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Washington Early Years as Fairfax Student and Surveyor
The young George Washington learns from Lord Fairfax in Virginia. He surveys vast lands along the Potomac and Shenandoah, earns official status as a Culpeper county surveyor, and becomes Mount Vernon’s resident heir while aiding his mother’s estate. His brother Lawrence’s Bahamas illness and death thrust him into militia leadership and executorship, shaping a future frontier commander. The French-British struggle over the Ohio Valley intensifies as Duquesne acts to fortify western posts, setting the stage for broader conflict.
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Washington
Lord Fairfax
Virginia
Forest Lodge
Blue Ridge
George
Belvoir
Fairfax
America
London
Fairfax Estate
George Fairfax
Wiliam Fairfax
Potomac
Greenway Court
Woodman
Frederick Town
The
Spectator
William and Mary
Culpepper County
Mount Vernon
Rappahannock
Bahamas
Lawrence Washington
Vernon
England
Sterling
Lawrence
Dinwiddie
Beverley
Duquesne
Marquis Duquesne
France
St. Lawrence
Ohio
Versailles
Niagara
Crown Point
Champlain
Hudson
Oswego
Pennsylvania
Virginian
Arcady
Sweet Valley
Shenandoah
Augustine Washington
Will’s Creek
Alleghanies
Redstone Creek