Hannah (b. 1770), one of TJ’s slaves, was the daughter of Cate (later Cate Hubbard). Apparently born at Monticello, she was at Poplar Forest by 1791, when the birth of her first child was recorded there. By about 1797 she was the wife of Hall, an enslaved blacksmith and hog keeper at Poplar Forest. Hannah worked as a laborer at its Tomahawk plantation. She also worked as a spinner and was TJ’s cook and laundress when he or his guests visited Poplar Forest. Hannah was still there late in 1823, a year after Elizabeth Trist described her as having “the care of the House” (Betts, Farm Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, 1953 (in two separately paginated sections; unless otherwise specified, references are to the second section) description ends , pt. 1; Lucia Stanton, “Those Who Labor for My Happiness”: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello [2012], 23, 165; TJ’s Instructions for Poplar Forest Management, Dec. 1811; Ellen W. Randolph [Coolidge] to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 14 Apr. 1818 [ViU: Coolidge Correspondence]; Joel Yancey to TJ, 19 Nov., 12 Dec. 1819; TJ to Yancey, 16 Mar. 1820, 15 Aug. 1821; Cornelia J. Randolph to Virginia J. Randolph [Trist], 24 Apr. 1821 [NcU: NPT]; Elizabeth Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 28 Nov. 1822 [DLC: NPT]; List of Poplar Forest Slaves, [ca. 16–31 Dec. 1823]).

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