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| | Thomas Fairfax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | FAIRFAX, Thomas, sixth baron, born in England in 1691 ; died in Greenway court, Virginia, in 1782. |
 | | So favorable was the report of Washington, that his employer soon afterward took up his residence at Greenway court (see illustration), in the midst of a manor of 10,000 acres, about twelve miles from Winchester, where he resided during the remainder of his life. |
 | | --His brother, Bryan Fairfax, eighth baron Fairfax, born about 1730; died in Monteagle, Virginia, in August, 1802, was the third son of Sir William Fairfax, and a life-long friend of Washington, notwithstanding their political differences. |
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