The Fairfax family in Fairfax County
Subtitle: a brief history
By: by Kenton Kilmer and Donald Sweig ; editor, Nan Netherton.
Contributors: Sweig, Donald, joint author.
Publisher: Published by the Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning under the direction of the County Board of Supervisors in cooperation with the County History Commission : available from Fairfax County Administrative Services
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Fairfax, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Fairfax family.; Fairfax County (Va.) -- History.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 116-119.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CONTENTS; title: Page; title: ILLUSTRATIONS v; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii; title: PROLOGUE ix; title: INTRODUCTION 1; title: CHAPTER 1.THE PROPRIETARY 5; title: A Touch of Irony 18; title: The Agents for the Proprietary 19; title: CHAPTER II.THE FAIRFAX FAMILY 23; title: Thomas Fairfax, First Baron of Cameron 23; title: Ferdinando Fairfax, Second Baron 23; title: Thomas Fairfax, Third Baron 23; title: Henry Fairfax, Fourth Baron 24; title: Thomas Fairfax, Fifth Baron 24; title: Thomas Fairfax, Sixth Baron 25; title: William Fairfax of Belvoir 28; title: George William Fairfax 31; title: Robert Fairfax, Seventh Baron 35; title: Bryan Fairfax, Eighth Baron 35; title: Thomas, Ninth Baron 43; title: Ferdinando Fairfax 50; title: Charles Snowden Fairfax, Tenth Baron 50; title: CHAPTER III.LIBER AMICORUM 51; title: CHAPTER IV.THE FAMILY PROPERTIES IN FAIRFAX COUNTY 56; title: Belvoir 56; title: Pohick 61; title: Great Falls 63; title: Page Lot 66; title: Towlston 67; title: Newfoundland 74; title: Springfield and the Courthouse at a Place called Springfield 75; title: Mount Eagle 78; title: APPENDIX A The First Patent of the Proprietary from Charles II 79; title: B The Final Boundaries of the Proprietary-Order in Council 85; title: C Sally Fairfax Diary and Letter-Excerpt from Orlando; title: Fairfax, "Scrapbook" 90; title: D Letter from Bryan Fairfax to George Washington, April; title: 10, 1778 101; title: E Last Will and Testament of Ferdinando Fairfax 104; title: F Notes on Towlston Grange by C.J.S.Durham 113; title: LIST OF SOURCES 116; title: iii <BR><BR>Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Fairfax family, Fairfax County (Va, ) History.