sentences:  By 1812, Free Town in Truro Parish, the earliest known free African-American settlement in Fairfax County, contained seven households of former Washington slaves.By the mid 1800s, a son of Washington's carpenter Davy Jones and two grandsons of his postilion Joe Richardson had each bought land in Virginia.Francis Lee, younger brother of William, was well known and respected enough to have his obituary printed in the "Alexandria Gazette" on his death at Mount Vernon in 1821.