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Starting a Career
1748-1749: George Washington begins his career as a surveyor in the Shenandoah Valley. He becomes familiar with the frontier and uses his earnings to purchase land.
George Washington sails to Barbados with his older half-brother, Lawrence, who is ill with tuberculosis. While there, George Washington contracts smallpox.
1752: Half-brother Lawrence (age 34) dies. George Washington joins the Masonic Lodge in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and begins his military career.
France claims the Ohio River Valley. (1749) |