Betty WASHINGTON

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• FamilySearch ID: LH6W-DZ7
• Name: Betsy WASHINGTON
• Name: Betty Ball WASHINGTON
• Name: Betty Elizabeth WASHINGTON
• Residence: 1770, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, British Colonial America; Kenmore House

Notes:

Betty Washington Lewis was more than just the only sister of George Washington to survive to adulthood; she was also a patriot. Lewis and her husband, Fielding, contributed a considerable amount of their personal wealth and time toward the American Revolution. Their devotion and loyalty to the wartime effort and to its leader, George Washington, inadvertently led them to financial hardship.

Born on June 20, 1733, Betty Washington was the second child and only surviving daughter of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. Christened as Elizabeth, Betty was most likely named after her mother's beloved half-sister, Elizabeth Johnson Bonhum. Along with her eventually famous older brother George, Betty had three other brothers, Samuel, John (Jack), and Charles, and a sister, Mildred, who died in infancy. From her father's first marriage, she also had three half-brothers, Butler, Lawrence, and Augustine, only two (Lawrence and Augustine) of whom survived to adulthood, and a half-sister, Jane, who died when a child.1

Betty Washington was born at the family estate on Pope's Creek in Westmoreland County. In 1735, the Washingtons moved to a property on the Upper Potomac, known at the time as Little Hunting Creek but eventually renamed Mount Vernon. In 1740, the family moved to Ferry Farm, overlooking the Rappahannock River, across from the town of Fredericksburg.2

Like many Virginia girls among the gentry, young Betty Washington no doubt received some practical and ornamental education. She learned to ride a horse at an early age and most likely became an expert horsewoman. Like all young Virginians, she must have learned to dance. Her mother taught her the domestic arts, such as sewing, knitting, and embroidery. Along with her four brothers, Betty attended a school taught by Reverend James Marye, a scholarly Huguenot. Betty and her family regularly attended Falmouth Church in Brunswick Parish, which contributed to her lasting faith and regular attendance at services in St. George's Parish in the latter part of her life.3

Betty Washington was sixteen when she married the widower Fielding Lewis, who was eight years her senior, on May 7, 1750. The couple not only shared the same acquaintances and circulated in the same social circles, they were also second cousins through their maternal grandmothers, who were sisters. Marriage between kin was common in eighteenth-century Virginia. Fielding Lewis' first wife, Catharine Washington, was also a cousin. Betty Washington's marriage settlement of ?400 and two female slaves, left to her in her father's will, along with Fielding Lewis' wealth, enabled the newly married couple to live comfortably.4

In 1752, Fielding Lewis purchased 1,300 acres on the outskirts of Fredericksburg and asked his brother-in-law, George Washington, to survey the 861-acre portion that would be the site of Kenmore, the Lewises' exquisite house.5 Together, Betty and Fielding Lewis had a total of eleven children, six of whom survived to adulthood. Betty Lewis also had two stepchildren, from Fielding's first marriage. It was at Kenmore where Betty and Fielding Lewis resided and raised their family during their thirty-one years of married life.6

Kenmore was a Georgian-style two story home that consisted of eight rooms, a full cellar, twelve-foot high ceilings, and 4,000 square feet of living space.7 Many people lived and worked at Kenmore, including eighty slaves, whose quarters were among the many outbuildings on the estate. Records indicate it took several years to build the house, in part because the disruption of trade during the imperial crisis prevented the Lewsises from obtaining necessary supplies from England. Decorative plasterwork on the ceilings and mantles were added as late as 1775.8

Fielding Lewis was often away from Kenmore due to his involvement in public life. He was a vestryman of St. George's Church, a colonel in the Spotsylvania County militia, and from 1760 to 1768 served as a member of the House of Burgesses. In 1773, he joined Virginia's pre-revolutionary Committee of Correspondence.9 Fielding's absence left Betty in charge of running and maintaining their estate. Although she had many slaves to do manual tasks, like other plantation mistresses, she supervised their work. She also oversaw the management of her gardens, spent much of her time attending to her children, offered hospitality to guests, and hosted various social gatherings. Betty's brother George was one of Kenmore's many frequent visitors.10

