George Washington was born on February 22 in the year of
1732. He died on December 14, 1799. This was before the French and Indian War.
Lawrence Washington, Washington’s grandfather, moved to Virginia. There were no
records on who lived there, until Washington’s father, Augustine Washington,
was born.
Augustine Washington was born in
1694. His first wife was Jane Butler, who gave birth to three children. In
1729, Jane died and Augustine married his second wife, Mary Ball, two years
later in 1731. George was the eldest of both Jane’s and Mary’s children. The
family lived in Westmoreland County, Virginia near Pope's Creek. They were
known as the “middle class.”
Little is known about the childhood
of George Washington. There is an event that you might hear about Washington.
One day, Washington took an ax and went to his father’s prize cherry tree. He
took the ax and chopped it down. It is unknown why he did so, but he confessed
he chopped the tree down. The rest you all probably know.
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