Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . were called Avere seating themselves along thefinest streams and in the richest valleys and virtually taking possession of thewhole country. It was the anxious desire of Lord Fairfax to have these lands ex-amined, surve3ed, and portioned out into lots or parcels, preparatory to ejectingthe interlopers or bringing them to satisfactorj^ usage. He had come over to Virginia in 1745, and since, had been passing most of histime with his co
Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway . were called Avere seating themselves along thefinest streams and in the richest valleys and virtually taking possession of thewhole country. It was the anxious desire of Lord Fairfax to have these lands ex-amined, surve3ed, and portioned out into lots or parcels, preparatory to ejectingthe interlopers or bringing them to satisfactorj^ usage. He had come over to Virginia in 1745, and since, had been passing most of histime with his cousin William at Belvoir, who had some time previously opened aland office for the sale of his lands to the incoming settlers. Here he made theacquaintance of the two young men already described, by whose abilities and char-acteristics he was so favorably impressed that he employed them as his ~^^ gsi. ^<4^^ ^^Sl—--^-- ii§)f//$^f-
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