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Mark Sension

Connecticut settler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ15917318 ↗
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Mark Sension (also Mark St. John) (1630 – August 12, 1693) was an early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a deputy of the Connecticut General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1672, October 1676, October 1678, and May and October 1684.

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“Mark Sension” enters the record as connecticut settler. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mark, Sension and Connecticut can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Sension” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.