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Thomson Mason (14 August 1733–26 February 1785)[1][2] was a prominent Virginia lawyer, jurist, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.[2] Mason was a younger brother of George Mason IV, United States patriot, statesman, and delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, father of Stevens Thomson Mason, a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature, and a U.S. Senator from Virginia, and great-grandfather of Stevens T. Mason, first Governor of Michigan. Mason was born at Chopawamsic plantation in Stafford County, Virginia on 14 August 1733.[1][2] He was the third and youngest child of George Mason III and his wife Ann Stevens Thomson.[1] Mason was educated at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia[3] and then studied law at the Middle Temple in London.[3][4] Afterwards, he returned to Virginia and was a burgess in the House of Burgesses representing Stafford and Loudoun counties from 1766 to 1775.[3][4] In 1778, Mason was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and served only briefly before serving as one of five judges in the General Court.[3][4] From 1779 to 1783, Mason was elected a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and served as chairman of the Committee on Courts of Justice.[4] In 1760, Mason purchased Raspberry Plain plantation in Loudoun County, Virginia[5][6] In 1771, Thomson built the mansion at Raspberry Plain. Upon Thomson's death, the Raspberry Plain estate was deeded to his eldest son Stevens Thomson Mason.[5][6] Mason married Mary King Barnes, the only daughter of Colonel Abraham Barnes and his wife Mary King[3], in 1758.[1] He and Mary had four children:[1][2] Mary died on 21 October 1771 in Prince William County, Virginia and was interred in the Mason family graveyard at Gunston Hall and later moved to Raspberry Plain.[1] Six years later on 23 November 1777, Mason married for a second time to Elizabeth Westwood Wallace.[1] He and Elizabeth had four children:[1] Mason died on 26 February 1785 at Chopawamsic at the age of 51.[1]

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