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The widow Washington : the life of Mary Washington /

"Biography of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. Places her life as an orphan, a young wife in rural Virginia, a slaveholder, a widow, and mother to the first president in the context of the changing economic circumstances and cultural values of colonial Virginia and a young...

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Main Author: Saxton, Martha, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Washington, Mary Ball, > 1708-1789.
Washington, George, > 1732-1799 > Family.
Washington, George, > 1732-1799.
1600-1783
Mothers of presidents > United States > Biography.
Widows > United States > Biography.
Slaveholders > Virginia > Biography.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Families.
Mothers of presidents.
Slaveholders.
Widows.
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States.
Virginia.
Biographies.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mary Ball Washington: like mother, like son
  • A child in the Chesapeake
  • A generation of orphans
  • Bruising the small spirit
  • Mary, her kin, and her books
  • Mary Ball, Augustine Washington, and Matthew Hale
  • Wife and mother
  • People and property at the Ferry Farm
  • "As sparks fly upward"
  • The widow Washington
  • Single mother
  • Mary's stewardship: scraping by
  • Mid-century: a wedding, a murder, a family death
  • Mary and George's Seven Years' War
  • Between the wars: kin, consumption, conflict
  • The Revolution: a family affair
  • The endless Revolution: wartime virtue, wartime woe
  • Mary's war ends
  • "You must one day fade"
  • Epilogue: An uneasy afterlife.

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