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Joseph Ball (May 2, 1649 – July 11, 1711) was an English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in the Colony of Virginia. [1] Ball was the father of Mary Ball Washington and the maternal grandfather of George Washington, the First President of the United States. [1]
Mary Ball Washington House, 1200 Charles Street, Fredericksburg, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1927.The house was originally built in 1761 and has later additions. Mary Ball was born sometime between 1707 and 1709 at either Epping Forest, her family's plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia, [1] or at a plantation near the village of Simonson, Virginia. [2]
The Washington family is an American family of English origins that was part of both the British landed gentry and the American gentry.It was prominent in colonial America and rose to great economic and political eminence especially in the Colony of Virginia as part of the planter class, owning several highly valued plantations, mostly making their money in tobacco farming.
Lawrence Washington (September 1659 – February 1698) [1] [2] [3] was a colonial-era Virginia planter, slave holder, lawyer, soldier and politician. He was the paternal grandfather of George Washington .
Patrilineal emigrant ancestor Citations 1 George Washington (1732–1799) Augustine Washington. Mary Ball. Yes: Yes: John Washington (great-grandfather) Sulgrave, England → Colony of Virginia (1656)
Samuel Washington, George Washington's younger brother, was buried in an unmarked grave at the cemetery at his Harewood estate (an interior view is pictured above) near Charles Town, West Virginia.
Thornton George Washington (1760–1787), ... Through his son George, he was the grandfather of Samuel Walter Washington ... Samuel Washington: 24. William Ball: 12 ...
Augustine Washington Sr. (1694 [a] – April 12, 1743) [1] [2] was an American planter and merchant. Born in Westmoreland, Virginia, he was the father of ten children, among them the first president of the United States, George Washington, soldier and politician Lawrence Washington, and politician Charles Washington.