| 词条 | George Mason I |
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|name = George Mason I |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = George Mason |birth_date = {{Birth date|1629|06|05}} |birth_place = Pershore, England |death_date = {{death year and age|1686|1629}} |death_place = Stafford County, Colony of Virginia |body_discovered = |death_cause = |resting_place = Accokeek, Stafford County, Virginia |resting_place_coordinates = |residence = Accokeek, Stafford County, Virginia |nationality = American |other_names = |known_for = |education = |alma_mater = |employer = |occupation = Cavalier, Parliament of England member, House of Burgesses member, Stafford County sheriff, Stafford County county lieutenant, justice of the peace, Stafford County militia colonel, planter, businessperson |years_active = |home_town = |salary = |networth = |height = |weight = |title = |term = |predecessor = |successor = |party = |opponents = |boards = |spouse = Mary French Margaret Allerton Frances Norgrave |partner = |children = George Mason II |parents = |relations = great-grandfather of George Mason IV |callsign = |signature = |website = |footnotes = }}George Mason I (5 June 1629 – 1686)[1][2] was the American progenitor of the prominent American landholding and political Mason family. Mason was the great-grandfather of George Mason IV, a Founding Father of the United States.[1] Early lifeGeorge Mason was born in Pershore, England, on 5 June 1629.[1][3] He was the third of seven children of yeoman farmer Thomas Mason and his wife Ann French.[1][2] George Mason was christened at Pershore Abbey, Holy Cross Church, Pershore, Worcestershire, on 10 June 1629.[1][2] Political involvement in EnglandGeorge Mason I was a Cavalier during the reign of Charles I of England. Thomas Mason was against Charles I's execution in 1649. He became a captain, commanding a troop of horse in Charles II's army. When the Royalist forces were defeated at the Battle of Worcester by Oliver Cromwell in 1651. Being on the losing side George and younger brother William Mason hurriedly left England. Arrival in VirginiaMason probably arrived at Norfolk, Virginia on the ship Assurance in 1652.[2][3] Mason was accompanied by his younger brother William, cousins and neighbors from England, Thomas and Gerard Fowke of Staffordshire.[2][3] He settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia in the early 1650s and was associated with the naming of Stafford County when it was formed from Westmoreland County in 1664.[3] Mason eventually settled permanently near an Indian village along Accokeek Creek on a hill between present-day State Routes 608 (Brooke Road) and 621 (Marlborough Point Road) in Stafford County.[3] He named his residence Accokeek, later rechristened Rose Hill.[3] The property was named for the now extinct Accokeek tribe which inhabited present-day Prince George's County, Maryland.[4] Accokeek plantation began as {{convert|650|acre|km2}} and gradually increased to {{convert|1150|acre|km2}} in size.[3] Political involvement in VirginiaMason represented Stafford County in the House of Burgesses and in 1670, he served as the county's second sheriff.[3] Mason served as Stafford County's county lieutenant in 1675. Mason also served as a Justice of the Peace and vestryman.[3] Mason also served as a colonel in Stafford County's militia.[3] In the Acts of the Assembly for 1675, 1679, and 1684, Colonel Mason was actively engaged in defending his frontier county against the Indians. Marriage and childrenMason married Mary French in 1658.[1][2] He and Mary had one son:[1]
Mason married secondly to Margaret Allerton in Stafford County, Virginia in 1661. They had 3 sons:[5]
Mason married thirdly to Frances Norgrave in 1669 in Stafford County, Virginia.[1][2] They had one daughter, Sarah E. Mason, born in 1672. Later lifeMason died in 1686.[1] His body was interred in 1686 on a hillside at Accokeek in Stafford County, Virginia.[1][3] His gravesite is currently unmarked.[3] MasonvaleGeorge Mason University, named in honor of Mason's great-grandson, re-established its Naming Committee to research and select names for its campus facilities and infrastructure.[6] The committee agreed upon the name "Masonvale" for its faculty and staff housing community in the northeast section of George Mason University's Fairfax Campus.[6] The appendage of "vale" was derived from George Mason I's birthplace, Pershore, which lies in an agricultural region known as the Vale of Evesham in Worcestershire, England.[6] To unify the naming theme within Masonvale, the names "Pershore" and "Evesham" were then used as street names for the community.[6] Other street names used are "Bredon Hill," "Cotswolds Hill," and "Staffordshire."[6] All are regions of Old Worcestershire where many of Mason's ancestors once resided.[6]References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {{cite web | url=http://gunstonhall.org/library/masonweb/p1.htm#i1 | title=George Mason I | date=| accessdate=2009-03-21 | publisher=Gunston Hall| author=Gunston Hall}} {{Virginia Masons}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mason, George 01}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web | url=http://www.frenchfamilyassoc.com/FFA/CHARTSWEB/ChartEE.htm | title=Children of Dennis French, A.2 | year= 2008 | accessdate=2008-03-21 | publisher= French Family Association | author=French Family Association}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {{cite web|url=http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/042002/04072002/544971/printer_friendly |archive-url=https://archive.is/20121208144514/http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2002/042002/04072002/544971/printer_friendly |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2012-12-08 |title=George Mason gets memorial in D.C. |date=2002-04-07 |accessdate=2008-03-21 |publisher=The Free Lance-Star Publishing Company |author=Lee Woolf }} 4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a2/accokeek.htm | title=Accokeek | date= | accessdate=2008-03-21 | publisher= Naval History & Heritage Command | author=Naval History & Heritage Command}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I020331&tree=Tree1|title=George Mason b. 5 Jun 1629 Pershore, Worcester, England d. 1686 Accokeek, Stafford County, Virginia: Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties|website=www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us|access-date=2017-02-22}} 6. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web | url=http://gazette.gmu.edu/articles/12967/ | title=History Is a Guide in Selecting Name for Faculty and Staff Housing Community | date=December 18, 2008 | accessdate=2008-03-21 | publisher=The Mason Gazette | author=Dave Andrews }} 12 : 1629 births|1686 deaths|American planters|American slave owners|British North American Anglicans|Cavaliers|House of Burgesses members|Mason family|17th-century English MPs|People from Pershore|People from Stafford County, Virginia|Virginia sheriffs |
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