Mary Thomson Mason
January 27, 1764 - 1806
Married at age 21, Mary and her husband, John Travers Cooke, lived at West Farm in Stafford County. Cooke was the son of Travers and Mary Cooke. William Bronaugh, his mother’s second husband, was a first cousin to George Mason IV. John Travers Cooke and partner, Daniel Carroll Brent, owned and operated a quarry in Aquia.[1] Mary must have established a lasting relationship with her stepmother for Sarah Brent willed her "…my mourning Ring …that [I had] for her Father…"[2]
Married:
John Travers Cooke, November 18, 1784
Children:
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Million Cooke, August 23, 1785 - October 10, 1842
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John Travers Cooke, Jr., 1787- ?
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Ann Eilbeck Cooke, February 22, 1788 - ?
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Elizabeth Travers Cooke, November 12, 1790 - July 2, 1870
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Sarah Mason Cooke, September 14, 1791 - 1861
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George Mason Cooke, July 20, 1792 - April 20, 1866
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Travers Cooke, September 20, 1794 - ?
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Mary Mason Cooke, December 4, 1795 - 1870
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Harriet Carter Cooke, September 5, 1797 - 1873
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William Cooke, April 7, 1799 - ?
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Hannah Cooke, August 1, 1801 - August 25, 1826
1. Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Correspondence, Miscellaneous Papers, 1754-1804, Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Series 4 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984), 426.
2. Will of Sarah Brent Mason, 29 October 1794, Prince William County, Virginia, typescript, Research Files, Gunston Hall Plantation Library & Archives, Mason Neck, Virginia.
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