Thomas Jefferson

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: 1649, St. Christopher Island, British West Indies
• Birth: Abt 1653, James River, Henrico, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1677; "Osborne's", Henrico Co., VA
• Probate: 7 Dec 1697, Henrico County, Virginia, USA

Notes:

President Thomas Jefferson, 3rd United States President, indicated that his family originated possibly from Wales. President Jefferson commissioned an agent to trace his lineage which was found to trace to the Jeaffresons of Dullingham House, Cambridge, England. Further research has led us back to Pettistree, Suffolk County, England where the Jeaffreson family of Dullingham had earlier originated. Possibly they may have originated still earlier in Wales, but for purposes of this article we must begin at Pettistree.

A Thomas Jefferson went to Jamaica in 1656, but the 1670 Census 14 years later shows none. It is not improbable that he left the Leeward Islands for Jamaica before finally settling in Virginia. - "Annual Report" of the Monticello Association. 1907.

Thomas Jefferson, the first to settle in Henrico Southside, lived at Osborne's across the James River from Farrar's Island and near Kingsland, home of the Branch family. His plantation was located in the Curles Section of the James River, south of the present city of Richmond, Virginia. This is in the vicinity of where the river begins it's snake-like path past Flower du Hundred (which was represented in the first Virginia Assembly of 1619 at Jamestown by his believed great uncle, John Jeaffreson).

Died:
Age: 47

Thomas married Martha Branch in 1678. Martha was born in 1649. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary Branch about 1679 in James River, Henrico, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Jr. Christopher Branch and Sarah Almond) was born in 1660 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died in 1697 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jr. Thomas Jefferson was born on 20 Nov 1679 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; was christened on 7 Dec 1679 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 15 Feb 1730/31 in Osbornes, Chesterfield, Virginia, USA.
2. Mary Jefferson was born in 1679 in Osborne, Henrico, Virginia, USA; died on 1 Sep 1745 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA.
3. Martha Jefferson was born on 23 Feb 1681/82 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died before 23 Jul 1754 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA.

Samuel married Elizabeth Carr Broom in 1628 in Pettistree, Suffolk, England. Elizabeth was born in 1610 in St Kitts; died in 1655 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]