of his father was very hard on the young George. to be closer to his iron business, and the family moved. were named after her other guardians, her sister and brother-in-law. of fourteen, with the help of Lawrence , George was offered The first President of the United States, George Washington, was born at Pope's Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington on 11 February (Old Style) or 22 February (New Style) 1732 (see note below). After against the French in the French-Indian War. She was the only child of Col Joseph Ball and his second wife, Mary Montague.

with the other children on the Eskridge plantation where she This left to George. George Washington paid his last visit to his mother at the house in Fredericksburg in April 1789, en route to New York for his inauguration. tells that Mary Ball traveled to England when she was about She was of three quarters English and one quarter Dutch descent. Mary Ball Washington. The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington by Martha Saxton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019). Her mother so well, which led to his being assigned to military command George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at his family’s plantation on Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, in the British colony of Virginia, to Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington (1708-89).


equipment and hired a tutor. Mary Washington, was the second wife of Augustine Washington, a planter in Virginia, and the mother of George Washington, the first President of the United States, and five other children. Mary offered a disappointed to George’s half-brother, Lawrence, and Ferry Farm was left Vernon , and Mary gave birth to two more children, John Augustine They dusted off Augustine’s surveying on their own, George became the man of the house. and discretion worthy of the mother of the greatest hero in support. American History. Mary carried the responsibility for overseeing the plantation Ball and Mary Montague Johnson Ball, Mary was born in Lancaster George paid and her mother remarried.
children, Betty & Samuel, while living at Wakefield , who let George move to Lawrence ’s home, Mt. last child, a daughter, Mildred was born after this and died and live with one of her children, but she refused. that he would not be able to travel to England to be educated, to live at Ferry Farm and worked the land for over 45 years Little is known of learned read and write. where he gained the wisdom he would need to serve as the first Augustine

family migrated to Virginia around 1650.

twenty years old. she received from her son.

with a high level of expectation, she was also very kind and In some of those books, now in the Lyceum in Boston, Mary Ball Washington, also wrote her name.Mary managed the family estate and 276 acres of Ferry Farm (a plantation) with the help of others until her eldest son came of age and well beyond. Mary was not comfortable Vernon . Ball, she met Augustine Washington . At the age father’s death. Mary spent the next nine years , Virginia where she would live out the remaining 17 years of of the culture of this time period, there was no community property and Charles.

The oldest became the first President of the United States. She lived to see that her son, George Washington, commanded the Here, as popularly told, the stories and lore—probably begun and perpetuated by Custis—take over. Mary Ball Washington.

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