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The Mason family of Virginia is a historically significant American political family of English origin, whose prominent members are known for their accomplishments in politics, business, and the military. The progenitor of the Mason family, George Mason I (1629–1686), [1] [2] arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on the ship Assurance in 1652.
George Mason II (1660–1716) [1] [2] [3] was an early American planter and officeholder who, although his father's only child, had many children and thus can be said to have established the Mason family as one of the First Families of Virginia.
George Mason's coat of arms. Mason was born in present-day Fairfax County, in the Colony of Virginia, in British America, on December 11, 1725. [1] [2] [3] Mason's parents owned property in Mason Neck, Virginia and a second property across the Potomac River in Maryland, which had been inherited by his mother.
George Mason I (5 June 1629 – 1686) [1] [2] was the American progenitor of the prominent American landholding and political Mason family. Mason was the great-grandfather of George Mason IV , a Founding Father of the United States .
The Mason family is a prominent political and landowning family in U.S. history. The Masons listed in this category are descendants of George Mason I (5 June 1629–1686). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Mason was born on April 18, 1799, in Hicksford (now Emporia) in Greensville County, Virginia. [1] A member of the prominent Mason Family of Virginia, he was a descendant of Francis Mason, who was an Englishman that migrated to Virginia in the early 1600s.
Mason was born to Thomson Mason (1733–1785); [1] [2] and his wife at Chopawamsic in Stafford County, Virginia. [1] His ancestors had emigrated generations earlier and owned thousands of acres of land (some developed and farmed by enslaved labor) in Maryland and Virginia.
Richard Chichester Mason may have been born at Newington plantation in Fairfax County to the former Sarah McCarty Chichester (1770–1826) on May 7, 1793. Descended from the First Families of Virginia, his father was planter Thomson Mason (1759–1820), who with his father's financial assistance constructed a house known as Hollin Hall on his Fairfax County property shortly after this marriage.