They had ten children. Mrs. Robert E. Lee (_nee_
Custis) was an intimate of the girls of this family and a frequent
visitor in the house.

[Illustration: William Yeaton produced this fine Federal Mansion. A
sample of the interior woodwork]

Doctor Orlando Fairfax succeeded his father as owner from 1848 to 1864.
He bore the title of the "Beloved Physician." The following
advertisements, taken from the files of the _Alexandria Gazette_, give a
brief glimpse of his activities in the 1830s:

Dr. Fairfax has returned to Alexandria, and is ready to resume the
practice of his profession in the town and its neighborhood. His
office is at the N.W. corner of Pitt and Cameron Streets.

Dr. Fairfax in his late absence of five months, has been constantly
engaged at Philadelphia in increasing his medical acquirements.
[1831]

Dr. Fairfax has returned to Alexandria and is ready to resume the
practice of his profession. He has, during his late absence from
Alexandria, witnessed many cases of the epidemic cholera. [1832]

In 1829 Dr. Fairfax had married Mary Randolph Cary, daughter of Wilson
Jefferson Cary. They had nine children.

[Illustration: Arch and staircase in the Yeaton-Fairfax House]

In a deed of April 14, 1864, the fact is revealed that this property was
condemned according to an act of Congress in 1862 "to suppress
insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion to seize and confiscate
property of Rebels and for other purposes."[184] It further records that
on the preceding day, April 13, 1864, Gouverneur Morris, attorney for
Patsy J. Morris, of Westchester County, New York, purchased for four
thousand dollars, he being the highest bidder therefor, all the right,
title, interest and estate of Dr. Orlando Fairfax.

Gouverneur Morris was a brother-in-law of Dr. Orlando Fairfax, and while
living in France sent the Fairfaxes from the palace at Versailles a very
large and elegant mirror which hung in the drawing room, filling one of
the alcoves from floor to ceiling. This mirror is still in existence and
in the possession of Dr. Fairfax's granddaughter, Mrs. Donald MacCrea.

Mrs. Burton Harrison in her _Recollections, Grave and Gay_, relates the
wartime experiences of her uncle and his family who were forced to seek
refuge in Richmond, of their sufferings and privations, and of the death
of the young son of the family, Randolph, barely twenty, killed in
action in mid-December 1862.

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