[GJones2]

Petitfour, getting back to the article about the room in which Hemings allegedly lived (the article says "next to" Thomas Jefferson's), you make a good point that "Hemings did not have any children after that room was constructed." It wasn't constructed until 1809, and we know of no children after 1808.

Also Hemings had been having children since the 1790s. Yet we're expected to believe that Jefferson waited nearly two decades to construct this "love nest". Then, after he supposedly has easy access to her, she no longer has children. Wonder why. Could it be that he wasn't having sex with her, and the room's location is entirely unrelated to that? :-)

[Bodleian_Girl]

I believe that she had the space in the loft room over his bed before the arrival of his grandchildren.

Their arrival is probably what prompted her removal from his room into a room he had built for her in 1809.