Michigan historical collections . ance, and November 8, 1861, with his colleague, John Slidell,was captured in the Bahama channel on board the British mail steamerTrent by Captain Wilkes. He was confined in Fort Warren, Bostonharbor, till January 2, 1862, when he was given up to the British gov-ernment. During the remainder of the war he resided mainly in Paris,as the representative of the confederacy. After its close he went toCanada, where he remained three years, and then returned to Virginia. Stevens Thomson, grandson of Stevens Thomson Mason, born inLoudoun county, Va., 1811, died in New
Michigan historical collections . ance, and November 8, 1861, with his colleague, John Slidell,was captured in the Bahama channel on board the British mail steamerTrent by Captain Wilkes. He was confined in Fort Warren, Bostonharbor, till January 2, 1862, when he was given up to the British gov-ernment. During the remainder of the war he resided mainly in Paris,as the representative of the confederacy. After its close he went toCanada, where he remained three years, and then returned to Virginia. Stevens Thomson, grandson of Stevens Thomson Mason, born inLoudoun county, Va., 1811, died in New York, January, 1843. Hisfather, John T. Mason, removed to Kentucky, where he was 1831 he was appointed secretary of territory of Michigan, and on thetranslation of Governor Cass to the war department at Washingtonbecame the acting governor. He held the office during the Ohio andMichigan boundary controversy, which excited intense interest and bitterfeeling. Thousands of troops were marshaled to the line with prospects. GEN. JOHN THOMSON MASON,Of Kaspbeiry Plain, Va. 1787-1850. Secretary Michigan Territory. MASON LINEAGE AND ARMS. 609 of a sanguinary conflict. When Michigan organized itself as a Statein 1835, he was unanimously elected her first governor and was re-electedfor a second term. Retiring from office in 1839, he withdrew frompolitics and removed to New York, where he i)racticed law. John Young Mason descended more remotely from the same stock. Hewas born in Greenville, Va., April 18, 1799, and died in Paris, October4, 1859. He graduated at the University of North Carolina, studied law,was for ten years a delegate in the Virginia Assembly, filled severalother offices in the State. He was representative in Congress from 1831to 1837, when he was appointed judge of the United States court in Vir-ginia. He was secretary of the navy under President Tyler and suc-cessively attorney general and secretary of the navy under PresidentPolk. By President Pierce he was
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