The Five George Masons, Patriots and Planters of Virginia and Maryland

Lorton, Virginia: The Board of Regents of Gunston Hall, 1989 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second printing, first published in 1975. x, 341pp. Facsimile, map, folding table. Genealogical tables, extensive chapter notes, bibliography, index. Black cloth. Previous owner's name and date printed on front inside flap of dust jacket, else a very fine copy with dust jacket. Relates the family history through ten generations, from 1652 when its American progenitor arrived in northern Virginia from England, to 1867 when the heirs of the sixth George Mason sold the family seat, Gunston Hall. The authors describe the family's service in the county militia, in the courts, in the House of Burgesses, and the Masons' role as land speculators in western expansion. Much on the planter-baron aristocracy of Virginia and the gradual dissolution of the plantation economy which began after the War of 1812..