Sally Cary Fairfax (c.1730 – 1811). Wife of George William Fairfax
(1729–1787), a prominent member of the landed gentry of late colonial
Virginia. As such, she was mistress of the Virginia plantation and
estate of Belvoir. She is well-remembered for being the woman George Washington was apparently in love with just before his marriage to
Martha Dandridge Custis.
- "Sally was expert in dancing, and she dressed expensively, her auburn hair coiffed beautifully by her attendant." http://www.virginialiving.com/culture/the-lady-of-belvoir/
- "This girl, only seventeen, with head of red-brown hair, great
intelligent eyes shaded by long, thick lashes, long rounded throat and
beautifully modelled hands, arms and shoulders, had an intellect which
far surpassed her husband's." https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30747/30747-h/30747-h.htm
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