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==Career==

==Career==

[[File:AnneEilbeck-painting.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Anne Eilbeck Mason, his first wife and mother of all of their children.]]

[[File:AnneEilbeck-painting.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Anne Eilbeck Mason, his first wife and mother of all of their children.]]

Mason inherited more than 15,000 acres of land in Virginia and Maryland including 5,500 at Gunston Hall. Like many Virginia planters, Mason was constantly increasing his holdings. By the time of his death in 1792, he owned more than 75,000 acres. He served as a town trustee of Alexandria, Virginia, and as a vestryman of the local Anglican church.  Mason was the second largest slave holder in Fairfax County after George Washington. Washington held approximately 300 slaves at Mount Vernon, Mason probably had about 100 slaves. Unlike his friend [[George Washington]], Mason never freed the slaves he owned instead willing them to his nine children.

Mason inherited more than 15,000 acres of land in Virginia and Maryland including 5,500 at [[Gunston Hall]]. Like many Virginia planters, Mason was constantly increasing his holdings. By the time of his death in 1792, he owned more than 75,000 acres. He served as a town trustee of Alexandria, Virginia, and as a vestryman of the local Anglican church.  Mason was the second largest slave holder in Fairfax County after George Washington. Washington held approximately 300 slaves at Mount Vernon, Mason probably had about 100 slaves. Unlike his friend [[George Washington]], Mason never freed the slaves he owned instead willing them to his nine children.

==Fairfax Resolves==

==Fairfax Resolves==

* "Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities. He lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had from a lust of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the States being in possession of the Right to import, this was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up. He held it essential in every point of view that the General Government should have power to prevent the increase of slavery."<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_822.asp Madison Debates], August 22</ref>

* "Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes and effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities. He lamented that some of our Eastern brethren had from a lust of gain embarked in this nefarious traffic. As to the States being in possession of the Right to import, this was the case with many other rights, now to be properly given up. He held it essential in every point of view that the General Government should have power to prevent the increase of slavery."<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_822.asp Madison Debates], August 22</ref>

* "Are all laws whatever to be brought up? Is no road nor bridge to be established without the Sanction of the General Legislature? Is this to sit constantly in order to receive and revise the State Laws?–He did not mean by these remarks to condemn the expedient, but he was apprehensive that great objections would lie against it."<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_823.asp Madison Debates], August 23</ref>

* "Are all laws whatever to be brought up? Is no road nor bridge to be established without the Sanction of the General Legislature? Is this to sit constantly in order to receive and revise the State Laws?–He did not mean by these remarks to condemn the expedient, but he was apprehensive that great objections would lie against it."<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_823.asp Madison Debates], August 23</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==