Joseph Ball (Virginia public servant)

Joseph Ball (May 2, 1649 – July 11, 1711) was an English-born justice, vestryman, lieutenant colonel, and Burgess in the Colony of Virginia.

[1] Ball was the father of Mary Ball Washington and the maternal grandfather of George Washington, the First President of the United States.

He lived at the Epping Forest plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia.

Ball was a representative in the Virginia House of Burgesses, serving in 1698, 1700, and 1702.

Joseph Ball died on July 11, 1711, and is buried in Saint Mary's Whitechapel Episcopal Churchyard in Lancaster County, Virginia.