Betty and Fielding Lewis were strong supporters of the Revolution, and their loyalty to the cause cost them financially. The Lewises owned a store, which originally belonged to Fielding's father. During the war, Fielding supplied salt, flour, bacon, and clothing to patriot forces. Herbs and other produce from Betty's gardens became teas and ointments that Fielding also supplied to the army. In July 1775, the Virginia assembly passed an ordinance providing for a "Manufactory of Small Arms in Fredericksburg, Va." and named Fielding Lewis and four other men as its Commissioners. Appropriations of ?25,000 were distributed and land was secured near Hunter's Forge for the construction and operation of the gunnery. However, the appropriations ran out, and Betty and Fielding Lewis used ?7,000 from their personal accounts to maintain the gunnery. They later borrowed between ?30,000 and ?40,000 to provide saltpeter, sulfur, gunpowder, and lead for the manufacture of ammunition during the war. Kenmore was heavily mortgaged to meet the costs of these patriotic endeavors.11

Betty Lewis handled family affairs for her brother George, while Fielding managed many of his financial concerns. Fielding collected outstanding debts for George, and he also handled several land transactions for his brother-in-law.12 Meanwhile, when George and Betty's mother, Mary Ball Washington, died in 1789, shortly after he had left for New York to assume the presidency, George asked his sister to take care of their mother's estate, providing her with detailed instructions, which she followed.13 In 1790, at George's request, Betty cared for their niece Harriot Washington, the daughter of their deceased brother Samuel. Harriot resided at Mount Vernon, and her uncle George was her guardian. Beginning in October 1792, due to the responsibilities of the presidency in Philadelphia, there were no women living at Mount Vernon to watch over her, so George Washington instructed Betty Lewis to move Harriot to Kenmore, which she did.14

When Fielding Lewis died December 1781, just two months after the American victory at Yorktown, the Commonwealth of Virginia still owed the Lewises some ?7,000. In widowhood at age 49, Betty struggled financially and sometimes hired out her slaves to raise money. She also tried running a small boarding school at Kenmore, though she had to sell land in order to keep the school and Kenmore afloat.15 Betty Lewis remained at Kenmore fourteen years before she went to live with her daughter, Betty Carter, in Culpepper County. On March 31, 1797, she died at her daughter's home, Western View, and was buried on the property.16 Eighteen days after she died, Kenmore and its contents were sold. The Lewis descendants were never compensated for Betty and Fielding Lewis' enormous expenditures in support of the revolutionary cause.

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Betty married General Fielding LEWIS on 7 May 1750 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia, British Colonial America. Fielding (son of John LEWIS, IV and Frances FIELDING) was born on 7 Jul 1725 in Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America; was christened on 16 Jul 1725 in Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, Virginia; died on 19 Oct 1781 in Fredericksburg, Virginia; was buried in Oct 1781 in Saint Georges Episcopal Church Graveyard, Fredericksburg, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Fielding LEWIS, Jr was born on 14 Feb 1751 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia; died on 21 Jul 1803 in Fairfax, Virginia; was buried in Jul 1803 in (Unknown Cem.)) Marion, King George, Virginia.
2. Augustine LEWIS was born on 22 Jan 1752 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia; died on 22 Jan 1756 in Fredericksburg, Virginia Colony.
3. Warner LEWIS was born on 24 Jun 1755 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia; died in Feb 1756 in Fredericksburg, Virginia Colony.
4. Major George Washington LEWIS was born on 14 Mar 1757 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 13 Nov 1821 in King George, Virginia; was buried in Nov 1821 in Willis Hill Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
5. Mary LEWIS was born on 22 Apr 1759 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia; died on 25 Dec 1759.
6. Charles LEWIS was born on 3 Oct 1760 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Colony of Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 3 Oct 1760 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia.
7. Samuel LEWIS was born on 14 May 1763 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia; died on 31 Dec 1764 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia.
8. Elizabeth LEWIS was born on 23 Feb 1765 in King George, Virginia; died on 9 Aug 1830 in Audley, Clarke, Virginia; was buried in Aug 1830 in North Hill Cemetery, Castlemans Ferry, Clarke, Virginia.
9. Lawrence B LEWIS was born on 4 Apr 1767 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia; was christened on 8 Jul 1804 in Alexandria, Virginia; died on 20 Nov 1839 in Arlington, Virginia; was buried in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia.
10. Robert LEWIS was born on 25 Jun 1769 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 17 Jan 1829 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia; was buried in Masonic Cemetery, Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia.
11. Howell LEWIS was born on 12 Dec 1771 in Culpepper County, Virginia, British Colony; died on 26 Dec 1822 in Putnam County, West Virginia; was buried in Dec 1822 in Putnam, West Virginia.

