Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages (Classic Reprint)

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The father died suddenly in 1743, leaving to Lawrence the estate on the Potomac, afterwards known as Mount Vernon, and to George the lands and mansion where they were then living, confiding in the prudence of the mother for the proper disposal of the property of her children till they should come of age. George inherited his mother's prudence, dig mity and reserve, and he attributed the success of his career to the moral, intellectual and physical training received from her. The rudiments Of his education were received in the old field school, under Master Hobby. Some of the books containing his school exercises are still preserved, and Show the methodical carefulness which characterized him through out life. When he was about fourteen years of age, his brother Lawrence, who had been an ofiicer in the British army, and had served in the siege Of Carthagena and in the West Indies under Admiral Vernon, regarding the British navy as a sure road to distinction, had obtained for George a midshipman's warrant, which he would in all probability have accepted, and henceforward have followed a seafaring life, had not the remonstrances of his mother prevailed.

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