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Peter Field

Peter Field

Male Abt 1647 - 1707  (60 years)

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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Peter FieldPeter Field was born about 1647; died on 24 Jul 1707 in St Peters Par, New Kent County, Virginia, USA.

    Peter married Judith Soane on 21 Oct 1678. Judith (daughter of Henry Soane and Judith Fuller) was born about 1646 in Litlington, Sussex, England; died about 1703 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Mary Field  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Feb 1679/80 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Aug 1715 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Mary FieldMary Field Descendancy chart to this point (1.Peter1) was born on 3 Feb 1679/80 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Aug 1715 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA.

    Notes:

    Mary FIELD was born between 1659 and 1686. She died on 13 Aug 1715. She was married to Thomas JEFFERSON II on 20 Oct 1697. Children were: Peter JEFFERSON. As entered: February 3 or 8, 1679/80.

    Mary married Jr. Thomas Jefferson on 20 Oct 1697 in Henrico Par., VA. Thomas (son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Branch) 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. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Peter Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 Feb 1707/08 in Osborne's, Chesterfield County, VA; died on 17 Aug 1757 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.
    2. 4. Thomas Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 24 Sep 1700 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 14 Feb 1722/23.
    3. 5. Field Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 Mar 1701/02 in Chesterfield County, VA; died on 16 Feb 1765 in Mecklenburg County, VA.
    4. 6. Mary Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1709 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Apr 1755 in Powhatan County, VA.
    5. 7. Martha Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1712 in Osbourne, Powhatan County, VA; died on 20 Oct 1796 in Southam Parish, Cumberland County, VA.
    6. 8. Alice Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1704/1706 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA.
    7. 9. Judith Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 30 Aug 1698 in Monticello, Henrico County, VA; died on 14 Feb 1723 in St James Par., Mecklenburg, VA; was buried in St James Par., Mecklenburg, VA.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Peter JeffersonPeter Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 29 Feb 1707/08 in Osborne's, Chesterfield County, VA; died on 17 Aug 1757 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.

    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,

    Page 237

    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

    Page 238

    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.

    Peter married Jane Randolph on 30 Oct 1739 in Dungeness, Goochland County, VA. Jane (daughter of Isham Randolph and Jane Rogers) was born on 5 Feb 1719/20 in Shadwell, London, England; was christened on 20 Feb 1719/20 in St Paul's Church, Shakespeare's Walk, London, England; died on 31 Mar 1776 in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. Martha Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 29 May 1746 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 3 Sep 1811 in Charlottesville, VA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA.
    2. 11. President Thomas Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 2 Apr 1743 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Jul 1826 in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.
    3. 12. Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Mar 1749/50 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 9 Mar 1749/50 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA.
    4. 13. Peter Field Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 16 Oct 1748 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 29 Nov 1748 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.
    5. 14. Randolph Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Oct 1755 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 15 Aug 1815 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.
    6. 15. Elizabeth Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Nov 1744 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 24 Feb 1774 in Monticello, Albemarle, VA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle, VA.
    7. 16. Anna Scott Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Oct 1755 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1805.
    8. 17. Jane Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 Jun 1740 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 1 Oct 1765 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.
    9. 18. Mary Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Oct 1741 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1817 in Virginia, USA.
    10. 19. Lucy Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 10 Oct 1752 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1784.

  2. 4.  Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 24 Sep 1700 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 14 Feb 1722/23.

  3. 5.  Field JeffersonField Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 6 Mar 1701/02 in Chesterfield County, VA; died on 16 Feb 1765 in Mecklenburg County, VA.

