16 Darling Hill Road
Mason, NHThis monument in Mason, New Hampshire honors the town’s Patriots who fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Among them was Captain Benjamin Mann, who commanded a regiment at the famous battle and served in other Revolutionary War engagements.
Born in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1739, Mann moved his family from Woburn, Massachusetts to Mason around 1771. Active in civic affairs, Mann was town moderator upon twelve occasions; town clerk for four years; selectman for six years; representative for four years; member of the Committee of Safety and the town’s first justice of the peace. He was the father-in-law of Samuel Wilson, who later, during the War of 1812, became known as “Uncle Sam.”
Captain Mann’s tavern still stands nearby on Darling Hill Road and currently houses the town offices and Mason Public Library. The Mason Historical Society erected the monument in Mann’s memory during the 1975 Bicentennial commemorations.
A plaque affixed to the stone monument reads:
1775 – 1975
IN HONOR OF
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN MANN
AND THE MEN WHO WENT
FROM MASON
TO THE BATTLE OF
BUNKER HILL
MASON HISTORICAL SOCIETY