However, after the death of their father, the family limited funds for education. His two older half brothers, Lawrence and Augustine, attended Appleby Grammar School in England. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Washington never attended college or received a formal education. There he learned the importance of hard work and efficiency. As the oldest of Mary's children, George undoubtedly helped his mother manage the Rappahannock River plantation where they lived. The income from what remained was just sufficient to maintain Mary Washington and her children. When he was eleven years old, his father Augustine died, leaving most of his property to George's adult half brothers. Little is known of George Washington's childhood, and it remains the most poorly understood part of his life. In 1738, they moved again to Ferry Farm, a plantation on the Rappahannock River near Fredericksburg, Virginia, where George spent much of his youth. Ferry FarmĪround 1734, the family moved up the Potomac River to another Washington property, Little Hunting Creek Plantation (later renamed Mount Vernon). George was the eldest of Augustine and Mary's six children: George, Elizabeth, Samuel, John Augustine, Charles, and Mildred.
George's father was a leading planter in the area and served as a justice of the county court.Īugustine Washington's first wife, Jane Butler, died in 1729, leaving him with two sons, Lawrence and Augustine, Jr., and a daughter, Jane. George Washington was born at his family's plantation on Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732, to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington.
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