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  Virginia Mason Medical Center -- Recommendations and Resources
Stevens Thomson Mason (December 29, 1760–May 9, 1803) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia (1794-1803).
Mason was born at Chappawamsic in Stafford County, Virginia and attended William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Mason's father, Thomson Mason (1730-1785), was chief justice of the Virginia supreme court and brother of George Mason (1725-1792), who took part of the Constitutional Convention.
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  Stevens Thomson Mason (Virginia) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stevens Thomson Mason (December 29, 1760–May 9, 1803) was a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, a member of the Virginia state legislature and a Republican U.S. Senator from Virginia (1794-1803).
Mason was born at Chappawamsic in Stafford County, Virginia and attended William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Mason's father, Thomson Mason (1730-1785), was chief justice of the Virginia supreme court and brother of George Mason (1725-1792), who took part of the Constitutional Convention.
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 Mason
Mason, West Virginia Mason is a town located in 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,064.
Mason County, West Virginia Mason County is a Wyoming...
Mason Township, Minnesota Mason Township is a township located in 2000 census, the township had a total population of 28...
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 Stevens Thomson Mason (Michigan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Mason was influential in petitioning for Michigan statehood.
In 1836, facing financial difficulties due to Michigan not being recognized as a state, Mason agreed to a compromise reached by the U.S. Congress and cede the disputed land to Ohio in exchange for the western two-thirds of the upper peninsula.
Mason was re-elected in 1837, but the state’s economy soon began to suffer from the effects of the Panic of 1837.
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 Toledo Strip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
John Thomson Mason, Governor Mason's father and former secretary of Michigan Territory, advised his son to be slow to act and let Ohio be the aggressor.
Mason received a letter from U.S. Secretary of State John Forsyth that Congress might use its prerogatives over a territory to force a compromise with Ohio, if Michigan refused to bend on the Pains and Penalties Act.
Mason thought Michigan was protecting itself against a law of Ohio empowering Ohio commissioners, under the protection of the Ohio Governor, to rerun an Ohio boundary in Michigan Territory.
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 George Mason
Colonel Mason owned estates on both the Maryland and the Virginia side of the Potomac, and he was living on one of his plantations in Charles county, Maryland, when he was drowned while crossing that river.
The third George Mason married, in 1721, Ann Thomson, daughter of Stevens Thomson, attorney-general of Virginia and granddaughter of Sir William Thomson, of London.
Subsequently he was nominated, with his brother, one of the revisers of the state laws by the senate, in 1779 and 1783 he was elected a member of the house of delegates, and served as chairman of the committee on courts of justice.
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 George Mason
The third George Mason married, in 1721, Ann Thomson, daughter of Stevens Thomson, attorney-general of Virginia and granddaughter of Sir William Thomson, of London.
Mason was defeated in the convention, and when the instrument was completed he declined to sign it.
Mason is referred to by Thomas Jefferson as "a man of the first order of wisdom, of expansive mind, profound judgment, cogent in argument, learned in the lore of our former constitution, and earnest for the republican change on democratic principles."
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 James M. Mason Summary
He was a grandson of George Mason and represented the Confederate States of America as appointed commissioner of the Confederacy to Great Britain and France between 1861 and 1865 during the American Civil War.
Mason drafted the (second) Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, enacted on the 18th of September 1850 as a part of the Compromise Measures of that year.
Mason and John Slidell were confined in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, precipitating the Trent Affair that threatened to bring Britain into open war with the United States of America.
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 Pilgrimages to American Landmarks - Gunston Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
George Mason died in 1792, at the age of sixty-six and was buried in the graveyard at Gunston Hall.
Mason was appointed "Commander-in-chief of all of his majesty's militia, horse and foot in the County of Stafford," and in 1720 he was presented with the freedom of the City of Glasgow by the provost, bailies and the gold council of that city.
Mason was a member of the House of Burgesses, and in 1721 he was married to Ann Thomson, daughter of Stevens Thomson, Attorney-General of Virginia.
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 National Governors Association
STEVENS T. MASON, the first governor of Michigan, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia on October 22, 1811.
Mason entered politics at the age of nineteen, serving as the secretary of the Michigan Territory, a position from which he also served frequently as acting governor.
Mason was first elected to the governor's office in 1835, and won reelection to a second term after the state was admitted to the Union in 1837.
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Mason and his wife to benefit after their death, certain charities in which they were interested.
Stevens was a devoted professor of biology at Washington and Lee University from 1946 to 1968.
Stevens in memory of her husband, long a professor of the University.
