Colonel George Mason

The Mason family is descended from Colonel George Mason who was defeated in the royal cause at the battle of Worcester and left England thereafter to settle in the Colony. His cousin was Gerard Fowke, a former member of the royal household, who came first to the Coloony.

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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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