Marriages and Children
Mason married Mary King Barnes, the only daughter of Colonel Abraham Barnes and his wife Mary King, in 1758. He and Mary had four children:
- Stevens Thomson Mason (29 December 1760–9 May 1803)
- Abram Barnes Thomson Mason (24 August 1763–12 January 1813)
- John Thomson Mason (15 March 1765–10 December 1824)
- Ann Thomson Mason Chichester (26 February 1769–29 August 1817)
Mary died on 21 October 1771 in Prince William County, Virginia and was interred in the Mason family graveyard at Gunston Hall and later moved to Raspberry Plain. Six years later on 23 November 1777, Mason married for a second time to Elizabeth Westwood Wallace. He and Elizabeth had four children:
- Dorothea "Anne" Anna Thomson Mason Hirst (10 April 1778–5 May 1822)
- Westwood Thomson Mason (20 December 1780–1826)
- William Temple Thomson Mason (24 July 1782–1862)
- George Thomson Mason (died 1873)
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