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 Earl Gregg Swem Library Special Collections
Ste[ven]s Thom[son] Mason, Loudoun County, [Va.], to Robert Carter, "Nominy [sic] Hall", [Westmoreland Co., Va.].
Ste[ven]s Thom[son] Mason and Wilson C. Nicholas, Phil[adelphi]a, [Pa.], to James Monroe, Richmond, [Va.].
Political essay by G[eorge] M[ason] concerning the right of suffrage and the disposition of the county of Fairfax in the redistricting of Virginia for the election of congressmen.
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 Pilgrimages to American Landmarks - Gunston Hall
George Mason died in 1792, at the age of sixty-six and was buried in the graveyard at Gunston Hall.
Mason was appointed "Commander-in-chief of all of his majesty's militia, horse and foot in the County of Stafford," and in 1720 he was presented with the freedom of the City of Glasgow by the provost, bailies and the gold council of that city.
Mason was a member of the House of Burgesses, and in 1721 he was married to Ann Thomson, daughter of Stevens Thomson, Attorney-General of Virginia.
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 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
Virginia pursued MDE administrative appeals for more than two years, arguing unsuccessfully at each stage that she was entitled to build the water intake structure under the 1785 Compact and the Black-Jenkins Award.
Finally, Virginia brought this original action seeking a declaratory judgment that Maryland may not require Virginia, her governmental subdivisions, or her citizens to obtain a permit in order to construct improvements appurtenant to her shore or to withdraw water from the River.
Virginia sought a declaratory judgment that Maryland may not require Virginia, her governmental subdivisions, or her citizens to obtain a permit in order to construct improvements appurtenant to her shore or to withdraw water from the River.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Mason
Mason, Samson (1793-1869) — of Clark County, Ohio.
Great-grandnephew of George Mason; great-grandson of Thomson Mason; grandson of Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803); nephew of Armistead Thomson Mason; son of John Thomson Mason.
Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803); grandfather of Armistead Thomson Mason and
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 DCBA Brief, September 1997 Issue -  Chapter 12 - The Gathering Storm
The motion was seconded by Stevens Thomson Mason of Virginia, the Senate majority leader.
The Republicans, ably led by Breckinridge and Mason, concentrated their attack on the expansion of federal jurisdiction and the partisan nature of Adams’s appointments.
Virginia’s hot tempered radical, William Branch Giles, led the Republican forces and cast the struggle as one between despotism and democracy.
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 Houghton - Person Page 266
Steven Wayne Elliott is the son of Ronald Wayne Elliott and Lorraine Louise Hill.
Virginia Dart Elliott was born in Worcester, MA, USA.
Virginia Dart Elliott died on 3 September 1977 at Berlin, VT, ; Cert.
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 The Builder Magazine - December 1926
Jackson's staunch adherence to the Masonic Fraternity was not overlooked, nor did the Anti-Masons neglect to point out that four members of his cabinet, Edward Livingston, the Secretary of state, Lewis Cass, the Secretary of War, Levi Woodbury, the Secretary of the Navy, and William T. Barry, the Postmaster General, were prominent Masons.
But in order to be regarded as a "right" or "true" mason he had also to be initiated, and this was the concern of the loosely organized institution which emerges into the light of history under the name of the "lodge".
Masonic students are often led to misinterpret the early historical records of the Craft owing to their neglect of outside current events of the time.
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 CaRJ Ancestors in Colonial America
Virginia Governor Robert "King" Carter, through his mother Sarah Ludlowe, is reported to be a 15th generation descendant of King Ferdinand III (Saint Ferdinand III), of Castile and Leon (born 1199).
He emigrated to the Colony of Virginia about 1650, and first lived in the Parish of Stratton-Major, in King and Queen County, and later at "Buckingham House," Middlesex County, where a ruined chapel, said to have been a part of his residence is still to be seen.
June 2, 1727, in Virginia; the son of Sir Edmund and Margaret (Burkham) Jennings, of Ripon, York Co., England, and grandson of Sir Jonathan Jennings, of Ripon, and Sir Edward Burkham, Lord Mayor of London, 1621-22.
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 Clarke Historical Library - Emily Virginia Mason Autobiography 1830
Her brother, Stevens T., was appointed to the position, age 19, when her father resigned in 1831.
In 1833, Governor Mason was confirmed by the senate, secretary of the territory, and in 1834, when Governor Porter died, he assumed again the duties of the territory till the following year, when he was elected the first governor of the State, November 3, 1835.
