Mary Washington (née Ball; c. 1707–1709 – (1789-08-25)August 25, 1789) was an American planter best known for being the mother of the first president of the United States, George Washington. The second wife of Augustine Washington, she became a prominent member of the Washington family. She spent a large part of her life in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where several monuments were erected in her honor and a university, along with other public buildings, bear her name. (From Wikipedia) More about Mary Ball Washington:
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Books by Mary Ball Washington Books about Mary Ball Washington: Filed under: Washington, Mary Ball, 1708-1789 The Mother of George Washington: Radio Address by Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, Washington, D.C., Mothers' Day, May 11, 1930, Issued by the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington (Washington: GPO, 1930), by Mary Belle King Sherman (page images at HathiTrust) Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington (2nd edition; Auburn, NY: Derby, Miller, and Company, 1850), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at MOA) The Mother of Washington and Her Times (New York and London: Macmillan, 1903), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
23 additional books about Mary Ball Washington in the extended shelves: The story of Mary Washington (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1892), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the mother and wife of Washington. (Derby, Miller, and company, 1850), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
The building of a monument; a history of the Mary Washington associations and their work. (Press of Wickersham Co., 1903), by Susan Rivière Hetzel (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the mother and wife of Washington. (C. M. Saxton, Barker & co.;, 1858), by Margaret Cockburn Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the mother and wife of Washington (Derby, Miller, and company, 1851), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
Mary and Martha, the mother and the wife of George Washington (Harper & Brothers, 1886), by Benson J. Lossing (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the mother and wife of Washington. (Derby, Miller, and company, 1852), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorials of Washington and of Mary, his mother, and Martha, his wife, from letters and papers of Robert Cary and James Sharples. (C. Scribner's Sons, 1887), by James Walter, James Sharples, Robert Cary, and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the mother and wife of Washington (Derby, Miller & co., 1850), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
Lives of Mary and Martha Washington (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
The memory of Washington; with biographical sketches of his mother and wife. Relations of Lafayette to Washington; with incidents and anecdotes in the lives of the two patriots. (J. Munroe, 1852), by Nathaniel Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
The mother of Washington, and other tales. (J. Murphy & Co., 1864), by Émile Souvestre and S. J. Donaldson (page images at HathiTrust)
History and descriptive details of Middleton's portraits of Mary, the mother of Washington, and Mary Phillipse (Washington's early love) also, of the Sharples portraits of Washington, and Martha, his wife, Robert Fulton and his wife, and of beautiful women of the revolutionary period ... (F. Wood, printer, 1886), by James Walter (page images at HathiTrust)
To the women of the United States this appeal is addressed. ([n.p., 1890), by Washington National Mary Washington memorial association (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorials of Washington and of Mary, his mother, and Martha, his wife (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887), by James Walter, James Sharples, and Robert Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
The building of a monument (Press of Wickersham company, 1903), by Susan Rivière Hetzel (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the mother and wife of Washington. (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of the mother and wife of Washington. (Miller, Orton, 1857), by Margaret Cockburn Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorials of Washington and of Mary, his mother, and Martha, his wife (C. Scribner's sons, 1887), by James Walter, James Sharples, and Robert Cary (page images at HathiTrust)
The mother of Washington and her times (Grosset & Dunlap, 1907), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
The mother of Washington and her times. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1903), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
The memory of Washington; with biographical sketches of his mother and wife. (J. Munroe and company, 1852), by Nathaniel Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)
Mary and Martha Washington (Derby, Miller, and Co., 1853), by Margaret C. Conkling (page images at HathiTrust)
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