05 Feb 2022 Mount Vernon, VA
Virginia and was purchased in 1768 by General Washington. He
accompanied General Washington as his valet, or “Val de Chambre” in
many of his engagements during the American Revolution, including
the Battle of Monmouth and at the surrender at Yorktown. He later
accompanied then President Washington to the first capital in New York
City. He married Margaret Thomas in the early 1780s. Upon
Washington’s death in 1799, he was freed and remained on the Mount
Vernon estate. He died here in 1828 and is buried in the Slave Burial
Ground.