1747
George, having completed his formal schooling, began to live with his brother Lawrence at Mount Vernon and began to learn surveying.
1748
March-April —- Accompanied George William Fairfax on a month long surveying trip of Lord Fairfax’s lands in the Shenandoah Valley, experiencing the frontier and the Indians for the first time.
December 17 — George William Fairfax married eighteen-year-old Sarah (“Sally”) Cary, who became a friend to George.
1749
Martha Dandridge married wealthy Virginian, Daniel Parke Custis. George appointed official surveyor of Culpepper County, Virginia.
1750
October 16 —- George bought a tract of land in the Shenandoah and so began his lifelong business of land acquisition.
1751
September 28 —- Traveled to Barbados with Lawrence, who was seeking relief from tuberculosis.
November 17 —- December 12 —- George’s Diary recorded, “Was strongly attacked with the small Pox.”37
1752
January 26 —- George arrived safely back in Virginia
July 26 —- Lawrence died, leaving Mount Vernon to George, if Anne Fairfax Washington died without children.
September 1 —- George joined the Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge
November 6 —- Washington appointed to the rank of major in the Virginia Militia.
1754-1758
Washington’s military service in the French and Indian War
1754
John (“Jacky”) Parke Custis born to Martha and Daniel Parke Custis.
Mount Vernon became George’s, when Lawrence Washington’s only daughter died at the age of four.
1757
Martha (“Patsy”) Parke Custis born to Martha and Daniel Parke Custis Daniel Parke Custis died suddenly, and Martha Custis became a wealthy widow.
1758
Colonel George Washington paid two spring visits to Martha Custis, whereupon they became engaged.
July 24 —- Washington elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses, where he continuously served until the American Revolutionary War.
1759
January 6 —- George married the widowed Mrs. Martha Dandridge Custis.
April 6 —- Martha and George Washington, with Martha’s two children, John Parke Custis and Martha “Patsy” Custis, took up residence at a remodeled Mount Vernon and began their new family life with Col. George Washington, the consummate Virginian gentleman farmer.
1762
October 25 —- Following in his father’s footsteps, Washington became a vestryman in the Truro Parish in Fairfax County, a position he held through the Revolutionary War.
1763
