This Mason French was the son of Hugh French and his wife Margaret. They are on chart #36. If you descendant from Hugh and your name is still French then you are a descendant of this Mason French through either his son Hugh or his son John. Hugh had three sons and two daughters. His will is of record in Richmond Co. VA 1701. Mason died in 1746 intestate. His second wife Catherine {Ellis] Bennett died in 1757 or 9 . Mason had sons Robert and Hugh by his first wife and sons Mason, Daniel and John by Catherine Ellis. The record you found suggest that the Allen man must have committed a sexual act against someone who was helpless. Perhaps a woman or child although the phallic nature of what the men of the neighborhood did to his body suggest it might have been a homosexual act committed by Allen. The records of the court have been destroyed so we will never know for sure what the details on the part of the victim were. However the fact that the men involved were granted clemency suggest there was evidence to support the courts position. As to the Seale family Joyce Ellison Graf published a book The Seale Family from the Northern Neck of Virginia and Greene County, Alabama [Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1984] You may want to find a copy. Margaret Amundson a descendant of Hugh through Mason and his son John.