Lives
Enslaved
- Peter Fossett (in freedom, caterer and minister)
- Elizabeth Hemings (domestic servant)
- James Hemings (cook)
- John Hemmings (joiner)
- Peter Hemings (tailor, cook, brewer)
- Sally Hemings (ladies' maid)
- The Hemings Sisters (Nance, Bett, Critta, and Sally)
- Wormley Hughes (gardener)
- Isaac Jefferson (blacksmith)
- Lucy (domestic servant)
Free
- William Orr (blacksmith)
- David Watson (woodworker)
Monticello Plantation Database
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Getting Word Oral History Project
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