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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Agreed. Probably the children of a relative of Jefferson’s.
I agree. Peeps used to have long lives, but the lack of “modern” medicine made it rarer.
It’s not like he was a Christian, or a man known for a religious belief which would preclude him from doing this.
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Well, that tells me how seriously I should take your claim.
Many of the Hemmings descendants were extremely accomplished.
Thomas Jefferson died broke and his daughter spent years trying to pay his bills, but one of his possible grandsons died a millionaire, way back when that was extremely hard to do.
Another branch of the supposed line of Hemmings and Jeffersons ended up in California where one of the descendants was one of the first elected black men in the state.
jefferson was my least favorite founding father — by a lot. he was a destructive utpoian idealist, a francophile, committed cowardice n the face of the enemy, and if alive today, would probably be the second coming of teddy kennedy.
people just don’t know their history. I assume they’re drawn to a few dozen out of context quotes, and the word “republican”. he was a fairly decent sized slime ball, and probably was screwing his slave.
Genetic testing with descendants of Jefferson proved a link to the descendants of Hemmings.
However, this doesn’t prove Thomas Jefferson is the father. The biological father is suspected to be his brother or nephew, which explains the genetic relationship just as well without saying Jefferson was sleeping with the servants.
Jefferson was present during the times of conception, but his brother was not.
His Carr nephews who lived much closer were ruled out due to DNA.
What? Am I wrong?
There was that first living DNA specimen from BJ Clinton—most exalted sink emperor—that the news reports tried to drown at the time with the ghost of Thomas Jefferson’s more attributed than not DNA.
Agreed, although he did a good job with the Constitution.
jefferson probably also committed sedition during the washington and (certainly during the) adams administrations.
and it’s even possible that he actually crossed the line into treason.
Randolph is unlikely the father. His visits to Monticello do not correspond to the time Heming would have gotten pregnant. There are no records of her every leaving Monticello after she returned from Paris with Jefferson.
nicely played. very nicely played.
From records that exist.
Randolph never visited his brother before 1802?
Monticello was built by 1772.
So for 30 years, Randolph never came to Monticello to visit his older brother and the uncle of his own 6 kids?
(Notice Randolph had 6 kids—must have been potent)
Bad blood between them?
Regardless, from the source you cited:
“Since then, a committee commissioned by the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society, after reviewing essentially the same material, reached different conclusions, namely that Sally Hemings was only a minor figure in Thomas Jefferson’s life and that it is very unlikely he fathered any of her children. This committee also suggested in its report, issued in April 2001 and revised in 2011, that Jefferson’s younger brother Randolph (1755-1815) was more likely the father of at least some of Sally Hemings’s children.”
Thank you! A friend of mine built a very nice home near me 10 years ago and a mutual friend suggested Rumford fireplaces. I have been interested in them ever since.
All ended up in France during Jefferson's ambassadorship, btw.
Outside combustion air heatilators are more efficient.
Rumsfords are like sitting around a campfire without the smoke.
I didn’t realize that peopp]e punched in and out when visiting or leaving Monticello.
this is crap. what you are implying is certainly crap. and it doesn't exonerate jefferson fromn the more than likely true allegation that he was kocking up his human property for decades.
I doubt that TJ flirted with AA, but I am sure that he flirted with treason during the adams administration.
at any rate, first, define "flirtatious". secondly, the adamses and thomas jefferson feuded with great verbal violence for decades (feralists vs. the republicans) before they reestablished their friendship via letters (easier, since they hated the wight of each other) MANY years later.
Why would the younger brother of Jefferson, who was not known to have visited Sally’s conception times be thought to be the father of her children?
She slept within inches of Thomas Jefferson. It seems strange that his brother would be sneaking in from another county to have sex with his brother’s handmaid.
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