. Portrait and biographical record of Johnson and Pettis counties, Missouri ; containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . GEORGE WASHINGTON. GEORGE WASHINGTON. ^A HE Father of our Country was born in West-fC morel and County, Va., February 22, His parents were Augustine and Marj^ (Ball)Washington. The family to which he belongedhas not been satisfactorily traced in great-grandfather, John Washington, emi-grated to Virginia about
. Portrait and biographical record of Johnson and Pettis counties, Missouri ; containing portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . GEORGE WASHINGTON. GEORGE WASHINGTON. ^A HE Father of our Country was born in West-fC morel and County, Va., February 22, His parents were Augustine and Marj^ (Ball)Washington. The family to which he belongedhas not been satisfactorily traced in great-grandfather, John Washington, emi-grated to Virginia about 1657, ^^^ became aprosperous planter. He had two sons, Lawrenceand John. The former married Mildred Warner,and had three children, John, Augustine andMildred. Augustine, the father of George, firstmarried Jane Butler, who bore him four children,two of whom, Lawrence and Augustine, reachedmaturity. Of six children by his second mar-riage, George was the eldest, the others beingBetty, Samuel, John Augustine, Charles andMildred. Augustine Washington, the father of George,died in 1743, leaving a large landed his eldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed anestate on the Potomac, afterwards known as , and to George he left the parental resi-dence. Ge
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