Mason, John Thomson, 1765-1824
John Thomson Mason was a lawyer and Attorney General for Maryland in 1806. He was the son of Thomson Mason and Mary King Barnes, and married Elizabeth Beltzhoover in 1797. In 1800, he enslaved four people in his household. He owned a home at 3425 Prospect Street in Georgetown, which he rented to John Teackle for a few years before selling it to him in 1807. He was the nephew of George Mason of Gunston Hall.
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[Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle, January 31, 1807]
Letter from Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, written to her husband, Littleton D. Teackle from her father-in-laws house, Kegotank. She speaks about one of their enslaved people, Martha, a washerwoman, delivering a stillbirth baby. She brings up his recent contract to provide lumber for the building of the new U.S. Navy Yard. Their brother-in-law Charles Nicoll Bancker invited the John Teackle family to Baltimore as a change of scenery after the death of one of the Teackle sons, Henry. She asks if he has news about meeting the new British Ambassador and his wife, Anthony and Elizabeth Merry.