2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
Early Farfax Family Broadside, "TEN DOLLARS. The above reward will be given to any one who, within thirty days from this time, shall give certain information of the person or persons who lately set fire to that part of the Bluer Ridge which was the property of the late George William Fairfax ... Shannnon-Hall, Berkley County, May 4th 1793. Winchester: Printed by Richard Bowen. Broadside, 8" x 6". Lightly tanned, Near Fine. The broadside warns Fairfax's resentful tenants on the Virginia frontier against cutting and selling Fairfax timber. Tenants have a "duty" and "interest to assist in detecting those unprincipled men, who, regardless of every moral and sacred obligation, are continually wasting and destroying the timber, either by burning or cutting." Otherwise, they can not "expect favours at a future day." The Fairfax overseer, "Mr. Battaile Muse is directed to make strict enquiry, and to use every means of bringing to justice every offender." Muse signs in manuscript at the bottom, with a note that, "Those indebted to Mr. Fairfax for rent are Directed to Pay by the 10th of June." George William Fairfax, a longtime friend of George Washington, was Ferdinando's uncle; and George and Martha Washington were Ferdinando's Godparents. Ferdinando inherited his uncle's estates at age thirteen. George Washington was one of the boy's guardians.
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