Mary Ball Washington

Mary Ball Washington, born Mary Ball , 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 Ball was born in 1708 in Lively, Virginia in Lancaster County. She was the only child of Col Joseph Ball and his second wife, Mary Montague. She was of three quarters English and one quarter Dutch descent. Fatherless at three and orphaned at twelve, Mary Ball was placed under the guardianship of George Eskridge, a lawyer, in accordance with the terms of her mothers will, for whom her son George Washington, was named, consistent with the naming conventions at the time.

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