William Henry Fairfax

(1739-1759)
BIRTH
1739
PLACE
unknown
DEATH
1759
PLACE
Fairfax County, Virginia
FAMILY

FATHER
William Fairfax
(1691-1757)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Billy
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
William Henry Fairfax (1739–1759) was a son of William Fairfax and Deborah Clarke of Belvoir, Virginia, and a younger half-brother of George William Fairfax. He served in the British army’s 28th Regiment of Foot during the Seven Years’ War and died from wounds received at Quebec in 1759. The Fairfax family monument at Belvoir commemorates him alongside his parents and half-brother Thomas. His brief military career ended before the American struggle for independence began.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of William Henry Fairfax’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
Fairfax served in the military and received fatal wounds at Quebec.
CAREER
DEATH
William Henry Fairfax was a son of William Fairfax and Deborah Clarke of Belvoir, Virginia, and a younger half-brother of George William Fairfax. Fairfax served in the military and received fatal wounds at Quebec. William Henry Fairfax died in 1759, in Fairfax 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.
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