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• FamilySearch ID: KNDX-MFX
• Name: Augustine WASHINGTON
• Name: Gus WASHINGTON
• Name: Lawrence WASHIGNTON
• Occupation: 1725; Co-Founder/Co-Owner of Accokeek Furnace
• Residence: Between 1726 and 1735, Popes Creek Landing, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America; Wakefield Plantation
• Elected: 1727; Justice of the Peace, High Sheriff
• Residence: Between 1735 and 1738, Prince William, Virginia, British Colonial America; Little Hunting Creek Plantation (Mt Vernon)
• Residence: 1738, Virginia, British Colonial America; Strother Plantation

Notes:

From the George Washington Foundation:

Augustine Washington

George Washington's Father
Born in 1694, Augustine was only four years old when his father died. He inherited about 1,000 acres on Bridges Creek in Westmoreland from his father (the Little Hunting Creek property went to his sister Mildred). When Augustine came of age (and into his inheritance) in 1715, he married Jane Butler, an orphan, who had inherited about 640 acres from her father. The young couple settled on the Bridges Creek property.

In 1718, Augustine purchased land on Popes Creek, abridging his property on Bridges Creek and about 1726, built a new house there (later called Wakefield). In the same year, he purchased the Little Hunting Creek property from his sister, Mildred. In addition to planting, Augustine was active in the church and in local politics, serving at various times as justice of the peace and as county sheriff.

Augustine and Jane had four children, only two of whom (Lawrence and Augustine, Jr.) lived to adulthood. After Jane's early death in 1729, Augustine married 23-year-old Mary Ball of Lancaster County in 1731. Three children were born to Augustine and Mary at Popes Creek - George (1732), Betty (1733), and Samuel (1734).

In 1735, the family moved to the Little Hunting Creek property. The exact reason for the move is unclear, but it may have had to do with Augustine's other occupation - iron mining. In 1725, Augustine entered into an agreement with the Principio Company of England to start an iron works on Accokeek Creek in Stafford County. In 1728, Augustine made an agreement with the company to bear one sixth of the cost of running Accokeek Furnace. Little Hunting Creek was a bit closer to the iron mine than Pope's Creek, so that may have been among the reasons for the move.

In 1738, a 150-acre property just across the Rappahannock River from the fledgling town of Fredericksburg, became available. Formerly owned by William Strother, the property was sold by his executors to Augustine who moved the family there at the end of that same year. The new property offered easier access to Accokeek Furnace and was within a day's ride of both Little Hunting Creek and Popes Creek. Augustine also leased a 450-acre parcel adjacent to the property that he later purchased outright. Although there was a ferry road and landing on the property, the farm was not called Ferry Farm during the time of the Washington's occupation.

By the time the family had moved to the Rappahannock River farm, two more children were born; John Augustine, 1736 and Charles, 1738. A sixth child, Mildred, was born on the new farm in 1739 but she died in infancy in 1740.

After Augustine's death in 1743, the Fredericksburg property went to George, but since he was only 11 years old, his mother, Mary, managed the property for him. She remained on the property until 1772, when George finally moved her to a house across the river in Fredericksburg. The Little Hunting Creek property went to Lawrence, and the Popes Creek property went to Augustine, Jr. Lawrence renamed his property Mount Vernon, in honor of an Admiral Vernon he had served with in the British Navy during the Battle of Cartagena.

According to the terms of Augustine's will, if Lawrence died without issue, the Little Hunting Creek property would be given to Augustine, Jr. who would then have to give Popes Creek to George. If Augustine, Jr. did not want the Little Hunting Creek property, it would then go to George. Lawrence had no living children when he died and Augustine, Jr. was apparently not interested in giving up Popes Creek. Lawrence's widow, Ann, had a life interest in the property but, because she remarried and was not living at Mount Vernon, leased the property to George beginning in 1754. Upon her death in 1761, George inherited the property outright.

http://www.kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/augustine.html


From Wikipedia:
Augustine Washington Sr. (November 12, 1694 ? April 12, 1743) was the father of the first U.S. President George Washington. He belonged to the Colony of Virginia's landed gentry and was a planter and slaveholder.

Family
Augustine Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, on November 12, 1694 to Lawrence Washington, a militia captain and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, and Mildred Warner.

His paternal grandparents were Lt. Col. John Washington (c. 1631? 1677) and his first wife, Anne Pope.

Life
Augustine was only four years old when his father died. He inherited about 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) on Bridges Creek in Westmoreland County; his sister Mildred inherited what was called the Little Hunting Creek property;[1] they both inherited slaves.

When Washington came of age (and into his inheritance) in 1715, he married Jane Butler, an orphan who had inherited about 640 acres (2.6 km2) from her father. The young couple settled on the Bridges Creek property. Washington was active in the Anglican Church and in local politics. He took the oath as justice of the peace for the county court in July 1716,[2] and served as county sheriff.

