| 词条 | George Mason II |
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|name = George Mason II |image = |image_size = |caption = |birth_name = George Mason |birth_date = 1660 |birth_place = Accokeek, Stafford County, Colony of Virginia |death_date = {{death year and age|1716|1660}} |death_place = Port Tobacco, Charles County, Province of Maryland |body_discovered = |death_cause = |resting_place = Accokeek, Stafford County, Virginia |resting_place_coordinates = |nationality = American |other_names = |known_for = |education = |alma_mater = |employer = |occupation = 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 Fowke Elizabeth Waugh Sarah Taliaferro |partner = |children = 12, including George Mason III |parents = George Mason I Mary French |relations = grandfather of George Mason IV |callsign = |signature = |website = |footnotes = |box_width = }}George Mason II (1660{{mdash}}1716)[1][2][3] was an early American planter and statesman. Mason was the grandfather of George Mason IV, a Founding Father of the United States.[1] Early lifeMason was born in 1660 at Accokeek plantation in Stafford County, Virginia.[1][3] He was the only son of George Mason I and his first wife Mary French.[1][3] He was the first of Virginia's Mason family to be born in British America. Political careerLike his father, Mason served as a colonel in the Stafford County militia and represented Stafford in the House of Burgesses.[2] He also served as the county's sheriff and justice of the peace between 1699 and 1700.[2][4] Mason also received funding from the county to build what was probably Stafford's first jail in 1690.[2] Also between 1699 and 1700, Mason was county lieutenant of Stafford County, under General Nicholson, and was engaged in the defense of the Potomac region against Native Americans.[4] Business venturesIn 1691, the town of Marlborough was laid out on the same neck of land in the Potomac River that included Accokeek plantation.[2] Mason was granted multiple lots in Marlborough and may have built a tavern there.[2] Mason sold Accokeek after his father's death and relocated to a plantation on Chopawamsic Creek which he named Chopawamsic.[2] At Chopawamsic, Mason planted an orchard, grew tobacco, and raised sheep and cattle.[2] Marriage and childrenMason married his cousin Mary Fowke, daughter of Gerard Fowke and Ann Thorogood, in 1688.[1][3] The couple had the following children:[1]
Mason married secondly to Elizabeth Waugh in Stafford County, Virginia in 1706.[1][3] George and Elizabeth had one daughter:[1]
Mason married for a third time to Sarah Taliaferro, daughter of Francis Taliaferro and Elizabeth Catlett, in 1710.[1][3] George and Sarah had four children:[1]
Later lifeMason died in 1716 in Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland.[1][2][3] He was interred on a hillside with his father near the site of the old Accokeek estate near Accokeek Creek in Stafford County, Virginia.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 {{cite web | url=http://www.gunstonhall.org/library/masonweb/p1.htm#i2 | title=George Mason II | accessdate=March 21, 2009 | publisher=Gunston Hall | author=Gunston Hall}} {{Virginia Masons}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Mason, George 02}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{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=December 8, 2012 |title=George Mason gets memorial in D.C. |date=April 7, 2002 |accessdate=March 21, 2008 |publisher=The Free Lance-Star Publishing Company |author=Lee Woolf }} 3. ^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=March 21, 2008 | publisher=French Family Association | author=French Family Association}} 4. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.thedeclarationofindependence.org/georgemason/ |title=Virtual American Biographies |year=2000 |accessdate=March 21, 2008 |publisher=Declaration of Independence |author=Evisum Inc. |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329222508/http://thedeclarationofindependence.org/georgemason/ |archivedate=March 29, 2008 |df=mdy }} 11 : 1660 births|1716 deaths|American people of English descent|American planters|American slave owners|British North American Anglicans|House of Burgesses members|Mason family|People from Stafford County, Virginia|Virginia sheriffs|Taliaferro family of Virginia |
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