David Mason (burgess)

1. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915), vol. 1 p. 285
2. Works Projects Administration Writers, Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries (1942: Sussex County School Board)
3. Gary M. Williams, Sussex County, Virginia: A Heritage Recalled by the Land (Petersburg: The Dietz Press, 2012) ISBN   978-0-692-01917-7, p. 41
4. "Masons of Southside Virginia" available at https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/masons-south-of-the-james-river/
5. Williams p. 66
6. "Masons of Southside Virginia" available at https://alliedfamilies.wordpress.com/masons-south-of-the-james-river/
7. Mary A. Stephenson, Old Homes in Surry and Sussex (Richmond: The Dietz Press 1942) p. 71
8. Williams, p. 41-42
9. Williams p. 63
10. 1820 U.S. Federal Census for Sussex County, Virginia p. 15 of 25 on ancestry.com
11. Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia(Genealogical Books in Print 1987) vol. 2, p. 1103
12. Yantis and Love p. 1102
13. Yantis and Love p. 248
14. Stephenson p. 72
15. Williams p. 62
16. Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly, 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 90. 93, 96, 98, 101, 104, 107
17. WPA pp. 43-44
18. Leonard pp. 111, 113, 116, 118, 120
19. WPA pp. 43-44
20. Stephenson p. 72
21. Williams pp. 61-62
22. Dorman, Adventures of Purse and Person (4th edition) Vol. 1 pp. 912-913
23. WPA pp. 49-50
24. U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 on ancestry.com
25. Williams p. 67
26. Leonard p. 124
27. Leonard pp. 124, 136, 139
28. Leonard p. 147
29. probably not the Revolutionary War veteran who applied for a pension on December 26, 1837 in Hawkins County, Tennessee claiming he was born in Hanover County Virginia in 1758 and was raised in Caroline County, per Virgil D. White (abstracter), Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files Vol. 11: F-M, p. 2214
30. Albemarle Parish Records
31. 19 enslaved Blacks older than 16 years old and 22 under that age, as well as 12 horses, 34 cattle and a 2-wheeled carriage. See Yantis and Love p. 1103
32. Williams p. 42
33. Thomas D. Morris, Southern Slavery and the Law, 1619-1860 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press 1996) p. 253 citing Commonwealth v Allen, Reuben and Jeff, July 13, 1795, Sussex County Order Book 1789-95 and Auditors Item 153, Box 1
34. mistake repeated by Tamika Y. Nunley, The Demands of Justice:Enslaved Women, Capital Crime and Clemency in Early Virginia (University of North Carolina Press 2023 ISBN   978-1-4696-7312-7) p. 53
35. Williams pp. 187-188

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David Mason
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Sussex County
In office 1782