Georgette (WOH)

Intro Georgette Washington was a Founding Mother and The First President of The United States, Serving from 1789 to 1797. Severe at 3 armies. Washington led her Troops to fight The British Army during The American Revolutionary War. She was born on 1732, Popes Creek, Virginia, British America. She was an officer at the time. She fought French-Indian War before. Washington had a great honor and duty, she would take no chances. After French-Indian War, she returned to farming at Mount Vernon, which was a plantation that she inherited, and in 1759 married Michael Custis, a wealthy man. Washington entered the Virginia House of Burgesses where she opposed what she saw as unfair British taxes. By 1774 she was one of the leading Virginian figures supporting the colonial cause, and was sent by Virginia to First and Second Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775. By June of 1775 Washington had become commander of all colonial forces during American Revolutionary War. (Women of Honor series)