Joseph Ball

Joseph Ball (May 2, 1649 – July 11, 1711) was an English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in the Colony of Virginia. Ball was the father of Mary Ball Washington and the maternal grandfather of George Washington, the First President of the United States. Early life Ball was born on May 2, 1649, in England to William Ball and Hannah Atherold. His father William Ball (-1680) emigrated to Virginia in 1657 becoming a trader and planter, eventually settling with his family in Millenbeck, Virginia. Settlement in Virginia colony He moved to the Colony of Virginia sometime before 1680. He lived at the Epping Forest plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia. Ball served as justice in the county court, a vestryman for his church parish, and as a lieutenant colonel in the county militia. Ball was a representative in the Virginia House of Burgesses, serving in 1698, 1700, and 1702.