Talk:Thomson Mason

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more work needed
Though libraries are closed on Sundays, particularly one where I have accessed digitized Fairfax county tax records of slaveholdings in the couple of years before his death, I cleaned up this article. Frankly the quality of this article's citations was very low, for example a dead link to huntcountry.org rather than the Raspberry Plain NRIS, so I'm adding an under-construction tag. I removed the political graveyard cites and some inaccurate material with decade-old refs to the Virtual War Museum, also because this Mason didn't serve. All the Gunston Hall cites are now only via archive.org, though I'm reducing link rot later by adding cites to 2 books about George Mason, particularly the Five George Masons book by Copeland and MacMaster.

Complicating matters, the Mason family often recycled the name "Thomson". The Leonard book I cited (generally pretty definitive) says the Stafford county delegate is different from the Thomson Mason who represented Loudoun County in the Convention of 1774, then in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1777 and 1778. In those years this man was establishing his Raspberry Plain plantation in Loudoun County, and I agree with the Copeland/MacMaster book that he continued to serve. Plus, that book says his second wife was from Elizabeth City County (and they had courted years earlier, but married different people, and each became divorced), so that seemingly incongruous mention in Leonard also seems to be this man (even if the 5 masons book gives her Howard family haughtiness about Loudoun County as an explanation for a provision in his will urging his sons to remain north of the James River until completing their education), despite the Leonard note about his resigning to become the Eliz. City county coroner. The Copeland/MacMaster book also disagrees with the 2 removed web cites by asserting that Thomson Mason died at Raspberry Plain, and also relating his instructions to Stevens Thomson Mason to reinter his mother so both parents could be buried together. However, I'm pretty sure he's not the same Thomson Mason who served in the state senate representing Prince William and Fairfax counties in 1800, after this man's death. More likely, that's his nephew (George Mason's son) Thomson Mason, but verifying and completing that correction could take a few weeks in these still-Covid days, since I have other responsibilities.Jweaver28 (talk) 23:06, 20 June 2021 (UTC)