William Fairfax (1691–1757)
William Fairfax, a neighbor and friend of George Washington, was baptized at Newton Kyne, England, on 30 October 1691. After a stint in the army, he held several government posts in the Bahamas, where he married Sarah Walker (d. 1731). Walker, who may have been of mixed race, bore Fairfax four children. In 1725 Fairfax and his family moved to Salem, Massachusetts, where he became the collector of customs.
Mary V. Thompson, "George William Fairfax (1724–1787)," Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of Virginia (1998– ), published 2016 (http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.asp?b=Fairfax_George_William, accessed 8 September 2023).
Moncure Daniel Conway, Barons of the Potomack and the Rappahannock (New York: The Grolier Club, 1892).
Edward D. Neill, The Fairfaxes of England and America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Including Letters from and to Hon. William Fairfax ... and His Sons, Col. George William Fairfax and Rev. Bryan, Eighth Lord Fairfax, the Neighbors and Friends of George Washington (Albany, NY: J. Munsell, 1868).
Richard Henry Spencer, "The Carlyle Family," The William and Mary Quarterly, Volume 18, Number 3 (January 1910), 201–12.
Col William Fairfax at Find a Grave.