George Washington Papers: Series 2, Letterbooks 1754 to 1799
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George, active 1770-1798
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George was an enslaved man owned by Mary Ball Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. George Washington brought George to Mount Vernon in the 1770s. For a decade, Washington rented him, paying his mother for the use of the young man’s labor. While living at Mount Vernon, George married Sall Twine, a field-worker who worked Dogue Run Farm. She was owned by the estate of Martha Washington's first husband. When Mary Washington died in 1789, she left George to her eldest son in her will, ensuring...
