Ed
Thomas Jefferson kept meticulous records of the events at Monticello. One of the records he kept was a record of the slave births at the estate. The record lists date of birth, name of the woman, name of her baby, sex of the baby and name of the father of the baby. There is only one exception in those birth records. In the case of Sally Hemming’s five births, all of the information is recorded, except there is no name listed for the father of those babies. Hers are the only entries that do not name the father. Why would that be that way?