When Col. John Scott Fairfax was born on 10 December 1762, in Charles, Maryland, United States, his father, William Fairfax II, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Buckner, was 22. He married Mary Byrne in 1792. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Prince William, Virginia, United States in 1793. He registered for military service in 1814. He died on 25 December 1843, in Kingwood, Preston, Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Fairfax Cemetery, Arthurdale, Preston, West Virginia, United States.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Maryland is the 7th state.
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
English: nickname for someone with beautiful long hair, from Middle English fair fax ‘beautiful tresses’. This was a common descriptive phrase in Middle English: the alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight refers to ‘fair fanning fax’ encircling the shoulders of the doughty warrior.
History: Thomas Fairfax (1693–1781), an army officer from Leeds Castle, Kent, England, first came to VA in 1735 and settled on maternal estates there as a proprietor in 1747.
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