Mary Ball’s English ancestry, her Virginia girlhood, her marriage and long widowhood, and her relations with her famous son are traced from wills, letters and family tradition. Around her Pryor reconstructs the colony’s households, churches, dress, coat armour and manners, with an eye on the Revolution that her son would lead.
A readable social history of colonial Virginia by a Southern memoirist; its view of slavery is that of a Virginia author writing in 1903. Download the free EPUB.