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To: CatherineofAragon
Not only is there no "ironclad proof" Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings' children, but the TH Heritage Society commissioned a research committee which concluded he was not.

Jefferson's brother was the likely father.

So they say, but he wasn't even a suspect before the DNA evidence ruled out Peter and Samuel Carr. A lot depends on when Randolph Jefferson was at Monticello. Scholars dispute the dates, but the evidence doesn't look good for the theory that Randolph fathered Sally's children.

61 posted on 07/23/2015 4:11:26 PM PDT by x
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To: x

X, this is so “you”, LOL.


62 posted on 07/23/2015 4:14:12 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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