sentences:  Sambo Andersonwho hunted game, as he had while Washington's slave, and prospered for a while by selling it to the most respectable families in Alexandriawas similarly noted by the "Gazette" when he died near Mount Vernon in 1845.Research published in 2019 has concluded that Hercules worked as a cook in New York, where he died on May 15, 1812.A decade after Washington's death, the Pennsylvanian jurist Richard Peters wrote that Washington's servants "were devoted to him; and especially those more immediately about his person.