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Perhaps it was this love for the outdoors that led him to his job as a surveyor’s apprentice. More likely it was his friendship with the family of Lord Fairfax who had huge estates in the Shenandoah Valley. It was during this assignment that young George is said to have surveyed the town of Washington.
One experience during this period in a country inn (could it have been here?) convinced him to sleep outside when he stopped for the night, and showed that this rather dignified young man could enjoy a joke on himself. “Worked hard till night, and then returned. After supper we were lighted into a room; and I, not being so good a woodsman as the rest, stripped myself very orderly and went into the bed, (as they called it), when to my surprise, I found it to be nothing but a little straw matted together without
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