The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01
THE AMERICAN FAIRFAxEs.
Family That Has Given a Line ot Genuine Barons to the United
 States.
New York Sun:

New York Sun:
 interest in rae family of Fairfax has been renewed recently hs reports as to the intentions of Albert Kirby Fair fax in regard to the title of Baron Fair- fax of Cameron, in the peerage or Scotland. to which he has succeeded MT. Fairfax is a bank clerk in New York and has settled some of the ru- mors on the subject by announcing that he does not propose to assume the title
 The Fairfax family came from Dem ton, near Otley. on the banks of the Wharfe in Yorkshire. The founder was Sir Thomas Fairfax of Denton, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. His eldest son. Thomas Fairfax of Denton and Nunappleton, was knight ed for distinguished services before Rouen in 1884. and was created Baron Fairfax of Cameron in 1927 His grandson. Thomas. third baron. better known as Sir Thomas Fairfax. was the celebrated commander-in-ch of the Parliamentary forces in the war against King Charles l. It was of hili that Milton wrote:
 Filling each mouth with envy or with
 praise.
 He was born at Denton on January r. 1872. He died at Nunappleton on November l2. 1871. His name was on the list of judges appointed to try King Charles. but he was not present at the trial. When his name was called Lady Fairfax announced from the gallery:
 He is not such fool as to De here. '
 1En h L. ened to have the musketecrs fire on the gallery.
 William Fairfax, sixth Baron. came to this country shortly after the ac- cession of King George l. and settled at Belvoir, on the Potomac river. q few miles below Mount Vernon. His eld- est daughter Anne. was married In July, l743. to Laurence. half lrother of George Washington. She went to live with her husband at his estate. Mount Vernon, which subseI lently fell to his brother George. Baron William Fairfax was an oid soldier. and had served In an expedition under Admiral Vernon for whom Mount Yer non has been named. It was largely through his stories Of adventure, by land and sea. narrated at Belvoir and Mount Vernon, that George Washing ton formed hts desire of entering the British navy, which his mothar thwarted.
 Baron William had three sons -- William. the seventh Baron; George w. and Bryan. The sixth Baron was A large owner of land west of the Bl.e Ridge. in what is now Frederick cour- ty and in l7lS George Washington. in companv with George w. FairfaX. was employed in aurveyin. these lands, re- Cciving as his pay. according to wash ington Irving. the large sum ot a dou- bloom. CT SIS a day. PossiblS he had to pay his assistants out of this as It would be a fabulous compensation TOT a boy of sixteen.
 In 1749 Lord Fairfax removed to these surveyed lands and built his cele- brated home called GreenwsY court, which continued to be the second home of George Washington until his marriage Lord FairfaY died in l7sl, in hts ninety-second year, of grief at the surren fer of Icrd Cornwaills. It is said that when he heard the news he called his body SerVsnt and said; Zoe. carry me to bed, for it is high time for me to die" The following lines are from Weem's Life of Wash ington
 Then up rose Joe. all at the word,
 And took his masteSs arm
 And thus to bed te softly len
 The lord of Greenway farm
 Then oft he called on Britain's name
 And Oft he wept full sore
 Then sighed; 70 Lord, Thy will be
 done"
 And word spake never more.
 George w. Fairfax died at Bath. England, on April 3. l7S7, aged sixty two He retained his early friendship for George Washington, and gave large sums offmoney during the Rev9- iutionary War for the relief or Amerl- can prisoners in England.
 Bryan Fairfax and Washington were on terms of intimacy all their lives. Bryan is recorded as having visited Washington in ITS at Valley Forge, and obtained from him pass to visit New York He died at Belvoir in 1892. aged seventy-five years.
 Albert Kirby Fairfax. twelfth Baron, was born in 1870. and is the son of John Contee Fairfax. NJ. D.. eleventh