I have trying to go through my "stacks" of genealogy piles and getting it organized in some way...I know that we all have this problem <grin>. I took all of my "Miscellaneous Records" on Jennings and have put them all together. Please read the following records and see if you know where any of these Jennings go. I have an idea of some of them but want to be sure. Also, if you have any Miscellaneous Records that you don't know where the Jennings go, Please share because I know that the records belong to one of you. All of our heads are better than one! Caren Below is Miscellaneous Records for Various Benjamin Jennings: The First White House Memoir This is a reprint in its entirety of the 1865 memoir of Paul Jennings, a former slave, and the preface that originally accompanied it. This is a fascinating firsthand account of life in the White House during the Presidency of James Madison. The rare document was reprinted in the Journal of White House History (1983), Volume One, Number One, with a "Commentary: The Washington of Paul Jennings—White House Slave, Free Man, and Conspirator for Freedom," by G. Franklin Edwards and Michael R. Winston. This memoir and detailed scholarly commentary from the Journal is also available from the online Museum Shop. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul Jennings Preface. Among the laborers at the Department of the Interior is an intelligent colored man, Paul Jennings, who was born a slave on President Madison’s estate in Montpelier, Va., in 1799. His reputed father was Benj. Jennings, an English trader there; his mother, a slave of Mr. Madison, and the granddaughter of an Indian. Paul was "body servant" of Mr. Madison, till his death, and afterwards of Daniel Webster, having purchased his freedom of Mrs. Madison. His character for sobriety, truth, and fidelity, is unquestioned; and he was a daily witness of interesting events, I have thought his recollections were worth writing down in almost his own language.