Francis Leache
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"Francis Leache," White House Workers History Project, White House Historical Association, 2026, https://whha.whirlihost.com/Detail/workers/89.
- Position
- Unclear from Context Unclear from Context
- Years in President's House
- circa 1793
- Legal Status
- Free Person
- Gender
- Male
- Race/Ethnicity
- Unclear from Context
- Presidency
- George Washington
- Biography
- Information about Francis Leache outside of the President’s House remains unknown. Francis Leache worked for George Washington at the President’s House in Philadelphia. Leache appears four times in household records in 1793, each time with a different spelling of the last name, Leache, Leech, Leehe, and Zache. Leache’s role in the household is unknown. He worked four months from April-July 1793, each month earning $7.00.1
- “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1905, Vol. 29, No. 4, 399, 393, https://www-jstor-org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/pdf/20085306.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default:b1a31e013816c6edfc275a2744ab46c1&ab_segments=0/spellcheck_basic_search/control&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1; “Washington’s Household Account Book, 1793-1797 (continued),” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1906, Vol. 30, No. 1, https://www-jstor-org.mutex.gmu.edu/stable/pdf/20085321.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default:b1a31e013816c6edfc275a2744ab46c1&ab_segments=0/spellcheck_basic_search/control&initiator=search-results&acceptTC=1.
- Birthplace
- Unclear from Context
- Unclear from Context