THE

LIFE OF GEORGE MASON

1725-1792

BY

KATE MASON ROWLAND

INCLUDING HIS SPEECHES, PUBLIC PAPERS, AND CORRE-
SPONDENCE; WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
GENERAL FITZHUGH LEE

VOLUME I

There is a time when men shape for their land
Its institutions 'mid some tempest's roar,
Just as the waves that thunder on the strand
Shape out and round the shore.

These rise before me; and there Mason stands,
The Constitution-maker, firm and bold,

Like Bernal Diaz, planting with kind hands

Fair trees to blaze in gold.

James Barron Hope, "Yorktown Centennial Ode."

SPRECKELS

COPYRIGHT, 1892

BY

KATE MASON ROWLAND

Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS