The Mother of Washington and Her Times

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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