| 词条 | Joseph Ball (Virginia public servant) |
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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] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{Cite web|url=https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/ball-family/|title=Ball Family|last=|first=|date=|website=Mount Vernon|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=March 3, 2019}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ball, Joseph}}{{US-bio-stub}}2. ^{{Cite journal|last=Browning|first=Charles H.|date=1912|title=The Mother of "Mary, the Mother of Washington"|url=|journal=The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography|volume=36|issue=2|pages=217-221|jstor=20085591|via=}} 3 : House of Burgesses members|1649 births|1711 deaths |
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