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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 1,758 | 8 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 80 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. | 21 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Washington, Mary 1706-1659
Mother of George Washington.
She is believed to have been a lineal descendant of John Ball, the medieval champion of the rights of man, who was executed at Coventry in the year 1381 for participating in Wat Tyler's rebellion.
Col. William Ball, a native of Kent, came from England with his family about the year 1650, and settled in Lancaster county, Va., where he died in 1659, leaving two sons, William and Joseph, and one daughter, Hannah.
William left eight sons and one daughter, Mary, who was born in the year 1706.
Joseph Ball was a well-to-do planter on the Rappahannock River, a vestryman of Christ Church in Lancaster.
He was commissioned colonel by Gov. Alexander Spottswoode, and was known as Colonel Ball, of Lancaster, to distinguish him from another Colonel Ball, his cousin.
When Mary Ball was about seventeen years of age she wrote to her brother in England on family matters a letter which is still in existence, the conclusion of which is as