Marriage and Children
Mason married Mary Elizabeth Armistead on May 1, 1783. The couple had six children:
- John Thomson Mason (January 8, 1787 – April 17, 1850)
- Armistead Thomson Mason (1787 – February 6, 1819)
- Stevens Thomson Mason (1789 – 17 November 1815)
- Mary Thomson Mason (1791–1813)
- Emily Rutger Mason (1793–1837)
- Catherine Mason (born 1795)
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