MD3PAD 760-762

[Toby G Levy]

        Tox recites his Pennsylvaniad in a low voice, wandering around
the room, among the "untold others."

        Tox says he would like to visit Mason's widow and children.
Wicks says that he will go with him, since he knows where they are
staying.  He says that Mrs. Mason plans to return to England with the
younger children, but the two older boys are staying in Philadelphia.

        Wicks returns to his story, saying that Franklin came to visit
Mason after he arrived in America and took rooms at the George Tavern.
Mason is sleeping when he arrives and Franklin smells the odor of death.
Mason's wife greets Franklin. She told Franklin that Mason gave her no
reason for going to America, only saying that his whole family had to go
over together. She suspects is has to do with the fact that he was never
named a member of the Royal Society.

        Wicks says that the seven years that Mason survived after
Dixon's death were supposedly plagued by illness, but none was ever
specified. Mason produced five more sons and a girl with his second
wife.

        Mason's oldest child William advises the second oldest child
Doctor Isaac.  Isaac says that Mason's father told Isaac was named
Doctor after the doctor that lost Rebekah, but William says he was named
after Isaac Newton, whom Mason greatly admires.

Toby