Notes on Sarah E. Mason
It has been suggested that Sarah's maiden name was "Mason". She may have been a daughter of George Mason I and Mary French?. The record shows that George Mason I and Mary French? had one son, George. There may have been other children, "but
positive proof is lacking." (See "The Five George Masons" by Pamela C. Copeland and Richard K. MacMaster, 1975, at p. 17). George and Mary were married in Virginia after 1652, but before 1658.
According to the same source, "In 1701 he (George Mason II) conveyed an additional 200 acres of the tract (land he had inherited from his father) as a gift to Thomas and Mary Barbee. He sold the remaining 800 acres in 1705 to Edward Mountjoy."
(See ibid. at p. 39). This land was in the Aquia area. The land given to Thomas and Mary Barbee is noted in Mercer Land Book, fols. 103-4 and N.N., bk. 2, fol. 33. "This was a deed of gift to Thomas and Mary Barbee, son and daughter of Andrew
Barbee, deceased." (See ibid. at p. 290.)
More research needs to be done concerning the parentage of Sarah. Until proof is forthcoming her parentage is listed as "possible"; and relationships to the recorded family are "unproven".
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