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Identifier: magazineofamericv13stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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s son, Sir Philip, an extravagant and dis-solute man, who sold Bolton Percy to the first Lord Fairfax, and died in1613, at the age of twenty-seven years. His son, Sir William Fairfax, wasthe first cousin and chivalrous companion in arms of the great Lord Fairfax.Holding the same political opinions, he was with that brilliant soldier whenhe presented the petition to King Charles I. on Heworth Moor. Subse-quently he raised and commanded as colonel, a regiment of foot for theParliamentarian army under Lord Essex; fought with singular gallantryin the engagement at Edgehill, the storming of Leeds, the battles ofWakefield and Nantwich, the sieges of Lathom House and York, and theconflict on Marston Moor, where his brigade of Yorkshiremen was brokenand routed by the murderous cross fire of the enemy. After that hemarched into Lancashire at the head of 1,000 Yorkshire cavalry, took part THE FAIRFAXES OK YORKSHIRE AND VIRGINIA 235 men wavered and fell back the third time>h a, Wa,eS When hi*
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the J C°LONEL T F FAIRFAX- f«r,o„,Iy ato. hi J Pinng Thc Ymkbi„ J 236 THE FAIRFAXES OF YORKSHIRE AND VIRGINIA victorw His wife and four young children returned to Steeton Hall, ofwhich she was mistress for nearly sixty years. William, eldest son of the peerless knight, succeeded to possession ofthe estate. His brother Thomas was a general of the army in the reign ofQueen Anne. Robert Fairfax, son of William, was the next heir, and wasa brave and victorious admiral. He built a house a few miles fromSteeton, at Newton Kyme, and made it the family seat. He also acquiredBilbrough. Thomas, his son, succeeded in 1725, and was the author of theComplete Sportsman, published in 1760. His son John, of NewtonKyme, succeeded to the patrimonial estates in 1803, an<^ was followed in1811 by his son, Thomas Lodington Fairfax. This gentleman was followedIn turn, in 1840, by his son Thomas, who died in 1875. ThomasFerdinand, eldest son of the last proprietor, then assumed the ancestralhonors,

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