Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-08-29
ITO be coniinued.1

Mr. Cushing: rhc original letters of which the foi-
rowing are extracts, have long been lying, among 9TH
er old papers in The possession Of lady Of this tow
niece OF The writer Of them, aud lately taken 10
and banded TO me, Oh account Of sumo more recent
hvinoiaheuns ON the outste, in which was interest.
cd Tie writer OF the letters was formerly collector
OF tne customs IN Salem, where he married daughter
o, ue a'e FRANCIS CiaIhe, Esq. with whom lie after-
wards removed TO Virginia. itappears that the friend
ship and patronage which the iiusrious Washington
IN his lonth, received from this gentleman, had no
ineonsidei able share in those
which were afterwards SO emneniiy useful to bi.
country. "
Ertract IF a letter fror, Hon. Him. Fuir6ar d,,.,
belsoir, Va. February 2ad, i7i5 addressed 20 his
oro,her, Capt. John Clarke, Salem 1fzss.
Please acquainto our sister Hannahs that Mrs Wa,b
ii2on has lost all her children but Major Washington
who has just returned from London whittier he lately
went to get his arrears Of pay and TO be put OH The
establishment OF bali pay which obtained and /, in
| hopes of repairing his losses"
Bryan,- BlyS anc Hannahn are well the frat at
tie college the second Col. Bevereys and The last
AZ Mr. Amhiers and, behaving deservediy, accord.
Extract from the same 70 his sister sJr< Ho,,,,
Cd60f, "idor Of Or. John Cabot, Sdiem.
co., co., George washington, who undertakes to deliver
you ms expects TO take dish OF with you hi.
eldest brother married Ann Farfax."T
'B'ife Of Dr.. John CADET, of Salem.
Laurence, hrs Uashinstoa's husbands son, by a
former aie, dicS fye ater and 6squeathcd his
estates 10 ms brother George.
Non Of the rriter, 0nerrards the Rep Bryoa
Lor@ fa!rJar, to arhom Washington bequeathed Inc
1iS,s thich pas presented him ~ the re. Rec. 7nos
biS0H, G!s8oy 81 Sodor end liam.
81 yonns Officer uho JeH at Quebec. On going into
the battle Cen. Uoife ddpionished lin to remember
his name. (Pide BmrRaEy.J
ington, Esq.
fDaushttr Of the writer. by his first wife.
weems says: "The Rappabannock plantation, Ief,
!Wa'hlnston) by his father, only in reversion an
ms mothe yet IN bor prime. George, seeing charce
OF rsiHs IN the world but by his own merit on leaving
school, went up TO Fairfax to his brother Lawrence
where he met with VIM. Fairfax, Esq. one Of the Conn
Gil, on vsitto his daughter, when Lawrence had
married. The counsellor TOOK great George
(who wished Tor employment and iutro him 10
his relation, Lord Fairfax, and obtained him the an
pontment OF surveyor Of his lands lying the
potomac ANA Kappahannock, aud extending from
Smuhs roint, on the Chesapeake, to the fnot the
great Aieghany." [They were estimated 10 cen,ain
i've millions seven hundred thousand acresl Here
ne learned to marx the soil the confluence of rivers
and settles for forts ia short, nothing escaped him.
lie continued in this service much Of the time till his
twentieth year and little did Lord Fairfax think be
was educating Youth who would dismenber the Brit.
sh empire and break his heart On hearing that
Washington had captured C-rny ALI, and his ar,nY h.
high time for me to die
Burnaby, in his Travels. say. Lord Fairfax wrote
10 his cousin William Fairfax, Esq. who held place
Of considerable trust and emsiumtat in New England
requesting him to remove Virginia. and take the
agency OF his estates there with which he readily
complied, and removed to westmoreiaud."
His lordship went to America, to visit his estates
and the iesd and relation to whom he was so greatly
obliged for the eninen, service. he had rendereshim
VIM Fairfax, Esq. afterwards removed to Fairfax
county where be built beautiful house, which he
called Geivor and the noble Lord Ca bacbeloI) lived
with him .everai years and, being fond of hunting
ana foxes having besome scarce here. afteTvard. re
moved INTO Frederick county, eighty miles from Belveir
and west OF the Appalachian mountains, where be built
his seat, called GreeDway CONT"
=" Tie Hon. WIN. Fairfax was a gentleman of fine ~
compartments, and cninen,iy distinguished for his
psirate anu public virtues he Lord Lieutenant and
Custos Roiuorum of the county Of Fairfax and many
years Presden, of Majesty's council"
washington, al the close Of bis report Ito Gov. Din
"'due DIS the French OH the Obion says.
/" IN me eeUenth J got 10 BeicOir, whfTe stopped
ore a6y 70 rake secessary rest and then ont for
Williamsburg 10 offer You the ioresOin: narrative"
The biographies OF Washington generally silent
respecting him, from the of fteeE nincteen al
which last age, Marshall Bancroft Ramsay and wsems
respectively state, as his first military appentme nj
That Of the adJutan geDeIalsbip Of miiiia-iboueh
appears he had held majority in the Royal service
more than two years before which commission was
donDues procured by the Farfaxes, in whose employ
ment be was. The bographers are also silent res
pectihg ms having crossed The Atlantic, and weenls
alone mentions MS voyage to Bermuda but IL appear:
tom the above tia, lac visited London when in his
seventeenth year. Is IL not probable That The Bishop
The bible. which he bequaihed 10 the Rev. Byyan
(Lord) fairfax ~