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History: The third US president, author of the Declaration of Independence, and VA statesman Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) relates in his memoirs a family tradition that he was descended from Welsh stock on his father's side, while noting the relative infrequency of the name Jefferson in Wales. It is a characteristically northern English name.
Manuscript/Mixed Material Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, April 11, 1801 View 2 images in sequence. Download: GIF (100.9 KB) JPEG (268.1 KB) Go
On April 17, 1804, Mary Jefferson Eppes, daughter of President Thomas Jefferson died. Polly (as she was known since childhood) never recovered from the birth of her third child. She was only 26 years old. When she was 9 years old she sailed across the Atlantic in order to join her father in Paris, where he was serving as ambassador.
Tweet. From Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Eppes, 27 November 1803. To Mary Jefferson Eppes. Washington Nov. 27. 03. It is rare, my ever dear Maria, during a session of Congress, that I can get time to write any thing but letters of business: and this, tho’ a day of rest to others, is not at all so to me. we are all well here, and hope ...
To Mary Jefferson Eppes. Washington Dec. 14. 1801. My dear Maria. I recieved in due time yours & mr Eppes’s letters of Nov. 6. and his of Nov. 26. this last informed me you would stay at Eppington 2. or 3. weeks. having had occasion to write during that time to mr F. Eppes, without knowing at the moment that you were there, you would of ...
Thomas Eston Hemings was born in 1838 to Mary McCoy and Madison Hemings at a time and place in our history up from slavery that ought never be forgotten because so many of us the living owe so very much to the chosen few like him who died that others might live better and more fruitful lives. Growing up in Ohio during the 1840s and 1850s must ...
(Elizabeth Wayles Eppes to Jefferson). "Your Sister Bolling has favoured us with her company a few days, and I was in great hopes Mrs. Carr would have been here before dear Pollys departure as it was not in our power to send her to visit her, being at present without a carriage." [24] 1787 July 23. (Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Bolling).