In 1718, Washington purchased land on Popes Creek, abridging his property on Bridges Creek. About 1726, he had a new house built there (later called Wakefield). In the same year, he purchased the Little Hunting Creek property from his sister Mildred. Washington and his first wife, Jane Butler, had three children, only two of whom (Lawrence and Augustine Jr.) lived to adulthood. In 1725, Augustine entered into an agreement with the Principio Company of England to start an iron works on Accokeek Creek in Stafford County. After Jane's death in 1730, Washington married Mary Ball in 1731, and in 1735, the family moved to the Little Hunting Creek property, which was closer to the Accokeek Furnace.[1]

In 1738, Augustine Washington purchased the 150-acre Strother property across the Rappahannock River and moved the family there at the end of that same year.[1]

Legacy
After Washington's death in 1743 at the age of 48, his son George inherited the former Strother property and its slaves. As he was only 11 years old, his mother Mary managed the property for him until he came of age. She lived on the property until 1772 when she was 64; George moved her to a house in Fredericksburg.

Lawrence inherited the Little Hunting Creek property and renamed his property Mount Vernon, in honor of Admiral Edward Vernon, with whom he had served in the British Navy in 1741 during the Battle of Cartagena de Indias during the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Augustine Jr. inherited the Popes Creek property and slaves. At his death, Augustine Washington Sr. held a total of 64 slaves who were assigned among the various plantations.[3]

According to Augustine's will, if Lawrence died without children, the Little Hunting Creek property would be given to Augustine Jr. with the stipulation that he must then give Popes Creek to George. If Augustine Jr. did not want the Little Hunting Creek property, it would then be inherited by George. At Lawrence's death, he indeed had no living children, and Augustine Jr. did not want to give up Popes Creek; therefore, George Washington ultimately inherited the Little Hunting Creek property.

Lawrence Washington's widow Ann had a life interest in the Little Hunting Creek plantation. As she remarried and was not living at Mount Vernon, she leased the property to George beginning in 1754. Upon her death in 1761, George Washington inherited the plantation outright.

Children (by Jane Butler)[edit]
Butler Washington (1716? 1716)
Lawrence Washington (1718? 1752)
Augustine Washington Jr. (1720? 1762)
Jane Washington (1722? 1735)
Children (by Mary Ball)[edit]
George Washington (1732? 1799)
Betty Washington Lewis (1733? 1797)
Samuel Washington (1734? 1781)
John Augustine Washington (1736? 1787)
Charles Washington (1738? 1799)
Mildred Washington (1739? 1740)

Notes
Jump up to: a b c "Augustine Washington", The George Washington Foundation

Freeman 1948, p. 34

"Slavery at Popes Creek Plantation", George Washington Birthplace National Monument, National Park Service, accessed April 15, 2009


See also: http://www.fredericksburg.com/town_and_countylocal_history/george-washington-s-heritage/article_548e4971-c5c0-503c-bfa7-7927572d33c6.html

http://www.kenmore.org/genealogy/washington/augustine.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry_of_George_Washington

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Washington

Augustine married Mary BALL on 6 Mar 1730 in Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America. Mary (daughter of Joseph BALL and Mary BENNETT) was born on 30 Nov 1708 in Epping Forest, Lively, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 25 Aug 1789 in Fredericksburg, Stafford, Virginia; was buried in Aug 1789 in Kenmore Plantation and Gardens Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg City, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KNDD-GXQ
• Name: Mary ESKRIDGE

