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Prominent citizens of the colony, including George Washington, a neighbor and a close friend, visited frequently, and Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the first member of the British nobility to reside in the colonies, lived at Belvoir before he moved to the Shenandoah Valley. Despite the grandeur of their surroundings and the refinement of their furnishings, planters like the Masons, McCartys, Washingtons, and Fairfaxes did not lead indolent lives. Conscious of their civic duty, they were the political, social, economic, and religious leaders of their immediate neighborhood and of the colony at large.

The American Revolution was predicated by a number of ideas and events that, combined, led to a political and social separation of colonial possessions from the home nation and a coalescing of those former individual colonies into an independent nation.

The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America

Battle of the Monongahela

Braddock

Braddock died of his wounds on July 13, four days after the battle, and was buried on the road near Fort Necessity.

She lived to see her son, George Washington inaugurated as president in 1789 but died four months later. She was buried on the Lewis plantation a few steps from "Meditation Rock", which tradition says was her favorite retreat for reading, prayer, and meditation

Mary Ball Washington (1708 – 1789) was the second wife to Augustine Washington

In the American Revolution, Lafayette served in the Continental Army under George Washington. Wounded during the Battle of Brandywine, he still managed to organize a successful retreat.

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (or Lafayette) (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834)

was a French aristocrat and military officer born in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the French Revolution.

yankee doodle was a name that the british gave the american soilders this name was a name that was supposed to be an insult because back in those times a doodle was a name for a loser and hence the song yankee doodle

minutemen were soilders that were able to get ready in minutes notice

benjamin was usually considered a player in france