    Notes:

    FIELD JEFFERSON, VESTRYMAN Cumberland Par, Lunenburg County, Va 1746-1816, Vestry Book, 1746-1816, by Landon C. Bell

    File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Margaret Driskill

    "Lunenburg, VA had, as we shall see, an important part in the struggle between the vestries and the Colonial Governors". "When the county was created in 1745 it embraced, in addition to its present area, the now comprised in Mecklenburg, Charlotte, Halifax, Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and the greater part of Bedford and Campbell counties". "This great area was comprised in one parish and was named Cumberland. While Lunenburg County and Cumberland parish were created by the act of 1745, it was provided that they should come into existence 'from and immediately after the first day of May next'". "in 1746 the vestry ordered a chapel forty-eight feet by twenty-four feet to be build near Reedy Creek. This was near Lunenburg Court House. Reference: Hening V. 3110 "it was directed by the Act that the sheriff should advertise 'some convenient time and place' for the meeting of the 'freeholders and housekeepers' to elect 'twelve of the most able and discreet persons' of the parish as vestrymen". "The first vestry of Cumberland parish seems to have been composed of the following: Lewis Deloney, Clement Read, Matthew Talbott, Abraham Martin, Lyddall Bacon, David Stokes, Daniel Ferth, Thomas Bouldin, John Twitty, **Field Jefferson**, John Edloe, and John Cox".

    Field married Mary Frances Robertson after 1721 in Virginia, USA. Mary was born after 1700 in Virginia, USA; died before 29 May 1762 in Mecklenburg County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Field married Mary Hunt on 29 May 1762. Mary died after 1765 in Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  4. 6.  Mary JeffersonMary Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born in 1709 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 13 Apr 1755 in Powhatan County, VA.

    Notes:

    Mary Jefferson, aunt of President Thomas Jefferson. "CAPT. HENRY RANDOLPH to take care of my daughter MARY."

    Mary married Jr. Thomas Turpin on 4 May 1732 in Virginia, USA. Thomas was born on 9 May 1708 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 20 Jun 1790 in Powhatan County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 20. Anne Obedience Turpin  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Sep 1734 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Aug 1800.

  5. 7.  Martha JeffersonMartha Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born about 1712 in Osbourne, Powhatan County, VA; died on 20 Oct 1796 in Southam Parish, Cumberland County, VA.

    Notes:

    "My sister MARTHA WINN to take care of my daughter MARTHA" Martha Jefferson m William Bolling.

    Martha married Bennett Goode in 1740 in Osbourne, Powhatan County, VA. Bennett (son of John Goode and Mary Harris) was born about 1710 in Mecklenberg County, VA; died in 1771 in Southam Parish, Cumberland County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 21. Martha Goode  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1760; died in 1810.

  6. 8.  Alice JeffersonAlice Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born in 1704/1706 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA.

  7. 9.  Judith JeffersonJudith Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 30 Aug 1698 in Monticello, Henrico County, VA; died on 14 Feb 1723 in St James Par., Mecklenburg, VA; was buried in St James Par., Mecklenburg, VA.

    Judith married George Farrar after 1718 in Farrar Island, Henrico County, VA. George was born on 30 Aug 1698 in Farrar Island, Henrico County, VA; died in 1772 in Mecklenburg County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]



Generation: 4

  1. 10.  Martha JeffersonMartha Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 29 May 1746 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 3 Sep 1811 in Charlottesville, VA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA.

    Notes:

    Alt POB: Shadwell, Goochland City, VA

    Martha married Dabney Carr on 20 Jul 1765 in Charlottesville, VA. Dabney (son of John Carr and Barbara Ann Overton) was born on 26 Oct 1743 in Bear Castle, Louisa County, VA; died on 16 May 1773 in Charlottesville, VA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 22. Peter Carr  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 2 Jan 1770 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; was christened on 12 Apr 1770 in St James Northam Par., Goochland County, VA; died in 1815 in Carrsbrook, VA.
    2. 23. Lucy Maria Carr  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 7 Mar 1768 in Bear Castle, Louisa County, VA; was christened on 9 Jul 1768 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; died in 1803.
    3. 24. Samuel Carr  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Oct 1771 in Charlottesville, VA; was christened on 16 Dec 1771 in St James Northam Par., Goochland County, VA; died on 25 Jul 1855.
    4. 25. Mary Carr  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 7 Mar 1768 in Bear Castle, Louisa County, VA; was christened on 9 Jul 1768 in St James Northam, Goochland County, VA.
    5. 26. Jr. Dabney Carr  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 Apr 1773 in Richmond, Virginia, USA; was christened on 21 May 1773 in St James Northam Par., Goochland County, VA; died on 8 Jan 1837; was buried in Shockoe Cemetery, Richmond, VA.
    6. 27. Martha Carr  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1775 in Virginia, USA.
    7. 28. Jane Barbara Carr  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1766 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; died in 1840 in Maury County, TN.