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Mother of George Washington. "The Belle of Epping Forest" was born in 1708 or 1709 in Lancaster County, Virginia to a well-to-do family. Both of her parents had children from prior marriages, but she would be the only child born to Joseph and Mary Ball; her father would die when Mary was only a few years old. At the age of thirteen, her mother died as well. Her early years were spent between the homes of her half-sister Elizabeth and her guardian Colonel George Eskridge, being educated in the "feminine arts" of sewing, cooking, running an estate and etiquette. At the age of twenty, Mary traveled to London to visit her half-brother Joseph and there met Augustine Washington, who also lived in Virginia. They courted for two years before being married in 1731 and settling down at his estate, Pope's Creek, in Westmoreland County. Augustine was much like her father, having three children from a prior marriage and sufficiently successful, owning an ironworks. The following year on February 22, their first son George was born. Six years and four more children later, the family moved to Ferry Farm to be closer to Augustine's ironworks. Mary was left alone with the children often, as her husband did a lot of traveling for his business; it was during these times that she handled the overseeing of the farm and personally educating all of her children in everything from studying the Bible to horsemanship. In April of 1743, Augustine died unexpectedly and left Mary a widow at thirty-five with five children under twelve years old. She threw herself into managing the six hundred acre estate; while women were not allowed to own property at the time, Augustine had left Ferry Farm to George and she was allowed possession until he came of age. Unable to send George to England to be educated as was the custom of the time, she sent him to Mount Vernon to study with his elder half-brother Lawrence. At the age of fourteen, George wanted to enlist in the British Navy, but Mary put her foot down - he was needed at home. To combat his disappointment, she let him have his father's old surveying equipment and hired a tutor to train him; within years he was buying up land with the money he earned as a surveyor. Mary continued to live at Ferry Farm for forty-five years, never remarrying. Her land and her children were her life, there was no room for anything else. As she got older, however, she could not work as often as she liked and came to rely on some support from her children. In 1772, when she was sixty-four, George bought her a house in Fredericksburg a few blocks from Kenmore, the estate of her daughter Betty and her husband Fielding Lewis. The relationship between her and George was more strained than the one she had with the rest of her children, yet he was her main provider in her later years, even buying her a "riding chair" so that she could more easily visit her friends and neighbors. During the War for Independence, she would walk or ride to an outcropping of rock on Betty's estate, now referred to as "Meditation Rock" where she would pray for her son and his success. Mary lived to see her son George not only succeed in his drive to defeat the British in the War, but become the first President of the United States. He last visited her on his way to New York City for his inauguration in April 1789. Four months later, Mary Ball Washington died on August 26, 1789 at the age of eighty-one and was buried a few paces from Meditation Rock. (bio by: Lysa)

Mary Ball Washington had one step-sister named Elizabeth, and one step-brother named John. They were the 2 children of a young widow, Mrs. Mary Johnson who married Joseph Ball (Mary's father) after her unknown mother died. There does not appear to be more children. John Johnson died around the same time as his mother, leaving only Mary and Elizabeth. Mary continued to live with Elizabeth after she married.

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• FamilySearch ID: L518-C2K

Lawrence married Mildred WARNER. Mildred (daughter of Augustine WARNER, II and Mildred READE) was born on 24 Nov 1670 in Gloucester Point, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 26 Mar 1701 in Whitehaven, Cumberland, Virginia; was buried in St. Nicholas Church Cemetery, Whitehaven, England.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KNW5-2D1

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• FamilySearch ID: L52B-66G
• Reference Number: 7537
• _UID: 7BCF1664942948CC9332E95CF5AF0C36852F

Notes:

Joseph Ball (1649-1711) was born in England and came to Virginia sometime before his father's death, making his home at a plantation called Epping Forest. He served as a justice of the county court, a vestryman for his church parish, as a Burgess (in 1698, 1700, and 1702), and as a lieutenant colonel in the county militia. Ball was married twice. From his first marriage to Elizabeth Rogers (or Romney), who died by the early 1700's, he had five children: Anne Ball (later the wife of Colonel Edwin Conway), Elizabeth Ball (later the wife of the Reverend Joseph Carnegie),Esther or Easter Ball (later the wife of Rawleigh Chinn), Hannah Ball (later the wife of Rawleigh Travers, II, and afterwards the wife of Simon Pearson), and Joseph Ball (died 1760).

After the death of his first wife, Joseph Ball married Mary Johnson (died 1721), a widow who had two children from her previous marriage. Together they had one child, a daughter named Mary Ball (1708-1789). Joseph passed away, however, soon after when Mary Ball was only three years old.

Mary Johnson Ball was remarried the following year to a man named Richard Hewes, who left her a widow for the third time in 1713. Her daughter, Mary Ball, was completely orphaned by the age of 12 or 13 and was subsequently raised by a guardian named George Eskridge, a local lawyer, land speculator, and Burgess, whose plantation was called Sandy Point. In 1731, at the age of 23, she married Augustine Washington (1694-1743), a middle-aged widower with three children, who ranged in age from 13 to 9. Their first child, a little boy they named George Washington (1732-1799), was born early the following year.

