[2][3] In addition to his younger brother William, Mason emigrated with cousins and neighbors from England, Thomas and Gerard Fowke of Staffordshire.
They also fined Colonel Gerrard Fowke ten thousand pounds of tobacco for allowing the real murderer to escape, and ordered Brent to pay Wahanganoche 200 arms lengths of wampum (which they called "roanoke").
[5][6] The commission also ordered Colonel Fowke, Captain Mason and Mr. John Lord to pay the chief 100 arms lengths apiece.
[7] However, Wahanganoche died in 1663, not long after returning from Jamestown, so the commission's declaring all the other men ineligible to hold public office had little effect (voters in then-vast Westmoreland County elected Fowke as one of the burgesses representing them in 1663 and 1665).
[3] In July 1675, Robert Hen, a herdsman who was an indentured servant of fellow planter Thomas Mathew was found dying near his cabin by parishioners gathering for church.
Militiamen surrounded cabins and murdered at least ten peaceable Indians before Mason realized the mistake and ordered the militia to stand down in what became a prelude to Bacon's rebellion the following year, and expulsion of most native peoples from the coastal region.
[13] The first George Mason in Virginia thus began traditions of land ownership (including of indentured servants and later enslaved people) and of political leadership.
They had 3 sons:[14] Mason married thirdly to the newly widowed Mary French Norgrave in 1669 in Stafford County, Virginia.
[3] His son, George Mason II soon sold the Accokeek plantation and built one along Chopawamsic Creek, as well as continued to acquire land on both sides of the Potomac River.
[16] The committee agreed upon the name "Masonvale" for its faculty and staff housing community in the northeast section of George Mason University's Fairfax Campus.