The Will of Ann (Thomson) Mason, 1762
This typed transcription shows a page from Ann Thomson Mason's Last Will and Testament.
Ann Thomson Mason
Stafford County Deeds, Liber O Fols 433-456
Gunston Hall Library and Archives
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English
Shad Fishing – The Catch, 1915
Another rare image of women and men displaying their fresh catch on the James River in Virginia, 1915.
Bain News Service
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005018884/
Library of Congress
1915
Rare Image of African-American Shad Fishermen, James River Virginia, circa early 1910s
A photograph of African-American shad fishermen on the James River in Virginia, circa early 1910s
Bain News Service
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005018884/
Library of Congress
c.1910-1915
A System of Surgery, Volume VI, 1788
This publication was kept in George Mason's book collection.
Benjamin Bell, MD
https://archive.org/details/systemofsurgeryb06bell
Edinburgh: Charles Elliot
1788
Gunston Hall Burial Ground, 2015
The burial sites surrounding the red rectangle may contain the graves of enslaved individuals of Gunston Hall, including people who grew up as children on the plantation.
Diagram by David Shonyo & Paul Inashima
2015
An Essay on Sickness and Health, 1725
" [W]herein are contain'd all necessary cautions and directions, for the regulation of diseas'd and healthy persons : In Which Dr. Cheyne's Mistaken Opinions in his late Essay, are occasionally taken Notice of. The second edition."
Cover image of an essay by Edward Strother, MD. This medical pamphlet shows the London-published sources circulating in 18th-century colonial America. George Mason IV (and probably John Mercer) owned quite a number of Strother's publications.
Edward Strother, M.D.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Coll. Christ. Cantab. & Coll. Med. Lond. Reg. Colleg. London
1725
Criticon Febrium: Or, A Critical Essay on Fevers, 1718
This work was among the medical books willed to George Mason by his uncle, John Mercer.
Edward Strother, MD
https://books.google.com/books?id=yg7K9v_byp0C&source=gbs_navlinks_s
London: Charles Rivington
1718
"An Essay on Sickness and Health" 2nd Ed., 1775
This medical pamphlet was among the publications willed to George Mason IV by his uncle John Mercer.
Edward Strother, MD
https://books.google.com/books?id=uU5iAAAAcAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
London: Charles Rivington
1725
Trial Book, Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia, 1768
This trial book shows the absence of George Mason IV, a presiding Justice of the Peace, in a court case involving the public acknowledgment of the ages of enslaved children, possibly for the purpose of reinforcing their rightless state or documenting personal details in the event they became "manumitted slaves."
Fairfax County Courthouse, Colony of Virginia
Fairfax Minute Book, 1768. Page 198, "July 17, 1769."
July 17, 1769.
Fairfax County Courthouse
Photograph by Kye Farrow
Letter from George Mason IV to Thomas Jefferson, 1788
This letter from George Mason IV to Thomas Jefferson, dated July 1788, asks Jefferson to make sure that a man named Captain Fenwick ("Partner of the House in Bourdeaux") bought the right type of clothes for enslaved persons of Gunston Hall. This originally hand-written document was typed in the 20th century.
George Mason IV
Jefferson Papers, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-13-02-0287, accessed Aug. 8, 2017
Mason Papers, Gunston Hall
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