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/ball-family/

Joseph married Mary BENNETT. Mary was born on 12 Mar 1665 in England; was christened on 12 Apr 1668 in Saint Dunstan and All Saints Church, Stepney, Middlesex, England; died in 1721 in Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America; was buried in Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: KXHZ-R9S
• Name: Mary JOHNSON
• Name: Mary MONTAGUE
• Deed: 1713, Northumberland, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Probate; will: 12 Apr 1721, St Stephen's Parish, Northumberland, Virginia, British Colonial America

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• Fact: ; According to Warner Hall History, Augustine Warner and Mildred Reade had 3 sons and 3 daughters that lived to adulthood. All 3 sons died before Augustine died. Daughters were Mary, Mildred, and Elizabeth
• FamilySearch ID: MQ4Y-HM7
• LifeSketch: ; In the winter of 1642, Augustine Warner I arrived in Jamestown with twelve new settlers for the Virginia Colonies. For bringing these colonists to the new frontier, Warner was given a ?head Grant? of 600 acres in Gloucester, Virginia. He eventually expand
• MilitaryService: ; as a Colonel in the Virginia Militia
• Relation: ; Great Grandfather of George Washington
• Occupation: ; Planter
• Education: 1658, London, Middlesex, England; Attended Merchant Taylor's School
• Occupation: Between 1666 and 1677; Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
• Residence: 1674, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America; Warner Hall
• Will: 16 May 1679, Colony of Virginia, British America

Notes:

Speaker Augustine Warner Junior, born 3 July 1642 in York Co. VA, died 15 June 1681 in Warner Hall, Gloucester Co. Married Mildred Reade, born 2 October 1643 in Williamsburg, died 20 October 1686 in Cumberland. 5. Colonel Augustine, Jr. Warner was born on 3 Jun 1642 in "Warner Hall", Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia and died on 19 Jun 1681 in "Warner Hall", Abingdon Parish, Gloucester County, Virginia. Colonel Augustine Warner II succeeded his father and became political friends with Nathaniel Bacon, who was educated at Oxford and a Barrister in London. Bacon staged the first actual American Revolution in 1676, as he organized an army of three hundred to four hundred pioneers to cope with the Indians North of the York River. He was involved in a private fur deal spanning the entire Virginia frontier. By the end of the decade, Bacon's troops had taken care of all the Indian tribes. They marched on Jamestown as Governor William Burkeley fled, and sailed to the Eastern Shore. Nathaniel Bacon and his troops soon set up their headquarters at Warner Hall after the burning of Jamestown in 1676. This Virginia Colony was in charge of matters North of the York to the Potomac River. Beyond the Potomac, lay the Maryland Colony. It was at Warner Hall, where he sent notices for the people to assemble to take the "Oath of Fidelity" of his fellow countrymen. Bacon contracted Malaria and died within a year his troops then fleeing the Colony. Augustine Warner II inherited Warner Hall at the death of his father in 1674. He married Mildred Reade, the daughter of George Reade, founder of Yorktown, and after her death, Elizabeth Martian. Augustine II was speaker of the House of Burgesses during Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, and also was a member of the Council. When Augustine Warner II died, he left three daughters his son dying June 19, 1681. Mary became the wife of John Smith, of Purton, on the York, and their son Augustine Smith was said to have been one of the K

Augustine married Mildred READE about 1661 in Gloucester, Colony of Virginia, British America. Mildred (daughter of George READE and Elizabeth MARTIAU) was born on 2 Oct 1643 in York, Virginia, British Colonial America; was christened after 2 Oct 1643 in Naxera, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 20 Oct 1686 in Naxera, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America; was buried in 1694 in Warner Hall Graveyard, Naxera, Gloucester, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: MRP6-455
• LifeSketch: ; Extant grave in Warner Hall Graveyard, Gloucester, Virginia for Mildred Reade, wife of Augustine WARNER II.
• Name: Mildred Elizabeth READE
• Will: 4 Jan 1693, Colony of Virginia, British America

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• FamilySearch ID: L8BF-R5N
• MilitaryService: Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America; "He served as a major in the militia of Lancaster County, Virginia"
• Name: William BALL
• Occupation: ; Colonel, Major, Planter and Gentleman, Member of the House of Burgess from 1670-1680
• Occupation: Virginia, British Colonial America; Member of the House of Burgesses from 1668 until 1676 and again from 1676 to 1677.
• Reference Number: 7532
• Immigration: 1653, Virginia, British Colonial America; William's earliest immigration date was recorded in Lancaster County, VA-24 OCT 1653. Certificate granted to Capt. Henry Fleet for importation of 21 people, including William Ball. (DB 1, p. 89)
• Occupation: 1660, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, British Colonial America; Merchant [tobacco]
• Probate: 10 Nov 1680, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America; Will Proved

Notes:

William Ball was born in 1615, studied law in London and served in the Royal Army in the Civil Wars under Charles I. With the regicide in 1650, he lost the greater part of his English estates and fled to Virginia. He had married Hannah Atherall (Atherold) 2 July 1638 in London and immigrated to Virginia with his wife and three children--Hannah, Joseph, and William. He did not apply for a land grant in Virginia for eight years, waiting for the restoration of the 1660 Stuart kings. He settled in Narrow Neck (now Ball Point) on the west side of the Corrotoman River in 1663. Ball operated the vessel Merchant between England and Virginia as a tobacco merchant. He acquired 2000 acres in Virginia, served on an Indian peace-treaty council, and administered Lancaster County affairs as a Colonel. He built a Georgian mansion, Millenbeck, and led the defense of the county to help quell Bacon's Rebellion. One of his land grants for 300 acres adjoined the land of Daniel Fox, who married his daughter Hannah. He was a Warden of Christ Church in Lancaster and also owned land in Rappahannock County. He served as a Burgess from 1699-1173 and was George Washington's great grandfather. ? He died at Millenbeck in 1680 and left his estate to his wife and two sons.

THE BALL FAMILY FROM THE MT. VERNON LIBRARY:
The Ball family line connects to George Washington through his maternal lineage. The first member of the Ball family to come to America was George Washington's great-grandfather, William Ball (1615- c.1680).
In Virginia, Ball began acquiring land, engaging in commerce, and taking part in colonial politics. He served as a major in the militia of Lancaster County, Virginia, and as a member of the House of Burgesses from 1668 until 1676 and again from 1676 to 1677. During this time period, Ball had dealings with John Washington, George Washington's paternal great-grandfather.
The four children of William Ball and Hannah Atherold were Richard Ball (died in Maryland in 1677), William Ball (II) of Virginia, Hannah Ball (later the wife of Colonel David Fox, and Joseph Ball (1649-1711). ========================================================
WILLIAM BALL IMMIGRATION RECORDS FROM LANCASTER COUNTY:
William's earliest immigration date was recorded in Lancaster County, VA-24 OCT 1653. Certificate granted to Capt. Henry Fleet for importation of 21 people, including William Ball. (DB 1, p. 89)
Lancaster County, VA-19 MAY 1657. Certifcate for land issued to William Ball for transporting himself four times and for transporting Hugh Davys and Richard Ball once. (Orders 1656-1666, p. 16, Sparacio, p. 10).
Lancaster County, VA-2 JUN 1657. Land Patent to Domick Theriott of Lancaster County, land on Clapham's Creek and adjacent to Edwin Conway, due for importation of 32 persons, including William Ball four times and Richard Ball. (PB 4, p. 102.) These were probably some of the same headrights named in the certificate issued to William Ball above, and apparently sold by William Ball to Domick Theriott.
Ancestry.com File #27291 indicates place of birth as Wiltshire, England and place of death as Plantation "Millenbeck", Lancaster County, Virginia. This file also gives surname of wife as ATHEROLD. [LDK]

Colonel William BALL probably left England soon after the death of King Charles I, circa 1650. [SOURCE: #27291 Ancestry.com]

President George Washington directly descends from Col. William Ball. The Chesebro's descend from Col. William Ball's son Richard Ball. The Chesebro's relationship to George Washington from the Ball family is 4th cousin X times removed depending on their generation beginning with Lawrence Edmund Chesebro', Jr., November 13, 1937. [SOURCE: Larry Chesebro']

Immigrated in April 1635 from England to Virginia in the ship "Planter". {Must have returned to England} Evidence shows that he married (in London, England) 2 July 1638 to Hannah Atherold. He was a soldier "under Fairfax", and served in the Royal Army and took part in the {English} Civil Wars, remaining true to the royal standards & serving faithfully under the banners of the ill-fated King Charles. When the Royal Army was defeated, Colonel Ball lost the greater part of his considerable estates. In company with other royalists he fled to Virginia, the most loyal of the king's possessions, and last to surrender to Cromwell's authority. [SOURCE: Larry Chesebro']

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William married Hannah ATHEROLD on 2 Jul 1638 in London, England. Hannah (daughter of Thomas ATHEROLD, IV and Mary HARVEY) was born in 1615 in London, Middlesex, England; died on 25 Jun 1695 in Millenbeck, Lancaster, Virginia; was buried in Jun 1695 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L1M1-8GY
• Name: Hannah ATHERALL
• Reference Number: 7533