  2. 11.  President Thomas JeffersonPresident Thomas Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 2 Apr 1743 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; died on 4 Jul 1826 in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.

    Notes:

    THOMAS JEFFERSON

    Religion: No formal affiliation
    Education: Graduated from College of William and Mary (1762)
    Occupation: Lawyer, planter
    Political Party: Democratic-Republican
    Other Government Positions:
    Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1769-74
    Member of Continental Congress, 1775-76
    Governor of Virginia, 1779-81 Member of Continental Congress, 1783-85
    Minister to France, 1785-89
    Secretary of State, 1790-93 (under Washington)
    Vice President, 1797-1801 (under J. Adams)
    CF
    Thomas Jefferson, Son of Virginia
    http://www.history.org/other/journal/jeffart.htm
    by Dennis Montgomery

    JEFFERSON ON HIS CHILDHOOD & YOUTH

    "When I consider that at fourteen years of age the whole care and direction of myself was thrown on myself entirely, without a relative or a friend qualified to advise or guide me, and recollect the various sorts of bad company with which I associated from time to time, I am astonished that I did not turn off with some of them, and become as worthless to society as they were. From the circumstances of my position, I was often thrown into the society of horseracers, cardplayers, foxhunters, scientific and professional men, and of dignified men; and many a time have I asked myself, in the enthusiastic death of a fox, the victory of a favorite horse, the issue of a question eloquently argued at the bar, or in the great council of the nation, "Well, which of these kinds of reputation should I prefer--that of a horsejockey, a foxhunter, an orator, or the honest advocate of my country's rights?"

    He caroused with the boys, flirted with the girls, studied late into the night, and fixed his eye on Rebecca Burwell, a beautiful orphan whom moony 19 year old Tom petnamed Belinda. For months his adolescent letters--embarrassing now to read--were full of Belinda. His selfconscious infatuation soon embarrassed him, too. When he gathered up his courage to approach her, Tom made a fool of himself. He wrote "in the most melancholy fit that ever any poor soul was":

    "Last night, as merry as agreeable company and dancing with Belinda in the Apollo could make me, I never could have thought the succeeding sun would have seen me so wretched as I now am. I was prepared to say a great deal. I had dressed up in my own mind such thoughts as occurred to me, in as moving language as I know how, and expected to have performed in a tolerably creditable manner. But, good God! when I had an opportunity of venting them, a few broken sentences, uttered in great disorder, and interrupted with pauses of uncommon length, were the too visible marks of my strange confusion."

    PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
    Six feet two and a half inches tall, thin, square shouldered, strong, Jefferson was straight as a gun barrel. He neglected fashion in clothes and hair, never lost a tooth, but seldom smiled or showed any expression. Stiff with strangers and acutely sensitive to personal slights, he found nothing so goading as to be contradicted in company by his wife. Under stress he was prone to migraines that lasted weeks. He liked to toss off bits of his learning, but when he spoke in public his voice was hoarse and guttural. He ate little meat, and then as a condiment for his vegetables. Peas were his favorite. He did not drink strong wines or spirits, rose by dawn, and left his room by eight after bathing his feet in cold water.

