Although the underlying document for that transaction is lost, in 1642 Francis Mason claimed 1250 acres of land for transporting 83 people to the colony.
[3] In the year of his father's death, Lemuel Mason and his mother contracted with James Thelaball to buy land and timber from Hogg Island.
[3] Meanwhile, this Lemuel Mason farmed at least in part using enslaved labor, for in 1673 he deeded three named young Negro boys to his wife and two daughters.
[1] In 1654, Lemuel Mason and Willoughby bought land on the Pasquotank River in what became the Carolina colony, after Francis Yeardley's trade expedition.
[9] Meanwhile, in the immediate aftermath of Bacon's Rebellion, in January 1676, Mason wrote Governor Berkeley seeking recompense from the estate of the executed William Carver for the local militia's need to resupply weapons taken by Carver, as well as crop losses incurred by 60 loyal Lower Norfolk men who traveled to James City to assist the governor.
[1] Both his sons briefly attempted to carry on his political legacy representing Norfolk County in the House of Burgesse, but each served only in one session: Thomas in 1696-7 (during this man's life) and George in 1705-6.