In 1662, Peyton sold the tract, along with 500 acres granted to Peyton, to Captain George Mason I. George Mason I (5 June 1629 1686), the progenitor of the prominent American landholding and political Mason family, made his permanent residence along Accokeek Creek on a hill between present-day State Routes 608 (Brooke Road) and 621 (Marlborough Point Road) in Stafford County, Virginia.