Biography of James N. Mason of Pawlet, VT Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years  Hiel Hollister 1867 J. Munsell, Albany   MASON, JAMES N., married Alta, a daughter of Joel Simonds, Jr., who died in 1864, aged 43, leaving eight children.  Next he married Almira Bannister. He was from Pownall, 1839, and settled on Hascall farm.