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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.

Family/Spouse: Dorothy TUTTLE. Dorothy was born about 1580 in England; died after 1615. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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• 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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Family/Spouse: Anne Mariah MCFARLAND. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard married Elizabeth LINTON about Mar 1661 in Baltimore County, Maryland. Elizabeth was born in 1651 in Norfolk, Virginia; died in 1670 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Immigration: Between 1650 and 1659, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Burial Millenbeck Plantation: 30 Sep 1694, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Will probated: 11 Nov 1694, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America

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The only wife of WILLIAM BALL supported by source evidence and connection is MARGARET WILLIAMSON. Please see the sources!!

Capt. William Ball II and Margaret Williamson Ball had 9 children. There were 8 sons and only 1 daughter. The children were William, Richard, James, Joseph, George, David, Samuel, Stretchley and Margaret Ball, their only daughter.
The Will of William BALL specifically names " my three eldest sons, William BALL, Richard BALL, and James BALL."
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Captain William Ball's Will (1641-1694) Inventories and Wills 8 Page 90, Lancaster Court Records (Probated November 2, 1694)

In the name of God Amen I Capt. William Ball of the parish of St. Marys White Chapel in the County of Lancaster in Virginia being sick & weak in body but of sound & Perfect memory Praised be ye Almighty God for the same & considering the frailty of this life being but a blast I doe make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form Following hereby revoking and making Void all other Will or Wills formerly by me made sealed or published.
First I give my soule to God that gave it me & commit my body to the Earth to be burried in decent order at the Discretion on my Executors hereafter named in hope and true confidence that I shall have a joyful resurrection at the Last day thru the merits of my most dear & precious redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ.

I give unto my dear wife all and every part of this 270 acres of Land whereupon I now Live with all the housing & appearances thereunto belonging and also my mill hereon standing during her Natural life and also full Power to plant, make and manure for her own use a Plantation if she please on every other Parcel of Land hereafter by me hereby given & my will is that she bring up my dear Children until they be 16 yrs. Of age in Writing, Reading & that they may be under the tuition of my sons William and Richard, and that whenever the said mill be out of repair my will is that my said sons William Ball & Richard Ball give their assistance to mend repaire or new build her and that they be paid for their paines as the mill earns it.

I give unto my said sons William Ball & Richard Ball all my Tract lyeing in this Neck next to Richard Cundiffs being about 950 acres to be equally divided between them provided they acquit all their right which they or either of them may possibly have of any and to that Divident of Land in Richmond County nest above Perpetua Creek being about 1,000 acres on which my Quarter Plantation now is unto their two brothers Joseph Ball & George Ball then I do give unto my said sons William Ball and Richard Ball to them and their heirs forever all and every part of the above said 950 acres of Land Lying in this Neck next Richard Cundiffs as aforesaid but if my said two sons William Ball & Richard Ball molest their two brothers Joseph Ball & George Ball in their Quiet Possession at any time or times hereafter either them or their heirs in the said 1,000 acres of Land at Perpetua Creek where my Quarter now is that I then do hereby give my said two sons Joseph Ball & George Ball and their heirs all and every part & Parcel of that 950 acres before hereby given unto my two sons William Ball & Richard Ball as aforesaid.

I give unto my two sons Joseph Ball & George Ball to them and their heirs all and every part & parcel of that Divident of Land in Richmond County whereon my quarter now is near the head of Perpetua Creek to be Equally divided between them.

I give unto my four sons (viz) James Ball, David Ball, Stretchley Ball & Samuel Ball to them and their heirs forever all and every part of my upper divident of land being 1600 acres more or less Lying in Richmond County above Mr. James Harrison's to be equally divided between them.

I give unto my dear Daughter Margaret Ball and to her and her heirs forever all that and every part & Parcel of the Divident whereon my mother Lives at the mouth of Corratomon being about 350 acres more to bee laid out of my ajoyning Divident next to the Plantation that James Wood lives on only reserving to my dear (wife or mother?) one third part of all the sider made thereon clear of all charge making & cask.

I give to my said son William Ball a man serv't named Luke Dickson and a Negro man named Robin. ---- James Canady & Sarah and a Silver salt siller, Tankard & drinking Cup of Silver and which of my Cups she shall make Choice of.

