The Lord Fairfax returned what he said was his last answer, and should be the last offer of mercy.

Marshall represented the tenants of Lord Fairfax, and won his case.

Lord Fairfax had built a summer home there and a "private bath" making the area a popular destination for Virginia's social elite.

Following her death, a marriage had been arranged between him and Mary, daughter of the 3rd Lord Fairfax.

In May, his grandmother died leaving the new Lord Fairfax her one-sixth share.

When she died in 1719, the sixth Lord Fairfax came to control all six shares of the proprietary.

In 1735 Lord Fairfax came to Virginia to see about a survey to settle the matter.

It was most likely named for Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax.

But only the old Lord Fairfax and the Yorkshiremen responded.

Lord Fairfax sent a survey party to Pearsall's in 1762 to formally lay out the town into 100 lots.