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57 pees township1/21/2024 1774, when Thomas and Martha Jefferson inherited Betty Hemings and her children on the division of the Wayles estate, moved with her family to the Elk Hill plantation in Goochland County. 1774, at the time of the division of John Wayles's estate, living with her mother and siblings at Wayles's Guinea plantation, Cumberland County. Randall: "Both the Henings girls were light colored and decidedly goodlooking." (Randall 1868)ġ802 Anonymous: "She is an industrious and orderly creature in her behaviour." (Fredericktown Herald, reprinted in Richmond Recorder, 8 Dec. Randolph, Jefferson's grandson, as told to Henry S. She seems fond of the child and appears good naturd." (Abigail Adams to TJ, 27 June 1787, B.11.503)ġ787 Abigail Adams, London: "The Girl she has with her, wants more care than the child, and is wholy incapable of looking properly after her, without some superiour to direct her." (Abigail Adams to TJ, 6 July 1787, B.11.551)ġ847 Isaac Jefferson, former Monticello slave: "Sally Hemings' mother Betty was a bright mulatto woman, and Sally mighty near white.Sally was very handsome, long straight hair down her back." (Bear.4)Ĭ1851 Thomas J. Woodson (1790-1879), he was Sally Hemings's first child no documentary information has yet been found to confirm this.ġ787 Abigail Adams, London: "The Girl who is with her is quite a child, and Captain Ramsey is of opinion will be of so little Service that he had better carry her back with him. (FB.9, 18 Madison Hemings 1873)Ĭhildren (known from Jefferson's records):Īccording to the oral history of the descendants of Thomas C. 1773), father of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. 1735-1807) and, according to Sally Hemings's son Madison, John Wayles (d. Name: Probably Sarah (Sally was the common diminutive form of this name).
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