The Maternal Ancestry and Nearest of Kin of Washington: A Monograph (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The ancestry of Washington, both Paternal and Maternal, has always been a subject of interest and enquiry with the American people; and that of the De Wessyntons, on the former side, one of much controversy among antiquarians engaged in tracing it.

Though also possessed of some information of possible importance, and conflicting with the most generally accepted theories upon that subject, I propose to confine myself on this occasion to a consideration of the latter, and less known, the Maternal side of his house; and, before I pass away myself from this mortal stage, to record, for the benefit of posterity, some fragmentary information concerning it, which exceptional facilities have enabled me, from time to time, to gather, and which extends backward from the present time, to gather, and which extends backward from the present time to the seventh generation before its establishment on American soil.

The names of his mother, familiar now to all mankind, was Mary Ball, a descendant, as we are informed in Bishop Meade's "Old Families of Virginia," of Colonel William Ball, who "came from England, with his family, about the year 1650, and settled at the mouth of Corotoman river, in Lancaster County, Virginia."

Of the immediate cause of hi emigration we are not informed, but presume, from its date, that, like that of many others, it was a consequence of the overthrow of the Royal House, and the persecution of its adherents.

In reference to his family history preceding that event, I make, without further preface, the following extracts from an old manuscript before me, the original of which is in the possession of the Downman family of Virginia:

"History of the Ball Family of Barkman, comitatis Berks, taken from the Visitation Booke of London, marked O. 24 in the College of Arms:

"William Ball, Lord of the Manor of Barkham, com. Berks, died in the year 1480.

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