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- p137 History of Denham: Civil and Ecclesiastical… by Myron Oliver Allen; Boston:1860 Bazin & Chandler
We regret that so little can now be ascertained concerning Mr. Fairfield. An anecdote is still told of him, which is quite characteristic. The common mode of traveling in those days was on horseback. Setting out to attend a session of the Legislature, he became so absorbed in thinking of the business on which they were to enter, and upon his duties as Speaker, that he is said to have actually reached Boston, bridle in hand, before discovering that he had left his horse at home.
In his probate file he leaves part of his estate to a son Skipper, a confirmation of his mother’s birth name.
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