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Hercules (chef)
Hercules ("Herculas", "Uncle Harkless") was a slave who lived at Mount Vernon, George Washington's Virginia plantation on the Potomac River. He was the head cook at the mansion in the 1780s, cooking for the Washington family and their guests. In 1790 President Washington brought him to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (then the national capital) to cook in the kitchen of the President's House. Hercules escaped to freedom from Mount Vernon in 1797, and later was legally manumitted under the terms of Washington's Will.
==Life at Mount Vernon==
He probably was born around 1755, and was either the child of Washington's slaves or was purchased following Washington's 1759 marriage to the widow Martha Custis. He would have grown up on the plantation.
He took Alice, one of Martha Washington's "dower" slaves, as his wife, and they had three children: Richmond (born 1777), Evey (born 1782), and Delia (born 1785).〔 He, his wife, and the three children were listed in the February 1786 ''Mount Vernon Slave Census'', which records him as one of two cooks in the Mansion House.〔1786 Mount Vernon Slave Census. ''Diaries of George Washington'', vol. 4, Donald Jackson & Dorothy Twohig, eds., (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press), pp. 277–83.〕 Alice died in 1787. Following Alice's death he may have had another daughter (born c. 1791).
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