Download or read book The Fairfax Family in Fairfax County written by Kenton Kilmer and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the early history of Fairfax County, Virginia and the Fairfax family that figures prominently in its early development. "The county itself was named after Lord Thomas Fairfax, Sixth Baron of Cameron, proprietor of an enormous tract of land, some 5,282,000 acres, lying between the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers. The Fairfax proprietorship played a large roll in the colonization of English America ... In The Fairfax Family in Fairfax County: A Brief History, the reader will find many aspects of the interaction of people and the environment including short biographies of many members of the Fairfax family ... [and] connections between the Fairfax and Washington families and the influence of the former upon [George] Washington himself, as well as upon the early development of the country."--P. 2. Thomas Fairfax was born 22 October 1693 at Leeds Castle in Kent, England. He " ... succeeded to the title as Sixth Baron Of Cameron upon the death of his father in January 1709/10, at the age of sixteen ... In 1735 Lord Fairfax came to Virginia ... Returning to England in 1737 he spent the next ten years defending his interests in Virginia before the King's Privy Council ... In 1747, Thomas Lord Fairfax emigrated to Virginia, never to return to England, and made his home at Belvoir, with his cousin and agent, William Fairfax, and his household of five children ... From 1761 until death on December 9, 1781, Thomas, Lord Fairfax lived at Greenway Court [in the Shenandoah Valley] ... "--P. 26. Descendants lived in Virginia, Maryland and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Spanish American War written by Russell Alexander Alger and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1901 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lawn Boy written by Jonathan Evison and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Alex Award “Mike Muñoz Is a Holden Caulfield for a New Millennium--a '10th-generation peasant with a Mexican last name, raised by a single mom on an Indian reservation' . . . Evison, as in his previous four novels, has a light touch and humorously guides the reader, this time through the minefield that is working-class America.” --The New York Times Book Review For Mike Muñoz, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew--he’s smart enough to know that he’s got to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? He’s not qualified for much of anything. He has no particular talents, although he is stellar at handling a lawn mower and wielding clipping shears. But now that career seems to be behind him. So what’s next for Mike Muñoz? In this funny, biting, touching, and ultimately inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man determined to achieve the American dream of happiness and prosperity--who just so happens to find himself along the way.
Download or read book Fairfax of York written by Gerry Webb and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Family Divided written by Diane Guerrero and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The star of Orange Is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, Diane Guerrero presents her personal story in this middle grade memoir about her parents' deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children"--
Download or read book Fairfax Family Landholdings in Fairfax County written by Kenton Kilmer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diaries V 6 Jan 1790 Dec 1799 written by George Washington and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Download or read book Fairfax of Virginia written by Hugh Fairfax and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unique and largely forgotten story of how the ancient and noble Fairfax family of Yorkshire, England, renowned for their prominent role in the English Civil War, came to settle in Virginia before the Revolution, where they reigned over a vast empire of more than five million acres. For over 150 years, first as colonialists and then as loyal citizens of the new Republic, they played an active part in many of the great events that helped make American the country it is today. Then curiously at the beginning of the 20th Century, just as America was blossoming as the powerhouse of the world, they tuned their backs on their adopted homeland and returned once more to England. Told with panache and affection by Hugh Fairfax, a descendant of the family, we follow their close friendship with the young George Washington, and how they set him on his path to greatness and the birth of the new nation. We meet Thomas, 9th Lord Fairfax, a pioneer of emancipation, his son Henry who rallied to the colours in the Mexican War of 1846 and Charles Snowden Fairfax, 10th Lord Fairfax who joined the Gold Rush to California. Then in the Civil War as supporters of the South, they loose everything. The story ends with the author's grandfather, Albert 12th Lord Fairfax, who dreams of restoring the family fortune and position in the world. Forsaking America for England he reclaims his place in the House of Lords and prospers in the City of London. As the wheel comes full circle, we find the family once more established as Englishmen and loyal subjects of the Crown.
Download or read book Fairfax written by William Sagar and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairfax is surrounded by oak-draped glens that have enchanted many, including its early owner and namesake, Lord Charles Snowden Fairfax. The hereditary baron, whose family once owned much of Virginia, entertained guests in grand Southern style on his lovely estate known as Bird's Nest Glen. Later the home became Pastori's, the beloved local landmark hotel and restaurant visited by famous guests like Irving Berlin, who once serenaded diners from a piano perched on a tree house. The 1906 earthquake chased refugees from San Francisco across the bay, and new Fairfax subdivisions appeared, along with the Fairfax Incline Railway, built to help sell hillside lots. In the same era, its meadows, hay fields, and dairy ranches provided the setting for early silent movie Westerns. Today Bird's Nest Glen is known as the Marin Town and Country Club property, and the city boasts a thriving business district and prosperous residential areas. But it has never lost its rustic charm and hospitality.
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Download or read book Gender Queer A Memoir Deluxe Edition written by Maia Kobabe and published by Oni Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. This special deluxe hardcover edition of Gender Queer features a brand-new cover, exclusive art and sketches, and a TK from creator Maia Kobabe.
Download or read book Fairfax of Virginia written by Hugh Nigel Thomas Fairfax and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book For King and Country written by Thomas A. Lewis and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing heavily on Washington's own diaries, letters, and dispatches, the author follows the future president's remarkable rise from a callow young man with no inheritance, no trade, and few prospects to the respected commander-in-chief of the military forces of British America's foremost colony. The book reveals that this progress was not preordained by Washington's steadily growing qualities of leadership, courage, and devotion to liberty and justice but also involved conniving, conspiracy, fawning on superiors, badmouthing subordinates, covering up disastrous mistakes, and the occasional outright lie. The author also details the things Washington should have known but did not - about the frontier, the Indian traders, the French, and especially the Native Americans who were essential to his purposes.
Download or read book Colonial Catoctin written by Roberto Valerio Costantino and published by Heritage Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herewith is the history of the Fairfax family in the context of Piedmont Manor and Shannondale Manor (Loudoun County, Virginia), with a comprehensive account of their development. This volume catalogs 259 abstracted legal instruments in chronological orde
