Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 674. (369) 4/22/53 JOHN MASTERS. The following is from "The Genealogy of Francis Weekes", by Dr. Frank Edgar Weeks, Kipton, Ohio, 1939: and from "Masters, Massa- chusetts and English Notes", by George W. Chamberlain, Malden, Mass., (manuscript) on file at the New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston. The date of John Master's birth in England is not known: he died at Cambridge, Mass., on December 21/1639. He undoubtedly came with Governor Winthrop in 1630 to Boston. The earliest notice of him occurs in Governor Winthrop's Journal, dated January 27l/l63l, detailing the incidents of a proposed expedition up the Charles River about eight miles above Watertown, Mass. The first brook they came to on the north side of the river, he named Beaver Brook, because the beavers had shorn down "divers great trees there and made divers dams across the river". Thence they went to a great rock upon which stood a high stone, cleft in sunder, that four men might ge upon (through) which they named Adams Chair, because the youngest of their expedition was Adams Winthrop. Thence they came to another brook, greater than the former, which they named Master's Brook, because the eldest of the company was John Masters: this was later called Stony Brook. On May 18/1631, John Masters was made freeman of Watertown. In June 1631 he engaged to construct a canal from the Charles River, through the marsh to the upland near the foot of Dunster Street, for which the General Court paid him œ30. In 1633 he removed to Newtown. In 1635 he owned a house and seven acres of land on the weather side of East Street, near Brattle Street, Cambridge. He married, date unknown, Jane ----, who died at Cambridge on December 26/1639. His will, dated December 19/1639, left all of his estate to his wife for her life, and after her decease it was to go to his daughters Sarah Dobyson and Lydia Taber. Also œ10 each to these two daughters. To grandson John Lockwood œ10: to son Nathaniel œ10: to son Abraham ten shillings, and the rest to his daughter Elizabeth Latham. Issue:- (may not be in proper order) - 1. Elizabeth Masters. She married, 1st, as his second wife, Edmund Lockwood, who died March 3/1634. She married, 2nd, Cary Latham of Cambridge, Mass., son of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Newman) Latham, baptized at Aldenham, England, November 10/1613, died 1683, who came to Cambridge from England in 1642. They later moved to New Haven, Conn. Issue:- (by her first husband Edmund Lockwood) 2/1. John Lockwood, born in Cambridge November 1632, died 1683. Issue:-(by her second husband Cary Latham) 2/2. Thomas Latham, born November 1639. 2/3. Joseph Latham, born December 2/164-, died 1685. He early moved to New London, Conn., where he was Representative from 1664 to 1670, 2/4. Jane Latham. She married on March 19/1673, Hugh Hubbard. 2. Sarah Masters. She married a Mr. Dobyson. 3. Nathaniel Masters. He married Ruth Pickworth daughter of John Pickworth. 4. Abraham Masters. 5. Lydia Masters. She married on December 21/1639, Philip Taber, who died in 1692. He came from Essex, England to Boston in 1630. See subject 336 for issue and further particulars.