Sally (Bronaugh)

I represent Sally, an enslaved Black woman in the household of Dr. James Craine Bronaugh, who was a physician on the staff of General Andrew Jackson and served as the General’s personal doctor, and he bequeathed me, my husband Dick, and my child to his mother in Loudon County, Virginia, in the care of General Jackson, who was Dr. Bronaugh’s friend. Dr. Bronaugh died of yellow fever in Pensacola in 1822. I, Dick, and the child were conveyed first by Edward Rutledge from Pensacola to The Hermitage in Tennessee, and from there Col. Charles P. Tutt saw us to Mrs. Bronaugh’s, where Dick’s mother awaited his arrival. (Mrs. Bronaugh’s letter to Andrew Jackson of March 7, 1823, seems to indicate that Dr. Bronaugh purchased me before his death to keep from separating me from Dick.)

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Race Negro
Sex Female
Sources 64, 44 [AJ to George Walton, 26 NOV 1822; Rebecca Bronaugh to AJ, 7 MAR 1823; Charles Pendleton Tutt to AJ, 24 JUN 1823]