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Title: The Mother of Washington and Her Times
Author: Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Release Date: August 27, 2013 [eBook #43571]
Language: English
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The Mother of Washington
And Her Times
SUPPOSED PORTRAIT OF MARY WASHINGTON.
The Mother of Washington
And Her Times
BY
MRS. ROGER A. PRYOR
"That one who breaks the way with tears
Many shall follow with a song"
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1903
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1903,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To the Hon. Roger A. Pryor, LL.D.
IN WHOM LIVES ALL THAT WAS BEST
IN OLD VIRGINIA
CONTENTS
PART I
| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| Introductory | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Mary Washington's English Ancestry | 11 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Ball Family in Virginia | 15 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| Coat Armor and the Right to bear it | 20 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| Traditions of Mary Ball's Early Life | 25 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Revelations of an Old Will | 32 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Mary Ball's Childhood | 37 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Good Times in Old Virginia | 47 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Mary Ball's Guardian and her Girlhood | 55 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Young Men and Maidens of the Old Dominion | 58 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| The Toast of the Gallants of her Day | 62 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| Her Marriage and Early Life | 69 |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| Birthplace of George Washington | 75 |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| The Cherry Tree and Little Hatchet | 85 |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| The Young Widow and her Family | 90 |
| CHAPTER XVI | |
| Betty Washington, and Weddings in Old Virginia | 102 |
| CHAPTER XVII | |
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