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Washington was born in Westmore County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732. He is the son of the late Augustine Washington and Mary Ball Washington. Augustine was a tobacco farmer and a stock raiser. Washington spent most of his early childhood on the Ferry Farm in Fredricksburg, Virginia. He attended school up until his fifteenth year. Washington married Martha Dandridge on January 6,1759. Washington spent his early adult years as a farmer and as a surveyor until he was …

…so he marched south with about 1000 American and 6000 French troops under the Comte De Rochambeau. Washington told Marquis De Lafayette to prevent Cornwallis from leaving Yorktown. On October 19, 1781, Washington surrounded Cornwallis and forced him to surrender. In 1787, Washington was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, but was chosen President. In 1788 and in 1782 Washington was elected the first President of the United States. Washington died of pneumonia in 1799 on his plantation on Mount Vernon.