Alexandria Gazette (Va)
19 December 1887
THE FAIRFAX FAMILY
Col. John W. Fairfax, of Prince William county, Virginia, was in town on Saturday last searching the records in the clerk's office, his object being to trace the genealogy of the Maryland branch of his illustrious family. The Colonel in examining the church records of Durham Parish, found recorded the birth and baptism of several members of this branch of his family, the parents of whom resided at the time in the parish. Col. Fairfax is a younger brother of the Virginia planter, who can at any time cross the ocean and assume the title of Lord Fairfax, and occupy a seat in the House of Lords, in the British Parliament, but being a native born American he prefers the simplicity, and the laws of his native land, to that of law maker for a country for which his only admiration is that it give birth to his ancestors. -- Port Tobacco, (Md.,) Independent
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