Hannah Fairfax Washington
(1742-1804)
BIRTH
August 14, 1742
PLACE
Fairfax County, Virginia
NAME
Hannah Fairfax
DEATH
May 29, 1804
PLACE
Clarke County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
William Fairfax
(1691-1757)
MOTHER
Deborah Clarke Fairfax
(1708-1747)
BROTHER
Bryan Fairfax
(1736-1802)
BROTHER
William Henry Fairfax
(1739-1759)
CHILDREN
Hannah Fairfax Washington
(1767-1828)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Hannah Fairfax Washington (1742–1804) was a daughter of William Fairfax of Belvoir and married Warner Washington, a cousin of George Washington. Her family connections linked the Fairfaxes and Washingtons across northern Virginia. Surviving correspondence and estate papers document her interests in land and family property after her husband’s death. Sources place her marriage in 1763 or 1764, so the precise date remains open. She died in 1804.
EARLY LIFE
Hannah Fairfax Washington was born on Aug 14, 1742 in Fairfax County, Virginia. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Hannah Fairfax Washington is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Hannah Fairfax Washington died on May 29, 1804 in Clarke County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Surviving correspondence and estate papers document her interests in land and family property after her husband’s death. Sources place her marriage in 1763 or 1764, so the precise date remains open. Hannah Fairfax Washington died on May 29, 1804 in Clarke County, Virginia. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
MARKER
Belvoir Marker
202 Belvoir Rd, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Hannah Fairfax Washington, William Fairfax’s daughter and Warner Washington’s wife. These are Fairfax-Washington family studies and correspondence. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. The Fairfax Family in Fairfax County: A Brief History — Kenton Kilmer; Donald Sweig. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. Fairfax of Virginia: The Forgotten Story of America’s Only Peerage — Hugh Fairfax. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. The Washingtons: A Family History, Volume 1: Seven Generations of the Presidential Branch — Justin Glenn. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
4. The Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series — W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig (editors). [Related primary family correspondence; series counted once] Find on Amazon
5. Fairfax County, Virginia: A History — Nan Netherton; Donald Sweig; Janice Artemel; Patricia Hickin; Patrick Reed. [Local and biographical history] Find on Amazon
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