The Mother of Washington and Her Times

by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

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To the Hon. Roger A. Pryor, LL.D.
IN WHOM LIVES ALL THAT WAS BEST
IN OLD VIRGINIA

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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
Defeat in War: Success in Love	[114]
CHAPTER XVIII
In and Around Fredericksburg	[127]
CHAPTER XIX
Social Characteristics, Manners, and Customs	[143]
CHAPTER XX
A True Portrait of Mary Washington	[167]
CHAPTER XXI
Noon in the Golden Age	[186]
CHAPTER XXII
Dinners, Dress, Dances, Horse-races	[197]

PART II

CHAPTER I
The Little Cloud	[231]
CHAPTER II
The Storm	[245]
CHAPTER III
Mary Washington in the Hour of Peril	[251]
CHAPTER IV
Old Revolutionary Letters	[262]
CHAPTER V
The Battle-ground	[279]
CHAPTER VI
France in the Revolution	[289]
CHAPTER VII
"On with the Dance, let Joy be unconfined"	[304]
CHAPTER VIII
Lafayette and our French Allies	[312]
CHAPTER IX
In Camp and at Mount Vernon	[317]
CHAPTER X
Mrs. Adams at the Court of St. James	[327]
CHAPTER XI
The First Winter at Mount Vernon	[332]
CHAPTER XII
The President and his Last Visit to his Mother	[340]
CHAPTER XIII
Mary Washington's Will; her Illness and Death	[347]
CHAPTER XIV
Tributes of her Countrymen	[353]

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