Joseph Fawcett (1771–1844), local official and postmaster, was born in Berkeley County, Virginia (later West Virginia). He was appointed a collector of tax arrears for Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson, Rockingham, Augusta, Shenandoah, and Hampshire counties in 1807, and he was federal revenue collector for Rockingham County from at least 1816 to 1825. Fawcett moved by 1830 to Staunton and by 1836 to Saint Charles, Missouri, where he was appointed postmaster in that year. He owned two slaves in 1810 and five a decade later, but by 1830 he had none. Fawcett died in Saint Charles (Willetta Baylis Blum and William Blum, The Baylis Family of Virginia [1958], 588; CVSP description begins William P. Palmer and others, eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers … Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, 1875–93, 11 vols. description ends , 9:503; JEP description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States description ends , 2:438, 440, 442, 443 [13, 20, 21, 22, 24 Dec. 1813]; JHR description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States description ends , 35:128 [4 Jan. 1841]; DNA: RG 29, CS, Harrisonburg, 1810, 1820, Staunton, 1830; A Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the service of the United States, on the Thirtieth day of September, 1816 [Washington, 1816], 28; A Register of Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, on the 30th of September, 1825 [Washington, 1825], 68; DNA: RG 28, RAP; Bowling Green, Mo., Radical, 21 Sept. 1844 [with inconsistent age at death of seventy-six]).