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Mr. Mason had one daughter and nine sons, and after his marriage with Elizabeth Westwood he had several sons, two of whom attained the age of maturity, Westwood and William Temple .. The former married Miss Noland and d. ehildless.
William Temple Mason married Miss Anne Carroll, of Baltimore, an heiress. They had sixteen children. They lived at Temple Hall, near Leesburg.
Their oldest daughter married Dr. MeGill, of Winchester. When Mr. Thomas Mason was in England he sojourned with Sir William Temple, who was his first cousin. He called his son after him. Dean Swift was a great deal in Sir William Temple's family at the time Mr. Mason was there, and he had many humorous aneedotes and ineidents to narrate in eonneetion with the Dean. Miss Digges on her death bed sent to her cousins, Thomas Mason and Elizabeth Westwood, to beg forgiveness for the false, though unsueeessful, part she had aeted.
The first James Wallace's daughter, who had married Mr. Selden, of "Buek Roe," fell heir to most of his elegant plate. Mrs. Selden had three daughters and one son.
One daughter, Selden, married, Ist; Mr. Douglas, of Scotland. After his death she married, 2nd, Col. Jones, of Chatham, near Fredericksburg. Mr. Douglas left her a wealthy widow. One daughter married Mr. Fitzgerald, who left an only son, who married Miss Thornton, of Fall Hall, near Fredericksburg, Va.
Steven Thomson Mason5 (1760-1803). Married Mary Elizabeth Armistead, and had issue :
1. Gen. John Thomson Mason6. Married Eliza Moir, of Williamsburg, Va., and had issue :
1. Emily Virginia Mason7, b. 1815.
2. Steven Thompson Mason7 (1811-1843). First governor of Michigan. Married Miss Phelps.
3. Catherine Armistead Mason7. Married Maj. S. T. Row- land.
4. Laura Mason7. Married Gen. R. H. Chilton, C. S. A.
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Steven Thompson Mason7 married Miss Phelps and they had issue :
1. Dora Mason8. Married Col. Wright.
2. Thomson Mason8.
Maj. S. T. Rowland and Catherine Armistead Mason7, his wife, had issue :
1. John Thomson Rowland8. Married Miss Jackson.
2. Maj. Thomas Rowland8.
3. Eliza Moir Rowland8.
4. Catherine Mason Rowland8.
Miss Kate Mason Rowland, another gifted writer, has been a bird of passage that has nevertheless frequently alighted in Balti- more, and for a season, at least, has called at John Street home. Miss Rowland's most important books have been "The Life and Letters of Charles Carroll of Carrollton," which is a work of great historie value, and the "Life of George Mason, of Gunston." The last is in two volumes and was published in 1892. The poems of Frank O. Tricknor, M. D., were edited by Miss Rowland, and she has also contributed to Harper's Magazine, to the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, to the Atlantic Monthly, the Magazine of American History, the Southern Bivouac, the South- ern Review, the Home Maker, and other periodicals. Miss Row- land has a mind which grasps instinetively the pieturesque features of historic ineidents, while her literary skill kindles them to new and vital interest. She is a daughter of Capt. Isaae S. Rowland, of Detroit, Michigan, and his wife, Catherine Armistead (Mason) Rowland, of Virginia, and is prominent both as a society woman and a writer.
Miss Emily Virginia Mason7, daughter of Gen. John Thomson Mason, and the present representative of the Gunston Masons, has oeeupied a most distinguished personality in the politieal and social life as a typieally American woman. Her carcer began in 1832, and she has recently celebrated her eighty-ninth birthday.
Miss Mason is the granddaughter of Steven Thomson Mason, who died in Philadelphia, Pa., and was buried with public honors in the old Christ Church, and great-granddaughter of Thomson Mason, of "Raspberry Plain," who was the only brother of George Mason, of Gunston Hall.
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Few American women are better known or more highly respected both at home and abroad than Miss Emily Virginia Mason. Dur- ing the civil war she served as a military hospital nurse. At the close of the war, in order to obtain means to educate the orphan daughters of soldiers of the lost cause, Miss Mason collected and arranged "Southern Poems of the War." For fifteen years Miss Mason lived in Paris, where her charm of manner and in- tellectual attainments made her the leader of the American circle. Although in her ninetieth year, Miss Mason has just returned from a visit to Michigan, where she went to take part in a memorial ceremony in honor of her only brother, Steven Thomson Mason, first governor of Michigan.
