Lawrence Washington was a British soldier, planter, politician, and landowner in colonial Virginia. As a founding member of the Ohio Company of Virginia, and a member of the colonial legislature repre
Portrait attributed to Gustavus Hesselius, c. 1742
Gooch's American Regiment at the Battle of Cartagena de Indias
William Fairfax, Washington's father in law
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George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the A
Lawrence Washington (1718–1752)
…Fairfax County, Virginia, he founded the town of Alexandria, Virginia on the banks of the Potomac River in 1749. Washington was the older half-brother of George Washington, the future President of the United States. He was the first of the family to live in the house known as Mount Vernon, which he named after British…
Portrait, c. 1803
Ferry Farm, the Washington family residence on the Rappahannock River in Stafford County, Virginia, where Washington spent much of his youth
Washington the Soldier, an 1834 portrait of Washington on horseback during the Battle of the Monongahela
Colonel George Washington, a 1772 portrait of Washington by Charles Willson Peale