"The Fairfax Family in Fairfax County: A Brief History"
Authors: Kenton Kilmer and Donald Sweig
Publisher: Fairfax County Office of Comprehensive Planning (1975)
 
This volume deals with the early history of Fairfax County, Virginia and the Fairfax family that figures prominently in its early development. The county itself was named after Lord Thomas Fairfax, Sixth Baron of Cameron, proprietor of an enormous tract of land, some 5,282,000 acres, lying between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers. The Fairfax proprietorship played a large roll in the colonization of English America.
 
In The Fairfax Family in Fairfax County: A Brief History, the reader will find many aspects of the interaction of people and the environment including short biographies of many members of the Fairfax family ... [and] connections between the Fairfax and Washington families and the influence of the former upon [George] Washington himself, as well as upon the early development of the country."
 
Thomas Fairfax was born 22 October 1693 at Leeds Castle in Kent, England. He " ... succeeded to the title as Sixth Baron Of Cameron upon the death of his father in January 1709/10, at the age of sixteen ... In 1735 Lord Fairfax came to Virginia ... Returning to England in 1737 he spent the next ten years defending his interests in Virginia before the King's Privy Council ... In 1747, Thomas Lord Fairfax emigrated to Virginia, never to return to England, and made his home at Belvoir, with his cousin and agent, William Fairfax, and his household of five children ... From 1761 until death on December 9, 1781, Thomas, Lord Fairfax lived at Greenway Court [in the Shenandoah Valley] ... Descendants lived in Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere.
 
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