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Found 40 total hits in 18 results.
Northampton (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Vaucluse (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Addison, Steuben County, New York (New York, United States) (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Fairfax, Thomas 1691-1781
Sixth Baron of Cameron; born in England in 1691; educated at Oxford; was a contributor to Addison's Spectator, and finally, soured by disappointments, quitted England forever, and settled on the vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, daughter of Lord Culpeper.
He built a lodge in the midst of 10,000 acres of land, some of it arable and excellent for grazing, where he resolved to build a fine mansion and live a sort of
Thomas Fairfax. hermit lord of a vast domain.
He was at middle age when he came to America.
He never built the great mansion, but lived a solitary life in the lodge he had built, which he called Greenway Court.
There Washington first met him and became a frequent visitor, for Fairfax found him a bright young man, a good hunter, in
Greenway Court. which sport he himself loved to engage, and useful to him as a surveyor of his lands.
He became very fond of the young surveyor, who was a loved companio
Oxford (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Fairfax, Thomas 1691-1781
Sixth Baron of Cameron; born in England in 1691; educated at Oxford; was a contributor to Addison's Spectator, and finally, soured by disappointments, quitted England forever, and settled on the vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, daughter of Lord Culpeper.
He built a lodge in the midst of 10,000 acres of land, some of it arable and excellent for grazing, where he resolved to build a fine mansion and live a sort of
Thomas Fairfax. hermit lord of a vast domain.
He was at middle age when he came to America.
He never built the great mansion, but lived a solitary life in the lodge he had built, which he called Greenway Court.
There Washington first met him and became a frequent visitor, for Fairfax found him a bright young man, a good hunter, in
Greenway Court. which sport he himself loved to engage, and useful to him as a surveyor of his lands.
He became very fond of the young surveyor, who was a loved companion
England (United Kingdom) (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Fairfax, Thomas 1691-1781
Sixth Baron of Cameron; born in England in 1691; educated at Oxford; was a contributor to Addison's Spectator, and finally, soured by disappointments, quitted England forever, and settled on the vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, daughter of Lord Culpeper.
He built a lodge in the midst of 10,000 acres of land, some of it arable and excellent for grazing, where he resolved to build a fine mansion and live a sort of
Thomas FaiEngland forever, and settled on the vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, daughter of Lord Culpeper.
He built a lodge in the midst of 10,000 acres of land, some of it arable and excellent for grazing, where he resolved to build a fine mansion and live a sort of
Thomas Fairfax. hermit lord of a vast domain.
He was at middle age when he came to America.
He never built the great mansion, but lived a solitary life in the lodge he had built, which he called Greenway Court.
There Washington first met him and became a frequent visitor, for Fairfax found him a bright young man, a good hunter, in
Greenway Court. which sport he himself loved to engage, and useful to him as a surveyor of his lands.
He became very fond of the young surveyor, who was a loved compani
America (Netherlands) (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Frederick (Virginia, United States) (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Simon Cameron (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Fairfax, Thomas 1691-1781
Sixth Baron of Cameron; born in England in 1691; educated at Oxford; was a contributor to Addison's Spectator, and finally, soured by disappointments, quitted England forever, and settled on the vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, daughter of Lord Culpeper.
He built a lodge in the midst of 10,000 acres of land, some of it arable and excellent for grazing, where he resolved to build a fine mansion and live a sort of
Thomas Fai arm, And to his bed he softly led The lord of Greenway farm, Then thrice he called on Britain's name, And thrice he wept full sore, Then sighed, O Lord, thy will be done!
And word spoke never more. He died at his lodge, Greenway Court, in Frederick county, Va., Dec. 12, 1781.
The eleventh Lord Fairfax and Baron of Cameron, John Coutee Fairfax, was born in Vaucluse, Va., Sept. 13, 1830; was a physician; succeeded his brother in the title in 1869; and died in Northampton, Md., Sept. 28, 1900.
Thomas Fairfax (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas
Fairfax, Thomas 1691-1781
Sixth Baron of Cameron; born in England in 1691; educated at Oxford; was a contributor to Addison's Spectator, and finally, soured by disappointments, quitted England forever, and settled on the vast landed estate in Virginia which he had inherited from his mother, daughter of Lord Culpeper.
He built a lodge in the midst of 10,000 acres of land, some of it arable and excellent for grazing, where he resolved to build a fine mansion and live a sort of
Thomas Fairfax. hermit lord of a vast domain.
He was at middle age when he came to America.
He never built the great mansion, but lived a solitary life in the lodge he had built, which he called Greenway Court.
There Washington first met him and became a frequent visitor, for Fairfax found him a bright young man, a good hunter, in
Greenway Court. which sport he himself loved to engage, and useful to him as a surveyor of his lands.
He became very fond of the young surveyor, who was a loved compani
John Coutee Fairfax (search for this): entry fairfax-thomas