George Washington was born in 1732 into a small Virginia planter family at Westmoreland county Virginia. He was the oldest son of his father and his fathers second wife. They both were of English descent he lived the early part of his life in his families estate on "Pop's Creek" along the Potomac River. His father died in 1743. Soon after that George went to live with his half brother at his house at Mount Vernon. His …
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…States and Britain. But Democratic-Republicans viewed it as an abject surrender to British demands, Before march 1797, Washington left office and the country's financial state was perfect. He had also enlarged the U.S. territory with the treaty's he made. Federalist John Adams took his place as president. Washington had less than three years of retirement at Mount Vernon before he died of throat infection on December 14, 1799. The nation mourned his deaths for months to come.