Miss Mason resides in Georgetown, D. C. She has written a life of General Lee and other books of great merit.
Gov. Steven Thomson Mason7 (1811-1843), only son of Gen. John Thomson Mason6 and Eliza Moir, grandson of Steven Thomson Mason" and Elizabeth Armistead, and great-grandson of Thomson Mason+ (1732-1785), only brother of Col. George Mason4, of Gunston Hall, was born in Loudoun County and died in New York City. His father, John T. Mason, removed to Kentucky, where Steven was educated. In 1831 he was appointed secretary of the territory of Michigan, Lewis Cass being the governor. Upon the transfer of Governor Cass to the War Department, at Washington, Mason became acting governor. He held the office during the Ohio and Michigan boundary dispute, which excited intense and bitter feelings on both sides. Thous- ands of armed troops were marshalled along the disputed line and at one time there was great probability of bloodshed and loss of life. The wisdom and policy of Acting Governor Mason did much to avert this.
When Michigan was organized into a state and admitted into the Union in 1835 Mason was unanimously elected her first gover- nor and was reelected to a second term. Retiring from office in 1839, he withdrew from politics and resumed the practice of law, locating in New York City for that purpose, dying there in 1843.
Anna Maria Mason, daughter of Gen. John Mason, fourth son of George Mason, of Gunston Hall, married Sidney Smith Lee, U. S. N. and C. S. N., and were parents of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Cuban fame. (Lec, Chapter VIII; Carter, Chapter VII.)
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GRYMES FAMILY.
THE GRYMES ARMS
Arms-Or, on three bars, gu.
Crest-A martlet vert.
Granted June, 1575, to Thomas Grymes, of London-
Here at the break of morn No hunter wakes the halloo of the chase,
Nor hounds and echoing horn Fright from their quiet haunts the sylvan race. · But the odor and bloom of those bygone years Shall hang round its waters forever.
Maj. John Grymes, of Middlesex County, d. 1708, son of Lieutenant General Thomas Grymes, of Cromwell's army. Mar- ried Alice Townley, daughter of Laurence and Sarah (daughter of Speaker Augustine Warner, of "Warner's Hall") Townley. They had children :
1. Col. John Grymes, of "Brandon," b. 1693; d. 1748. Married Lucy, daughter of Philip Ludwell, of "Green
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Spring," and his wife, Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Harrison, of "Wakefield."
2. Col. Charles Grymes, of "Marattieo," Richmond Co. Mar- ried Franees, daughter of Edmund Jennings, of "Ripon Hall," York Co., son of Col. Edmund Jennings, of "Ripon Hall," Yorkshire, England.
Col. John Grymes and Luey Ludwell, his wife, had ehildren:
1. Luey Grymes. Married Carter Burwell, Jan. 5, 1737.
2. Col. Philip Grymes, of "Brandon." Married Mary, daughter of Sir John and Susan (Beverly) Randolph. 3. Charles Grymes, died young.
4. Benjamin Grymes, of "Smithfield," Spottsylvania. Mar- ried, first, Elizabeth Landon Fitzhugh, daughter of Col. Henry Fitzhugh, of "Eagle's Nest"; seeond, Miss Rootes, of Fredericksburg, Va.
5. Sarah Grymes.
6. Charles Grymes.
7. Ludwell Grymes.
8. Aliee Grymes (1723-1746). Married Hon. Mann Page, of "Rosewell," Gloucester Co., Dee. 31, 1741.
Col. Charles Grymes and Franees Jennings, his wife, had children :
1. Charles Grymes.
2. Franees Grymes. Married (1737) Philip Ludwell, Jr. (son of Philip Ludwell, Sr., who was a member of the Virginia Couneil, and aequired large estates. He mar- ried a Harrison). Philip Ludwell, the father, returned to England and died there. He was buried in Bow Church, Stratford. Philip Ludwell, Jr., was also a member of the Couneil.
3. Luey Grymes, known as the "lowland beauty." Married Col. Henry Lee, of Leesylvania. They had issue :
1. "Light Horse" Harry Lee, the father of General Robert Edward Lee.
Benjamin Grymes, of Smithfield, married, first, Elizabeth Landon Fitzhugh. They had issue :
1. Benjamin Grymes, of "Eagle's Nest," King George Co., an estate left him by his unele, William Fitzhugh, a
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eaptain in Washington's Life Guard during the Revo- lution; dicd about 1803. Married Ann Nicholas, of "Marhone," ncar Petersburg.
