Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakarite a Mason i te tuhinga tuatahi o te Whakapuakanga Tika a Virginia i te tau 1776, a ko ana kupu te nuinga o te tuhinga i whakaaetia e te Whakataunga Whakataunga o Virginia. I tuhia hoki e ia he kaupapa ture mo te kawanatanga; I rapu a Thomas Jefferson me etahi atu kia whakaaetia e te huihuinga a raatau whakaaro, engari i kitea e raatau kaore e taea te aukati i te putanga a Mason. I te wā o te American Revolutionary War, he mema a Mason o te Whare Mana o te Virginia General Assembly, engari, ki te riri o Washington me ētahi atu, ka whakakahore ia ki te mahi i roto i te
Ko te Kaunihera Continental i Philadelphia, e kii ana i te hauora me nga taunahatanga o te whanau.