Lord Fairfax was the only gentleman in the colony of Virginia to whom she would allow precedence over her.

She insisted on the pas before all Lieutenant-Governors' and Judges' ladies; before the wife of the Governor of a colony she would, of course, yield as to the representative of the Sovereign.

Accounts are extant, in the family papers and letters, of one or two tremendous battles which Madam fought with the wives of colonial dignitaries upon these questions of etiquette.

As for her husband's family of Warrington, they were as naught in her eyes.

She married an English baronet's younger son out of Norfolk to please her parents, whom she was always bound to obey.