Lemuel Mason was a Lower Norfolk County planter, justice and militia officer who served intermittently in Virginia’s House of Burgesses over several decades in the later seventeenth century. Published accounts associate him with county administration, landholdings and the Mason family’s later officeholders. Lemuel Mason's will is reported as proved in September 1702, placing his death by that date. Mason was a prominent landholder in Lower Norfolk County, which divided into Norfolk and Princess Anne counties in 1691. He is listed as a burgess for Lower Norfolk, with service recorded from 1654 into the 1690s. He died in 1702; his will was proved on September 15 of that year. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.