George Mason
- Also Known As: George Mason IV
American
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia House of Burgesses | 1759 |
Lineage
- Father Lt Colonel George Mason
- Brother: Thomson Mason
- Son: John Mason, The Planter
- Son: Gen Thomson Mason
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia House of Burgesses | 1759 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1725/12/11 | Born on the Mason family plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia. | ||||||
| 1748/00/00 | George Mason elected vestryman | Member | The Falls Church | Falls Church | |||
| 1750/04/04 | Ann Eilbeck marries George Mason. It is believed Anne and George will live at her parents home until the completion of Gunston Hall. | Groom | Araby, Mason Springs | Mason's Springs | |||
| 1755/00/00 | Construction begins on Gunston Hall for Ann and George Mason. | Architect | Gunston Hall | Mason Neck | |||
| 1766/06/06 | To London Merchants - We do not deny the supreme Authority of Great Britain over her Colonys, but it is a Power which a wise Legislature will exercise with extreme Tenderness and Caution. - Mason | Author | Gunston Hall | Mason Neck | |||
| 1769/05/00 | George Mason drafts resolutions asserting that only the governor and the provincial legislature have the right to lay taxes in Virginia. | Patriot | American Revolution - From Protest to Revolt | ||||
| 1773/04/27 | George Mason mourns the loss of his wife, Ann E Mason, at her memorial service in Pohick Church. | Widow | Pohick Church | Lorton | |||
| 1776/06/12 | Virginia Declaration of Rights adopted | Principal author | Virginia Declaration of Rights | Colonial Williamsburg | Williamsburg | Fifth Virginia Convention | |
| 1777/01/13 | George Mason, George Wythe, Edmund Pendleton, Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Ludwell Lee meet to outline the Statute of Virginia for Religious Liberty. | Author | Rising Sun Tavern | Fredericksburg, VA | |||
| 1781/05/31 | George Mason writes Pearson Chapman: The rapid march of the enemy obliges me to ... beg the favour of you to permit all the things I send to be put in your dwelling house for safety until I can carry them up to my son William's house at (Araby). | Life | Mount Aventine | Chapman State Park | |||
| 1792/10/07 | George Mason dies at home | Died | Gunston Hall | Mason Neck |
2 Creative Works by George Mason »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Author | 1766/06/06 | |||
| Virginia Declaration of Rights | Principal author | Constitutional document | 1776/06/12 |
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