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Abstract In a life blessed with more than a few fortuitous turns, it was no accident that Mount Vernon became George Washington’s home. When he took it over at the age of twenty-two, it had already belonged to four generations of Washingtons, beginning with his great-grandfather John, who founded the family line in Virginia. In England, John Washington’s clergyman father had been ousted from his living by Puritans, ostensibly for drinking too often in alehouses. America was kinder. Restless, acquisitive, and ambitious, the family prospered from the start, early on becoming part of the colony’s emerging elite. In the long run, however, it proved easier to rise into that group than it did to move upward through its ranks, and in that sense each generation discovered certain stubbornly persistent limits to its achievement.
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