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George Washington (1732–1799)

Role

George Washington was an uncle of Bushrod Washington.

Description

George Washington, Founding Father and first president of the United States under the Constitution, was born on 22 February 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Augustine Washington (1694–1743) and Mary Ball Washington. Although his education was sporadic, Washington would become a surveyor and Virginia militia officer by the age of twenty-one. In 1753 Governor Robert Dinwiddie tasked him with carrying an ultimatum to French traders encroaching on English lands in the Ohio territory.

Citations

Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (New York: The Penguin Press, 2010).

"George Washington." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310001124/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=20bddf4f. Accessed 15 June 2023.

Barbara A. Perry, "Washington, George," in Kermit L. Hall, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (Oxford University Press, 2005). 

"Biography of George Washington," George Washington's Mount Vernon.

Henry Wiencek, "George Washington (1732–1799)," Encyclopedia Virginia.

George Washington at Find a Grave.