Thomas Mason (died 1711) was an American colonial politician who represented Norfolk County in the House of Burgesses in 1696-1697, although his father Colonel Lemuel Mason had served multiple terms representing that county and nearby Lower Norfolk County.
[3] The tidal estuary once known as Tanner's Creek empties into the Elizabeth River just south of Sewell's Point, named after his maternal grandfather.
It is unclear whether he or another man of the same name received 1000 acres in what was then Upper Nansemond County in 1666 for transporting 20 persons to the Virginia Colony.
By 1704, six years before he wrote his last will and testament, this Thomas Mason was responsible for quitrents on 653 acres in Norfolk County.
His widow remarried, to Richard Sanderson of North Carolina, who sold this wife's interest in Norfolk County property to George Newton of Norfolk County.