Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24

colonel was very attentive to Miss
Nellie Grant. The Rambler promised to
tell some facts of Fairfax genealogy
and he finds it convenient to keep his
omises-sometimes. Many of the
facts which he is about to relate We're
collected by his old friend and his
torian and genealogist. T. X. Cartmeii.
and printed for circulation among the
members of the Fairfax family by
Lindsay Fairfax, son of Col j. w.
Fairfax.
Very early in the eighteenth cen
fury John Fairfax established himself
in Charles county. Md. In 111I William
Fairfax settled in Massachusetts COL
ony. He was a cousin of Thomas
Lord Fairfax, and was a collector of
the port of Salem. The manager IN
Virginia of Lord Fairfax's lands was
Robert Carter, or king Cartey OF
Nomini, Westmoreland county. He
died in 1892. and Lord Fairfax APP
pointed as his agent in Virginia his
cousin William, the collector of the
port of Salem. William had married
a Puritan daughter, Deborah Clark
They came to Virginia in 1888 and In
1879. William bought from Edward
Washington a plantation on the Poto-
mac called Belvoir. You all know 1t.
1t lies between Mount Vernon and
Gunston Hall, and Camp Humphreys
occupies it now.
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At that time Mount Vernon was
called the Hunting creek plantation
of Augustine Washington. The place
had not come into possession of Au-
gustines son Lawrence, who named
it Mount Vernon. William FairfaX's
only son to leave descendants was
Bryan Fairfax. He became a minister
in his fifty-seventh year. According
to Mr.. Cartmell. he preached at
Falls Church. and according TO the
Ramblers memory he was also rector
of Christ Church. Alexandria. Bryan
sons were Fernando, who married
Elizabeth Cary, and Thomas. who
married first Mary Aylett. second
Louisa Washington and third Marga-
ret, daughter of William Herbert.
The sons of Thomas and Margaret
Herbert were Albert Henry. Orlando.
Raymond, Ethelbert and Reginald.
Henry married Caroline Herbert of
Maryland and conducted for long
time al his beautiful home. Ash Grove.
Fairfax county, boarding school for
young ladies. He was captain OF
volunteers in the Mexican war and
died in 1S47, leaving several children.
Orlando married Mary Randolph Cary.
He practiced medicine in Alexandria
and moved to Richmond. He. too, left
a large family. Raymond, Ethelbert
and Reginald died unmarried. Thomas.
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county, died in 1916 at the age OF
eighty-four years. His oldest son
was Albert Fairfax and he died in
1885. The wife of Albert was Caro-
line Eliza, daughter of Richard Snow
den of Maryland. They left two sons,
Contee Fairfax.
Now we come to the line of Fair
faxes who came to own Leesylvania
and Freestone point. John Fairfax,
who settled in Maryland, was a
Catholic. He was of the Fairfax
family in England. who were Wis
counts of Finley, and they were re-
lated to that family of which Thomas
Lord Fairfax was member and sew
eral of whose members were Barons
Cameron. John was in Charles
county in 1715 and married Catherine
a daughter of Henry Norris The Nor
ris homestead descended to their son.
John Fairfax, jr., and this John the
second, married Mary, daughter of
Edward Scott of Baltimore county,
Folly" ON Elk Ridge. John Fairfax.
I'd. died in Charles county. leaving
four daughters and one son, whose
name was William. He married, first,
Berdicta. or Benedicta, Blanchard. and,
second. Elizabeth a daughter of Pew
ton Buckner of Virginia.
BY the first marriage were three
daughters and two sons, Jonathan and
HeZekiah-and by the second marriage
three daughters and two sons-John and
William. William, the father, moved
from Charles county to Prince William
in 1891, and died at or near Occoquan
in 1898. His son. Jonathan. died at his
home, Goose Bay. near Port Tobacco,
in 1887. His wife was Sarah. a daugh-
ter of Richard Wright, and by that
marriage were four daughters and five
sons-Louesta, Sarah. Anne Booker,
Elizabeth. Richard Wright, Walter,
John Henry and Peter.
Hezekiah, second son of William Fair
fax and Benedictat Blanchard. married
Margaret Calvert and died in Prince
William and left four sons-John HeZe-
kiah. Minor, Thompson and Sanford.
William Fairfax, son of William Fair
fax and Elizabeth Buckner, married
Anne, a daughter of Cyrus King of
Prince William; inherited his fathers
home at Occoquan and died there in
1S45. His son, John Scott Fairfax. mar
ried Anne, daughter of Peyton Mills of
Prince William, and moved to Kentucky,
where their sons, Cyrus King Fairfax
and John Peyton Fairfax left many de-
scendants. John Fairfax, son of Will
liam Fairfax and Elizabeth Buckner,
crossed from Maryland to Virginia and
was assistant to Lund washington,
George Washngton's distant knsnlan.
who was Superintendent of the Mount
Vernon plantation. He succeeded
l.und Washington in that position.
He was colonel of the 104th Vir-
sinia In antry in the war of 1912, was
a member of the house of delegates.
and died in 1S43. John married twice
first, Mary. daughter of Samuel Byrne
and Virginia. second Anne Lloyd
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