[3] When she was fourteen, Jefferson ordered her to come to the White House to train under Honoré Julien to be the next head cook in Monticello.
Ursula Granger Hughes was born in 1787[4]: 191 and enslaved at birth by Thomas Jefferson on his private plantation in Monticello.
[1] George had been the only black foreman at the plantation and Ursula Granger was Martha Jefferson Randolph's wet nurse and previous head cook.
[1] He embraced the fact that he could train the people he enslaved to attend to his customs instead of hiring an expensive laborer.
At the age of fourteen, Hughes was ordered by Jefferson to come to the White House during his presidency to train as the next head cook in Monticello.