Vernon, studies the domestic life, foodways ... of voluminous documentation that outlines the lives of George Washington and his family, modern historians studying the African American community ...

click image for close-up When American painter Edward Savage sketched a prototype for a print of George Washington and his family in 1789 ... In the life-size painting that Savage completed ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate sought out ... on restoring each of the rooms in the Mount Vernon mansion ...

Genetic analysis has shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding the fates of President George ... identities and connections in the Washington family, researchers reported Thursday in ...

George Washington ... half-siblings. When Washington was 11 years old, Augustine died, leaving the future founding father with a great deal of responsibility managing the family's plantation.

That famous description of George Washington by his ... he enthusiastically took up the life of a Virginia planter. Washington had been renting a family farm in Northern Virginia from the widow ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-1789). The Washington family moved to Ferry Farm Plantation in 1738. Located on the ...

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 16, No. 3, Oct., 1892 The Ancestry and Earlier Life of George ... The Ancestry and Earlier Life of George Washington This is the metadata ...

Curators at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate ... rooms in the Mount Vernon mansion since new evidence about Washington’s life surfaced in the last 10 years. Those have been found ...