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To: iowamark

“Read up on the recent research into the Hemings-Jefferson children. Jefferson kept good records of his travels and of the children of his slaves.”

I have. Multiple books.

He didn’t. Reading biographies, one finds statements like, ‘Jefferson left X NLT this date, and we know he was at Monticello on this date. Based on travel time, he likely arrived around this time.’ Even Thomas Jefferson can’t be tracked on a daily basis.

There are daughters whose months-long visits elsewhere are only known from a sentence in a letter.

And DNA has proven the the main charge against Jefferson, one many believed for 200 years, the one his opponents circulated during his life, was false. The boy was not Jefferson’s.


44 posted on 01/11/2018 6:28:41 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Mr Rogers
DNA has proven the the main charge against Jefferson, one many believed for 200 years, the one his opponents circulated during his life, was false. The boy was not Jefferson’s.

What are you talking about? DNA testing shows that Sally Hemming's children are descended from the male Jefferson line.

46 posted on 01/11/2018 12:48:31 PM PST by iowamark
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