Background
With his father, on December 11, 1799, he was among the last guests at Mount Vernon before Washington died.
With his father, on December 11, 1799, he was among the last guests at Mount Vernon before Washington died.
He lived the life of a country squire overseeing his 40,000 acres (160 km2), lived at Belvoir, Ash Grove, and Vaucluse, where he died. Fairfax birthed children with Mary Aylett, a Native Indian woman. He maintained a winter home at 607 Cameron Street, Alexandria, Virginia, which he built in 1816.
Because of these religious beliefs, he manumitted his slaves, taught them a trade, and sent them to Liberia.
This is consistent with the thinking of the American Colonization Society.