    1781/82 Francois Jean, Marquis de Chastellux, who found Jefferson at his best. Chastellux wrote:

    Let me describe to you a man not yet forty, tall, and with a mild pleasing countenance, but whose mind and understanding are ample substitutes for every exterior grace. An American who without ever quitting his country, is at once a musician, skilled in drawing, a geometrician, an astronomer, a natural philosopher, legislator, and statesman . . . and it seems as if from his youth he had placed his mind, as he had done his house, on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe. . . . We may safely aver that Mr. Jefferson is the first American who has consulted the arts to know how he should shelter himself from the weather.

    A LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE PARENTAGE OF SALLY'S CHILDREN
    by Richard E. Dixon - Attorney at Law
    IX. Conclusion
    Under Virginia law, unless there is an admission of paternity by the father, a claim must be pursued under the statutory procedure. Evidence to establish paternity means oral testimony or documents that pass the legal test of admissibility. The case against Thomas Jefferson is devoid of admissible evidence.

    There is no direct evidence from any source during JeffersonÃss%sss lifeeeee that he was the fatttheeer of any of the children born to Sally Hemings between 1790 and 1808. Although Jefferson was present at Monticello during each of SallyÃss%s conceptions, there is no proof thattt shhhee waaasss att Monticello during these periods. There is also not a scintilla of proof of any cohabitation or physical intimacy between Jefferson and Hemings during the approximate thirty years she resided at Monticello.

    The two prominent documents written after Jefferson's death and relied on as paternity evidence are hearsay and inadmissible. These are the Parton letter, which raised for the first time the resemblance claim against Jefferson, and the Madison Hemings memoirs which created the treaty legend.

    The 1998 DNA test results identify a chromosomal link between Eston Hemings and the male Jefferson line. Thomas Jefferson is included among the twenty-five possible fathers, but he is eliminated because of the lack of admissible evidence.

    It is surprising that the sources and the nature of the information that make up the Tom and Sally myth has put the academic community into such a quandary. It is a tale which should return to its status as no more than a footnote to the Jefferson legacy.

    The Report may be downloaded from
    http://www.monticello.org/plantation/hemings_report.html. Special attention should be given to the Minority Report. See also, Research Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Controversy, A Critical Analysis, by Eyler Robert Coates at
    http://www.angelfire.com/va/TJTruth
    Richard E. Dixon
    Attorney at Law
    4122 Leonard Drive
    Fairfax, Virginia 22030
    703-691-0770
    redixonlaw@aol.com
    April 2000

    Poplar Forest Commentary

    "Thomas Jefferson and his wife, Martha, inherited the plantation known as Poplar Forest from her father in 1773. Theworking tobacco farm of 4,812 acres eventually provided Jefferson with a significant portion of his cash income. The plantation also offered the perfect site for his most personal architectural achievement -- a unique octagonal house set withinan elaborately designed landscape. In this meticulously planned retreat he had the seclusion to pursue his passion forreading, writing, studying, and gardening." In the early years of his ownership of Poplar Forest, Jefferson was increasingly active in public service. He practiced law, was a member of the House of Burgesses, Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, and President of the United States for two terms. Even with these responsibilities, he began managing the plantation operations at Poplar Forest and moved slave labor there. In 1781, Jefferson eluded capture by the British by retreating to his Bedford County plantation. During this extended visit Jefferson compiled much of the material for his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia. Little is known about the dwelling used by Jefferson during these early visits.

    In 1806, Jefferson supervised the laying of the foundation for the octagonal house he had designed. After his second term as President ended in 1809, Jefferson made regular visits to his Bedford retreat. He usually took three to four trips per year and stayed from two weeks to two months. His visits often coincided with the seasonal responsibilities of the working plantation and he also oversaw the embellishment of the house, the planting of his vegetable garden and the adornment of the grounds. Family members, usually his grandchildren, joined Jefferson on many of his visits. At Poplar Forest he could escape the almost perpetual round of visitors at Monticello and enjoy what he called "the solitude of a hermit."

