Until such an enterprise is undertaken, early American literature will lack complete analysis.
The outline of Washington's career is well known. Born to a Virginia gentry family slightly below the Byrds, Carters, Lees, and Randolphs in status, he rose to the top rung of influence and affluence through the acquisition of the important skill of surveying, the acquaintance of the influential Fairfax family, the inheritance of the estate of an older half brother, and marriage on 6 January 1759 to Martha Dandridge Custis, a wealthy widow. Before he was thirty he had served as an envoy of the governor of Virginia to French commanders in the Ohio valley, commanded Virginia militiamen in combat during the French and Indian War, accompanied General Edward Braddock on his ill-fated expedition of 1755, published a journal of his western travels, been mentioned at the court of George II, and been elected to the House of Burgesses.
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