BIOGRAPHY CENTRAL

Follow archivist and historian Heather Bollinger as she uncovers and reports the lives of enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this National Historic Landmark.

• Read Patty Allen’s biography here (1770-1831). While enslaved by the Peters at Tudor Place, Patty lived with her free husband off the property. Every day, Patty labored as the cook for the Peter family.
• Read Ralph Anderson’s biography here (1790-unrecorded). Part of Marta Peter’s inheritance of 48 enslaved people after the death of her grandmother, Martha Washington.
• Read Stacia Hepburn’s biography here (1801-1895). Anastacia “Stacia” Hepburn was born about 1801, likely in Montgomery County, Maryland, and was enslaved to the Peter family.

Read additional stories of others:

• Barbara Cole William’s story, (1809-1892).
• For Barbara’s daughter, Hannah Pope, (1829-1910).
• Charlie (unrecorded – 1824) one of the dining room servants.
• Annie Gray, (unrecorded) an enslaved seamstress.