    Jefferson made his last trip to Poplar Forest in 1823 when he settled his grandson, Francis Eppes, on the property. Ill health prevented future visits to his retreat. In 1828, two years after Jefferson's death, Eppes sold Poplar Forest to a neighbor.
    http://www.poplarforest.org/history.html

    Famous Folks, Anc Thos. Jefferson http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/Jefferson/i0000001.htm
    rhondam@magicnet.net

    Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826
    Famous Folks http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/index.html
    Biography.com http://www.biography.com/
    Apart from Jefferson's philosophical stance on slavery, there was the paradox inherent in his own life. Though he undoubtedly believed that slavery violated the principles of natural law he had included in the Declaration of Independence, he was a wealthy slave owner whose lifestyle depended upon the institution. Jefferson viewed himself and his slaves as victims of mankind's failure to rid itself of this terrible institution, and he contented himself with the idea that he would be a benevolent master to those he owned, until the "peculiar institution" met with its rightful end.

    In hindsight, Jefferson's stance on slavery is inescapably hypocritical. History's view of him has been complicated even more by the increasingly unavoidable conclusion that he was sexually involved with one of his house servants, Sally Hemings, and that he fathered at least one, if not several, of her children. Allegations that he was sexually involved with Hemings surfaced as early as 1802, when the disgruntled journalist James Callendar (allegedly the same man Jefferson had hired to libel Adams during the 1796 presidential election) published the accusation, which had been circling as gossip in Virginia for several years. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, contradictory evidence surfaced: Madison Hemings, born in 1805, claimed to be Jefferson's child; just a year later, an account was published claiming that Jefferson's nephew, Peter Carr, had confessed to Jefferson's daughter Martha that he had been the father of all or most of Sally's children. Jefferson's direct descendants, Thomas Jefferson Randolph and Ellen Randolph Coolidge, stood by the conclusion that either Peter or Samuel Carr (both Jefferson's nephews) had fathered Hemings' children.

    The question of a Jefferson-Hemings liaison remained a bone of contention among branches of the Jefferson, Randolph, and Hemings familiesÃssaassssss welllll as Jefferson scholars throughouuuut tthee nineteenth and twentieth centuries... In November 1998, dramatic new scientific evidence became available through the analysis of the DNA of male descendants of both Hemings and Jefferson. After comparing the Y-chromosome component of the DNA of a descendant of Jefferson's paternal uncle, Field Jefferson, with that of a descendant of another of Hemings' sons, Eston (born 1808), Dr. Eugene Foster of the University of Virginia found an exact match of certain portions of the DNA (the odds of a perfect match in a random sample are less than one in a thousand). In January 2000, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation accepted the conclusion, supported by Foster's DNA evidence, that Jefferson and Hemings were sexual partners, and that they had between one and six children between 1790 and 1808.

    Thomas married Martha Wayles on 1 Jan 1772 in The Forest, Charles City County, Virginia, USA. Martha (daughter of John Wayles and Martha Eppes) was born on 30 Oct 1748 in Charles City County, VA; died on 6 Sep 1782 in Monticello, Albemarle County, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 29. Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 28 May 1777.
    2. 30. Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Nov 1780.
    3. 31. Mary Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Aug 1778.
    4. 32. Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 8 May 1782.
    5. 33. Martha Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 27 Sep 1772; died on 10 Oct 1836.
    6. 34. Jane Randolph Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 3 Apr 1774.

    Thomas married Sally HemingsVirginia, USA. Sally was born about 1769. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  3. 12.  Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 9 Mar 1749/50 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 9 Mar 1749/50 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA.

  4. 13.  Peter Field JeffersonPeter Field Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 16 Oct 1748 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 29 Nov 1748 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.

  5. 14.  Randolph JeffersonRandolph Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 1 Oct 1755 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 15 Aug 1815 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA.

