Fossett, Martha Ann (P49206)
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- Fossett
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- Martha Ann
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- 1810
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- 1879
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- slave
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- black
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Martha (also known as Patsy) Fossett was born in slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, the daughter of the head cook and head blacksmith, Edith and Joseph Fossett. At the dispersal of Jefferson’s estate in 1827, she was purchased by University professor Charles Bonnycastle for $395. Eight months later she ran away and next appears in the historical record in California in the early 1860s, living as a white woman, the wife of Charles H. Twombly, a carpenter who rose to be a wealthy banker in Oakland. For a time the Twomblys ran the Gilroy Hot Springs resort in Santa Clara County, in which Martha Twombly had invested a considerable fortune of her own. Life dates 1810 - 1879
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