timescale.infoA biography of George Washington on one line: his Virginia boyhood and surveying, the Virginia Regiment and the French and Indian War, Mount Vernon and the people enslaved there, the House of Burgesses, eight and a half years in command of the Continental Army, the Constitutional Convention, two terms as the first president, and his last years and will. A sample built from the cited sources, chiefly Wikipedia, the Papers of George Washington (Founders Online) and Mount Vernon’s research library. **How to read it.** Chapter headings mark the stages of his life. His life’s stages, homes, commands, offices, campaigns and family are durations; everything else is a moment with its sources. Related events (a battle and the one it led to) are linked. Colours follow the first tag: family, land, slavery, war, politics and the presidency, writing, and the wider world. **Dates.** Days in Virginia time, approximated as a fixed UTC−5. Britain and its colonies used the Julian calendar (Old Style) until September 1752; dates before then are converted to the Gregorian calendar, and the date as written at the time is kept as each moment’s original historical date. He was born on 11 February 1731/32, Old Style: 22 February 1732.
115 moments · 1732-01-01T00:00:00-05:00 CE – 1802-05-22T00:00:00-05:00 CE · by @athan · @athan
In his will, written in his own hand, Washington provides that the people he owned are to be freed on **Martha**’s death, with the old and sick supported and the young taught to read and a trade. **William Lee** is freed at once, with an annuity. The dower people were not his to free.