Editing Fox hunting (section)

===United States===

According to the [[Masters of Foxhounds Association of America]], Englishman [[Robert Brooke, Sr.|Robert Brooke]] was the first man to import hunting hounds to what is now the United States, bringing his pack of foxhounds to [[Province of Maryland|Maryland]] in 1650, along with his horses.<ref name="usmfha1" /> Also around this time, numbers of European red foxes were introduced into the Eastern seaboard of North America for hunting.<ref>{{Cite journal|jstor=3797296|doi=10.2307/3797296|author=Presnall, C.C.|title=The Present Status of Exotic Mammals in the United States |year=1958|journal=The Journal of Wildlife Management|pages=45–50|volume=22|issue=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|jstor=1376267|author=Churcher, C.S.|year=1959|title=The Specific Status of the New World Red Fox|journal=Journal of Mammalogy|volume =40|issue=4|pages=513–520|doi=10.2307/1376267}}</ref> The first organised hunt for the benefit of a group (rather than a single patron) was started by [[Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron|Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax]] in 1747.<ref name="usmfha1">{{cite web|url=http://www.mfha.com/abfo.htm#his|year=2008|title=History of American Foxhunting|publisher=[[Masters of Foxhounds Association of North America]]|access-date=10 February 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080603045754/http://www.mfha.com/abfo.htm#his |archive-date = 3 June 2008}}</ref> In the United States, [[George Washington]] and [[Thomas Jefferson]] both kept packs of foxhounds before and after the [[American Revolutionary War]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Explore DC|title=Profile – George Washington|year=2001|url=http://www.exploredc.org/index.php?id=69|access-date=14 November 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005040742/http://www.exploredc.org/index.php?id=69|archive-date=5 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=Freedom Fields Farm|title=A short history of foxhunting in Virginia|access-date=14 November 2007|url=http://www.freedomfields.net/foxhunting_info.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140404064216/http://www.freedomfields.net/foxhunting_info.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=4 April 2014}}</ref>