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George’s marriage to Martha and, 149–50
George’s move from Ferry Farm to Mount Vernon and, 139
George’s relationship with, after Revolution, 227, 228–35
George’s upbringing and education and, 10, 57–58, 83, 85–95, 99, 110, 121–24, 136, 289–90
George’s visits to, 182, 184, 186 219–21, 235–37
George’s visits to, before death, 258–59, 262–64
gingerbread recipe and, 232
grandchildren and, 157
grandfather William Ball and, 29
grave of, 272–74, 283–84
horses and equestrianism of, 24, 110–11
illness and old age of, 159–60, 246–49, 255–56, 258–59
illness of, with breast cancer, 264–67
Lafayette and, 217–18, 232, 237–38
legacy of, 279, 283–90
letter to half brother Joseph, 55–56
lives with half sister Elizabeth Bonum, 58
marries Augustine Washington, 9, 48, 71–73
memorials to, 94, 212, 284–90
misunderstood figure in history, 5–6
moves to Little Hunting Creek, 95–97
names son George after Eskridge, 59
Native Americans and, 13
never remarries, 117–18
personality of, 61, 72
Popes Creek life of, with Augustine and children, 74–80
property of, sold after death, 274
punch bowl story and, 108
religion and, 21, 58, 90–92, 155, 239–40, 246–47, 267
Revolutionary War and, 193–95, 203–4, 207–19, 222, 224
royalist sentiments of, 4–5, 165, 176–77
single motherhood and, 3–4, 121
slaves and servants and, 151–54, 256
social life and, 60, 158
social position of, 16, 20
son-in-law Fielding Lewis and, 155
son John Augustine and, 156
sons Charles and, 156–57
stepfather Gale and, 74
tea boycotts and, 180
well-ordered household of, 10
will of, 258–59, 268–69, 272–77
Washington, Mildred (Mary’s daughter; George’s sister), 89, 112–13, 133
death of, 221, 243
Washington, Mildred Thornton (Charles’s wife; George’s sister-in-law), 156
Washington, Mildred Warner (George’s grandmother), 47
death of, 67
marries George Gale and moves to England, 66
Washington, Robert (ancestor of George), 40
Washington, Samuel (Mary’s son; George’s brother), 89, 94, 115, 122, 129, 156, 193
death of, 156, 221
marriages and, 155–56
Washington, Sarah (George’s niece), 138
Washington, Warner, 220
Washington, W. Lanier, 65
Washington family, 12, 16, 27, 40–47
brothers Lawrence and John emigrate to America, 44–45
Washington-Jefferson Blizzard, 160
Washington Monument, 286, 287
Washington Parish, Virginia, 46
Washington Post, 286–87
Washington Village, England (formerly Wessyngton), 28
Webster, William, 187
Weedon, George, 161, 193
Weems, Frances Ewell, 12
Weems, Mason Locke, 12
Weems, Parson, 82, 107–9, 289
Welles, Albert, 41
Welsh immigrants, 33
Wessyngton, William de Hertburn, 28
Wessyngton manor (England), 27–28
West, Richard, 166
Westmoreland County, Virginia, 45, 59, 68, 95
Whilly, Jacob, 184
White, Andrew, 23
Wiggin, Kate, 99
Wightwick, John, 70
Wilhelm Meister’s Years of Travel (Goethe), 119
Williamsburg, Virginia, 13, 18–19 24–25, 60, 106
capital moved to Richmond from, 206
William the Conqueror, 26, 37
Willis, Henry (second husband of Augustine’s sister Mildred), 107
Willis, Mildred Washington (George’s aunt), 107
Wilson, Woodrow, 44, 113, 182–83
Wilstach, Paul, 106
Woodford, William, 161
Woodmason, Charles, 18
Woodson, Constant, 264
“Yankee Doodle” (poem), 17
Yeocomico Church, 73
Yeocomico River, 54
Yorktown, Battle of, 215, 218–19, 229, 255
Yorktown, xiv-xv, 1
About the Author
CRAIG SHIRLEY is the author of Reagan Rising, Rendezvous with Destiny, Reagan’s Revolution, Last Act, and the New York Times bestseller December 1941. He is a regular commentator throughout the media and a contributor to national publications, and was hailed by the London Telegraph as “the best of the Reagan biographers.” He is the Visiting Reagan Scholar at Eureka College, Reagan’s alma mater, and lectures often at the Reagan Library and the Reagan Ranch. He and his wife, Zorine, divide their time between Ben Lomond, a three-hundred-year-old Georgian manor house in Essex County, Virginia, and Trickle Down Point, on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster, Virginia. They are the parents of four children: Matthew, Andrew, Taylor, and Mitchell.
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