George Mason

George Mason Profile

George Mason was born on December 11, 1725, at the Mason family plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia. His father died in 1735 when there was an accident on the Potomac. On April 4, 1750, he got married to ann Eilbeck who was sixteen years old. They lived in a house on George's property in Dogue's Neck, Virginia. He completed the construction of Gunston Hall . Gunston Hall is a Georgian mansion near the Potomac River in Mason Neck, Virginia. It was once was the center of a 5500-acre plantation.George Mason and his wife had twelve children, nine of whom survived to adulthood. George Mason worked in the Virginia Convention in Williamsburg in 1776. Mason was appointed in 1786 to represent Virginia as a delegate to a Federal Convention. He met at Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation.

George mason was an antifederalist and urged that there should a Bill of rights.The British didn’t allow american expansion west of the