Travels Through North America 



fortune. Mrs. Whiteing died in childbed of her first child, 

 a son, who is now living. 



Brian, eldest son of the second marriage of William Fair- 

 fax with Deborah Clarke, the present and eighth baron, 

 married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Wilson Gary, 

 Esquire, of the family above mentioned, and lives upon his 

 estate at a place called Towlston, in Fairfax county. He 

 has, by this marriage, two sons, viz. Thomas and Ferdi- 

 nando, and one daughter, named Elizabeth, married to 

 Mr. Griffith, the son of an American bishop. He has also 

 a daughter by a second marriage. Thomas has been twice 

 married, but has had the misfortune to lose both his wives, 

 precisely at the same period of time, viz. the end of three 

 months, by sickness and other indisposition, attendant upon 

 pregnancy. Ferdinando, heir, as was above mentioned, 

 to George William Fairfax, married a daughter of Wilson 

 Miles Gary, Esquire, brother to the widow of the said 

 George William, which marriage made the fifth connection 

 between the families of Fairfax and Gary, either in England 

 or Virginia. 



William Fairfax, fourth son of William Fairfax, and the 

 second by his second marriage, was educated at Wakefield 

 school, in Yorkshire; served in the army, and was killed at 

 the siege of Quebec. He was a young man of very promis- 

 ing abilities, and much esteemed by General Wolfe. When 

 the general landed, he saw young Fairfax sitting upon the 

 bank of the river; and immediately running up to him, he 

 clapped him on the shoulder, and said, "Young man, when 

 "we come to action, remember your name." Alas! they 

 unfortunately both fell in the space of a few hours. 



Hannah, youngest child of William Fairfax by his second 

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