John Patten Emmet

Name: John Patten Emmet
Given Name: John Patten
Family Name: Emmet
Birth Date: 1796-04-08
Death Date: 1842-08-13
Sex: Male
Description: John Patten Emmet (April 8, 1796 - August 13, 1842) was a white enslaver and chemistry professor at the University of Virginia (1825-1842). The nephew of Irish nationalist Robert Emmet, he was born in Dublin, Ireland, and relocated to New York with his parents Thomas Addis Emmet and Jane Patten Emmet in 1805. He married Mary Byrd Farley Tucker in 1827 and built a house, Morea (1834-1835), near the University of Virginia.
Source Resource: https://omeka-s-dev.internal.lib.virginia.edu/api/items/156
Source Site: https://omeka-s-dev.internal.lib.virginia.edu/s/otg-uvalibrary/item
Occupation: University of Virginia chemistry professor

Unidentified Men (Referred to as "hands")