Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . y, nor yet a Brettonly a few members of each noted family can find place init, they, naturally, being the ones the writer recalls forcause. Colonel George Mason was an English officer and states-man of importance in the reign of the two kings defeat in 1651 he embarked for America and set-tled in Virginia on a grant of land in Stafford, now Fairfax,county. George Mason, of GunstonHall, Stafford, was his directdescendant. He it was whowrote the Bill of Rights andthe Constitution of Virginia,in 1776, and was in theassembly. In the next yearhe
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . y, nor yet a Brettonly a few members of each noted family can find place init, they, naturally, being the ones the writer recalls forcause. Colonel George Mason was an English officer and states-man of importance in the reign of the two kings defeat in 1651 he embarked for America and set-tled in Virginia on a grant of land in Stafford, now Fairfax,county. George Mason, of GunstonHall, Stafford, was his directdescendant. He it was whowrote the Bill of Rights andthe Constitution of Virginia,in 1776, and was in theassembly. In the next yearhe was elected to the conti-nental congress, and had al-ready gained the fame of oneof the ablest debaters everknown in that state oforators. He was a memberof the national conventionthat framed the United StatesConstitution, but he refusedto sign that document andopposed it strongly andbitterly in the Virginia assembly. He declared and main-tained that it tended towards monarchy! This orig-inal Mason, was warmly admired and eulogized by. GEORGE MASON, OF GUNSTON HALL 302 BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES Jefferson, and the feeling between the two was real andmutual. George Mason, of Gunston, died in 1792. Heleft only one brother, Thomson Mason, of Raspberry Plan-tation, Loudon county. He had three notable sons, Stev-ens, John and Armistead, all having the Thomson nameadditional. Armistead was born in 1787, was Democraticsenator from Virginia in 1815 and, four years later, waskilled in a duel by his cousin, J. N. McCarty. John Thomson Mason married Elizabeth Moir, and about1812 moved to Lexington, Ky. He was the father of a greatprogeny that claim to be the Masons. Of thirteen who reached adult age two lately Emily Virginia Mason, was living, past her fourscoreand ten, at Washington; and Mrs. Laura Anne Chilton,widow of General Robert Chilton, still resides with herwidowed daughter, Mrs. Peyton Wise, at Richmond. Onlywhen this page had been put in type. Miss Em
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