Frank Lee, the family's mulatto butler (and brother ... Late in 1800, a year after George Washington's death, Letty, a young mulatto woman who lived at Muddy Hole Farm, gave birth to a little ...

As a young man, George impressed the colonial power ... the kindness of the greatest and best of heroes.” A loving family man, Washington never had children of his own, though he happily adopted ...

Col. George Washington led a party of Virginia soldiers out of an encampment in the Ohio Valley. The conditions were horrid—a night “as black as pitch,” as the young commander recorded in ...