Image Title:
Samuel Fraunces [known as Black Sam]

Note:
According to C.R. Cole, a Fraunces descendant by marriage who states: ""The Fraunces family is African in origin," said Cole. "The family totally understands they are mixed racial. Everyone understands that."" Read More.

"Fraunces was a black man of Haitian descent. He owned Fraunces Tavern in New York City, where Washington bade his troops farewell at the end of the Revolutionary War, and he served as Washington's steward at the President's House from 1791 to 1794." Read More.

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Source:
Earle, Alice Morse. 1900. Stage-coach and tavern days. New York: Macmillan Co.p.184. Book at Archive.org.

Subject:
Food - Chef - Cook - President's Chef - Caribbean - Haitian - America -West Indies

Date:
1900

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-FOODPC-1

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