Burgess Ball (1749–1800)
Ball was a correspondent of George Washington and Bushrod Washington.
Burgess Ball was born on 28 July 1749 at Bewdley, an estate in present-day Nuttsville, Lancaster County, Virginia. An aide to George Washington during the early years of the American Revolution, Ball would rise to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the 1st Virginia Infantry of the Continental Army. After the war, he moved to Travellers’ Rest, the Stafford County estate he had inherited from his grandfather.
A Guide to the Ball Family Papers, Library of Virginia, Richmond (Archival Resources of the Virginias).
Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies: A Genealogy of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia (Wilkes-Barre, PA: 1891), 111–16.
"General Orders, 8 January 1778," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-13-02-0138. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series, vol. 13, 26 December 1777 – 28 February 1778, ed. Edward G. Lengel. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003, pp. 171–172.]
"To George Washington from Burgess Ball, 25 August 1789," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-03-02-0312. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 3, 15 June 1789–5 September 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989, pp. 536–537.]
"Grand Mansion is Lost to Time," The Free-Lance Star (Fredericksburg, VA), 27 November 2004.
Bewdley at HMdb.org: The Historical Marker Database.
Burgess Ball at Find a Grave.
Burgess Ball at FamilySearch.