When George Washington father past away at the age of 11 he was the over seer of his half-brother Lawrence. Lawrence had inherited the family’s Little Hunting Creek Plantation. At the age of 16 George half-brother dies and George Washington was left with the land. Sadly after the death of his half-brother Lawrence two months later Lawrence only child dies and then Washington now the head of one of the most prominent estates in Virginia. …show more content…
Washington had always stayed firm to his point in what he believed and felt what was important. He made it clear he wasn’t running to a third term of office he made sure he thanked everyone “ I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest, no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness, but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible with both,” he made sure he unite his audience by saying “I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and