... attend his funeral, and will wear crape on the left arm for one month.... That, as a further mark of respect, and to evince the sense of his community of their loss, the great bell in the public building be tolled on Sunday next, from 1 o'clock P.M., till half past 4 P.M.... Members of the Bar and Officers of the Courts of Alexandria County voted to: ... attend his funeral ... and wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days ... that a committee of three be appointed respectively to tender them [family] our condolence ... that the proceeding of the meeting be published in the _Alexandria Gazette_.... The Bar and Officers of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia voted to: ... attend his funeral, and, during the residue of the term, wear the usual badges of mourning ... that the Chairman [Francis Scott Key] with Richard Coxe and Alexander Hunter, Esqrs., be a Committee to tender to the family of the deceased the sympathy of this meeting at the death of one endeared to us by long acquaintance, which has made known the character of the deceased as one deserving of our warmest personal regard and highest respect, and which rendered this event a great public loss, as well as a private affliction.... T. F. Mason had been appointed to the newly organized Criminal Court of the District of Columbia less than six months before his death. He was the first judge appointed to that court, and its only judge during its formative period. As a Justice of Peace he had received his first appointment in February 1828, and was reappointed in 1833, and 1838.[14] The story of Mason's life presented here is only a partial one but it is included to show something of the type of man who built Huntley.[15] Chapter 1 Notes [Footnote 3: Stevens Thompson Mason, =Mason Family Chart= (Baltimore: privately printed, 1907). All genealogical material is taken either from this chart or from Kate Mason Rowland, =The Life of George Mason=.] [Footnote 4: Rowland, =George Mason=, p. 365.] [Footnote 5: =Ibid.=] [Footnote 6: =Ibid.=, p. 307; The Letters of Elijah Fletcher, ed. by =Martha von Briesen=, (University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 1965), p. 8.] [Footnote 7: Princeton Alumni Association, Princeton University] [Footnote 8: Mary G. Powell, =The History of Old Alexandria Virginia=, (Richmond: William Byrd Press, 1928), p. 324. In her list of the Mayors of Alexandria Mrs. Powell also lists T.F. Mason incorrectly as S. Thomson (sic) Mason, although she spells the name without a "p" there.] [Footnote 9: William F. Carne, =Alexandria Business Book= (Alexandria: M. Hill Co., 1897).] [Footnote 10: Thomson Francis Mason Papers, 1820-38, Collection of William Francis Smith, Alexandria, Virginia.] [Footnote 11: Marian Gouverneur, =As I Remember= (New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1911), p. 212.]