Identifier: someoldhistoricl03snow (find matches)
Title: Some old historic landmarks of Virginia and Maryland, described in a hand-book for the tourist over the Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Snowden, William H. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Washington, Alexandria and Mount Vernon electric railway. (from old catalog) Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: Alexandria, Va., Printed by G. H. Ramey & sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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so help me, God. Then, amid cheers, the display of flags, the ringing of all the bells in the city, 62 SOME OLD HISTORIC LANDMARKS our first President turned to face the duties his country had imposed upon him. Insight of those who would have made an idol of him, Washingtons first act was to seekaid of other strength than his own. In the calm sunshine of that April afternoon, frag-rant with the presence of seed-time and the promise of harvest, we leave him on hisknees in Old St. Pauls bowed with the simplicity of a child at the feet of the SupremeRuler of the Universe. MARY, THE MOTHER,William Ball the first immigrant of the name and family to Virginia came to the bor-ders of the Rappahannock river in Lancaster county and established the plantation ofMillenback. Capt. Joseph, his son, became possessor of the plantation of EppingForest in the same neighborhood. He was married in 1675 to Elizabeth Romney.By her he had five children, Joseph, Elizabeth married to Rev. John Carnegie, Han-
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Inci;^ :^cje MOTHER OF WASHINGTON:. Courtesy-of Mr. Henry Dudfey Teetor. nab married to Raleigh Travers, Anne married to Col. Edward Conway, and Esthermarried to Raleigh Chinn. About 1707 or 8 his wife died and he married a secondtime to the widow Mary Johnson by whom he had one daughter Mary, who from hercomeliness was called the rose of Epping Forest. Mary lost her father before she wasfive years old. Her mother was again married for the third time to Capt. Richard I OF VIRGINIA AND MARYLAND. 63 Hewes whose home was at Sandy Point near \he mouth of Yeocoinico river in thecounty of Northumberland. Here in all probability young Mary Ball passed the mostof her single years with her mother, and in companionship with her half sister Eliza-beth Johnson until March 6, 1730, when she became the wife of Capt. AugustineWashington of Wakefield, Westmoreland county, Va. He died in 1743. His widowMary remained on the Wakefield homestead until 1775, when at her son Georges re-quest she came up to

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