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Mary Ball Washington ( née Ball; c. 1707–1709 –. () August 25, 1789) was an American planter best known for being the mother of the first president of the United States, George Washington. The second wife of Augustine Washington, she became a prominent member of the Washington family. She spent a large part of her life in Fredericksburg ...
Mary was born between 1707 and 1709 at Epping Forest, the Tidewater Virginia home of her father, Joseph Ball, and her mother, Mary Johnson. 1 Mary’s father died when she was an infant and although her mother remarried, she also died by the time Mary was twelve. Mary became the legal ward of her uncle, Colonel George Eskridge, the Burgess of ...
Apr 28, 2024 · Mary Ball Washington was born as Mary Ball in 1708 in Lancaster County, Virginia, British America. She was the only child of Joseph Ball and his second wife, the widow Mary Johnson [1]. Mary Ball met Augustine Washington and they married in 1730. It was her first marriage and his second.
- November 30, 1708
- August 25, 1789
Mary Ball Washington—once described by her son’s biographers as a pious, self-sacrificing widow raising five children under difficult circumstances—has come more recently to be seen as selfish, cold, and determined to thwart her son’s ambitions. While neither portrait captures the strong, complex, and anxious woman revealed in the ...
May 10, 2019 · Here are some of the ways Mary Ball Washington, George Washington’s mother, has been described by historians: Crude. Greedy. Illiterate. Self-centered. Slovenly. A Loyalist. An especially ...
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May 7, 2021 · Mary Ball Washington after the Revolution In the years before the Revolution, Mary, like almost all small farmers at the time, was poorer than ever and sometimes asked her extremely wealthy eldest ...
