Mattawoman (plantation)


Mattawoman was an 18th-century plantation on Mattawoman Creek in Charles County, Maryland, United States.

History

Mattawoman was the country estate of Colonel William Eilbeck, a wealthy planter and merchant, and his wife Sarah Edgar. On 4 April 1750, Colonel Eilbeck's only child, 16-year-old Ann, married George Mason at Mattawoman. Mason's father's plantation, where Mason spent several years of his childhood, adjoined Mattawoman.
George Mason bequeathed Mattawoman and all his lands upon Chicamuxen and Mattawoman creeks to his son William Mason. At age 23 in 1780, Mason's eldest son George Mason V inherited Mattawoman from his maternal grandmother, Sarah Eilbeck. Mason inherited his father's properties upon his death in 1792.

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