2. Mary Grymes. Married, first, Peter Randolph; seeond, Col. Richard Kidder Meade, of Clarke Co.
Col. Richard Kidder Meade married Mary Grymes. They had issue :
1. Kidder Meadc. Married Miss Green, of Fredericksburg.
2. Rt. Rev. William Meade, Episcopal Bishop of Virginia. Married, first, Mary, daughter of Philip Nelson ; second, Tomasia, daughter of Thomas Nelson.
3. David Meade. Married Louisa Nelson, of Maryland.
4. Anne Meade. Married Mathew Page, of Frederick Co.
5. Susan Everard Meade.
6. Lucy Carter Fitzhugh Meade.
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7. Mary Meade.
Benjamin Grymes, of "Eagle's Nest," and Ann Nicholas, his wife, of "Marhone," near Petersburg, had issue :
1. William Fitzhugh Grymes, of "Eagle's Nest," d. 1830. Married Jane Champe Pratt, daughter of Thomas and Jane (Brockenborough) Pratt, of King George Co.
2. Benjamin Grymes, of "Somerset," King George Co .; d. 1828. Married Margaret Vivian, daughter of Thomas Pratt.
3. George Nicholas Grymes, of "Mont Cheve" (part of "Eagle's Nest"), died 1853. Married Annc Ellbeek, daughter of George Mason, of Lexington, son of George Mason, of Gunston Hall.
4. Lucy Fitzhugh Grymes. Married A. B. Hooe, Sr., of "Barnesfield," King George Co., and had issue:
1. William Fitzhugh Hooe, who died young.
2. Dr. Abraham B. Hooe, Jr., who married his cousin Luey Grymes.
5. Martha Carter Grymes. Married John G. Stuart.
George Nicholas Grymes, of "Mont Cheve" (d. 1853), and Anne Ellbeck Mason, his wife, had issue:
1. Anne Nicholas Grymcs. Married, first, Mr. Toler; second, Mr. Atkinson.
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2. Elizabeth Mason Grymes. Married Capt. George Mason Hooe, U. S. N., and had issue :
a. Roy Mason Hooe, U. S. N.
b. Xarifa Mason Hooe.
3. Lucy Fitzhugh Grymes. Married Dr. A. B. Hooe, and had issue :
a. Mary Barnes Hooe. Married Lewis Ashton.
b. Lucy Hooe. Married Isaac Hooe.
4. Anna Maria Mason Grymes. Married Col. S. I. Raincy, of Loudoun Co.
5. Marian Grymes. Married James Monroe Taliaferro, and was mother of Mrs. George E. Pflaster, Sr., of "Blue- mond," Va.
6. Mary Louisa Grymes. Married Nicholas Quisenbury, and had issue :
a. Mary Louisa Quisenbury, died sine prole.
Martha Grymes. Married G. W. P. C. Grymes.
8. Rosalie Grymes.
9. George Graham Grymes.
10. Edmund Fitzhugh Grymes.
11. Richard Mason Grymes.
12. Benjamin Grymes.
13. George Edmund Grymes, of "Mt. Stuart," King George Co. Married Elizabeth Hansford.
14. Benjamin R. Grymes. Married Rebecca Randolph.
George E. and Elizabeth Hansford Grymes had issue :
1. Anne Mason Grymes. Married John Pcyton, of Wash- ington, D. C.
2. Julia Grymes.
3. Lucy Hooe Grymes.
4. Elizabeth Grymes.
5. Catherine Grymes.
6. William Dechla Grymes. Married Mary Stuart, of "Cedar Grove," King George Co.
7. Richard Mason Grymes.
8. George Nicholas Grymes.
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THE MASONS OF OVERWHARTON PARISH.
This parish, situated in Prince William County (formed in 1730 from Stafford and King George counties), was the seat of the important branch of the Mason family represented by Col. Enoch Mason, of "Clover Hill," Stafford County, who was born in 1769, and died 1830.
Another important branch of the Mason family was that early domiciled in Sussex and Surry counties, and which includes sueh soldiers as Col. David Mason and such legislators as Hon. John Y. Mason. This branch has been traccd back several generations prior to the Revolutionary War.
They were connected with a fourth branch of the Masons of Virginia, those of lower Norfolk County, descendants of that William Mason who came to Virginia in 1651 on the "Assurance" with his brother, Col. George Mason, progenitor of the Masons of Gunston Hall. This branch has several able genealogists at work traeing its ancestry in England and their descendants in America.
