🇺🇸 George Washington had no son. For two years he raised Lafayette’s. As President of the United States. In April 1795, while his father was locked in an Austrian fortress at Olmütz, Georges Washington de Lafayette was sent to America. He was fifteen. James Monroe, the American minister in Paris, got him a passport. Washington wanted the boy under his own roof. He could not take him yet. France and the United States were quarreling, and a president who housed the son of a jailed French revolutionary could be accused of taking sides. So Georges waited out of sight. He landed in Boston in August 1795 under the name Motier, then moved to a house in New Jersey, then to New York, where Alexander Hamilton watched over him and told Washington not to rush. In February 1796 the House backed the President. Georges moved in. He lived with the Washingtons in Philadelphia and at Mount Vernon. Washington paid for a portrait of him. Georges also studied at Harvard. Washington kept him until his father was freed in September 1797. He sailed home the next year.