Charles Liddle
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"Charles Liddle," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/28.
- Position
- Stables
- Years in President's House
- 1792 – 1793
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Male
- Race/Ethnicity
- White
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Charles Liddle’s life outside of the President’s House remains unknown. Charles began working for George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia in 1792, replacing postilion Henry Rhemur.1 In his role as postilion, he rode a harnessed horse that pulled the president’s coach. Charles also would have worn livery, a uniform including a woolen coat, vest, and breeches in the colors of Washington’s coat of arms: white and red.2 He originally earned $10.00 per month, but later earned $11.00 per month. He last appears in household records in March 1793.3
- Stephen Decatur, Jr., Private Affairs of George Washington, from the records and accounts of Tobias Lear, Esquire, his secretary, (New York: De Capo Press, 1969), 252; “George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 24 March 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-12-02-0296. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 12, 16 January 1793 – 31 May 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick and John C. Pinheiro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005, pp. 373–375.]
- Jessie Macleod, “Giles,” George Washington’s Mount Vernon, accessed October 9, 2025, https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/giles. (3) “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29, No. 4 (1905), 387, 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
- Henry RhemurHousekeeping and Laundry, 1789 – 1791