 1708 - 1757 (49 years)
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| Name |
Peter Jefferson |
| Birth |
29 Feb 1707/08 |
Osborne's, Chesterfield County, VA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
17 Aug 1757 |
Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA [2] |
| Person ID |
I9716 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Jr. Thomas Jefferson, b. 20 Nov 1679, Henrico County, Virginia, USA d. 15 Feb 1730/31, Osbornes, Chesterfield, Virginia, USA (Age 51 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Mary Field, b. 3 Feb 1679/80, Henrico County, Virginia, USA d. 13 Aug 1715, Henrico County, Virginia, USA (Age 35 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
20 Oct 1697 |
Henrico Par., VA [2, 3] |
| Family ID |
F6303 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Jane Randolph, b. 5 Feb 1719/20, Shadwell, London, England d. 31 Mar 1776, Monticello, Albemarle County, VA (Age 56 years) |
| Marriage |
30 Oct 1739 |
Dungeness, Goochland County, VA [2, 3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Martha Jefferson, b. 29 May 1746, Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA d. 3 Sep 1811, Charlottesville, VA (Age 65 years) [natural] |
| | 2. President Thomas Jefferson, b. 2 Apr 1743, Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA d. 4 Jul 1826, Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA (Age 83 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Jefferson, b. 9 Mar 1749/50, Shadwell, Albemarle, VA d. 9 Mar 1749/50, Shadwell, Albemarle, VA (Age 0 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Peter Field Jefferson, b. 16 Oct 1748, Shadwell, Albemarle, VA d. 29 Nov 1748, Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA (Age 0 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Randolph Jefferson, b. 1 Oct 1755, Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA d. 15 Aug 1815, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA (Age 59 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Elizabeth Jefferson, b. 4 Nov 1744, Shadwell, Albemarle, VA d. 24 Feb 1774, Monticello, Albemarle, VA (Age 29 years) [natural] |
| | 7. Anna Scott Jefferson, b. 1 Oct 1755, Shadwell, Albemarle, VA d. 1805 (Age 49 years) [natural] |
| | 8. Jane Jefferson, b. 27 Jun 1740, Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA d. 1 Oct 1765, Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA (Age 25 years) [natural] |
| | 9. Mary Jefferson, b. 1 Oct 1741, Shadwell, Albemarle, VA d. 1817, Virginia, USA (Age 75 years) [natural] |
| | 10. Lucy Jefferson, b. 10 Oct 1752, Shadwell, Albemarle, VA d. 1784 (Age 31 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F3775 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- History of Albemarle County, Virginia
Page 234
Peter Jefferson, the father of the President, was a native of
Chesterfield, and removed to the present limits of Albemarle in 1737. He
entered the wilderness literally, as when he first came there were but
three or four persons living in the neighborhood. His first entry was
that of a thousand
Page 235
acres on the south side of the Rivanna, between Monticello Mountain and
the Henderson land above Milton. Wishing a more eligible site for his
house, he bought from his friend William Randolph, of Tuckahoe, the
Shadwell tract of four hundred acres, where his distinguished son was
born. He had been a magistrate and Sheriff in Goochland, and when
Albemarle was formed, was one of its original magistrates, and its
Lieutenant Colonel. He also represented the county in the House of
Burgesses. He was employed with Colonel Joshua Fry to run the boundary
line between Virginia and North Carolina, and to make the first map of
Virginia ever drafted. When William Randolph died in 1747, leaving a son
of tender age, he committed him to Mr. Jefferson's care, and more
efficiently to discharge this trust Mr. Jefferson removed to Tuckahoe,
where he resided seven years. This circumstance explains the difficulty
in Mr. Waddell's mind, when in his Annals of Augusta County, he wondered
how Thomas Lewis and his friends, who had gone to Mr. Jefferson's to make
a map of the survey of the Northern Neck line, could ride from his house
to Richmond to hear preaching on Sunday. He returned to Albemarle in
1755, and died in 1757. His wife was Jane, daughter of Isham Randolph, of
Dungeness, and his children Jane, who died unmarried, Thomas, Randolph,
Mary, the wife of Thomas Bolling, Martha, the wife of Dabney Carr, Lucy,
the wife of Charles Lilburn Lewis, and Ann, the wife of Hastings Marks.
