Philadelphia (Mason requested a higher toll rate from the Virginia General Assembly in 1797 based on the high cost of Massachusetts workmen). The toll bridge carried King's Highway (present-day U.S. Route 1) across the Occoquan River. Marriage and children The orphaned Thomas Mason married Sarah Barnes Hooe, daughter of Gerard Hooe and Sarah Barnes, at Lexington plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia on April 22, 1793. Sarah was a sister of his elder brother George Mason V's wife, Elizabeth "Betsey" Mary Ann Barnes Hooe. The couple had four children: Patsy Mason Lake (1796-1873) Elizabeth Mason Gerard Alexander Mason (December 1793–December 18, 1849) Leannah Mason Barron (1798–1824) Thomas Mason (1800–1828) Death and legacy This Thomas Mason died, aged 30, on September 18, 1800, at Lexington plantation house, the nearby residence of his brother George's widow and her second husband (and Mason's former school mate) George Graham. Richard Brent filled the remainder of his term in the Virginia House of Delegates representing Prince William County. His widow Sarah B. Wilson filed no will, and pursuant to Virginia law was able to live the final 15 years of her life in their family home, Woodbridge with their eldest son Gerard, before also dying intestate. On October 8, 1800, the Prince William County Court accepted an inventory of Thomas's estate, including enslaved persons, performed by future delegate George Graham and others. Thomas Mason's family continued to own the Woodbridge plantation and bridge until 1851, when it was auctioned off following Gerard Alexander Mason's death. A neighbor found Gerard's (also sometimes spelled Jared's) corpse with head smashed by an axe in his own ferry house, and his slave Agnes was hanged for the murder. Many of his descendants would also share the name Thomas Mason. Thomas Mason's grandson, by his youngest son, Thomas Jr., Berry Mason lived in Charles County, Maryland until his death. His will dated July 13, 1852, probated in Maryland, specifically forbade any of his property (if he had no living children) even if his (also unmarried) brother Thomas Mason had children from passing in any contingency to any Hooe, Barron or Grymes. In 1817 this Thomas Mason's eldest daughter, Leannah, had married William Barron and bore Thomas Mason Barron in Washington D.C. before that family moved to Kentucky. Thomas M. Barron married Penelope McFarland in 1842, and the only son of their seven children, William Thomas Barron, married and eventually became the