Christopher Sheels
His father may have been Christopher Sheldes, a white wagon driver, who worked at Mount Vernon until December 1773, and he is listed as "11 yrs.In April 1789, when Washington set out for New York City to be inaugurated as the first President of the United States, Lee was too ill to make the trip.The first presidential household consisted of about twenty servants, including seven slaves from Mount Vernon — Ona Judge, Austin, Giles, Paris, Moll, Christopher Sheels, and William Lee.The Philadelphia President's House had a larger household, about twenty-four servants initially, including eight slaves from Mount Vernon — Ona Judge, Austin, Giles, Paris, Moll, Hercules, Richmond, and Christopher Sheels.On the advice of his attorney general, Edmund Randolph, he systematically rotated the President's House slaves in and out of the state to prevent their establishing a six-month continuous residency.As the first six-month deadline approached in May 1791, Martha Washington took Sheels and Ona Judge on a two-day trip to Trenton, New Jersey,[11] thus voiding their Pennsylvania residencies.[12] Sheels was permanently returned to Mount Vernon by January 1792, where he worked as a waiter, serving the family meals.
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