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"P.S. please to inform Mr. Washington [i.e. Lund Washington] that I have made every possible Enquiry after his Negroes, but have not seen any belonging to him, the General or myself, I have heard that Ned is in York a pioneer,…

In this letter to her Philadelphia friend Elizabeth Powel, Martha Washington refers to her search for additional slaves to assist in the kitchen at Mount Vernon. It is notable especially for a paragraph alluding to the suspect trustworthiness of…

Benjamin Henry Latrobe was most famous as an architect, especially for his design for the new U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. He was also an accomplished artist. Soon after arriving in the U.S. from his native Britain in 1796, Latrobe…

This is a list of MW's dower slaves, with their names and locations, in GW's hand. It is written on blank sheets in his 1760 copy of the Virginia Almanac (image courtesy of the Library of…

Follow-up to September 4, 1796 letter. Whipple describes to Wolcott his effort to capture Ona Judge.…

Letter in which Joseph Whipple accepts George Washington's assignment to return Ona Judge to slavery.…

Letter in which Whipple explains his failure to convince Judge to return to the Washingtons.…

While George Washington served his second Presidental term in Philadelphia, Martha Washington’s niece Fanny lived at Mount Vernon and oversaw the household. This letter suggests that even when she was away from her home, Martha continued to play…

Letter from George Washington to Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Secretary of War, requesting Wolcott's help in returning a fugitive slave to Mount Vernon. The slave was Ona Judge, Martha Washington's body servant, who had escaped from Philadelphia to New…

There is now living in the borders of the town of Greenland, N.H., a runaway slave of Gen. Washington, at present supported by the County of Rockingham. Her name at the time of her elopement was ONA MARIA JUDGE. She is not able to give the year…