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His father was a small plantation owner in VA and Washington at the age of 12 tried to enlist as a ship's boy on a British ship. His mother pulled him off the ship. By 20 years old he was a British officer in the French and Indian war. As a young man he knew that as the second son he would not inherit from his father, but his father died when he was in his teens and he was sent to his older brother at Mt. Vernon. He was trained to be a surveyor. Soon after his brother also died and Washington inherited Mt. Vernon.
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