George Mason III
George Mason III (1690—March 5, 1735)[1][2][3][4] was an American planter, military officer, legislator and government official.[6][2][5][7] During his tenure as a burgess in Williamsburg, Mason met and married his wife Ann Stevens Thomson, whose family owned plantations in Maryland.[2] Mason amassed enormous land holdings in Stafford, Fauquier, Prince William, and Fairfax counties in Virginia.[2] Mason also earned income from fisheries and a ferry service carrying King's Highway across the Occoquan River.Governor Alexander Spotswood across the Blue Ridge and into the Shenandoah Valley,[2] where his famous son would invest.