. History of the lower Shenandoah Valley counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke, their early settlement and progress to the present time; geological features; a description of their historic and interesting localities; cities, towns and villages; portraits of some of the prominent men, and biographies of many of the representative citizens. ittle Moll,as her father called her. She gave her hand to the brilliant but dis-solute George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, wealthy, titled and in-fluential; a splendid match, as matches go, in high society, but heled the gentle Mary into muc


. History of the lower Shenandoah Valley counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke, their early settlement and progress to the present time; geological features; a description of their historic and interesting localities; cities, towns and villages; portraits of some of the prominent men, and biographies of many of the representative citizens. ittle Moll,as her father called her. She gave her hand to the brilliant but dis-solute George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, wealthy, titled and in-fluential; a splendid match, as matches go, in high society, but heled the gentle Mary into much courtly splendor, and amid many in-trigues, herself alone preserving her hereditary purity and lived an example of dignified matronhood to the age of sixty-sixand died without issue, her husband having preceded her to the graveby many years. At the death of the great Lord Fairfax, he havingno surviving son, the title went to his cousin, Henry of Bolton fourth Lord Fairfax figured prominently in Parliament and wassucceeded by his son, Thomas, the fifth lord from the Thomas ofDenton, whom Charles I. had honored by the title. This fifth LordThomas Fairfax, was handsome, debonair and extravagant. He wasa colonel in the Kings own, and for some years member of Parlia-ment from York. He was zealous in placing William III. on the.


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