Joseph Ball (Virginia public servant)
Joseph Ball (1649–1711) 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]
Ball was born on May 2, 1649 in England.[2] He moved to the Colony of Virginia sometime before 1680. He lived at the Epping Forest plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia. Ball served as justice in the county court, a vestryman for his church parish, and as a lieutenant colonel in the county militia. Ball was a representative in the Virginia House of Burgesses, serving in 1698, 1700, and 1702.[1]
Ball married twice. His first marriage was to Elizabeth Rogers (or Romney), who he had five children with: Anne Ball, Elizabeth Ball, Esther or Easter Ball, Hannah Ball, and Joseph Ball.[1] Rogers died in the early 1700s. After her death, Ball married Mary Johnson. Johnson was a widow who had two children from a prior marriage. Ball and Johnson had one child, Mary Ball, in 1708. Joseph Ball died in 1711.[1]
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References
- "Ball Family". Mount Vernon. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- Browning, Charles H. (1912). "The Mother of "Mary, the Mother of Washington"". The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 36 (2): 217–221. JSTOR 20085591.