Thomson Mason, Slave Trader and Brother of George Mason IV, Posted This Advertisement in the September 24, 1761 Maryland Gazette
The newspaper page displays an advertisement that Thomson Mason posted for buyers of enslaved persons. This copy of the Gazette was obtained from the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis.
The Maryland Gazette
The Maryland Gazette
September 24, 1761
<a href="http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001280/html/m1280-0615.html">Maryland State Archives</a>
Evolution of Colonial Virginia Slave Laws
This document from the “slave holdings” file of Gunston Hall’s archival library describes the evolution of “slave laws” in Virginia from 1619 to 1832.
Gunston Hall Plantation
Gunston Hall
Thomson Mason, Slave Trader and Brother of George Mason IV, Posted This Advertisement in the July 29, 1762 Maryland Gazette
The newspaper page displays an advertisement that Thomson Mason posted for buyers of enslaved persons. This copy of the Gazette was obtained from the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis.
The Maryland Gazette
The Maryland Gazette
July 29 1762
<a href="http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001280/html/m1280-0798.html">Maryland State Archives</a>
Thomson Mason, Slave Trader and Brother of George Mason IV, Posted This Advertisement in the July 1, 1762 Maryland Gazette
The newspaper page displays an advertisement that Thomson Mason posted for buyers of enslaved persons. This copy of the Gazette was obtained from the Maryland State Archives, Annapolis,
The Maryland Gazette
The Maryland Gazette
July 1, 1762
<a href="http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/001280/html/m1280-0779.html">Maryland State Archives</a>
Probated Inventory of "goods and Chattels belonging to" George Mason Jr. (V), 1797 (1799)
"Inventory of the goods and Chattels belonging to the Estate of George Mason of Lexington deceased taken on the Tenth day of January One thousand seven hundred and Ninety seven"
Gunston Hall's Probate Inventory Database, Probing the Past, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, and
Gunston Hall Plantation, https://chnm.gmu.edu/probateinventory/, accessed Aug. 1, 2017
GMU CHNM
English
Probate
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
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
Night Fishing, North Carolina, 1857 (1861)
A drawing of enslaved people fishing in the Albemarle Sound of North Carolina.
Harper's Weekly, Sept. 28, 1861, 621; first published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine,14, 1857, 439.
http://www.slaveryimages.org/detailsKeyword.php?keyword=fish&theRecord=16&recordCount=35
Harper's Weekly, Sept. 28, 1861, 621; first published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine,14, 1857, 439.
1857-1861
Smallpox Warning, circa 1700s, Charles Town, South Carolina
A notice warning of the risk of smallpox spreading with the importation into the Chesapeake and Low Country of enslaved individuals landed in Charles Town, South Carolina,
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-10293.
http://www.slaveryimages.org/detailsKeyword.php?keyword=heal&theRecord=10&recordCount=16