Dec 27, 2009
Article abstract: Author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, Mason also had a major role in shaping the Virginia constitution of 1776 and the United States Constitution.
George Mason was born in the year 1725, on the family’s plantation on Dogue’s Neck (modern Fairfax County, along the Potomac River). His father, the third George Mason, drowned in a ferry accident when Mason was ten years old. His mother, Ann Thomson Mason, then took the family to her dower plantation, Chopawamsic, south of the Occoquan River. Along with his mother, his...
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