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It was Martha Randolph with her family who shared Jefferson’s retirement at Monticello until he died there in 1826. Click here to learn more about the enslaved household of the Jefferson family. This is a modern painting by John Hutton imagining what Martha Jefferson, the wife of Thomas Jefferson would have looked like when she was alive.
Jefferson was aware nonetheless that the duties his wife would have assumed, had she lived, needed to be performed. When his two married daughters, Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph and Maria "Polly" Jefferson Eppes, stayed with him at the presidential mansion, they occasionally took on the job of hostessing.
Randolph, then the mother of eleven children, was fifty-one years old. Ford must have come to Monticello almost immediately for he painted not one but two portraits — Mrs. Randolph and her eldest daughter, Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead — by the end of the month. Jefferson paid "Jas. W. Ford for 50 D. for 2 portraits" on September 29, 1823.
25 de oct. de 2022 · Martha was married to Thomas Jefferson from 1772 to 1782, when she passed away. After the death of her father, the couple inherited his debt, which also affected Thomas’s finances. The couple welcomed six children in their marriage; however, only two of them lived made it past childhood. Their children were:
"Cynthia Kierner's intriguing new biography of Martha Jefferson Randolph . . . is the first to tell her story from her point of view. It gives depth to the history of elite white southern women and their responsibilities, liabilities, and possibilities in the Early National period and illuminates the family ripples widening from the splash Jefferson created by taking up with his slave, Sally ...
Martha Jefferson Randolph, eldest daughter of Thomas and Martha Jefferson, has often been incorrectly identified as the White House hostess during the eight-year Jefferson presidency. Her father called her “ Patsy, ” and that was the name she was known by within her family.
Martha Jefferson Randolph was born at Monticello in 1775, the eldest daughter of Thomas Jefferson, future president of the United States, and Martha Jefferson, a half-niece of Sally Hemings. A tall redhead with freckles, Martha, known as Patsy, not only resembled her father, but was apparently the most devoted to him of all the six Jefferson children.