    Notes:

    Randolph Jefferson 1755 Shadwell, Ablemarle County VA - d. 15 October 1815 married 7-30-1780 in Virginia Anna Jefferson Lewis born in Buck Island, VA d. bfr 1809; Anna is the daughter of Charles Lewis, Jr. of Buck Island, Virginia ; Randolph married twice. He
    had four sons with first wife, Anna Jefferson Lewis (a first cousin of his), and then two more son with his second wife, Mitchie Pryor, d/o David Pryor


    i. Isham Randolph Jefferson
    ii. Thomas Jefferson +Mary R Lewis +Elizabeth Seigfried; Mary R is Mary Randolph Jefferson Lewis, daughter of Charles Lilbourne Lewis (Anna's brother) and Lucy J. Jefferson, (the President's sister and the daughter of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph)
    mcclaran@concentric.net
    iii. Robert Lewis Jefferson
    iv. James Lilburne Jefferson
    v. Anna Scott Jefferson
    *2nd Wife of Randolph Jefferson +Mitchie Prior
    vi. John Thomas Jefferson b: 1810 in Virginia
    vii. Mitchie Jefferson
    viii. Randolph Jefferson

    Randolph Jefferson, (have seen some reference to his first name being John) younger brother of Preident Thomas Jefferson was first married to his first cousin, Anna Lewis, daughter of Charles Lilburn Lewis and Mary Randolph. His second marriage was to
    Mitchie B. Pryor, daughter of David Pryor of Buckingham County Virginia.

    Herbert and Evelyn Barger, compilers of this Jefferson genealogy, have visited the outside of this home, "Snowden" located just across the James River from Scottsville, Virginia on State Route 747. A painting of this old, but now renovated home, is on display at the Scottsville Museum. The Bargers have a picture of this painting and slides and information of the home of Peter Field Jefferson, Randolph's grandson and son of Thomas. The former Scott home, "Mount Walla" was built by John Scott of the town's founder's family. Evelyn Barger is Randolph's first cousin, six generations
    removed.

    Randolph attended William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia beginning at age sixteen n 1771 and finishing in 1772. He also shared his brother Thomas's love of music and studied the violin under the same instructor as did Thomas. During the Revolutionary War he served in the Virginia Light Dragoons. He was commissioned a Captain of Buckingham Militia in 1794. Randolph patented or was granted 1327 acres in Buckingham County Virginia on May 30, 1800. The land was adjoining Robert Craig on Big
    Georges Creek.

    The book THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS UNKNOWN BROTHER RANDOLPH,
    University of VA, Charlottesville 1942 states:
    "Randolph, born at Shadwell on Oct 1, 1755, was 12 years younger than Thomas, With his twin sister, Anna Scott, he was the last of the ten children... He was two years old, and Thomas was fourteen when his father died in 1757. ... "He twice married. On July 30, 1780 he married Anne Jefferson Lewis the daughter of colonel Charles Lewis of Buck Island. she was his first cousin, and the sister of Charles Lilburne Lewis, who in 1769 had married Randolph's sister Lucy. The Lewis and Jefferson families became even more closely connected later on when Thomas, the son of Randolph, married Mary Randolph, the daughter of Lucy Jefferson Lewis

    Randolph, by his first wife, who died sometime before 1808, had five sons: Thomas, Robert Lewis, Field, Isham Randolph, and James Lilburne; and a daughter, Anna Scott. His second wife was Mitchie B. Pryor, Daughter of David Pryor of Buckingham county.
    He married her in 1808 or 1809, and by her had one son, John Jefferson. ... A grandson Peter Field (the son of Randolph's son Thomas) was a country merchant made what the little town of Scottsville considered a large fortune.

    http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ JEFFERSON-L, 1999

    Randolph married Anna Jefferson Lewis on 30 Jul 1780 in Virginia, USA. Anna (daughter of Charles Lewis and Mary Randolph) was born about 1754 in Buck Island, VA; died in May 1808 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 35. James Lilburne Jefferson  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1784 in Virginia, USA; died in 1874.

