Rumors have it that George was coddled and even spoiled by his mother.

He had very little formal education, mathematics being the only subject in which he excelled, and that he learned chiefly by himself.

But he lived abundantly an out-of-door life, hunting and fishing much, and playing on the plantation.

His family, although not rich, lived in easy fashion, and ranked among the gentry.
No Life of George Washington should fail to warn the reader at the start that the biographer labors under the disadvantage of having to counteract the errors and absurdities which the Reverend Mason L.
Weems made current in the Life he published the year after Washington died.

No one, not even Washington himself, could live down the reputation of a goody-goody prig with which the officious Scotch divine smothered him.