Page 139 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

George Washington
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nd
February 22 1732 to December 14 1799
Founding Father, Commander of the Continental Army, First

President
The Father of our Country

George Washington, like Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and

Thomas Paine, was a Virginian. His family roots can be traced back

to the early 1600’s, when his paternal family migrated from England
to New England. As a prominent family in England, they were
granted land in the colonies by the king. Like Jefferson, Washington

grew up in a prominent family that owned slaves. After his father

died, when Washington was eleven years old, he was raised by an
older half-brother at one of the Washington family plantations, and

where Washington spent an earlier part of his youth – Little Hunting
Creek Plantation. After his half-brother died, Washington would

return to this plantation, rename it Mount Vernon, and spend his
life there from age twenty years – and would be entombed upon his

death.

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