That famous description of George Washington ... By 1758 he was tired of it all. Resigning his commission, he enthusiastically took up the life of a Virginia planter. Washington had been renting ...

Located on the Rappahanock River, Washington would spend most of his childhood there. George was only 11 years old when his father died. Upon his father’s death, the plantation and all its holdings ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

He was the oldest of Augustine Washington and Mary Ball's six children and also had three half-siblings. Augustine died when George was 11 ... Slaves did virtually all of the labor on his estate.