George William Fairfax was the son of Sarah (Walker) and Colonel Sir William Fairfax, who served as an English Customs agent in Barbados, as well as a justice and governor of the Bahamas. The Fairfax family was a powerful prominent political and landowning family in Europe and the Americas. His mother Sarah Walker was a Black woman from Barbados. George William Fairfax was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1729 where there is a record showing a “William, negro child of William Fairfax Esq., baptized February 26, 1729.” William Fairfax worried about the reception of his son, George William by the London Fairfax family when he sent him to England. In a letter to his mother he states ” I judged it too forward to send him before I had your’s or some one of his Uncles’ or Aunts’ invitation, altho’ I have no reason to doubt any of their indulgences to a poor WEST INDIA BOY ESPECIALLY AS HE HAS THE MARKS IN HIS VISAGE THAT WILL ALWAYS TESTIFY HIS PARENTAGE.” George William Fairfax was a mentor to future 1st president of the United States, George Washington. He employed him to survey his lands in the Shennandoah Valley. George Washington’s association with the Fairfax family heavily influenced his fortunes and the course of this country. George Washington’s first boss was a Black man! And O yeah he had 2 sisters Anne and Sarah. Anne married George Washington’s brother Lawrence and Sarah married John Carlyle, a leading landowner. Their descendants were prominent in Virginia. When there powerful uncle Lord Thomas passed George William and his sisters Anne and Sarah were completely written out of Lord Thomas’s will. I WONDER WHY LOL.