& Ensign Tracy are hereby desired to lay it out to him in some convenient place near that tract of land granted Jer[emiah] Adams, it being the place the Major hath pitched upon, the name of the place is Uncupsitt, provided it prejudice no plantation or former grant". On May 9, 1672 "Ensign Tracy is appointed to join with Sergeant Tho[mas] Leffingwell in laying out to the Major and Mr. Howkins their grants of land according to their grants". Descendants John Mason's descendants number in the thousands today. Some of his notable descendants include; David Brewster is an American journalist. Diane Brewster was an American television actress. Martha Wadsworth Brewster, (1710 – c. 1757) a poet and writer and one of the earliest American female literary figures. Catherine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947), is an American historian, college administrator, and the president of Harvard University. James Rudolph Garfield, (October 17, 1865 – March 24, 1950) was a U.S. politician, lawyer and son of President James Abram Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. Harry Augustus Garfield, (October 11, 1863 – December 12, 1942) was an American lawyer and academic. He was the eighth president of his alma mater, Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. John Mason Kemper, was the 11th headmaster at Phillips Academy John Forbes Kerry, (born December 11, 1943) is the 68th Secretary of State of the United States and former senior United States senator from Massachusetts (served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee). George Trumbull Ladd, was an American philosopher and psychologist. Brice Lalonde, is a former socialist and green party leader in France, who ran for President of France in the Presidential elections, 1981. In 1988 he was named Minister of the Environment, and in 1990 founded the Green Party Génération Ecologie. W. Patrick Lang. US Army officer, US Intelligence Executive, and author. Marcus Mason Maronn, Founder, President of the Mason Family Memorial Association Inc. Jeremiah Mason, was a United States senator from New Hampshire. John Sanford Mason, (August 21, 1824 – November 29, 1897) was a career officer in the United States Army who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Robert Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an inventor of the integrated circuit or microchip. Robert Charles Winthrop, was an American lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of