Sally Fairfax
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Sarah Cary Fairfax was the wife of George William Fairfax, a prominent member of the landed gentry of late Colonial Virginia and the mistress of the Virginia plantation and estate of Belvoir. She is w
Portrait c. 1700s
Belvoir (plantation)
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Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the forced labor of enslaved people, it was located on the west bank of the Potomac River o
Sally Fairfax
…William Fairfax (1724–1787), a prominent member of the landed gentry of late Colonial Virginia and the mistress of the Virginia plantation and estate of Belvoir. She is well-remembered for being the woman with whom George Washington was apparently in love before his marriage to Martha Dandridge Custis. Sarah…
Location of Fort Belvoir
Belvoir Mansion, an artist's conception of the building before its destruction