Mary Hawkins
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"Mary Hawkins," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/72.
- Position
- Unclear from Context Unclear from Context
- Years in President's House
- circa 1793
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Female
- Race/Ethnicity
- Unclear from Context
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Mary Hawkins’ life outside of the President’s House remains unknown. Mary Hawkins was hired by President George Washington on a short-term contract at the President’s House in Philadelphia. She appears in one household record from November 1793 where she earned $15.20 “for whitewashing the house.”1
- “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 29, No. 4 (1905), 49, https://www-jstor-org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/pdf/20085321.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context