Marriage and Children
Mason married Lucy Bolling Randolph, daughter of Colonel Robert Randolph, on 14 May 1816 at Eastern View in Fauquier County, Virginia. He and Lucy had sixteen children including:
- Robert Thomson Mason (12 May 1818–1890)
- William Fitzhugh Mason (4 April 1821–12 July 1822)
- Randolph Fitzhugh Mason (1 March 1823–9 August 1862)
- Lucius Meade Mason (24 May 1824–6 January 1845)
- Eliza Carter Mason (24 May 1824–12 December 1832)
- Baynton Turner Mason (8 January 1826–27 June 1857)
- Richard Randolph Mason (19 April 1827–18 March 1886)
- Lucy Bolling Mason (8 September 1831–15 December 1832)
- Eliza Lucy Mason (13 December 1832–8 July 1862)
- Beverley Randolph Mason (1 September 1834–22 April 1910)
- Eva Mary Anna Mason Heth (17 January 1836–19 November 1915)
- John Stevens Mason (18 August 1839–3 April 1918)
- Landon Randolph Mason (31 December 1841–21 June 1923)
- William Pinckney Mason (10 January 1843–16 December 1923)
Upon the death of his grandfather George Mason on 7 October 1792, Mason's father Thomson inherited a portion of the Gunston Hall estate. Around 1817, Mason's father Thomson divided the property into two plantations: Dogue Run farm for Mason and Hunting Creek farm for Mason's brother Thomson Francis Mason (1785–1838). Mason and his family began living on his Dogue Creek plantation in the mansion he built, Okeley Manor, sometime before 1834.
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