Person:William Mason (41)

William Mason was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Information on William Mason

From Pike County History and Families 1816-1987:

William Mason, son of the above John Mason Jr. married Sarah McKeachey (Likely a cousin as grandmother was Leah McKeachey?) They were married in Virginia some years before the Revolution, as their daughter, Jane Mason, is recorded as marrying John McCandless in Virginia, in 1785, in Greenbrier County of that state. (There was a John McCandless listed in Captain Robert McClenachan's Company of Volunteers Botetourt County at the Battle of Point Pleasant in October, 1774.)

In addition to daughter Jane Mason, William and Sarah McKeachey Mason were parents of twelve other children: James Mason, who married in Green County Kentucky, Sarah Feland July 28, 1787 (Green County was established in 1792); Frances Mason, who married Andrew Feland: Elizabeth Mason, who married Thomas Love; Richard Mason, who married in Green County March 26, 1793, Anna Davis; Nancy Mason who married in Green County October 11, 1794, Joseph Hutchison, a son of Reverend Samuel Byron Hutchison and ________ (Porterfield) Hutchison; Lettice Mason, who married in Lincoln County, Kentucky October 3, 1796, Reuben Danban; Margaret Mason, who married in Adair County, Kentucky, Davis Chamberlain; John Mason, the ninth child, and ancestor of the Mason family of Sonora, who married: March 17, 1797, Hannah Hutchison, daughter of David and Hannah (?) Hutchison; Rachel Mason who married in Green County October 29 1798, Asberry Vanderver; Mary (Polly) Mason, who married Nicholas Burks (almost certainly the ancestor of the Millerstown/Upton line of the Burks family); Thomas (or Thompson) Mason who married in Green County July 19,1803, Mary Fair; Hugh Mason, who married in Green County October 27,1812, Frances Reynolds.

Research Notes

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~c1debbi/Mason/MasonGEN.htm

Generation No. 2

2. WILLIAM2 MASON (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1750 in Virginia, and died February 25, 1803 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. He married SARAH MCKLEACHEY in Virginia6. She died December 18, 1801.

Children of WILLIAM MASON and SARAH MCKLEACHEY are:

i. ELIZABETH3 MASON, d. Lincoln Co., Kentucky; m. THOMAS HOWE (LOVE)6.

ii. FRANCES MASON, d. Lincoln Co., Kentucky; m. ANDREW FELAND, June 13, 1791, Lincoln Co., Kentucky.

iii. HUGH MASON, d. Lincoln Co., Kentucky; m. FRANCES REYNOLDS, May 27, 1812.

iv. JAMES MASON, d. Lincoln Co., Kentucky; m. SARAH FELAND, July 29, 1787, Lincoln Co., Kentucky.

v. JANE MASON, d. Green County, Kentucky; m. JOHN MCCANDLESS, 1785, Greenbrier County, Virginia6.

vi. LETTICE MASON, d. 1805, Adair County, Kentucky; m. REUBEN DUNBAR (DANBAN)6, October 3, 1796.

vii. MARGARET MASON, d. Adair County, Kentucky; m. DAVIS CHAMBERLAND (CHAMBERLAIN)6, Adair County, Kentucky.

viii. MARY MASON, d. Green County, Kentucky; m. NICHOLAS BURKS, May 13, 1790.

ix. NANCY MASON, d. Green County, Kentucky; m. JOSEPH HUTCHESON, October 11, 1794.

x. RACHEL MASON, d. 1805, Lincoln Co., Kentucky.

xi. RICHARD MASON, d. Lincoln Co., Kentucky; m. ANNA DAVIS, March 26, 1793.

xii. THOMPSON MASON, d. Lincoln Co., Kentucky; m. MARY FAIR6, July 19, 1803.

3. xiii. JOHN MASON, b. 1771, Botetourt County, Virginia; d. November 23, 1846, Larue County, Kentucky.

1. ↑ .

   Info from Jimmy Kroger (jlkroger@@earthlink.net) who obtained it from a Mr. Pean, concerning Lettice Mason's ancestry. According to this info William Mason died in 1803 and his will was dated March 1803, with his brother James as executor - death probably occurred in Green Co., Ky.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Brøderbund Software, Inc. World Family Tree Vol. 22, Ed. 1 (3). (Release date: June 8, 1998)
   Tree #3625.

   Date of Import: Nov 28, 1998