The Man on a White Horse

George Washington

1732 – 1799

(1789 – 1797) Virginia – Federalist Church of England ( “Deist”)

“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals in the world.”

– George Washington February 15, 1787

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Travel though the above seal to the grounds of George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Burial Site on the Potomac River outside of Alexandria, Virginia.

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“A good moral character is the first essential in a man. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous.”

George Washington December 5, 1790

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Below is the earliest known portrait of Washington commissioned by Martha Washington in Mount Vernon in 1772 as a companion to a portrait of herself during her first marriage by John Wollaston.