George Washington grew up on a farm, he looked up to his brother Lawrence who fought in the army. As a teen his job was to survey land for Lord Fairfax of Virginia, and then he moved to Barbados with his half-brother Lawrence before Lawrence died
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When George Washington was 17 years old he was appointed official surveyor for Culpeper County. It was a lucrative position that allowed him to purchase land in the Shenandoah Valley located in West Virginia.
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A 'fit of Gout in the head' caused his death. George Washington [his son] died of a throat infection. Lawrence Washington [George's brother] died when George was young. It was George Washington's brother, John Augustine "Jack", who died of "gout in the head", not his father.
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The George Washington myth was a story that Parson Locke Weems made up portraying how honest George Washington was. The story involved George chopping down his father's cherry tree as a young boy, his father asks him if he chopped the cherry tree down and George tells him that he "cannot tell a lie."
All US Presidents are Americans. George Washington was the first.