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Author: brucewicks43
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Thank you Sir for that explanation concerning the "self proclaimed" Jefferson
historian. The DNA results in 1998 prove that a Jefferson was the father of at least some
of Sally Hemings children and I suspect that all of them were TJ's. Why? What seems to
have been passed over in all of my research on TJ is that he never seriously courted
another woman after his wife died and he never remarried. After all, when his wife died he
was still a young man and human. Sally was a close relative of Mrs. Jefferson, light
colored and from all reports very good looking. It was reported by many visitors dining at
Monticello that he treated her with great courtesy when she was "serving at
table". Her children were never put to hard labor, well trained and had access to the
big house and were what? 7/8th's of European descent? He freed several of them if not
all before his death and some of them passed as white and married well and lived as whites
in DC and Philly I believe. His daughter M!
artha freed Sally so she could live with two of her sons shortly after TJ's death
nearby. I suspect that Thomas and Sally were not just lovers as master to slave but a
couple in love and of course there was no way to change that relationship publicly in
those times. As to your ancestor Peter Carr? I believe he is probably buried in the
Monticello cemetery. With the available records and his wife's letter it should be
possible to at least place a memorial stone there for him and it should be done. He
provided much assistance to TJ in the establishment of the University of Virginia. Yes. I
have great respect for Thomas Jefferson. I wish we had him here now.
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