Identifier: someoldhistoricl03snow (find matches)
Title: Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog) Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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that this boy had overthrown forever thedominion of Great Britain in America on thefield of Yorktown. So had Providence decreed;and the gray haired baron doubtless felt that hewas only the humble servant in that all powerfulHand. After Yorktown—after the supreme defeat ofthe proud English general by the lad whom hehad trained, it was, as he said, time for himto die. His death took place in 1781, at the age ofninty-two, and his body bes buried in the oldEpiscopal churchyard at Winchester, Va. Hisbarony and its prerogatives according to Englishlaw descended in the absence of a son to hiseldest brother Robert, who thus became seventhLord Fairfax. The latter died in Leeds Castle,England, 1791, without a son. The baronialtitle then fell to Rev. Bryan Fairfax, son ofWilliam Fairfax then dead, and urother in-law ofLawrence Washington. „. , „ n „ r- 1.1 > . t r ^ Right lion. F.cv. Bryan, Iiglitli lord Fairfax, His main and last residence in Virginia was curtesy oi m.ss f. m Burke.
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*See ■ Story of Young Surveyors by author OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 107 Mount Eagle on a high eminence near Great Hunting Creek, Fairfax county. Buthe had another homestead known as Towlston Hall, a few miles above Alexandria,destroyed by fire just before the Revolution. He became the Eighth Lord in descent,and died at Mount Eagle in 1802. He was probably buried in Ivy Hill Cemetery nearAlexandria. On a tablet in this burial place erected by his granddaughter is the fol-lowing inscription : In Memoriam. Right Hon. Rev. Bry.a.n, Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron AND Rector of Christ Church, Fairfax Parish. Died .\t Mount Eagle, Aug. 7, 1802, aged 78. The Lord forsaketh not the Saints. They are Preserved Forever. The last living heir to the title of Lord, in line of descent is Mr. Albert Fairfax ofNew York City. He has become by the recent death of his father, John Contee Fair-fax of Mar) land, the twelfth Baron. The great landed estates of Lord Thomas Fairfax with their entails were in

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