GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS ONE OF THE BEST STATESMAN IN AMERICAN
HISTORYWAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 11-UNDER GREGORY CALENDAR HIS BIRTH
DAY FELL DOWN FEB22,1731 The first child of Augustine Washington
(1694–1743) and hissecond wife, Mary Ball Washington
(1708–1789), George Washington was born on their Pope’s Creek
Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County,
Virginia. According to the Julian calendar and Annunciation
Style of enumerating years, then in use in the British Empire,
Washington was born on February 11, 1731; according to the
Gregorian calendar, implemented in the British Empire in 1752,
according to the provisions of the Calendar (New Style) Act
1750, the date was February 22, 1732 Washington’s ancestors were
from Sulgrave, England; his great-grandfather, John Washington,
had immigrated to Virginia in 1657. George’s father Augustine
was a slave-owning tobacco planter who later tried his hand in
iron-mining ventures. In George’s youth, the Washingtons were
moderately prosperous members of the