And besides this, the general government was then distributing the public lands, and advised the surrender of the claim upon Ohio in order to give Michigan her quota of these lands.
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 Martha Jefferson Randolph/John Charles Randolph Taylor
Stevens is a very sweet fellow but the girls have spoilt him by making such a fuss with him wherever he goes." John and Stevens were half-first cousins, devoted as brothers and exceptionally congenial.
Stevens, an only child, never married and still young was killed April, 1847 in the Battle of Cerro Gordo near the end of the War with Mexico.
STEVENS MASON TAYLOR, born July 6, 1847-two months after the death of Stevens Mason at the Battle of Cerro Gordo was named by his father for this cousin to whom he was ''as devoted as to a brother".
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 Handbook of Texas Online:
John Thomson Mason, early land agent and Texas revolutionary, second son of Stevens Thomas Mason, was born at Raspberry Plains, Loudon County, Virginia, on January 8, 1787.
Mason purchased from the government 300 leagues of land originally intended for donations to the militia and an additional 100 leagues from individuals.
Leplicher filed suit against Mason in Nacogdoches, Texas, on February 16, 1835, for salary alleged to be due and unpaid.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/MM/fma70.html   (437 words)

  
 Georgetown: The John F. Stevens Papers
Description: 3 TLSs from Raymond Estep, a historian in the U.S. Air Force, to John F. Stevens, III and Virginia Hawks concerning John F. Stevens, I and Eugene C. Stevens, II and their stay in Russia and Manchuria from 1917 to 1923.
Description: 1 fl leather satchel embossed, "John F. Stevens, John Fritz Medal Papers," probably given to JFS at the ceremony at which he was presented with the medal.
Description: 4 TLSs regarding the John F. Stevens Hall of Fame Committee, whose goal it was to have JFS elected to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans.
gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/stevreg.htm   (9452 words)

  
 WER: The Rump Council
They held a constitutional convention in May, 1835, drafted a constitution which fixed the boundaries of the new state according to the Ordinance (thereby arousing the hostility of Indiana in addition to Ohio), and at the regular election in November adopted the constitution by the overwhelming majority of 6,299 to 1,359.
After the framing of the constitution, which it was foreseen would be adopted, Acting Territorial Governor Mason on August 25, 1835 issued a proclamation for the election of a legislative council in the district not embraced within the proposed state of Michigan, and convoking the Council at Green Bay for January 1, 1836.
Michigan proper was about to reorganize under the state constitution, though some time would inevitably elapse before she could be admitted into the Union and before a law could be passed for organizing the western regions, until then associated with her, as a new territory.
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 Maryland Historical Society Library: John Thomson Mason Jr. Collection 1744-1882, MS. 2224 - Finding Aid
Mason died on March 28, 1873 at Elkton, Maryland, and is buried in Hagerstown.
Included is correspondence from two of John T. Mason Jr.'s three brothers, Thomson Mason, and Melchior Beltzhoover Mason, to two of his three sisters, Elizabeth Mason and Virginia Wallace Mason, his cousin Westwood Thomson Mason, and his uncles William Temple Thomson Mason, Abraham Barnes Thomson Mason, and George Thomson Mason.
John Thomson Mason graduated from Princeton in the summer of 1836 and hereafter the letters deal with his pursuit of law as a profession.
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 Mason Genealogy in North Carolina
Daughter MARGRET Mason: I give one feather bed and furniture now belonging to it, and tis the true intent and meaning of this my last will and testament that she have no more of my estate, Either real or personal, and she therewith had be content.
Grand Son Mason TISON: I give one {*} Gun and one Cow and Calfe, them and their increase, Male and female, the increase as well {as} the Cow to be equally Divided between my grand Daughter KEZIA HERRINGTON and my grand son Mason TISON as a Legacy.
Benjamin Mason, J.P. Marhc 2th 1767.  This Day came Margreat Mason before me and maid oath that she is willing the land should be sold agreeable to the varbell will sworn before me this day above as she not able to come to court.
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 George Mason University School of Law: Current News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-22)
Mason Law's moot court team of Al Clarke and Samantha Mortlock surpassed 34 other law school teams to be declared winner of the 17th Annual National First Amendment Moot Court Competition held at the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University on February 22 and 23, 2007.
Mason was a plantation owner who made his home at Gunston Hall, one of Northern Virginia’s loveliest historic homes, which stands in close proximity to Mount Vernon, former home of George Washington.
Mason and Washington were neighbors and close friends for most of their lives until political differences drove them apart late in life.
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