Here, then, we have four distinet families, all of the same original stock, and all furnishing many individuals worthy of notice as politieally and socially prominent.
In the Revolutionary struggle some were patriot republicans fighting for politieal independence, while other remained loval to their king and country. These last, had the seales of destiny tipped their way instead of towards the patriot republicans, would have shown in history the possession of the greater names of the family which, as it happened, are now on the roll of the patriot republicans found among the Masons of Gunston Hall and of Surry and Sussex.
Of the latter a few words eoneerning Hon. John Y. Mason will not be out of place.
John Y. Mason was born at Greenville, Va., April 18, 1790, and died at Paris, Franec, October 4, 1859. He graduated at the University of North Carolina, studied law, was for ten years a delegate in the Virginia Assembly and filled several other state offices. Hc was Representative in Congress from 1831 to 1837 when he was appointed Judge of the United States Court in Virginia. He was Secretary of the Navy under President Tyler,
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and sueeessively Attorney General and Secretary of the Navy under President Polk. By President Pieree he was appointed Minister to France, in which office he remained until his death.
The record of the Masons of Overwharton Parish begin with that of the Dinwiddie family.
Robert Dinwiddie, b. 1665; d. October 6, 1712. Was a mer- chant of Glasgow, Seotland, and married (about 1690) Elizabeth Cumming. They had issue :
1. Martha Dinwiddie, b. about 1691.
2. Robert Dinwiddie, Lieut. Governor of Virginia, 1751-8, b. at "Germinston," Scotland, 1693; d. at "Clifton," Bristol, England, July 27, 1770, at seventy-eight years of age. He married Rebecca Affliek.
3. John Dinwiddie, b. about 1695, emigrated to Virginia and settled on the Rappahannock River. He was a merchant. Married Sympha Rosa Enfield Mason, youngest daughter of Col. George Mason, son of the immigrant, Col. George Mason, and grandfather of George Mason, of Gunston Hall. Sympha was also the granddaughter of Col. Gerard Fowke, and Ann, his wife, of Gunston Hall, Stratfordshire, England. This Col. Gerard Fowke, Gent., was "gentleman of the bed ehamber" to Charles I. Col. Mason and Col. Fowke eame to Virginia in 1651, together on the same ship, the "Assurance," with sixteen others of the same party of colonists.
4. Laurence Dinwiddie, b. 1697; d. May 3, 1764, in Glasgow, Scotland. He was bailiff in 1734-38-41, provost 1742-3, and one of the six persons chosen to treat with the rebels in 1745. He repurchased from "Scots and Merchants House," lands at "Germinston" and Balome which had formerly belonged to the family and are still in possession of its representative. Laurence Din- widdie married Elizabeth Kennedy, of "Autz Ardle."
5. Jeanct Dinwiddie, b. 1699. Married (about 1720) Rev. W. MeCulloch.
6. Mary Dinwiddie, b. 1707; d. April 30, 1772. Married Andrew Stuart, who was b. 1698; d. March 31, 1774. Both are buried in Harrisburg, Pa.
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£ Christian Dinwiddie. Married Prof. Hamilton.
8. Sarah Dinwiddie, mentioned in the will of her brother the governor.
9. A posthumous child, name not known.
Laurence Dinwiddic and Elizabeth Kennedy, his wife, had issue:
1. Robert Dinwiddie, d. Sept. 13, 1789.
2. Laurence Dinwiddie. Marricd Catherine Campbell and had issue :
a. Robert Dinwiddie, d. at Rome, 1819.
b. Elizabeth Dinwiddie. Married Dr. Lockhart.
3. Gilbert Dinwiddie, d. May 31, 1764.
4. James Dinwiddie.
5. William Dinwiddie. Marricd Anne, daughter of Dr. Gilbert Hamilton, of "Ormond," and Margaret Cragie, of "Hull Hill," his wife.
6. Irene Dinwiddie, d. prior to 1812.
% Agnes Dinwiddie, d. March 8, 1828.
8. Mary Dinwiddie, b. 1746; d. 1771.
9. Rebecca Dinwiddie.
10. Elizabeth Dinwiddie.
William Dinwiddie married Annie Hamilton. They had issue:
1. Margaret Hamilton Dinwiddie, d. unmarried.
2. Elizabeth Dinwiddie, d. unmarried.
3. Alfred Dinwiddie, d. unmarried.
4. Mary Dinwiddie, d. unmarried.
5. Gilbert Hamilton Dinwiddie, Commissary General of the British Army, in which he had served in early life under
General Packenham at the battle of New Orleans. Married Mary Anne King.
