Document, Slave Census, 1799 July
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Will, active 1785-1799 (Muddy Hole Farm)
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Will was an enslaved man, owned by Martha Washington as part of her first husband's Estate, and lived at Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia. He was the son of old Doll at the Mansion House Farm and the uncle of Tom Davis at the Mansion House Farm (see George Washington Diaries, December 19, 1785, and Letter, George Washington to Anthony Whitting, February 3, 1793). He served as overseer at both Muddy Hole and Dogue Run Farm, and was married to Kate who lived and worked at Muddy Hole Farm. Will ...
Jones, Davy, active 1799-
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Davy Jones was an enslaved carpenter, owned by George Washington. Jones worked at the Mansion House Farm, part of the Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. He was married to Edy, an enslaved woman, who is documented to have worked at Union Farm (part of Mount Vernon) in 1786, and was also owned by George Washington. ...
Branham, Caroline, 1764?-1843
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Caroline Branham was an enslaved woman at Mount Vernon in Virginia, and owned by Martha Washington as part of the Custis estate. She worked as a housemaid in the Mount Vernon mansion. Caroline was married to Peter Hardiman, an enslaved groom whom George Washington rented from David Stuart, who had married the widow of Martha Washington’s son, John (Jacky) Parke Custis. Together they had at least eight children: Wilson, Rachel, Jemima, Leanthe, Polly, Peter, Austin, and Daniel. After Martha ...
Jasper, Dick, active 1786-
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Dick Jasper was an enslaved man, owned by George Washington. He worked at Dogue Run Farm, part of the Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia. He was described as a "labouring man" in the list of enslaved people at Mount Vernon compiled in 1786. In 1792, Jasper was listed as a carter, a worker who drove an animal-powered cart. Jasper was married to Charity, and together the couple had five children that survived past birth. Both Charity and Dick were owned by Washington and were freed in 1802, under th...
Jasper, Charity, active 1786-
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Charity Jasper was an enslaved woman owned by George Washington. She worked at Dogue Run Farm, part of Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia. She was married to Dick Jasper and together the couple had five children that survived past birth. She is listed in both the 1786 and 1799 census of enslaved at Mount Vernon. As Charity was owned directly by Washington so were their children. Dick and Charity were both freed in 1802 under the terms of Washington's will....
Betty, 1770?-
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Betty was enslaved by George Washington at Dogue Run Farm, Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon Estate. She was the daughter of Ben, an enslaved plougher, and Joan. She was freed by Washington's will in 1800. Betty had a child, Jane Lomax, about 1806....
Simon, 1766?-
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Simon was enslaved by George Washington at Dogue Run Farm, Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon Estate. He was the son of Ben, an enslaved plougher, and Joan. He was freed by Washington's will in 1800. ...
Gowens, Catharine, 1830?-
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Catharine Gowens was born around 1830 to Joanna Gowens, daughter of Agnes. Agnes was born enslaved to owner George Washington....
Gowens, Joanna, 1802?-
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Joanna Gowens was born between 1802 and 1804 to Agnes who was owned by George Washington. Agnes was among the enslaved people who were freed by the terms in Washington's will in 1801. Agnes was the daughter of Joan, who was born enslaved to owner George Washington. Joanna had two children, Catherine Gowens and Emily Gownens....
Agnes, 1761?-
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Agnes was enslaved by George Washington at Dogue Run, Virginia. She was the daughter of Ben, an enslaved plougher, and Joan. She was freed by Washington's will. She was married to Will, a man enslaved by Martha Washington at the Mansion House Farm, and had at least three children after she was freed....
Peg, 1785?-
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Peg was born to enslaved parents Ben and Peg at Dogue Run Farm, Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon Estate. She was owned by Martha Washington. Peg was then given to George Washington Parke Custis and moved to Arlington Plantation in Virginia. ...
Fendel, 1784?-
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Fendel or Fendus was born to enslaved parents Ben and Peg at Dogue Run Farm, Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon Estate. He was owned by Martha Washington, part of her first husband's estate. ...
Billy, 1780?-
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Billy was born to enslaved parents Ben and Peg at Dogue Run Farm, part of the Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia. He was one of the enslaved people Martha Washington inherited from her first husband. Billy was listed as one of the enslaved that went to George Washington Parke Custis in Arlington, Virginia. It is possible he was the same Bill who ran away from George Washington Parke Custis in 1826....
Syphax, Charles, 1791-1869
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Charles Syphax was born 1791 to an enslaved woman at Mount Vernon estate in Virginia and a free black preacher. He was a dower slave, owned by Martha Washington as part of the Custis estate. In 1802 George Washington Parke Custis inherited ownership of Syphax, and Syphax was moved to Arlington House in Virginia. In 1821, Charles Syphax married Maria Carter, the daughter of a enslaved woman named Arianna from the Mount Vernon estate. In 1826 Custis freed Maria Carter Syphax and her children, ...
Crager, 1785
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Crager was born to enslaved parents Ben and Peg at Dogue Run Farm in Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon estate....
