near Brattle Street, where for a while he kept an inn. In 1631, he was the pioneer of marine engineering in this country. He made a channel 12' wide and 7' deep from the Charles River to Newtown.[3]
Children:
+2i.a son MASTERS, b. about 1606[10]; d. between 1 Jan. and 21 Dec. 1639[10].
3ii.SARAH MASTERS, b. about 1609[11]; d. about 1650; m. _____ DOBYSON.
4iii.ELIZABETH MASTERS, b. about 1612[11]; d. about 1680; m. (1) before Nov. 1632[11] (ZU-8) EDMUND LOCKWOOD, chr. in Combs, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom[1] on 9 Feb. 1594[1], d. in Cambridge[8] about 1633[8], son of (ZU-7) Edmund and (MM-2) Alice (COWPER) LOCKWOOD; m. (2) AFT 3 MAR 1634/5[11] CARY LATHAM.
+5iv.LYDIA MASTERS, b. about 1615[11]; d. about 1690; m. before 21 Dec. 1639[14] (AOG-1) PHILIP TABER, b. about 1605[6, 13], d. about 1670[4, 7, 14].

Generation Two

2. _____ MASTERS (John1), son of (1) John1 and Jane (_____) MASTERS, was born about 1606[10], and died between 1 Jan. and 21 Dec. 1639[10]. [10]
Children:
6i.NATHANIEL3 MASTERS, b. about 1620/1 in Cambridge; d. about 1600/1.
7ii.ABRAHAM MASTERS, b. about 1620/1 in Cambridge; d. about 1600/1.
5. LYDIA2 MASTERS (John1), daughter of (1) John1 and Jane (_____) MASTERS, was born about 1615[11], and died between 1650 and 1735. She married before 21 Dec. 1639[14], (AOG-1) PHILIP TABER, who was born about 1605[6, 13], and died about 1670[4, 7, 14]. [5, 11]
Children: See (AOG-1) Philip TABER


1. Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), 715; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 June 2011).
2. Alvin Page Johnson, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1933), 133.
3. Ibid., 134.
4. Randall, George Leander, Taber Genealogy: Descendants of Thomas, son of Philip Taber (New Bedford, Mass.: Viking Press, 1924), 5.
5. Russel Taber, Genealogy of the Taber Family (Wheeling, West Virginia: West Virginia Printing Co., 1893), 1.
6. Burton W. Spear, Search for the Passengers of the Mary and John - 1630 (Toledo, Ohio: B.W. Spear, 1985-1992).
7. Ibid., 4:83.
8. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 2:1193.
9. Ibid., 2:1234.
10. Ibid., 2:1235.
11. Ibid., 2:1236.
12. Ibid., 3:1235.
13. Ibid., 3:1792.
14. Ibid., 3:1793.