6. Jcan Dinwiddie. Married J. P. Fischer, Esq.
7. Agnes Dinwiddic. Married General Hoge.
Gilbert Hamilton Dinwiddie married Mary Anne King. They had issue :
1. William Dinwiddie, d. May 5, 1869, on the west coast of Africa.
2. Robert Dinwiddie, Captain in the British Army.
3. Laurence Dinwiddie.
4. Gilbert Cragie Dinwiddie.
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5. Mary Dinwiddie.
6. Anne Hamilton Dinwiddie.
Mary Dinwiddie and Andrew Stuart, of Harrisburg, Pa., had issue :
1. Rev. John Stuart, D. D., b. 1740. Married Jane O'Kill.
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John Dinwiddie married Sympha Rosa Enfield Mason. They had issue :
1. Elizabeth Dinwiddie. Married Col. Gerard Fowke, son of Chambers and Mary (Taraker) Fowke, and grandson of Col. Gerard and Sarah (Burdett) Fowke, and great- grandson of Col. Gerard Fowke, the immigrant, and Ann, his wife.
2. Jane Dinwiddie. Married William Waite.
3. Mary Dinwiddie. Married Rev. George Wilkins, rector of St. Michael Church, Bristol, England, who was b. 1743, and apparently had no issue.
Elizabeth Dinwiddie married Col. Gerard Fowke. They had issue :
1. William Fowke. Married Mrs. Bronaugh.
2. George Fowke.
3. Chandler Fowke. Married Miss Frazier, of North Carolina.
4. Robert Fowke. Married Miss Peachy.
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5. Elizabeth Fowke. Married Col. William Phillips, who was b. 1746; d. 1797; of the Revolutionary Army, and at the time of his death Sheriff of Stafford Co., Va.
6. Sarah Fowke. Married Wiley Roy, of Virginia.
7. Rosa Fowke.
8. Enfield Fowke. Married Gabriel Johnston, of Kentucky ; from them descended Capt. James Johnston, C. S. A., Mobile, Ala.
9. Mary Fowke. Married Slaughter.
Col. William Phillips was the son of James Phillips, of Wales, who came to Virginia, settled in Stafford County and married Miss Griffin. 4
Col. William Phillips married Elizabeth Fowke. They had issue :
1. Enfield Phillips. Married Louis Fieklen, of Fauquier Co.
2. Burdett Phillips. Married Jones, of Galveston, Texas.
3. Lucy Phillips. Married J. Lc Fant of Fauquier Co. and had issuc: Edward Ficklen Lc Fant. Married Miss McQuinn.
4. William Fowke Phillips, for thirty years clerk of the Chancery Court, Fauquier Co .; sccond auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Department, Washington, D. C., appointed by President Pieree. On the seces- sion of Virginia in 1861 he raised two companies of volunteers in the District of Columbia, whose services he offered to Governor Letcher of Virginia, whereupon the governor tendered him a commission as Colonel. This he declined for the reason that his lack of military education and experience disqualified him for holding such a position and he preferred to enlist in the ranks as a private. He married his cousin Edith Harrison Ashmore Cannon, a descendant of Chandler and Annc (Harrison) Fowke.
Lewis Ficklen married Enfield Phillips. They had issuc :
1. William Phillips Ficklen. Married the widow Martin, and had issuc: William Lewis Ficklen. Married Miss Eastham.
2. Gustavus Ficklen.
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Col. William Fowke Phillips married Edith Harrison Ashmore Cannon. They had issue :
1. Mary Phillips, died.
2. William Fowke Phillips, died.
3. Laura Phillips. Married William B. Carr, of Loudoun Co., Va., and had issue: William Phillips Carr.
4. Dinwiddie Brazier Phillips, M. D., entered U. S. Navy as Assistant Surgeon, 1847, and the Virginia and Confederate States Navy as Surgeon, 1861. He was Surgcon on the "Merrimac" during the period of its . existence, besides acting in the first year of the war as medical director of the Wise Legion. He commanded as Major and Chicf Surgeon the hospital port at White Sulphur Springs. Married Fannie F., daughter of William Walden, of Rappahannock Co., Va. They had issue :
1. William Fowke Phillips.
2. Fannie Mason Phillips.
3. Elizabeth Walden Phillips.
5. Virginia Edith Phillips. Married Dr. B. J. Helbran.
6. Roberta Phillips.
Wiley Roy married Sarah Fowke and had issue :
1. Wiley Roy. Married Miss Camm.
2. Richard Roy. Married Miss Beverly.
3. Lucy Roy. Married Col. Enoch Mason, of "Clover Hill," Stafford Co., Va., b. 1769; d. 1830.
The will of William Mason was recorded in Stafford County between 1729 and 1748, but was stolen or destroyed.
