George Washington

our first president Gorge Washington

George Washington was also the first child of his dad's second wife like John. Also like the Dickinson’s the Washington family was better off than normal farmers but underneath the most prominent families. Washington was not given the chance to have schooling in London like John because at the age of eleven his father died and he inherited farm land and many other pieces of land and items that his father owned, slaves and acquired schooling. He taught himself most that he knew and had a great knowledge even though he was not given an English education. He became an officer in the Virginia militia and sailed with his sick half brother to Barbados (which they thought would cure his sickness but did not) and did not go out of America again. He traveled to the Ohio valley to ask the French that were there occupying it to leave. He was treated greatly by the French once he told them nicely that the land belonged to the king and they allowed him passage. He was given the position of colonel to command the Virginia regiment and married the widowed Martha Parke Custis before going on the Duquesne expedition and got a spot on the legislature. He became the owner of many slaves and many acres of land when he married Martha and when his brothers widow died he inherited Mount Vernon. After the British gained control of Canada military life was not all it was cracked up to be for Washington and didn’t bring much interest to him anymore.