George Washington was born in 1732 into a small Virginia planter family at Westmoreland county Virginia. He was the oldest son of his father and his fathers second wife. They both were of English descent he lived the early part of his life in his families estate on "Pop's Creek" along the Potomac River. His father died in 1743. Soon after that George went to live with his half brother at his house at Mount Vernon. His brother also acted as a "substitute father for his brother". He learned his morals and manners and things like that from his family so he acted like an 18th century Virginia gentleman. Even at the young age of 16 he was interested in military and western expansion. When he was 16 he helped survey Shendoah lands for the lord Fairfax. He also commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, and fought the first fights of what became the French and Indian war. …
