The Will of George Washington

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A LIST OF NEGROS HIRED FROM MRS FRENCH
Names	Ages	Remarks
Will	Old but hearty	Looks after the Stock - Wife at Mrs French's [11]
Abram	in his prime	Wife at Muddy hole...Nancy
Paschall	Ditto	No wife...lately lost...Cornelia...M.H.
Tom	Ditto 28	No wife - getting Blind
Isaac	Ditto 29	Ditto...lives at Muddy hole Farm
Moses	Ditto 26	Plowman & Carter
James	24	At the Distillery
Julius	23	Carter [12]
Spencer	20	Ditto and Mower [13]
Sabine	60	Husband [14]
Lucy	55	Ditto - McCarty's George - a Knitter [15]
Daphne	40	Ditto...Simms Carpenter Plougher [16]
Delia	35	No Husband......Spinner [17]
Grace	28	Husband	Mrs Washns	Davy	Plougher [18]
Siss	25	Ditto	Ditto	Jack	Ditto [19]
Milly	18	No Husband [20]
Nancy	16	Ditto [21]
Hannah	14	Ditto [22]
Daniel	16	Son of Delia's
Isaac	14	Ditto of Rose...deceased
Matilda	13	Daughr of Daphne
Betty	13	Ditto...Delia
Briney	12	Ditto...Lucy
Grace	12	Ditto...Rose...deceased
Children
Stately	10	Son...of...Lucy's
Renney	6	Daughr...Ditto
Raison	3	Ditto...Ditto
Morgan	2	Son...Ditto
Phoenix	1	Ditto...Ditto
Polly	9	Daughr...of...Daphne's
Maria	2	Ditto......Ditto
Jack	7	Son...of... Delia
Julia	4	Daugh....Ditto
Nelly	2	Ditto......Ditto
Ambrose	1	Son......Ditto
Bob	10	Ditto...of...Grace
Sall	8	Daugh....Ditto
Judy	4	Ditto......Ditto
Augusta	1	Ditto......Ditto
Nancy	10	Ditto...of...Sabine
Men.....9			In all 40
Women.....9
Workg Boy's & Girls.....6
Children.....16

Notes

11. Penelope Manley French lived at Rose Hill, on the back road to Alexandria. [back]

12. The slave list at NN describes him as "A very good Carter, and can do any other work, although defective in Shape from his Infancy." [back]

13. The slave list at NN describes him as "A good Carter and Mower and able at any business." [back]

14. The slave list at NN calls her "A good working woman, notwithstanding her <age>." [back]

15. Daniel McCarty, Jr. (1759-1801), lived at Cedar Grove on Pohick Bay. The slave list at NN describes Lucy as "Lame, or pretends to be so occasioned by rheumatic pains, but is a good knitter, & so emplyed." [back]

16. The slave list at NN claims she "Ploughs very Well, and is a good hand at any work." [back]

17. The slave list at NN describes her as "Equally good at the Spinn<ing Wheel> or Hoe, but has been kept chiefly at the <farm>." [back]

18. The slave list at NN calls her "A very good Plougher--and equally so at all sorts of Work." [back]

19. The slave list at NN claims she "Ploughs Well--and can Milk & Churn." [back]

20. The slave list at NN describes her as "A full grown Woman, and <illegible>ly; has been used to Common work only." [back]

21. The slave list at NN describes her as "The same--in all respects." [back]

22. The slave list at NN claims she is "nearly at her full growth and a woman in appear[anc]e." [back]

From W.W. Abbot, ed., The Papers of George Washington, Retirement Series, vol. 4, April - December 1799. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 540.

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