Part one of term paper
George Washington was born in Virginia on Feb. 22, 1732 to Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington. George spent his early years on the family estate on Pope's Creek along the Potomac River. His early education came by way of studying mathematics, surveying, the classics, and "rules of civility." His father died in 1743 ...

Part two of term paper
... by his mother; Instead he turned to surveying. In 1748 he was appointed to survey Lord Fairfax's lands in the Shenandoah Valley. He helped lay out the Virginia town of Belhaven (now Alexandria) in 1749 and was appointed surveyor for Culpeper County. George accompanied his brother to Barbados in an effort to cure Lawrence of tuberculo sis, but Lawrence died in 1752 after returning to America. George inherited the Mount Vernon estate. Washington first gained public notice in October 1753 wh ...