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George Washington
George Washington was born on his father’s estate in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732. He was the oldest son of a hardworking Virginia farmer, Augustine Washington, by his second wife, Mary Ball. The Washington family got their name from two brothers, John and Lawrence Washington, ....
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.... in the British Navy of that day as such that "he had better be put apprentice to a tinker. "When he was 17 he was made surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia, the first public office he held.
In 1751 George had his first and only experience of foreign lands when he joined his half-brother Lawrence to the island of Barbados in the West Indies. Lawrence was really ill with tuberculosis and thought the climate might help, but the trip did not help him in any way. George was exposed with smallpox. He had the scars from the disease for the rest of his life. Fortunately this experience gave him i ....
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