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William Fairfax (1691–1757) was a political appointee of the British Crown in several colonies as well as a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia.
- 1691, London
- Valentine Peyton
- John Colville
23 de sept. de 2022 · Fairfax’s death was a tragedy not just for how early in his life it came. Many Biden officials, particularly many Black officials in the administration, spoke of his irrepressible spark that ...
George William Fairfax inherited the Belvoir estate after his father's death in 1757. He and his wife Sally frequently hosted George and Martha Washington after the couple settled next door at Mount Vernon in the spring of 1759.
Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the forced labor of enslaved people, it was located on the west bank of the Potomac River on the present site of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- June 04, 1973
- December 2, 1969, July 17, 1973
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William Fairfax (1691–1757) was a political appointee of the British Crown in several colonies as well as a planter and politician in the Colony of Virginia. Fairfax served as Collector of Customs in Barbados, Chief Justice and governor of the Bahamas; and Customs agent in Marblehead, Massachusetts before being reassigned to the Virginia colony.
Although George William Fairfax would never know anything of the brutality of slavery itself, not even he was safe from the brunt of racism despite the comparatively privileged and protected...
William Fairfax (bap. 30 October 1691–2 September 1757), member of the Council, was the son of Henry Fairfax and Anne Harrison Fairfax and was baptized on 30 October 1691 in the parish of Newton Kyme in the West Riding of Yorkshire (later North Yorkshire), where he was probably born.
