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- Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, a plantation on a large tract of land near present-day Charlottesville, Virginia. His father, Peter Jefferson (1707/08-57), was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson (1720-76), came from a prominent Virginia family. Thomas was their third child and eldest son; he had six sisters and one surviving brother.
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Thomas Jefferson Biography Thomas Jefferson Biography. Born: April 13, 1743 Shadwell, Virginia Died: July 4, 1826 Monticello, Virginia. American president, philosopher, and statesman. The American philosopher and statesman Thomas Jefferson was the first secretary of state, the second vice president, and the third president of the United States.
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Thomas Jefferson Genealogy Thomas Jefferson Genealogy. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, was of English descent, but with deep and wide Virginia roots. His father and paternal grandparents were Virginians; his mother was born in London to English parents.
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Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (October 19, 1748 O.S. – September 6, 1782) was Thomas Jefferson's wife. She was born at The Forest, the plantation home of her father John Wayles. Her mother, Martha Eppes Wayles (1721-1748), died just a week after her daughter was born. Martha Wayles was married first to Bathurst Skelton on November 20, 1766.
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Thomas Jefferson President Jefferson’s paternal grandparents were Thomas Jefferson (the son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Martha Branch) and Mary Field (the daughter of Peter Field and Judith Soane).resident Jefferson was the son of Jane (Randolph), who was born in Shadwell, Tower Hamlets, London, England, and of Peter Jefferson, who was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
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Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809.
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Thomas Jefferson Early life and career. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 Old Style, Julian calendar), at the family home in Shadwell in the Colony of Virginia, the third of ten children. He was of English and possibly Welsh descent and was born a British subject.
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A Biography of Edmund Randolph 1753-1813 A Biography of Edmund Randolph 1753-1813. On August 10, 1753, Edmund Randolph was born in Tazewell Hall, Williamsburg, VA. His parents were Ariana Jenings and John Randolph. Edmund attended the College of William and Mary and continued his education by studying the law under his father's tutelage. When the Revolution broke out, father and son followed different paths. John Randolph, a Loyalist, followed the royal governor, Lord Dunmore, to England, in 1775. Edmund then lived with his uncle Peyton Randolph, a prominent figure in Virginia politics.
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Thomas Lincoln THOMAS LINCOLN, Abraham Lincoln's father, was born January 6, 1778, to Bathsheba and Abraham Lincoln. Thomas, who was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, was the fourth of five children born to the couple. His older siblings were Mordecai, Josiah, and Mary.
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Thomas Jefferson 1 Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia on April 13, 1743. 2  He was born into a family that was closely related to some of the most prominent and wealthy people living in Virginia at that time. 3  His mother was Jane Randolph. 4  Her father was a ship captain named Isham Randolph of Dungeness.
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Sally Hemings Biography Recent DNA testing has concluded however that Hemings’ children are connected to the Jefferson bloodline. Family Life. African-American slave Sally Hemings was believed to have been the mistress of Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States. Born around 1773 in Virginia, Hemings was the youngest of six children born to Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings, a slave of African and European descent; her probable given name was Sarah.
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President Clinton's Unknown Father The question is: Is William Jefferson Clinton one of the Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson? UPDATE: I have received an e-mail stating that Bill Clinton's original name was William Jefferson Blythe, IV and that Clinton's father was William Jefferson Blythe III who was the son of William Jefferson Blythe II. It gives as the source: Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts.
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Sally Hemings Hemings was the youngest of six siblings by the planter John Wayles and his mixed-race slave Betty Hemings; Sally was three-quarters European and a half-sister of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton.
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Mary Hemings After the death of Wayles in 1773, Elizabeth, Mary and her family were inherited by Thomas Jefferson, the husband of Martha Wayles Skelton, a daughter of Wayles, and all moved to Monticello. While Jefferson was in France, Hemings was hired out to Thomas Bell, a wealthy white merchant in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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What Is Known About Thomas Jefferson's Family? Family That He Was Born Into. 1  Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia on April 13, 1743.  He was born into a family that was closely related to some of the most prominent and wealthy people living in Virginia at that time.
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- Biographies. 1  White House Biography. 2  Congressional biography. 3  Biography from Biography.com.  Biography from the U.S. 1  Senate. Biography from the University of Groningen. 2  Autobiography. Life of Thomas Jefferson by B. L. Rayner.  Thomas Jefferson, Son of Virginia by Dennis Montgomery.
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Thomas Jefferson Main article: Early life and career of Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 OS) at the family home in Shadwell in the Colony of Virginia, the third of ten children. He was of English and possibly Welsh descent and was born a British subject.
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Biography Thomas Jefferson is known as a Founding Father of the United States. He is most famous for writing the Declaration of Independence. Thomas grew up in the English Colony of Virginia. His parents, Peter and Jane, were wealthy landowners.
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Thomas Jefferson proprietors of the soil and government. Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 at Shadwell in Albemarle county, Virginia. He had inherited a considerable landed estate from his father, and doubled it by a happy marriage on Jan. 1, 1772, to Martha Wayles Skelton. He was elected to the House of Burgesses when he was 25.
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Who Was Sally Hemings? Sally Hemings (her given name was probably Sarah) was born in 1773; she was the daughter of Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings, and her father was allegedly John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson’s father-in-law.
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- Sally Hemings was the half-sister of Jefferson's deceased wife Martha. Her mother had been impregnated by her master, John Wayles, the father of Martha Jefferson. Sally Hemings herself bore five mulatto children out of wedlock. Callender insisted that Jefferson fathered the children. Jefferson's defenders denied this. In 1998 DNA testing seemed to indicate that Thomas Jefferson fathered at least one of Sally Hemings’s children. Sexual contact between white men and slave women took place with some frequently.
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Thomas Jefferson Genealogy Jefferson's mother was a member of the Randolph family, which was an influential one in colonial society. The first Randolph to come to America, William Randolph, was born in 1650 in Warwickshire, England. He apparently followed his uncle, Henry Randolph, to the new world, some time before 1672.
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Thomas Jefferson Kids Of the Thomas Jefferson kids, only Patsy would outlive her father. For Thomas Jefferson, ancestry was never a topic of much curiosity as he had few records to which he could refer. In the young Thomas Jefferson's family, parents were Peter Jefferson, a surveyor and planter, and Jane Randolph, daughter of a ship's captain who was also an occasional planter.
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Thomas Jefferson Biography Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia. He was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence; the nation's first secretary of state (1789-94); second vice president (1797-1801); and, as the third president (1801-09), the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.homas Jefferson-Mini Biography (TV-PG; 4:17) Thomas Jefferson was was a draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, the nation's first secretary of state, second vice president and third president.
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Thomas Jefferson Hemings was freed under the terms of Jefferson's will in 1826, and enjoyed a successful career as a popular musician in Ohio and Wisconsin thereafter. Harriet Hemings-Harriet Hemings was born in 1801 to Sally Hemings and has long been alleged to be a daughter of Thomas Jefferson.
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Who was the 3rd president of the USA? Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776).