I am related to a man who once knew a man who knew another man who knew George Washington. And to prove it, my family has a souvenir of the great relationship between the first President and that ...

We know George's baby sister Mildred died in 1740, and two letters from family acquaintances allude to a fire on Christmas Eve that same year. And we know Washington's father died in 1743 ...

Lacking the kind of voluminous documentation that outlines the lives of George Washington and his family, modern historians studying the African American community at Mount Vernon must pore over ...

George Washington wore many hats ... the future founding father with a great deal of responsibility managing the family's plantation. Source: mountvernon.org Not much else is known about his ...

George Washington, who led America through ... the Virginia estate he had inherited from his family. Washington's farms were models of self-sufficiency, raising and producing everything from ...

George was the eldest son of Augustine ... or by the kindness of the greatest and best of heroes.” A loving family man, Washington never had children of his own, though he happily adopted ...