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At the Second Virginia Convention, Washington is selected as one of seven delegates to attend the Second Continental Congress, receiving 106 of the 108 votes cast. Washington writes to his brother, John Augustine Washington, “...it is my full intention to devote my Life & Fortune in the cause we are engagd in, if need be.”

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