    Randolph married Mitchie Pryor in 1809. Mitchie died after 1814 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  6. 15.  Elizabeth JeffersonElizabeth Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 4 Nov 1744 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died on 24 Feb 1774 in Monticello, Albemarle, VA; was buried in Monticello, Albemarle, VA.

  7. 16.  Anna Scott JeffersonAnna Scott Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 1 Oct 1755 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1805.

    Anna married Hastings Marks in 1788. Hastings died after 1788. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  8. 17.  Jane JeffersonJane Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 27 Jun 1740 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA; died on 1 Oct 1765 in Shadwell, Albemarle County, VA.

  9. 18.  Mary JeffersonMary Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 1 Oct 1741 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1817 in Virginia, USA.

    Notes:

    Mary Jefferson b 1 Oct 1741 in: Shadwell, Albemarle, Virginia 1 Died: aft 1762 in: Virginia 1 Father: Peter Jefferson Mother: Jane Randolph GENEALOGY OF WOODROW WILSON http://www.usgenealogy.com/wilson/ *Mary JEFFERSON was born on 1 Oct 1741 in Fine Creek, Goochland County VA, d/o Peter JEFFERSON and Jane RANDOLPH. She was married to John William BOLLING on 24 Jan 1760.

    Mary married John William Bolling on 29 Jun 1760 in Virginia, USA. John (son of John Bolling and Elizabeth Bland Blair) was born on 24 Jun 1737; died in 1797. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 36. Edward Bolling  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Sep 1772; died in 1835.
    2. 37. Robert Bolling  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1771.
    3. 38. Archibald Bolling  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1770 in Goochland County, Virginia, USA; died in 1829.
    4. 39. Jane Bolling  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 17 Sep 1765.
    5. 40. Ann Bolling  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Jul 1767.
    6. 41. Martha Bolling  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1769.
    7. 42. Thomas Bolling  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 11 Feb 1764.

  10. 19.  Lucy JeffersonLucy Jefferson Descendancy chart to this point (3.Peter3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 10 Oct 1752 in Shadwell, Albemarle, VA; died in 1784.

    Lucy married Charles Lilburn Lewis in 1769. Charles (son of Charles Lewis and Mary Randolph) was born about 1752; died in 1853 in Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  11. 20.  Anne Obedience TurpinAnne Obedience Turpin Descendancy chart to this point (6.Mary3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born on 17 Sep 1734 in Henrico County, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Aug 1800.

    Anne married John Jordan Harris on 27 Aug 1754 in Cumberland County, VA. John (son of John Harris and Ursula Goode) was born in 1732 in Powhatan County, Virginia, USA; died before 19 Nov 1800 in Norwood, Powhatan, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 43. Mary Elizabeth Josepha Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1767 in Cumberland County, VA.
    2. 44. Lucy Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1756 in Cumberland County, VA; died in 1832 in Virginia, USA.
    3. 45. Judith Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1760 in Cumberland County, VA; died in Woodford County, KY.
    4. 46. Jordan Turpin Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 20 May 1763 in Cumberland County, VA; died in 1826.
    5. 47. John Turpin Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 12 Oct 1758 in Cumberland County, VA; died in 1815.
    6. 48. Polly Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1774 in Cumberland County, VA.
    7. 49. Francis Turpin Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 7 May 1768 in Cumberland County, VA; died on 5 Dec 1836 in Powhatan County, VA.
    8. 50. Carolina Matilda Harris  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Dec 1756 in Cumberland County, VA; died in 1815.

  12. 21.  Martha GoodeMartha Goode Descendancy chart to this point (7.Martha3, 2.Mary2, 1.Peter1) was born in 1760; died in 1810.

    Martha married Charles Povall in 1777/1798. Charles (son of III Robert Povall and Winifred) was born in 1763; died in 1803. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 51. Martha Povall  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Nov 1784 in Powhatan County, VA.