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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