Sarah "Sally" Cary Fairfax (1735-1811) was the wife of George William Fairfax and an unrequited love of George Washington.
Biography[]
Sarah Cary was born in Virginia, the daughter of the owner of the Ceelys on the James plantation. She had many suitors due to her beauty; George Washington was an admirer of hers, but she instead married Washington's friend George William Fairfax and became the mistress of the Belvoir plantation. She accompanied her husband to England in 1773, never to return to the Americas due to the American Revolutionary War and Fairfax's Loyalist views. Fairfax died in Bath in 1811.