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George Mason II

Virginian planter and officeholder (1660–1716)

Field	Value
name	George Mason II
birth_name	George Mason
office	Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses representing Stafford County
term_start1	1705
term_end1	1712
predecessor1	Rice Hooe
successor1	Henry Fitzhugh
alongside1	William Fitzhugh, John Waugh
term_start2	1693
term_end2	1703
predecessor2	Martin Scarlet
successor2	Rice Hooe
alongside2	William Fitzhugh, Thomas Ousley, Martin Scarlet, John Withers, Rice Hooe, John Waugh
term_start3	1688
term_end3	1691
predecessor3	Martin Scarlet
successor3	John Withers
alongside3	George Brent, Martin Scarlet
birth_date	1660
birth_place	Accokeek, Colony of Virginia, British America
death_date
death_place	Port Tobacco, Province of Maryland, British America
resting_place	Accokeek, Virginia, United States
resting_place_coordinates
nationality	American
occupation
spouse
children	12, including George III
parents
relatives	George Mason (grandson)
relations	Mason family
allegiance	Great Britain
branch	Virginian militia
rank	Colonel
commands	Stafford County militia
battles	American Indian Wars

George Mason II (1660–1716) was Virginian 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. His grandson George Mason IV became the most distinguished member of the family, a Founding Father of the United States.

Early life

Mason was born in 1660 at his father's Accokeek plantation in Stafford County, Virginia. He was the only son of George Mason I and his first wife Mary French. He was the first of Virginia's Mason family to be born in British America.

Political career

Like his father, Mason led the Stafford County militia, with the rank of colonel. After his father's death, he won election many times as one of Stafford County's two part-time delegates in the House of Burgesses (then the only house of the Virginia General Assembly). This George Mason also served as the county's sheriff and justice of the peace between 1699 and 1700. During this tenure Mason secured funds from the county to build what was probably Stafford's first jail in 1690. Also between 1699 and 1700, Mason was county lieutenant of Stafford County, under General Nicholson, and defended white settlers of the Potomac region against Native Americans.

Business ventures

In 1691, the town of Marlborough was laid out on the same neck of land in the Potomac River that included Accokeek plantation. Mason received multiple lots in Marlborough and may have built a tavern there.

Mason sold Accokeek after his father's death and relocated to a plantation on Chopawamsic Creek which he named Chopawamsic. At Chopawamsic, Mason planted an orchard, grew tobacco, and raised sheep and cattle.

Marriage and children

Mason married his cousin Mary Fowke, daughter of Gerard Fowke and Ann Thorogood, in 1688. The couple had the following children:

Ann Fowke Mason Fitzhugh Darrell Smith
Elizabeth Mason Roy
George Mason III (1690–March 5, 1735)
Nicholson Mason (1694–1715 or 1716)
French Mason (1695–1748)
Mary Mason Fitzhugh Strother (born circa 1700)
Simpha Rosa Ann Field Mason Dinwiddie Bronaugh (1703–November 22, 1761)

Mason married secondly to Elizabeth Waugh in Stafford County, Virginia in 1706. George and Elizabeth had one daughter:

Catherine Mason (June 21, 1707–June 15, 1750) - was married colonial lawyer John Mercer (1704–1768)

Mason married for a third time to Sarah Taliaferro, daughter of Francis Taliaferro and Elizabeth Catlett, in 1710. George and Sarah had four children:

Gerard Mason
Thomas Mason
Francis Mason (born 1711)
Sarah Mason (born 1715)

Later life

Mason died in 1716 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland. He was interred on a hillside with his father near the site of the old Accokeek estate near Accokeek Creek in Stafford County, Virginia.

References

Gunston Hall. "George Mason II". Gunston Hall.
Lee Woolf. (April 7, 2002). "George Mason gets memorial in D.C.". The Free Lance-Star Publishing Company.
French Family Association. (2008). "Children of Dennis French, A.2". French Family Association.
Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 49, 51, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 64, 66, 68, 69, 71, 73
Evisum Inc.. (2000). "Virtual American Biographies". Declaration of Independence.

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