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Husband's will - Closure of Estate of William Ball 1694-1695 Essex Co VA Deed & Will Book; Antient Press: (Page 251) At a Court held for Essex County 10th of July 1695 Upon the peticon of FRA: MERIWITHER, an Attachment is granted him against the Estate of WM. BALL (who hath illegally absented hirnselfe out of this County) for Five hundred & forty three pounds of tobo: & cask & costs returnable to the next Court. (On margin: July ye 15th 1695. Executed on 3 sheep & 3 lambs & one Ram p. GEO: PARKE) 15 July 1695 Essex, Virginia, United States Court Hearing and Findings 1693-1694 Essex Co VA Deed & Will Book; Antient Press: (Page 107-108) At a court held 10th of June 1693 - WM. BALL brought his accon of Trespass on Battry. to this Court against WM: COX and declar'd that the said COX did with force & armes on or about the 4:th day of April last at the House of JOHN HARPER in this County and contrary to the Peace & so forth assault his, ye Plts. Wife, ANN BALL, and did then and there fore beate & knife ye sd ANN with his hands and feet with stamping on her upon the ground and almost beate her eyes out of her head and the breath out of her body and taming her Cloaths all of her back that of her life she did dispair to the Plts. great damage and damage hath to Two thousand pounds of tobo: caske; wherefore he humbly pray'd order against thesd COX with all costs & damages &c., To which the Defendt. by Mr. JNO. EVERIT, his Attorney, appear'd and pleaded to ye insufficiency of ye Declaracon as not agreeing with the accon and thereupon moved for a nonsuit against the Plt., wch: this Court have granted, and ordered that the same be paid with costs als Exo. Ordered that LYDIA HARPER, who was subpena'd as an evidence in the difference between WM. BALL Plt, and WM. COX Defendt., be paid by the Plt, for one dayes attendance according to Law with costs als Exo. === 1694-1695 Essex Co VA Deed & Will Book; Antient Press: (Page 247) At a Court held for Essex County 11th of June 1695 - WILLIAM MORRIS & ELLINORE his Wife complain against WM. BALL & ANN his Wife for that, that is to say, the Complt. ELLINER MORRIS hath for this thirty years or thereabout now past lived in NEW KENT County, now KING & QUEEN County within this Colony of Virga: & it is & hath been hither to of good name fame credit & reputacon & never was guilty of any conjuracon witchcraft or inchantmt., charme or sorcery or any other Just act or acts whereby to hurt any body in their lives liberties or estate but is & ever was free from all & every such like offences & from any spot blemish suspicion of them or anty of them did alwaies live & remain unspoted, wch: premisses are very well known to these Defendts., WILLIAM BALL & ANN his Wife, yet she ye sd ANN BALL out of an evil intent & malitious designe to deprive & destroy the good name credit & reputacon of the Complts. & to bring them into hatred & contempt did to wit on ye 23d day of Aprill last or thereabouts & at divers times & places within this County in the presence & hearing of divers of their Maties. Leige people with a Lowd Voice publickly & Malitiously utter & declare these false feigned scandalous & malitious words of ye Complts. (vizt) that the Complt. ELLINOR MORRIS was & is a WITCH and she had bewitched her the Defendt. & had ride her several dayes & nights almost to death that of her life she did despair and said that she would prove it with many other false words & scandalous speeches against the Complts. good name credit & reputacon to their damage Five thousand pounds of tobo: & cask for which they pray'd Judgmt. with costs To wch ? the Defendts. by Mr. THO: GRIGSON & Mr. ROBT. COLEMAN their Attorneys appear'd and for plea say not Guilty in manner & forme; Whereupon the matter for tryall is refer'd to a Jury who (vizt) ROBERT HALSEY, RICHD. COVINGTON, THO: COCKIN, JAMES HINDS, EDWD. ROWSIE, SAML. GRIFFING, THO: DAVIS, WILLIAM JONES, JOHN WILLIAMS, NICHO: COPELAND, ROBT. PLEY & SAMLL, THACKER, being sworn for verdt. Wee the Jury find for the Plts. Five hundred pounds of tobacco damage, wch: (upon the Plts. mocon by JAMES BOUGHAN their Attorney) is recorded and Judgment granted the Defendts. for the said Five hundred pounds of tobacco damage to be paid with costs - Its ordered that MARY MOSS who was subpeena'd as an evidence in the suit between WM. MORRIS & ELLINOR his Wife Plts. & WM. BALL & ANN his Wife, Defendts., be paid by the Plts. for three dayes attendance according to Law with costs - Ordered that JNO. POWELL who was subpeeneed as an evidence in the suit between WM. MORRIS & ELLINR: his Wife, Plts. & WM. BALL & ANN his Wife, Defendts., be paid by ye Plts. for three dayes attendance according to Law with costs - JANE POWELL being subpeena'd as an evidence in ye suit between WM. MORRIS & ELLINOR his Wife Plts. and WM. BALL & ANN his wife Defendts., & attending three dayes, its ordred that the Plts. pay her for the same according to Law with costs June 1693 Essex, Virginia, United States
11 Apr 1693
Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America