I give unto my son William all the residue of my cups after my dear wife hath her choice of one.
I give to my son James Ball two slaves called Dominy & Kate and a boy and a girle. I give to my son David Ball a girle slave called Poll.
I give to my daughter Margaret Ball two slave girls called Hannah & Betty that's at mother's.
I give unto my son Stretchley Ball a girl Slave called Saran.
I give unto my son Samuel Ball a girl slave called Doll.
The rest of my white servants and slaves not before hereby given. being Cox. Scotch, Tom, Betty & her mulatto child, 3 negroe women called Doll & Betty & Bess at mother's. I give unto my three eldest sons, viz., William Ball, Richard Ball, and James Ball in consideration that they be at the charge of bringing up and maintaining their three youngest brothers.
I give and Bequeath unto my said sons William & Richard Ball 2/6s part of all the rest of my estate not hereby before given Desiring them to take all the care they can of their dear mother.
And the residue of all my estate whereon had, found or being not before hereby given. I give to be equally divided between my dear children here named, James, Joseph, David, George, Margaret, Stretchley & Samuel after their mother's decease but my will is that my dear wife have the use of it During her Natural Life.
I doe make & Ordaine my son William Ball and my son Richard Ball the executors of this my last Will and testament and my loving Brother Captain David Fox and my loving friends Mr. George Heale & Mr. Edwin Conway the overseers of this my last will and testament.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seale this 28th day of Sept 1694. William Ball (Seal)
Signed, sealed & Published in Presence of Abraham Taylor, George Hinch, Edwin Conway




CHESEBRO' records state: It is not positively known that William married three times. His marriage to Margaret Downman is confirmed. The other marriages have the authority of long accepted tradition. Issue is by third marriage (Margaret Downman). [SOURCE: Larry Chesebro' - Email: [email protected]]

Captain William BALL, Jr. inherited Millenbeck. He took an active part in the public affairs of Virginia. In 1687 he was appointed to lay off the boundary between Lancaster and Northumberland Counties. He was a Justice in 1680 and at various times from 1682-1688 he was a Burgess from Lancaster County. William's WILL was made 28 Sept 1694 - probated 4 Nov 1694. [SOURCE: CHESEBRO' GENEALOGY - Larry Chesebro']

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William married Margaret WILLIAMSON before 11 Nov 1672 in Old Rappahannock, Virginia, British Colonial America. Margaret (daughter of James WILLIAMSON and Anne UNDERWOOD) was born in 1654 in Isle of Wight, Virginia, British Colonial America; died in 1692 in Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 MONTAGUE in 1675. Mary was born in 1665 in Christchurch, King George, Virginia; died on 12 Apr 1743 in Ferry Far, King George, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married about Feb 1708. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: 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]

Joseph married Elizabeth Julia ROMNEY about 1675. Elizabeth (daughter of William ROMNEY and Rebecca TAYLOR) was born about 1648 in Hastings, Sussex, England; died on 6 Feb 1703 in Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Hannah married on 22 Jul 1670. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Richard married after Jan 1700. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Will Dated: 14 Aug 1744, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America
• Will probated: 8 Mar 1745, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America

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6. COLONEL WILLIAM3 BALL (William,2 William1), b. --; d. Mar. --, 1744-5; will dat. Aug. 14, 1744; pro. Mar. 8, 1744-5;(*) m. --, HANNAH BEALE, d. before 1744. Her name appears as witness to an agreement between Newman Brockenbrough and wife, selling four negroes to Maj. Wm. Ball, Jan. 27, 1716 (L.)

"Easter Tuesday, 1745, Mr. Geo. Payne was chosen vestryman in room of Col. Wm. Ball, dec'd." (Lanc'r Co. V. Bk.) The Vestry Bk. of Christ Church, Lanc'r Co., contained, July 16, 1740, the names of Wm. Ball and Wm. Ball, Jr. Oct., 1740, Capt. Wm. Ball was paid 122 lb. tobac. for "three bottils of Wine," and 255 lb. do. "for finding Joseph Hoggen a coffin and other necessaries while he was on the Parish." Among other items, "to George Payne, 20 lb. tobac. for ? gallon of Brandy for Joseph Hogen's Burying." The Vestry elected Easter Tuesday, 1741, were Col. Ball, Maj. Ball, Mr. James Ball, Mr. Bertrand, Capt. Wm. Ball, Mr. Jos. Chinn, Mr. Shearman, Mr. Rawleigh Chinn, Mr. Jesse Ball, Mr. Chichester. These Wm. Balls are evidently father and son. Col. Ball was the Surveyor of North'd Co. 1724.

