“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate people and harmony with all.” George Washington was bon February 22, 1732, to Augustine Washington and Mary Ball of Epping Forest, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Augustine Washington was an ambitious man who acquired land and slaves. He married his first wife, Jane Butler and had three children, shortly after Jane died he went on to marry Mary Ball in 1731. George was the oldest of Augustine and Mary’s six children, in which all of them grew into adulthood. The family lived on the Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County and was considered to be moderately prosperous members of Virginias “middle class”. Very little is known about Washington’s childhood, which leaves many writers with