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Id: P49204
Last: Hern
First: Frances Gillette
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Birth year: 1788
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Person types: slave
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Race: black
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Bio sketch: Frances (usually called Fanny) Gillette, the daughter of Edward and Jane Gillette, was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. She worked both on the farm and in the house and, in 1806, was taken to Washington to be trained in French cookery at the President’s House, where she remained for three years. She then was one of the principal cooks at Monticello. Married to wagoner David Hern, she had at least eight children, four of whom died in infancy. At one point she was a hired servant in the household of University professor Dr. Robley Dunglison, who purchased Fanny and her infant son, Bonnycastle, at the Monticello dispersal sale in 1827. Dunglison bought her husband two years later. Life dates 1788-after 1827
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