Hern, Lily (P49203)
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- P49203
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- Hern
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- Lily
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- 1791
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- slave
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- black
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Lily Hern, daughter of David and Isabel Hern, was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, where she worked on the farm. She had three children by her first husband, Monticello shoemaker and cooper Barnaby Gillette. At a Jefferson estate sale in 1829, she was sold, with her second husband Ben, for $385 to University professor George Blaettermann. At his death in 1850, she was again sold, to an unknown purchaser. By 1857 she was held by James Fitch, and it was at his house, in 1871, that she was married, at age eighty, to carpenter Sanco Davis, also formerly enslaved at Monticello. Life dates 1791-after 1880
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