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Eppes, Maria Jefferson (1778–1804)American first daughter. Name variations: known as Polly in her youth; Mary Jefferson Eppes. Born Mary Jefferson in 1778; died in 1804; dau. of Martha Jefferson (1748–1782) and Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826, 3rd president of US); m. her cousin John Wales Eppes; children: several, including Frances Eppes and Maria Eppes (who died in childbirth at age 25).
When Mary was eight years old, Jefferson arranged for his daughter to travel to France to be with him and her older sister, Martha. However, Mary had become attached to the Eppes family. Before leaving, she wrote her father "I don’t want to go to France, I had rather stay with Aunt Eppes." Mary was nine years old when she arrived in Paris ...
Martha " Patsy " Randolph ( née Jefferson; September 27, 1772 – October 10, 1836) was the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia . Randolph's mother died when she was nearly 10 years old, when only ...
14 de dic. de 2023 · So, too, did Jefferson’s nineteen-year-old half-brother-in-law James Hemings, albeit as Jefferson’s slave, in order to study the art of French cookery and thereafter serve as chef in Jefferson’s household. Mary Jefferson remained where she had been since late 1782, with her aunt Elizabeth Eppes, finally, and very reluctantly, coming to ...
Maria Jefferson Eppes (February 15, 1804 – February 1806) Mary died at Monticello on April 17, 1804, two months after the birth of Maria, and is buried there. On April 15, 1809, Eppes married Martha Burke Jones, daughter of Willie Jones, a prominent North Carolina planter and politician.
From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 3 March 1802. To Mary Jefferson Eppes. Washington Mar. 3. 1802. My very dear Maria. I observed to you some time ago that during the session of Congress I should be able to write to you but seldom; and so it has turned out. your’s of Jan. 24. I recieved in due time, after which mr Eppes’s ...
low in spirits & health: in a letter to her husband, Mary elaborated on her condition: “my health has been growing gradually worse, I have puked up a great deal of bile which I suppose is the cause of it, but am afraid to take any thing in my present situation, tho’ my stomach is so weak that it scarcely retains any thing” (Mary Jefferson Eppes to John Wayles Eppes, 6 Feb. 1804, RC in ViU).
