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]

Joseph Ball
Born
Joseph Ball

May 2, 1649
England
Died1711
British America
Occupationjustice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, Burgess
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Rogers, (first)
Mary Johnson (second)
ChildrenAnne, Elizabeth, Esther or Easter, Hannah, Joseph, Mary
Parent(s)William Ball
Hannah Atherold
RelativesGeorge Washington (grandson)

Ball was the father of Mary Ball Washington and the maternal grandfather of George Washington, the First President of the United States.[1]

Early life

Ball was born on May 2, 1649 in England to William Ball and Hannah Atherold.[2] His father William Ball (-1680) emigrated to Virginia in 1657 becoming a trader and planter, eventually settling with his family in Millenbeck, Virginia.[3]

Settlement in Virginia colony

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]

Personal life

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]

Joseph and Mary’s daughter Mary Ball, the mother of George Washington.

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]

See also

References
  1. "Ball Family". Mount Vernon. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  2. 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.
  3. E. Grizzard, Frank (2002). George Washington: A Biographical Companion. ISBN 9781576070826. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
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