Anne Fairfax Carlyle

Anne Fairfax Carlyle was born 22 January 1761 at 121 North Fairfax Street Place 121 North Fairfax Street Stone Georgian mansion built in 1753 by Scottish merchant John Carlyle; headquarters in April 1755 for General Edward Braddock's Congress of five royal governors planning the … , second surviving daughter of John Carlyle and his first wife Sarah Fairfax. She was named for her maternal aunt Anne Fairfax (the wife of Lawrence Washington of Mount Vernon and the half-sister-in-law of George Washington) ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .

In 1777, at sixteen, she married Henry Whiting Person Henry Whiting b. 1748 · d. 1786 Of Gloucester County, Virginia; in 1777 married (Anne Fairfax Carlyle), second daughter of . Widowed at twenty-nine the day his only son was born. (b. 10 December 1748) of Gloucester County, Virginia. Their only surviving issue was Carlyle Fairfax Whiting Person Carlyle Fairfax Whiting b. 1778 · d. 1831 Only son of (Anne Fairfax Carlyle) and ; inherited the Berkeley County "Limekilns" tract under John Carlyle's 1780 will. Patriarch of the Carlyle-Whiting line down to the … , born 20 March 1778 — the day his mother died at seventeen, almost certainly in childbirth. Through her son, the Carlyle-Whiting line continued for at least four further generations and produced the genealogist Richard Henry Spencer Person Richard Henry Spencer Maryland Spencer-Hall descendant who in 1880 married Alice Herbert Whiting, a great-granddaughter of ; author of the 1909 and 1910 Carlyle articles in the William and Mary College … , who married Anne’s great-granddaughter Alice Herbert Whiting in 1880 and compiled the 1909 and 1910 Carlyle records on which this entry largely rests.

Under John Carlyle’s 1780 will, “to his other grandson Carlyle Fairfax Whiting, the infant son of his deceased daughter, Anne Fairfax Whiting,” Carlyle left several hundred acres of land in Berkeley County, Virginia, known as “Limekilns” ^[1] Source 1 R. H. Spencer, "The Carlyle Family" (W&M Quarterly, January 1910) Book .