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- ↑ Thompson, Mary V. (2016). "George William Fairfax (1724–1787)". Dictionary of Virginia Biography. Library of Virginia (1998– ). Retrieved February 28, 2017.
- 1 2 Mario Valdes, "The Fairfaxes and George Washington", The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families, Frontline, PBS. Note: Valdes interprets historical documents as suggesting that Sarah Walker was of partial African descent from her maternal line. Her husband Fairfax was concerned about the progress of his mixed-race children in the world. Valdes has found that a later descendant tried to cover up this aspect of the family's history by eliminating parts of letters when quoting family documents.
- ↑ William H. Snowden (1902). The Story of the Expedition of the Young Surveyors, George Washington and George William Fairfax: to Survey the Virginia Lands of Thomas, Sixth Lord Fairfax, 1747-1748. G. H. Ramey.
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- 1 2 Thomas Fleming Archived 2010-04-19 at the Wayback Machine "George Washington in Love," American Heritage, Fall 2009.
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly, 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 84, 86
- ↑ Thomas Kemp Cartmell, Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants, p. 245
- ↑ Nan Netherton Netherton, Donald Sweig, Janice Artemel, Patricia Hickin and Patrick Read, Fairfax County, Virginia: a History (Fairfax: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, 1978) p. 65
- ↑ James Thomas Flexner (1974). Washington: The Indispensable Man . p. 364.
- ↑ Netherton pp. 74, 687
- ↑ "Letter from George Washington to George William Fairfax, July 1774", The Road to Revolution, The Documents of George Washington, University of Virginia, accessed 13 November 2011
- ↑ "George Washington letter to William Fairfax, 31 May 1775", excerpted from The Writings of George Washington, Vol II, edited by Jared Sparks, 1847; at Family Tales Website
