Portrait biographical record of Stark county, Ohio Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . ,•->,:•.« .••,^^?V5jji<sgj,<^ a ®EOBBE 1^ASHINB1©N. y^ljorn in Westmorland Co., Va.,^J Feb. 2 2, 1732. His parentswere Augustine and Mary(Ball) Washington. The family/^ to which he belonged has not/ been satisfactorily traced inEngland. His great-grand-father, John Washington, em-igrated to Virginia about 1657,and became a prosperous planter. He had t%vo sons,Lawrence and John.
Portrait biographical record of Stark county, Ohio Containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . ,•->,:•.« .••,^^?V5jji<sgj,<^ a ®EOBBE 1^ASHINB1©N. y^ljorn in Westmorland Co., Va.,^J Feb. 2 2, 1732. His parentswere Augustine and Mary(Ball) Washington. The family/^ to which he belonged has not/ been satisfactorily traced inEngland. His great-grand-father, John Washington, em-igrated to Virginia about 1657,and became a prosperous planter. He had t%vo sons,Lawrence and John. Theformer married Mildred Warnerand had three children, John,Augustine and Mildred. Augus-tine, the father of (ieorge, firstmarried Jane Butler, who borehim four children, two of whom,Lawrence and Augustine, reached f maturity. Of six children by hissecond marriage, George was theeldest, the others being Betty,i Samuel, John Augustine, Charles and Washington, the father of George, diedin 1743, leaving a large landed property. To hiseldest son, Lawrence, he bequeathed an estate onthe Patomac, afterwards known as Mount Vernon,and to George he left the parental residence. Georgereceived only such education as the neighborhoodschools afforded, save
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