Mason surname in Stafford Co., VA
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From the pages of the Overwharten Parish Register..A Historical Sketch...
Among these cavaliers who settled in Stafford County was Colonel George Mason (1628-1686), a native of Staffordshire, England: it was doubtless thru his influence that the county of Stafford was so named. Colonel Mason received patents for large acreage's and lived on Accakeek Creek not far from Brooke. His son and heir, George Mason (16..-1716) sold "all that plantation commonly called Accakeek being the late mansion house of Colonel George Mason, deceased, "but reserving "the tomb of the said Colonel George Mason and the burying place in which it stands." He moved to what is now Dogue Neck in Fairfax County, then called Doags Island, and in 1704 paid quit rents on "my home seat of Doags Island" and about 8,000 acres of land in Stafford County. Like his father, the first George Mason, the son was actively engaged in surpressing the Indians in the upper regions of Stafford County. He was thrice married and had a large family; he was the grandfather of the Honorable George Mason (1725-1792) of Gunston Hall, Author of the Bill of Rights.