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William Henry Fairfax

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(1739-1759)

BIRTH

1739

PLACE

unknown

DEATH

1759

PLACE

Fairfax County, Virginia

FAMILY

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FATHER

William Fairfax

(1691-1757)

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MOTHER

Deborah Clarke Fairfax

(1708-1747)

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BROTHER

Thomas Fairfax

(1726-1746)

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SISTER

Anne Fairfax Washington

(1728-1761)

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SISTER

Sarah Fairfax Carlyle

(1730-1761)

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BROTHER

Bryan Fairfax

(1736-1802)

HOMES

NICKNAMES

Billy

RELIGIOUS VIEWS

RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED

DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED

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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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MARKER

Belvoir Marker

202 Belvoir Rd, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060

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