Young Washington

In 1743, after the death of his father Augustine, George Washington meets his older half-brother Lawrence. Because of his father's death, George is not given a formal education. Lawrence tutors his half-brother in land surveying. In 1753 Williamsburg, Virginia, George is denied commission into the British Army due to his colonial background. Thanks to Lawrence's recommendation, lieutenant governor Robert Dinwiddie signs George into the Virginia Militia, where he is assigned to travel to the Ohio Country to deliver a message to the French demanding they leave. Before he departs, George arrives uninvited at Thomas Fairfax's plantation Belvoir. There, Washington meets Sally Cary, Thomas Gage, and surveyor Christopher Gist.