Thomas was born in 1743, married in 1771 Martha, daughter of John Wayles,
of Charles City, and widow of Bathurst Skelton, and died July 4, 1826. He
had two daughters, Martha, the wife of Governor Thomas Mann Randolph, and
Mary, the wife of John W. Eppes. He was one of the largest landholders in
the county, being assessed in 1820 with four thousand eight hundred and
ninety-nine acres. Soon after attaining his majority, he was appointed a
magistrate of the county, and at the first session of the County Court
after his decease, the following memorial was entered upon its records:
"As a testimonial of respect for the memory of Thomas Jefferson, who
devoted a long life to the service of his country,
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the principles of liberty, and the happiness of mankind; who aided
conspicuously in the cause of the American Revolution; who drafted the
Declaration of the principles, on which the Independence of these States
was declared; who uniformly exerted his great talents to aid both the
civil and religious liberties of his countrymen, and by whose practical
administration of the principles he had promulgated in many stations,
legislative, diplomatic and executive, in which he had acted as a public
functionary, the equal rights of his countrymen were promoted, and
secured at home and abroad; who, uniting to a native benevolence a
cultivated philanthropy, was peculiarly endeared to his countrymen and
neighbors, who were witnesses of his virtue:
Resolved therefore that this testimonial be recorded as a perpetual
memorial of respect and affection of his countrymen, and of the Court of
Albemarle, of which he was once a member; and
Resolved that this Court and its officers, as a testimony of public
respect, will wear crape on the left arm for thirty days, and will now
adjourn."
Randolph Jefferson in 1781 married Ann, daughter of Charles Lewis Jr., of
Buck Island. He had his residence in Fluvanna County. He had two sons,
Thomas and Isham R. Thomas was twice married, first to his cousin Mary
R., daughter of Charles Lilburn Lewis, and secondly in 1858 to Mrs.
Elizabeth Barker, daughter of Henry Siegfried. His children were Peter
Field and Robert L. Peter Field lived in Scottsville, and by his
shrewdness and frugality amassed a large fortune. He died in 1861,
leaving a son bearing his own name, and a daughter, the wife of Peter
Foland. Peter Field Jr., died in 1867. Robert L. married Elizabeth,
daughter of Robert Moorman, lived near Porter's Precinct, and died in
1858. His children were Eldridge, who lived in the same section of the
county till after the war, and Mary, the wife of Albert W. Gantt.
A story is told of Randolph, that one day he came to his brother to
unburden his mind of a weighty idea that had struck him, and announced
himself thus: "Tom, I'll tell you
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how to keep the squirrels from pillaging the corn. You see they always
get on the outside row. Well then, don't plant any outside row"--which,
if true, well illustrates a reflection of Miss Sarah Randolph, "It is
curious to remark the unequal distribution of talent in this family, each
gifted member seeming to have been made so at the expense of one of the
others."
A Thomas Jefferson, who in the first days of the county was one of its
deputy Surveyors, was no doubt a brother of Peter, the President's
father.
Ref: from Issue #3 of The Fields Cousins Online Justice of Goochland Co Court 1735; High Sheriff 1737-39; JP Albemarle Co 1744 Lt. Col. 1745, Col. & County Lieut. 1754, and Burgess 1755 M. Ragan According to The Collected Papers of the Monticello Association I have that Jane Rogers married Isham Randolph on July 25, 1717 dau Jane Rogers and Isham Randolph: Jane Randolph was born 2/9,1720 in Shadwell Parish, England. On October 3,1739 Jane Randolph married Peter Jefferson born ( according to entry in his Prayer-Book made by his son, Thomas) on 2/29/1707 or 08 and Peter died 8/17/1757. Peter and Jane Randolph had ten children: Jane 1740-1765 died single; Mary 1741-? married (Col.) John Bolling in 1760; Thomas 1743-1826 married Martha Wayles Skelton in 1772; Elizabeth 1744-1774 died single; Martha 1746-1811 married Dabney Carr in 1765; Peter Field Oct 16-Nov. 29,1748; A male 3/9/1750-3/9/1750; Lucy 1752-? married Charles Lewis in 1769; Anna Scott 1755-1828 married Hastings Marks in 1788; and twin to Anna, Randolph 1755-1815 married Anna Lewis in 1781.
Susan L. Burgess suelburg@aol.com http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin JEFFERSON-L, 2000 S.L. Burgess
GENEALOGY OF WOODROW WILSON http://www.usgenealogy.com/wilson/index.htm *Peter JEFFERSON was born on 29 Feb 1708 in Albemarle County Virginia He died on 17 Aug 1757. Parents: Thomas JEFFERSON II and Mary FIELD. He was married to Jane RANDOLPH in 1739 in Goochland County VA (later Albenarle Co.). Children were: Mary JEFFERSON.
Famous Folks, Anc Thos. Jefferson http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/Jefferson/i0000001.htm rhondam@magicnet.net
Peter2 Jefferson (Thomas3, Thomas4) was born in Osborne's, Chesterfield, VA 29 Feb 1707/8. Peter died 17 Aug 1757 in Shadwell Estate, Goochland, VA, at 49 years of age. He married in Goochland County VA, 3 Oct 1739 Jane2 Randolph (Isham3, William4, Richard5) was born bef 20 Feb 1720, baptized in Shadwell, London, Eng, 20 Feb 1720. Religion: religion unknown Jane died 31 Mar 1776 in Monticello, Albemarle, VA Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph had the following child: 1 Thomas1 Jefferson was born 2 Apr 1742/3.
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- [S704] M. Ragan , (Name: President Thomas Woodrow WILSON http://www.usgenealogy.com/wilson/;).
- [S693] William and Mary Quarterly Vol IV p 229-230.
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