Samuel Mason was born 1739 in Norfolk, Virginia. He was raised in Charles Town, West Virginia where he lived until moving to Ohio County, West Virginia in 1773. He moved again in 1779, this time to Washington County, West Virginia, where he was elected justice of the peace and later selected as associate judge, leaving for Kentucky in 1784. Mason moved his family to the Red Banks, Kentucky, area in the early 1790s, near what is now Henderson, Kentucky. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Samuel Mason. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Mason
Samuel Mason found Cave-in-Rock in 1797. Mason, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, ran into some trouble with the law in Virginia. www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2001/ihy010238.html