George Washington

Pat Sperry


GEORGE WASHINGTON

(April 30, 1732- Dec.14, 1799)

Background/Experience-
- Raised and born into a Virginia planter family
- Interests as a youth- Military arts, and western Expansion
- Surveyed land-1748, surveyed Lord Fairfax's lands in the Shenandoah Valley
- in 1749 he was appointed surveyor for Culpeper County
- George inherited the Mount Vernon estate after his brother Lawrence died in 1752
- 1759-1774 served in Virginia house of bourgeoisie
- January 1759 he married Martha Dandridge Custis
- After colonel Braddock was ambushed , he was appointed colonel and commander in chief of the Virginia militia during French and Indian war ( 23 yrs old)
- May 1775, was elected commander and chief of the continental army. He took command of the disorganized group of soldiers on July 3 1775 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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