Hello ALL!!! ...{:) My answer to this discussion is "YES"! ....{:). This is why we need somebody to graciously do a lookup, at their convenience, of the British Soldiers' Regimental Rosters, if they exist, during the British occupation of America during the years of 1775 - 1782 during the American Revolutionary War, AKA "The great War of Rebellion", for any FAIRFAX soldiers in the British Regiments. The Walter Fairfax of 1800 Caswell County, NC Census "IS" the Walter FAIRFAX that settled in Nashville, Tennessee [ Davidson County ] in 1806 time period. There is quite possibly, as one 1800 reference stated - "there are additional other FAIRFAX "cousins" too numerous to discuss", FAIRFAX folks who were kinfolk of both Maryland [John Fairfax] and Virginia [Lord Thomas Fairfax] FAIRFAX Families, and who migrated to NORTH CAROLINA in the 1760s -1770s during the tumultuous times leading up to 1776, with both personal "Loyalties" to the British Crown and yet personal duties to defend their new homeland, such as Sgt. Frederick FAIRFAX, Dormand FAIRFAX, and Herrenton FAIRFAX of the 1st American Continental Line of North Carolina. Any documents and/or excerpts that are copied would be greatly appreciated by myself and I would love to receive a Xerox copy in the mail so I can scan it and post it to our FAIRFAX Family Website for reference by all interested parties. ...{:). Best regards, Cousin Dan Fairfax 2629 Somerset Drive Nashville, Tennessee 37217 [email protected] ================================== -----Original Message----- From: Allen Fairfax [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 2:37 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NCLENOIR] RE: Fairfax./ Dashiel Hello Christine Grimes Thacker and Dan Fairfax, The record I found (in a court/marriage records book for Accomack County, VA) is that Colonel George Dashiel of Somerset County, Maryland, married Elizabeth Fairfax (noted as the "widow of James Fairfax") on September 10, 1740 ... there is also printed next to the record "CT ret 1740", which I could not find exactly what that might mean ... believe that Thomas Preeson was listed as the "sec." (second? witness?) Dan, If you go to the general rootsweb page, and just do a search for James Fairfax, several references will come up ... the James Fairfax in Accomack County reference has him living in 1728, and the record (which I don't really understand exactly how to read all the references there) is about his marriage to Mary Huitt Smith. Mary Smith was born before 1676 and her marriage to James was her second. Her first marriage was to George Smith, and they had four children (Huitt Smith, George Smith, Ann Smith, John Smith) ... This makes the connection to the Fairfax Smith who willed James Fairfax's soupspoons to his daughter (a stepgrandson??)...however, if James was married to Mary, why do we have a reference to him being married to Elizabeth "the widow of James Fairfax" in 1740? A second marriage for him? or a second James Fairfax? Also, I looked through my Virginia records, about the historical reference to James Fairfax attending an impromptu dance at the home of Margaret Teackle in Accomack county ... it said he went to the house initially to retrieve a slave boy who was playing the fiddle, a slave who belonged to a Bayley ... the group there persuaded him to stay for the dance, and they apparently danced all night (as her REverend father was away!) ..I did not copy down more than the one page from this book, and therefore do not have any footnote to tell me what year this event occurred ... however, in the general records I have copied off for William Fairfax of James Citie in the early 1600s, his land was adjacent to the land of a Mary Bayley ... this is the closest link yet that this James Fairfax was connected to the earlier William Fairfax .... still, we do not know whether James Fairfax had any male children of his own .... Also, it continues to strike me as odd that in NC between 1769 and 1800, we have Peter, John and Walter Fairfax's, but they do not appear to be the right age/time frame for the Peter, John and Walter Fairfax's who were children of Jonathan Fairfax of Maryland (d.1787) ... I believe we have records indicating that the Peter who was the son of Jonathan was born in 1782 (a likely year that the other Peter Fairfax died)... John shows up in 1769 in Northampton county NC, while Walter shows up in 1800 Caswell county (I guess he could easily be a son of Jonathan? do we know that for sure somehow? is this the Tennessee branch?) ... the genealogical historical record of Jonathan Fairfax said that the only one of his sons to reach manhood was Richard Wright Fairfax, that the others died young (Peter, John, Walter) ... perhaps they were wrong, and one or more of them moved out of Maryland and to NC ?? I was considering the possibility that the Peter Fairfax in Virginia during the early 1700s was perhaps a cousin of the William Fairfax/Jonathan Fairfax/Hezekiah clan?? and that this might explain the name connections, with common names in the family lines in England (there were Peter Fairfax references in England during the 1600s) .... Spending way too much time on this!! gotta go do some work!! Let me know what you know and what you think? Allen >From: "Fairfax, Dan" <[email protected]> >To: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> >CC: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [NCLENOIR] RE: Fairfax./ Dashiel >Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 08:33:03 -0600 > >Howdy! > >I will forward this to Cousin Allen Fairfax and see if he has ....{:). > >[email protected] > >Dan > >============================== > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:00 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [NCLENOIR] RE: Fairfax./ Dashiel > > >In a message dated 1/11/2002 8:41:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, >[email protected] writes: > > > > Concerning James Fairfax of 1739 Accomack/Northamption county, Virginia >(his > > > > will dated 1739), I found a marriage record from 1741 of James Fairfax' > > > > Did you by chance notice or get more info on this , i have a Dashiel / >Winders (Winder ) connection, > Thanks for any help given. > >Christine Grimes Thacker _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com