On this day 250 years ago at Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington met with Thomas Blackburn, Philip Richard Francis Lee and Philip Richard. These three men met with Washington to ask him to take command of the Independent Company of Cadets of Prince William County. Washington agreed and thus became commander of both the Fairfax and Prince William Independent Companies. Before the outbreak of the War, Washington would be in command of Independent Companies from Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, Spotsylvania and Richmond Counties.

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