APPENDIX, N 4. 



THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX, descended from a very 

 ancient family in Yorkshire, was born towards the 

 latter end of the last century; I believe about the year 1691. 

 He was the eldest son of Thomas fifth Lord Fairfax, of 

 Cameron, in the kingdom of Scotland, by Catherine, only 

 daughter and heiress of Thomas Lord Culpepper; in whose 

 right he afterwards possessed Leeds Castle, with several 

 manors and estates in the county of Kent, and in the Isle 

 of Wight; and that immense tract of country, comprised 

 within the boundaries of the rivers Potowmac and Rappa- 

 hannoc in Virginia, called the Northern Neck; containing 

 by estimation five millions seven hundred thousand acres. 



Lord Fairfax had the misfortune to lose his father while 

 young: and at his decease he and his two brothers, Henry 

 and Robert, and four sisters, one of whom, named Frances, 

 was afterwards married to Denny Martin, Esq., of Loose, in 

 Kent, came under the guardianship of their mother and 

 grandmother, the dowager Ladies Fairfax and Culpepper; 

 the latter of whom was a princess of the house of Hesse 

 Cassel. 



Lord Fairfax, at the usual age, was sent to the university 

 of Oxford to complete his education; and was highly 

 esteemed there for his learning and accomplishments. His 

 judgment upon literary subjects was then, and at other 

 times, frequently appealed to; and he was one of the writers 



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