Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1849-11-03


England,
!, Joseph Ball, his second son, Ohe grandfather
whose wiles name is not given.
3. Mary Ball (the mothor,) who became the Sc
cond wife of Augustine Washington, of Wcstmore
land counya
4. |EoRGE WASHINGTON, eldest son OF Angus
tine by his marriage with Mary Ball
The omission of the name of the wife of Joseph
Ball. General Westinghouse maternal grand-father
leaves the only gap that remains in our knowledge
of the ancestors ON the maternal side who probably
resided in this country.
Since public attention has been directed TO the
subject of General Washugton's maternal ancestry.
II may not be embarrassing TO our readers TO have
their recollecdons refreshed with respect to the as
ceralned history Of his paterna assessors. In the
appendix TO the first volume of Mr.. Sparks most
valuable work, entitled "The Writings of Washing
ton" the most honorable monument vet erected TO
the memory of him whom all nations proclaim the
! greatest of mankind, may be found very interest
ing paper, prepared by General Washington himself
soon after he became President of the United States
and at the request of Sir Isaac Heard then Garter
King at Arms in England who had been instituting
some researches into the early history of the family
and had sent TO the General a genealogical tree
which he had made out. In replying to that gentle
mans letter, General Washington wrote, May "a,
1922 after his Characteristic manner, as folovs
@This i subject 70 which confess / have Ind
very little attention. Ny Anne has been 50 much
occupied inihe busy and active scenesof life, from
an early period q i, that but small portion could
have been devoted 70 researches Of this nature, even
my inclination Or particular circumstances should
have prompted to the inquiry" sIf you can
derive any information from the enclosed lineage
shall be well pleased in having been he means cs
assisting you in those researches which poo have
had the poiteness 10 undertake and shall b saal IA
heintormed ct the result, ana If the anciess pedigree
Of the family, some Of whom find nterndxed with
that Of Ferfers.a Sir Isaac Heard was prevented
by an inflammation of the eyes from the farther mo-
secaiion Of his Investigations but Mr. Sparks sue
ceeded in amassing good deal Of additional inioT1
nation during a visit 10 England.
From the paper we have referred 10 as having
been prepared BY tens Washington for Sir Isuae
Hoard. we copy the following extracts, which are
suheien 10 exhbitthe direct line Of descent Of The
American Washngtons, fromthe ancestor who emf
-
grated from England, down TO General Washington
himself The name Of each ancestor is Italicized
for the convenience of the reader:
a. 4,
- ts & 81 thereapou,s and durng the tsur
astoh, hrotfs eg1ae from ahe North 81 Ens ,'T'
he cannsS u 8 81 Ne Potomac River in
scended the subscriber possessed Of no document % NJ
a'j ,a5p wasbino,on ,v.s o,a,,,o,.s4
the Indians ia Maryland and as reward or his seroas
was called ater G .aa ae parish wherein ne lived
issue two sons Lacrence and John, and one daughter
death the subscriber IS not ahe to .ne Of ms
that he was needma vault which had been erected At
" Ia1rrence Wash;noo, H.; o,.lo.. -. 49,,
dred Warner, daugher Of Col Augusiin" Warmer If
4S~sjSee a"d az ~ ", ne naa i've sons, John and
n 1897 and was Inferred ia L. family yant nj Bridoe
3usas,sge san of M sgs
2 married lane Bgter the dadghter d Calso Baer ot
sons Butler 5ybo & noi - - oy mholn ne had three
and one daughter, Jane, who died when a child Jane
buried in the r rsT aeEeoef AN IT'S and was
augustine then married Mary Ball March 9th, 1870.
~ lh od stye l73s Be bo n no. not bep 11aa
'Tan'uel 99ra November 10Th 1874! John Augustine born
June 2Ist 1920 Who dnd 0t6 ISL; s tI1; ana Mildred
tine departed this life April 18th l7l3 aged 40 wears and
for Il" nfose ofeek'n the vault OF his ances-
GEORGE eldest son OF 4ugustine by the second mar
aGpsr was 81, porn 5n Wesoeland county and married
Parke Gusts, and daughter OF John Dandrdge' both of
NEW N9"' county has no issue
Inc statement IN the first paragraph these ex-
tracts 'lia' 'ohn and Lawrence Washington emf
grated from the North OF England, Mr.. Sparks re-
CARDS as tradition which "probaby arose from the
circumstance that John Washington owned an es-
tate at South Cave, in the East Riding of the coun-
! ty of York. where he resided before he came to
America" And Mr., Sparks shows. by abundant
evidence obtained from England, that the two bro
Tiers were not from Yorkshire, but Northampton
shire, and that their ancestors resided in Lanca-
sre; and he even traces them back, with satisfac-