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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Colonel George Mason

Colonel George Mason, after the crowning defeat of the royal cause at the battle of Worcester, left England to settle in the Colony. He was a cousin of Gerard Fowke, who had been a member of the royal household as well as a colonel in the royal army, and also went to Virginia. Source: Dinwiddie Papers, Virginia Historical Society Collection, p. 23.

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