Katy Maloy
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"Katy Maloy," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/21.
- Position
- Unclear from Context Unclear from Context
- Years in President's House
- circa 1793
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Female
- Race/Ethnicity
- White
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Katy Maloy’s life outside of the President’s House is currently unknown. Katy Maloy briefly worked for George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia. She appears in a single entry in household account records in 1793: “House expenses pd. Katy Maloy for working 6 days in June last.”1 It is possible Katy Maloy is the same person as Katy Bower, another employee in Washington’s household who left her job in April 1793. Bower may have gotten married and briefly returned to work for six days that June as Katy Maloy, though this cannot be verified.2
- “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797 (continued),” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1906, vol. 30, No. 1, 39, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20085321.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default:d39c2855a1f340d57d7bc09397c69b81&ab_segments=&initiator=recommender&acceptTC=1.
- “References to People from the Presidential Household Account Books,” The President’s House in Philadelphia, accessed September 25, 2025, https://www.ushistory.org/presidentshouse/history/references.php; “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29, No. 4 (1905), 393, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20085306.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default:91eb922c9fb2e34b038cc6b9a74d2c73&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context
- Related Worker
- Katy Bowercirca 1792 – 1793