Peg, 1756?-
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Peg was enslaved at Dogue Run Farm, part of the Mount Vernon estate in Virginia. She was married to Ben, a plougher, and had 3 children with him. Peg was owned by Martha Washington, and part of the Custis estate from Martha's first husband....
Ben, 1729?-
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Ben was enslaved by George Washington at Dogue Run Farm in Virginia, part of the Mount Vernon estate. He was a plougher. He was married to Peg and had three children. He was also married to Joan and had three grown children by 1786....
Lee, Frank, -1821
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Frank Lee (-1821) was an enslaved butler to George Washington and the younger brother of William Lee, valet to George Washington during the War of the American Revolution. He was owned by Mary Lee of Westmoreland County, Virginia, and sold to George Washington in 1768. Frank Lee was married to Lucy, a dower slave, and the daughter of Doll, a cook at Mount Vernon. Frank and Lucy had three children: Mike, Patty and Phillip. Frank Lee was freed in 1801 as stipulated in Washington’s will. Lucy a...
Carter, Rose, active 1799-
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Rose Carter was an enslaved woman, owned by George Washington. She worked as a field worker at Mount Vernon's River Farm, and was emancipated in 1801. She settled in the vicinity of Mount Vernon after emancipation....
Bay, Sukey, active 1799-
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Sukey Bay was an enslaved field worker, owned by George Washington. She worked at Mount Vernon’s River Farm, and was emancipated in 1801 in George Washington's will. She had a daughter, Rose Carter, who was also a field worker at Mount Vernon's River Farm....
Judge, Philadelphia, approximately 1780-1831
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Philadelphia (Delphy) Judge Costin was born circa 1780 at Mount Vernon in Virginia. Her mother Betty was a dower slave of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington. She was the sister of Ona Judge who ran away from Mount Vernon to seek freedom in New Hampshire. Around 1800, she married William Costin. After Martha Washington's death in 1802, she became the property of Martha's granddaugher Elizabeth Custis Law. Thomas Law, Elizabeth's husband at the time, manumitted William Costin in 1802, and later Ph...
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate). Muddy Hole Farm
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Muddy Hole Farm was one of the five farms that made up the Mount Vernon estate. Located in the northeast corner of the plantation, running alongside Little Hunting Creek, Muddy Hole is said to have lived up to its name. George Washington inherited the main chunk of the farm in December 1754 as part of the original Mount Vernon Tract. The remainder was purchased from Sampson Darrell in December 1757 and George Mason in October 1769. According to an advertisement for the lease of four of the...
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate). Dogue Run Farm
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In 1799, Mount Vernon consisted of 8,000 acres divided into five farms: Mansion House, Dogue Run, Muddy Hole, River, and Union, plus a gristmill and distillery. Dogue Run Farm, similar to the Union Farm, was assembled over time through numerous purchases of smaller tracts. There are references in George Washington's diaries as early as 1762 to "Doeg Run Quarter," which was likely composed of at least the western portion of a 500-acre tract purchased from Sampson Darrell in 1757. This holding was...
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate). River Farm
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River Farm was a division of George Washington's Mount Vernon, located along the Potomac River. Washington purchased part of the property from a neighbor, William Clifton. Washington changed the name of Clifton's Neck to River Farm and leased the property to tenant farmers. River Farm was one of the five farms that made up Mount Vernon: Mansion House, Dogue Run, Muddy Hole, River, and Union, plus a gristmill and distillery. Each site had its own overseers, enslaved workers, livestock, equipment...
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate). Union Farm
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The Union Farm was composed of two smaller farms known as "The Ferry" and "French's." Both were acquired by George Washington in six purchases between 1769 and 1786. With the final purchase completed in October 1786, Washington resurveyed the individual tracts into two farms, each with orderly seven-field crop systems. Washington envisioned the farms as a single operating unit, placing his new farm complex at the center of the two farms. By November of 1788 the two farms were united under one ma...
Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate). Mansion Farm
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Mansion Farm, also known as Mansion House Farm, was part of George Washington's Mount Vernon. George Washington subdivided Mount Vernon into create discrete working units and a structured land management system. These units included the Mansion Farm, the Ferry Farm, French's (named for the former owner), Dogue Run, Muddy Hole, and River Farm. Additionally, there was a grist mill and land holdings that comprised the mill race, meadows, and a dam and pond on Dogue Run. The Mansion House Farm was ...
Quander, Nancy Carter
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Nancy Carter Quander was an enslaved woman at Mount Vernon, George and Martha Washington's plantation in Virginia. She was eleven years old in 1799, when George Washington made a list of all the enslaved people on his plantation. She lived on River Farm with her mother, Suckey Bay, a field-worker. Nancy’s father, an enslaved man with the last name of Carter, lived at the plantation of Washington’s closest neighbor, Abednego Adams. Nancy had two siblings who also lived on River Farm: Rose, who wa...
