| First Name | Nanny |
| Surnames | |
| Gender | Female |
| Birth Information | ca. 1778 Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, page 29 |
| Death Information | 1781, British Encampment, eastern Virginia Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, page 29 |
| Eleven people enslaved by Thomas Jefferson escape from Cumberland County during a British invasion, most of them part of Hannibal and Patty’s family. | |
| Role | Freedom Seeker |
| Listed With | Hannibal (d. 1781)Patty (1754-1781)Isabel (b. 1770)Sam (1772-1781)Sally (1776-1781)Fanny (1780-1781)Prince (1769-1781)Nancy (d. 1781)Sam |
| Sources | Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, page 29 Jefferson’s Statement of Losses to the British at His Cumberland Plantations in 1781, [27 January 1783] Thomas Jefferson to William Gordon, 16 July 1788 |
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