Posted on 07/03/2017 6:20:40 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
Archaeologists have discovered an area in Thomas Jefferson's plantation home that was once the living quarters of Sally Hemings - a slave with whom he is believed to have had six children. Her room, which was built in 1809 and was 14 feet, 8 inches wide and 13 feet long, was next to Thomas Jefferson's room. However, the bedroom went unnoticed for decades and the area was even made into a men's bathroom in 1941.
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> It’s interesting to me because history is interesting in general.
In saying that I don’t trust the persons whose interest it is to make that claim, I was referring to cited sources and not your own interest in history.
I see that while I was posting several long posts (without checking the forum for new ones), you’d started responding. Please look back and make sure you didn’t miss any of the others.
Not if he was a Tory you ain’t.
Here is a link to a fuller explanation of the genetic testing results. Despite the proclaimed headlines there are only maybes no absolutes...except for the negatives. And there are those
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/true/primer.html
Room for Sally built when?
He and his sons were on the right side of the War for Independence and the sons received land in Tennessee for their services.
After the land played out, they moved further South to the mills of Alabama, so I reckon I’m ok on the genealogy front since I can name them all, 10 generations back to 1725.
I look forward to reading that. Thank you.
Thank you, I look forward to reading that!
I don't know if the dates are there.
Sally was with Jefferson in Paris.
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There may be some source somewhere that claims that but Jefferson says he only took his daughter to Paris with him.
I think the article said 1809. But my iPad reloaded the page and then shut down before I could double check. It takes too long to get some websites to load for me. Ugh.
Sally was his daughter’s lady’s maid at that time.
Hah. The date is included in the excerpt. 1809.
Oldest daughter went with him, Sally and younger daughter arrived later.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Hemings#Hemingses_in_Paris
Well, then, I suppose your ancestor and mine crossed paths at the land office then. His name was Landon Carter. Yup, kin to Jimmuh I am, as dismaying as that might sound.
It is an interesting read
Is this series?
> I’ve been without sex for decades. [GJones2]
> With a nubile and willing female lying just feet from you?
Well, no, but I’ve passed up willing nubile women — or at least attractive enough physically to suit me — on some occasions. Men continually encounter women who are sexually attractive but best avoided because of social considerations (e.g., married women, under-age women, close relatives, dangerous women, psychos, and so forth). Both men and women are continually having to control their sexual urges, and it can be done. As the very macho Ernest Hemingway once said, men sometimes imagine that they can’t get along without women, but they can (quoted from memory, something to that effect).
> Now that we know where Sally slept, and that one would have to go through Jefferson’s room to get to Sally...
Even without considering the possibility of conception elsewhere, I find it very hard to believe that this was the sleeping arrangement for the entire time that Hemings was conceiving.
Now see, that’s fascinating!
> There may be some source somewhere that claims that [Hemings was in Paris] but Jefferson says he only took his daughter to Paris with him.
Do you have a source for that statement? Maybe he was just speaking of family members, or maybe Hemings arrived later. I don’t think it’s under dispute from either side, though, that Hemings was in France for several years as a teenager, and that a child was conceived there (one not confirmed to have Jefferson DNA).
> Oldest daughter went with him, Sally and younger daughter arrived later.
Oops, I see you explained that before I made my previous post (denying the claim that Sally wasn’t in France). I take too long writing posts, and when the thread is active, and have to go back later and see what I missed. :-)
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