At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax.
在他16岁的时候，他就帮助托马斯·费尔法克斯勋爵在谢南多厄河流域进行土地测量。
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At 16 he helped survey Shenandoah lands for Thomas, Lord Fairfax. Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.