Mary BALL

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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.

Mary married Augustine WASHINGTON on 6 Mar 1730 in Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America. Augustine (son of Capt. Lawrence WASHINGTON and Mildred WARNER) was born on 12 Nov 1694 in Bridges Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 12 Apr 1743 in Ferry Farm, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America; was buried in Apr 1743 in George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Latanes, Westmoreland, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. President George WASHINGTON was born on 22 Feb 1732 in Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America; was christened on 5 Apr 1732 in Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 14 Dec 1799 in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia; was buried on 18 Dec 1799 in Mount Vernon Estate, Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia.
2. Betty WASHINGTON was born on 20 Jun 1733 in Wakefield Plantation, Popes Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 31 Mar 1797 in Culpeper, Virginia; was buried on 1 Apr 1797 in Western View Cemetery, Culpeper, Culpeper, Virginia.
3. Samuel Walter WASHINGTON was born on 16 Nov 1734 in Popes Creek, Westmoreland, Virginia British Colonial America; was christened on 13 Jan 1735 in Wakefield, Westmoreland, Virginia; died on 26 Sep 1781 in Harewood Manor, Charles Town, Berkeley, Virginia, British Colonial America; was buried in Washington Burial Ground, Harewood, Jefferson, West Virginia.
4. John Augustine WASHINGTON was born on 13 Jan 1737 in Little Hunting Creek, Prince William, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 17 Feb 1787 in Bushfield Manor, Mount Holly, Westmoreland, Virginia; was buried in 1787 in Bushrod Family Cemetery, Mount Holly, Westmoreland, Virginia.
5. Charles WASHINGTON was born on 2 May 1738 in Hunting Creek Hills, Chesterfield, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 16 Sep 1799 in Happy Retreat, Charles Town, Brooke, West Virginia; was buried in 1799 in Charles Washington Family Graveyeard, Charles Town, Jefferson, West Virginia.
6. Mildred WASHINGTON was born on 21 Jun 1739 in Ferry Farm, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America; died on 23 Oct 1740 in Ferry Farm, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America; was buried in 1740.

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

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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.

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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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• 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

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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
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• FamilySearch ID: LBLP-Y3Q
• Name: William Ball
• Reference Number: 7902
• _UID: 1926024E1DC54DE48F556FCCDB90420573BB

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William Ball arrived in America on the English ship "Planter" about April 1635 with his six sons - Alling, Francis, John, Samuel, Richard and William according to "The Name AND Family of BALL", compiled by The Research Bureau of Washington, DC (page 21) and affirmed by a genealogist with the Institute of American Genealogy of Chicago. Some sources state incorrectly that William of Lincoln's Inn was also married to Dorothy Tuttle. Our majority of sources dispute this and record Dorothy married to William's son Alling Sr. [SOURCE: Larry Chesebro' - CHESEBRO' GENEALOGY]

One of four Attorneys in the office of pleas in the Exchequer.

Capt. Ball married three times first to Joanna King, second to Dorothy Tuttle and third to Alice Waltham.

William married Alice WALTHAM about 1594 in London City, London, England. Alice was born in 1573 in Millenback, Wiltshire, England; died in 1622 in Chancery Lane, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Alice Ann Waltham
• _UID: 55387DEEF30F40719CE0AB8F1BEBA0151C55

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• FamilySearch ID: 9SMK-VJP
• Name: Thomas ATHEROLD
• Occupation: ; Barrister
• Reference Number: 7534
• Residence: Abt 1608, London, England

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Thomas Atherold IV

Born : 16 August 1590 in Burgh, Suffolk, England;
Death: 6 May 1658 in Burgh, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Atherold III
born 1564 in Burgh, Suffolk, England
Mother: Mary Vessey born 1568 in London, Middlesex, England

Marriage Mary Harvey born 1595 in London, Middlesex, England
Married: 1608 in London, England
Children
Hannah Atherold b: 1618/9 in London, England


from the will of his son Thomas Atherold, proved 1665, we know this Thomas Atherold is already dead:buried in the church of Burgh near my father and brother


Thomas Atherold IV

Born : 16 August 1590 in Burgh, Suffolk, England;
Death: 6 May 1658 in Burgh, Suffolk, England

Father: Thomas Atherold III
born 1564 in Burgh, Suffolk, England
Mother: Mary Vessey born 1568 in London, Middlesex, England

Marriage Mary Harvey born 1595 in London, Middlesex, England
Married: 1608 in London, England
Children
Hannah Atherold b: 1618/9 in London, England


from the will of his son Thomas Atherold, proved 1665, we know this Thomas Atherold is already dead:buried in the church of Burgh near my father and brother

Thomas married Mary HARVEY on 27 Sep 1608 in Burgh, Suffolk, England. Mary (daughter of Rev Francis HARVEY and Mary YORKE) was born in 1592 in London, Middlesex, England; died in May 1665 in Burgh, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: G8PH-1Q8
• Reference Number: 7535

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CHESEBRO' record indicates name as Hannah HARVEY. [SOURCE: Larry Chesebro'] [LDK]

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