John Mason (1600-1672)

Mason, Louis Bond. The Life and Times of Major John Mason of Connecticut: 1600-1672. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. A book for general readers but one that will bore students. Not a scholarly study; no citations, modest bibliog­raphy, fair index. Concludes with a flourish of praise: "There is no manlier or more heroic figure than this in all our colonial history." (p. 336) Raymond Steams' review in the New England Quarterly 10(1937): 151-52 pastes this work for inaccuracies, errors, and oversimplification: "Loyal Americans will find lit­tle to assist their understanding of the principles and motives which led to the founding of this republic or of the life and services of... Mason."