Children, all named in Wm. Ball's will:
+ 25. i. WILLIAM,4 b. --; d. 174--; m. Feb. 17, 1723, Margaret Ball.
+ 26. ii. GEORGE, b. --; m. Oct. 10, 1735, Judith Payne.
+ 27. iii. SARAH, b. 1700-5; d. --; m. (I.) Sep. 22, 1724, Dennis McCarty; (II.) Abram Barnes.
28. iv. JUDITH, b. --; m. Apr. 13, 1726 (L.), George Glasscock; had Col. George. {Will of Geo. Glasscock, dat. Oct. 19, 1793, pro. Sep. 6, 1796, makes son George his heir, and voids all prior wills. (Call's Va. Rep., 1, 414.) George G. was dead 1810; wife Catherine, adm'x. (v. Munford's Va. Rep., 1, 609.)(+)}
+ 29. ELLEN, b. --; m. (I.) July 3, 1734, Richard Chichester; (II.) June 12, 1747, Wm. Downman.

(*) The will of WM. BALL, dat. Aug. 14, 1744, pro. Lanc'r Co. Mar. 8, 1744-5, entails his land in five sections to his eight male heirs, making the will too lengthy to be copied in full. 1. To his gr. son, Wm. Ball, his Lanc'r Co. lands on which the testator then lived, and his male heirs, for want of which successively by entail to his gr. son, Williamson Ball, son of Wm., dec'd; gr. son, Benjamin Ball, gr. son, Richard Ball, gr. son, William Ball, son of George; gr. son, George Ball; failing all of which, to his heirs at law. 2. Also, under similar limitations, his lands in Lanc'r Co. whereon his dau.-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Ball, lived, to his gr. son, Richard. 3. Ditto, his Westmoreland lands, with 200 a. in K. G. Co., to gr. son, Williamson Ball, son of Wm., dec'd. 4. Ditto, 400 a. in K. G., adjoining Richland Run. seated by his son, Wm. Ball, dec'd, to his male heirs, &c. 5. Ditto, his Richmond Co. lands where Capt. George Heale formerly lived, to his son George Ball; to same his K. G. land below the Little Falls, and 500 a. in K. G., &c. To same and his heirs forever two lots in Queenstown. To his daughters-in-law, Mrs. Margaret Ball and Mrs. Judith Ball, wife of his son, George Ball, his daughters, Sarah McCarty, Judith Glasscock, Ellen Chichester, and single dau., Hannah Ball, various legacies of negroes, stock, money, &c. To his daughters, Sarah, Judith, Ellen and Margaret Ball, ?25 each. To his niece, Sarah Opie, one negro, &c. Son George Ball to be exec'r. Wit. Jesse Ball, Wm. Downman and Michael Dillen.

(+) Glasscock. An English name of antiquity. If the threadbare tradition of the "three brothers" is correct, there is another family of this name in Va., which descended from "three brothers of the name who came from France with La Fayette, fought through the Revolution with him, and located in Va., married and raised families on the James River." (Power's Sangamon Co., Ill, p. 331.) Lieut. Thomas Glasscock of Va. served in the Continental Line. George Glasscock was foreman of the Grand Jury, Rich'd Co., Nov. 5, 1739, which presented Rev. Thos. Blewitt for "swearing and being Drunk." Bishop M. names the Glasscock family as among the prominent ones in Richmond Co. from 1692 to 1775. (v. also BALL 32 and 101.) Robert Glasscock rec'd 200 ??. Eliz. Co., next to Cheeseman's land, 1635.

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William married Hannah HEALE, Haile in Dec 1697 in Lancaster County, Virginia. Hannah (daughter of Captain George HEALE and Ellen ROGERS) was born in 1678 in Lancaster County, Virginia; died in Aug 1744 in Millenbeck, Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James married about 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married between 1705 and 1706. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married on 16 Apr 1707. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Captain Joseph Ball was born 1680. [SOURCE: # 27291]

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George married about 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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David married before 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married about 29 May 1727 in Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Probate: 22 Nov 1751; Culpepper Co, VA - WILL BOOK A, pg. 60 [SOURCE: Jerry Enfield]

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Samuel married on 25 Nov 1717 in Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Margaret married about 1715 in Lancaster County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married after 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

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