USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at his family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia, to Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-89).

Detailed explanation-2: -George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 on his father’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Virginia’s Westmoreland County. George’s father Augustine, a third-generation English colonist firmly established in the middle ranks of the Virginia gentry, was twice married.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mount Vernon: Inside George Washington’s Estate in Virginia.

Detailed explanation-4: -From 1759 to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Washington managed his lands around Mount Vernon and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Married to a widow, Martha Dandridge Custis, he devoted himself to a busy and happy life.

Detailed explanation-5: -He leased Mount Vernon, a plantation in northern Virginia, from Lawrence’s widow and sought a military commission, just as Lawrence had done. Washington served as the lieutenant colonel of the Virginia regiment and led several missions out west to the Ohio Valley.