Lord Fairfax and the Special Relationship

Thomas, Baron Cameron, sixth Lord Fairfax, the only British peer who permanently resided in colonial America, helped create the United States by hiring, mentoring and raising from obscurity young George Washington. As a teenager Washington surveyed for Lord Fairfax, the proprietor of over five million acres across northern Virginia and what is now West Virginia.

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