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May 4, 1775
… George Washington … departed Mount Vernon … for Philadelphia … to attend the Second Continental Congress, convening just a month after … Lexington and Concord … Washington was a … former military commander, and member of the House of Burgesses—but … not yet the commanding leader of a rebellion.
… he would not see his beloved Mount Vernon again for more than six years.
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/revolutionary-war/five-days-philadelphia#:~:text=On%20May%204%2C%201775%2C%20George,Lexington%20and%20Concord%20in%20Massachusetts.