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2903. FAUQUIER (Francis), Ability.—

The ablest man who had ever filled that office
[Governor of Virginia]. [187]
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 3. Ford ed., i, 4.
(1821)

 
[187]

Jefferson, while a student at William and Mary
College, was introduced to Governor Fauquier.
“With him, and at his table,” says Jefferson ( Autobiography,
i, 3), “Dr. Small and Mr. Wythe, his
amici omnium, horarum, and myself, formed a
partie quarree, and to the habitual conversations on
these occasions I owed much instruction.”—Editor.