Thomas Mason

Thomas Mason 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. Early and family life Mason was born to the former Anne Seawell, daughter of burgess Henry Seawell and her husband, Colonel (and often burgess) Lemuel Mason. He had a sister, also Anne, who married burgess William Kendall. Career Like his father, Mason long served as one of the justices of the peace for Lower Norfolk County, where he had inherited land from his father. Although his father had served multiple terms in the House of Burgesses representing Lower Norfolk County and later Norfolk County, Norfolk voters elected this man as one of the two representing them only once, and he served in the assembly of 1696-1697 alongside Thomas Hodges (who had serve in the 1693 session alongside this man's father, and would again serve in 1703).