Overview

Location

Fairfax Co., VA

Date Constructed/ Founded

1750

Associated Surnames

Mason

Historical notes

none

Associated Slave Workplaces

Hollin Hall (Fairfax Co., VA), Lexington Plantation (Fairfax Co., VA), Analostan Island (Fairfax Co., VA)

Associated Free Persons

• George Mason (b.1725-d.1792) - owner

• George Mason V (b.?-d.1796) - son of George Mason; owner of Lexington Plantation
• George Mason - son of George Mason V; inherited Gunston Hall
• William Eilbeck Mason - heir of George Mason V; inherited Lexington Plantation
• John Mason - son of George Mason; owner of Analostan Island

• Thomson Mason - son of George Mason; owner of Hollin Hall
• Sarah McCarty Chichester Mason - wife of Thomas Mason

Associated Enslaved Persons

1784 Runaway Slave

From George Mason's Slaves

• Dick - age 22, mulatto; waiter; ran from Gunston Hall twice (1784 and 1786); was not apprehended the second time

1857 Births in Fairfax Co.

• Mary
• infant - daughter of Mary; born April 1857

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

• Gunston Hall Plantation. http://www.gunstonhall.org/

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