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By THERESA REYNOLDS
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Every school child knows a few things about George Washington—that he admitted to chopping down a cherry tree, that he led the Revolutionary Army to victory after serving without a salary for eight years, that he was the first president. But these facts reveal little about the personal side of a man who was tremendously complicated.
Like most public men of this time, George Washingtons personal life was very well documented with letters, journals, notes and observations that kept as many as four secretaries busy at one time. From these volumes it is interesting to try to guess what the General was really like.
Here in Rappahannock County we know that Washington surveyed the town of Washington, when he was working as a young surveyor’s apprentice in the Shenandoah Valley.
We may also wonder why the boy had to work for a living. He was the son of a wealthy planter who had estates in Gloucester County and on the east side of the Rappahannock as well as the famous property at Mount Vernon.
The truth is that Washington was one of ten children by his father’s two marriages and his father’s death when George was ten left him restless and a little confused about his place in the family.
He lived first with his halfbrother Augustine, then with his mother, then with his half-brother Lawrence.
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