1802.] Account of the Late 
The unhappy civil war.that enfued, did 
not damp his profpects, for his country 
continued to be improved and peopled; 
and neither the armies of Great Britain nor 
America were permitted to ravage his ter- 
yitory. Somuch, indeed, was Lord Fair- 
fax beloved and -refpeéted by all parties, 
that he was permitted to proceed quietly 
in his improvements, and the Northern 
Neck ftill continued to be the abode of 
peace and happinefs. 
At length, after beholding his adopted 
country independent, and living to a good 
-old age, Lord Fairfax died at Greenway 
Court, in January or February 1732, and 
was buried at Winchefter. 
Thus died, in the 92d year of his age, 
Thomas Lord Fairfax, of the kingdom of 
Great Britain, who, with the pofleffion of 
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comprized within the boundaries of the rivers 
Potowmac and Rappahanoc, in Virginia, 
called the Northern Neck, containing, by 
eftimation, five millions feven hundred thou- 
fand acres. 
<< Anne, eldeft daughter of William Fair- 
fax, by Sarah Walker, was married to Law- 
rence, elder brother of Colonel now General 
Washington. Lawrence, who had been edu- 
eated in England, was a Captain in the army, 
and pofiefied a very confiderable property in 
Virginia. An infant daughter was the only 
fruit of this marriage, who died under feven 
years of age. At her deceafe, her father 
being alfo dead, General Wafhington fuc- 
ceeded* to Mount Vernon, and feveral fine 
Virginian eftates, the property of this branch 
of the Wafhington family. Anne, after the 
death of Lawrence Wafhington, her hufband, 
married George Lee, efg. the head of that 
numerous family in Virginia; and left be- 
hind her three fons, who are now living, viz. 
‘George Fairfax Lee, Launcelot Lee, and 
William Lee. 
‘* Hannah, youngeft child of William 
Fairfax by.his fecond marriage, is married to 
Warner Wafhington, eldeft fon of General 
Wathington’s father’s eldeft brother, and the 
head of that now illuftrious family... She has 
two fons and four daughters ; all, except the 
youngeft daughter, married to perfons, of con- 
dition and diftinétion in Virginia.” 
Thomas Lord Fairfax. \ 
an immenfe property, united many virtues 
and fingularities. His drefs was plain 
and fimple; his manners modeft and'un- 
affected 5 and his ftyle of living hofpita- 
ble and magnificent... Such was his gene- 
rofity, that the furplus of his income, in- 
ftead of being hoarded ap, was diftributed 
among his poor neighbours; and fuch his 
fcrupulous regard to juftice, that, when 
any lands had turned out unproduétive, he 
reimburfed the unfortunate fettler for his 
Jabour, and granted him a frefh ftock 
without any additional expence. , 
His principal diverfion confifted in the 
pleafures of the chace, and he was accuf- 
tomed to invite the whole field, after the 
pleafures of the day, to participate in his 
hofpitality. But he was not a mere {pori{- 
man. He had been educated in revolu- 
tionary principles, and had imbibed high 
notions of liberty during his youth: he 
therefore confidered himfelf as ‘bound to 
devote a confiderable portion of his time 
to the fervice of his country. He was 
Lord Lieutenant and Cuftos Rotulorum of 
Frederick County, in which he refided, 
and in addition to the duties of that office 
he was accuftomed to prefide’at the pro- 
vincial courts held at Winchefter, where, 
during the feffion, he always kept open 
table. He alfo a&ed as furveyor and over- 
feer of the public roads, ‘and did not dif 
dain any fituation in which he could be 
ferviceable to his neighbourhood. 
His Lordfhip never married. Two cir- 
cumftances, early in life, contributed to 
prevent this. Lady Culpepper, and Lady 
Fairfax, his grand-mother, and mother, 
are faid to have given him fomewhat of a- 
diflike for the fex; and the ungenerous 
conduct of a young lady, who, afteragree- | 
ing to become his wife, preferred a ducal 
coronet to that worn by a baron, made 
him relinquifh every idea of happinefs, fo 
far.as it is connected with marriage. 
Such was his difregard for wealth, that _ 
he had conferred Leeds Caftle and his 
Englifh eftates upon his brother Robert, 
many years before his death. | 
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