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Early Life and Military Beginnings

Born in 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, George Washington was introduced early to the expectations and challenges of the Virginia planter elite. His family had notable connections, with his father, Augustine Washington, involved in agriculture and iron mining, and his mother, Mary Ball Washington, hailing from a similarly well-placed lineage.

As a young boy, George Washington's education was modest, fitting the standard plantation owner's child without extravagance.

Themes like mathematics and the basics of surveying captured his attention more than classical languages or literature. By age 16, his alignment to practical skills manifested as he secured a job surveyor for the then vast and relatively uncharted territories of the Culpeper family in Virginia.

His surveying career was more than mapmaking; it was a doorway to the unbridled frontier, full of potential land acquisitions which were paramount in Timeline of voting rights in the United States - Wikipedia TISY