The origin of Kingston, Rhode Island’s Fayerweather family begin with George Fayerweather, a freed slave who took his name from his owner, an Episcopal minister. Upon his manumission, George Fayerweather became a blacksmith, a trade that was practiced by his son George Fayerweather II and grandsons Solomon and George III.
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