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Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
b.22 Oct 1693
d.9 Dec 1781
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m. Abt Oct 1690
  1. Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron1693 - 1781
  2. Frances FairfaxBef 1703 - 1791
  3. Robert Fairfax, 7th Lord Fairfax of Cameron1707 - 1793
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Name Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Gender Male
Birth[1] 22 Oct 1693
Death[1] 9 Dec 1781
Reference Number? Q7767667?


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Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron (22 October 16939 December 1781), was a Scottish peer. He was the son of Thomas Fairfax, 5th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, and Catherine Colepeper, daughter of Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper.

The only resident peer in late colonial America, Fairfax administered his vast Northern Neck Proprietary — a Virginia land grant dating back to 1649 — from his wilderness estate at Greenway Court, Virginia. He bought and sold enslaved Africans and derived much of his income from the labor of several hundred slaves on some 30 farms.[1]

Various place names in Northern Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia are named for himmost notably Fairfax County, Virginia, and the independent City of Fairfax.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
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