THE LIFE OF GEORGE MASON 1725-1792 BY KATE MASON ROWLAND INCLUDING HIS SPEECHES, PUBLIC PAPERS, AND CORRE- VOLUME I There is a time when men shape for their land These rise before me; and there Mason stands, Like Bernal Diaz, planting with kind hands Fair trees to blaze in gold. James Barron Hope, "Yorktown Centennial Ode." COPYRIGHT, 1892 BY KATE MASON ROWLAND Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 1773-1775. . 159 |