In the Overwharton Parish register is recorded children of William and Mary Mason :
1. Anne Mason, b. and d. Aug. 20, 1740.
2. Lewis Mason, b. Oct. 4, 1741; d. Oct. 26, 1745.
The will of George Mason, son of the immigrant, recorded in Stafford County and stolen or destroyed, mentions among others a son William. This will was recorded in 1711. George Mason died in 1716; was the father of Sympha Rosa Enfield Mason, who married John Dinwiddie first and afterwards Col. Jeremiah Bro- naugh.
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In the Overwharton Parish register we find the marriage re- corded of John Mason, b. about 1724. Married (November 27, 1747) Mary Nelson.
John Mason and Mary Nelson had issue :
1. Rev. William Mason (registered in Overwharton Parish), b. Nov. 30, 1748; d. Culpeper, Va., April 26, 1823. Mrs. William Mason (probably wife of Rev. William), is mentioned in a letter of George Mason, of Gunston Hall, as being a visitor there about 1766.
2. John Mason (registered in Overwharton Parish), b. Feb. 18, 1750 or 1751.
3. Nelson Mason (registered in Overwharton Parish), b. Aug. 6, 1754.
4. Lewis Mason (registered in Overwharton Parish), b. Feb. 1756. Married (about 1781) Mary Bethel, and had children :
1. James Mason*, moved to Missouri.
2. Lydia Mason. Married, first, William Smith; second, George Crawford.
Lydia Mason (Lewis, John) married, first, William Smith, of England, who came to Virginia as a soldier to fight, and re- mained there. He died, probably, during the war of 1812, as Mrs. Blankman said that he died from eamp fever while at home on leave. He left two children : one died unmarried; the other, Maria Smith, married Edward MeDowell, of Fredericksburg. He eame from Philadelphia and established himself in business in Fredericksburg, Va. They had several children who died young ; three survived and were married. The youngest of these, Edward McDowell, Jr., married Jennie Taliaferro, a descendant of Presi- dent Monroe and also of George Mason, of Gunston Hall. She died, leaving one ehild, Marian McDowell, who married Judge G. Daniel, of Fredericksburg, Va.
"Every known statistic of the Mason family was taken by Mr. James Mason-son of Lewis Mason and brother of Lydia Mason-about thirty- five or forty years ago, when he left Virginia to go to his daughter's, Mrs. Taylor, wife of the then postmaster at Richmond, Ray County, Missouri. The papers there noted his arrival as being the representative of one of the oldest families of Virginia.
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Lydia Mason (Lewis, John) married, seeond, George Craw- ford, of New York, and had one ehild, Jane Beverly Crawford (1831-1895). Married Dr. Miehelle Arno Blankman, of Paris, Franee, son of Dr. Henry Blankman and Lady Isabel Livingston, who was of royal deseent.
Of this Dr. Henry Blankman it may be said that in the first year of his manhood he was an offieer in the French navy; after- wards he became an officer of the army and remained attached to the personal staff of the Emperor Napoleon until the fall of that great leader and his banishment to St. Helena. Dr. Henry Blankman asked the privilege of aecompanying him in his exile, but was refuscd and left France for America.
The last gift of the Emperor Napoleon to his friend and camp companion was the eross of the Legion of Honor enelosed in the substance of a glass goblet. This eross was repeatedly worn by a granddaughter of the recipient at publie receptions she attended at Richmond during three sueeessive oeeasions.
Dr. Henry Blankman brought with him to America, besides his wife, Isabel, several ehildren.
One son was Dr. Henry Jared Blankman, who married Made- line, daughter of General Valejo, one of the pioneers of California. Another son was Dr. Michelle Arno Blankman, who located at Fredericksburg, Va.
There were two daughters also-Rosa Blankman, born in Spain, and Isabel Blankman, also born in Spain. Isabel, daughter of Dr. Henry Blankman, Sr., married Licutenant Commander Ed- ward A. Barnett, U. S. N., and was his second wife. They had no ehildren.
Other children of Dr. Henry Blankman and Isabel Livingston, his wife, were born in Ameriea:
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