Saturday, December 31, 2011
Can anyone tell me if my summary good for george washington?
Geroge Washington had born in February 12 1732 and he was dead in Decemeber 14 1799. George Washignton was the first children of Augustine Washington(1694-1743)and his second wife,Mary Ball Washington.According to the Gregorain Calendar George Washigton was born in Febuarary 11 1731,which was adopted in the Britian and its Colonies in 1752,he was born on Febuarary 22 1732. George Washington ancestor were from Sulgrave. George Washington father Augustine was a salve-owning tobacco planter that his hand in iron mining. Geroge Washington youth,the Washington was were moderntaly prosperous member of the Viginia. Washington was the first born in the father marriage to Mary Ball Washington. The other six sibling had reached to maturity including two older half-brother,Lawrence and Augustine,from his father first marriage to Jane Butler Washington and four full sibling,Samuel,Elizabeth,(Betty),John Augstine and Charles.The three sibling had been dead when they had reached to adult:his full sister Midred had been dead when she was about one year old,his half brother died in an while infant and also his half sister Jane was died was she in her in her age 12 when then George was Two. George father died when Geroge was 11 year old, after which Geroge half brother Lawrence had became a formative infulence. Washington spend most of his boyhood at the Ferry Farm in Stafford Country near Frederickburg. When Washington was at the age of 16 he drew a pictue survey of half brother Lawerence turnip field in Mount Vernon. The death of father had prevent him to cross the Alantic to receive and education at the England Appleby School,as his older brother had done. He had attended school in Fredericksburg until he was 15 year old. His talk of seuring and appointment in the Royal Navy was dropped when his mother learned how hard would it be on him. Thanks to the Lawrence that had conncetion to the powerful Fairfax family,at the age of 17 Geroge was appointed offlical sureyor for the Culpeper Country in the 1749, a well-paid his postion which enabled him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley,the first of his many land acquistion in the western Virgina. In the 1751 Washington had travled to Barbados with Lawerence, who was suffering from the tuberculouis,with the hope the climate would be benefical to the Lawerence health. Washington had contracted smallpox during the trip,which had left his face slightly and scary, but the immunized him aganist future exposures to the dreaded diease. But though the Lawrence life had no improve and he also had return the Mount Vernon,where he had died in 1752. The postion had dived into four office afther his death. Wasginton was appointed by Governor Dinwiddie as the four district adjutants in Feburary 1753,with the rank of the in Vigrina milltia. He had joined the Freemason in the Frederickdurg at that time.
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