Name: vansfamily -- Vans of Barnbarroch

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Sources
1. Title:   Hugh Vans
Author:   Marge Rice
2. Title:   Diary of Anna Green Winslow-A Boston School Girl of 1771
Author:   Anna Green Winslow
Publication:   Project Gutenberg
Url:   http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20765
3. Title:   Diary of Anna Green Winslow-A Boston School Girl of 1771
Author:   Anna Green Winslow
Publication:   Project Gutenberg
Url:   http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20765
4. Title:   A genealogical deduction of the family of Rose of Kilravock
Page:   The History of the Old South Church in Boston: In Four Sermons, Delivered ... By Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner
Author:   Hugh Rose, Lachlan Shaw

Notes
a. Note:   N5542 “greatly distinguished for intelligent, consistent and devoted piety."
 She joined the Old South in 1755. In
 the _Boston Gazette_, of April 9, 1770, we read, "Fan Mounts mounted
 by Mary Vans at the house of Deacon Williams, in Cornhill." We hear
 of her at Attleborough with Samuel Whitwell's wife when the gates of
 Boston were closed, and we know she married Deacon Jonathan Mason on
 Sunday evening, December 20, 1778. She was his second wife. His
 first wife was Miriam Clark, and was probably the Mrs. Mason who was
 present at Mrs. Whitwell's, and died June 5, 1774. Mary Vans Mason
 lived till 1820, having witnessed the termination of eight of the
 pastorates of the Old South Church. Well might Anna term her "a
 Sister of the Old South." She was in 1817 the President of the Old
 South Charity School, and is described as a "disinterested friend,
 a judicious adviser, an affectionate counsellor, a mild but faithful
 reprover, a humble, self-denying, fervent, active, cheerful
 Christian." Jonathan Mason was not only a deacon, but a prosperous
 merchant and citizen. He helped to found the first bank in New
 England. His son was United States Senator. Two other daughters of
 Hugh Vans were a Mrs. Langdon, of Wiscasset, Maine, and Mrs. John
 Coburn.

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