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14 de jul. de 2003 · Jefferson said that if her father knew he was related to Eston Hemings, he kept it a secret. ''When the DNA results came out, I was moved to tears,'' she said. ''It's not that I was now a Jefferson.
In 1802, allegations of Jefferson’s sexual relationship with Hemings surfaced, resulting in an explosion of political satire in the press. Genetic analysis has determined that Hemings’s six children likely were fathered by Jefferson. Her four surviving children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings—were freed in the 1820s.
19 de feb. de 2021 · Daughter, possibly named Thenia Hemings after Sally's sister (born in 1799 and died in infancy) *Harriet Hemings [II] (May 22, 1801 – Unknown) Madison Hemings, possibly James Madison Hemings (January 19, 1805 – 1877) Eston Hemings, possibly named Thomas Eston Hemings (May 21, 1808 – 1856) Jefferson recorded slave births in his Farm Book.
8 de may. de 2024 · Hemings later had two sons, Madison and Eston, who were born in 1805 and 1808, respectively. Some have claimed that Hemings’s first child was Thomas C. Woodson, born in 1790. However, there is no evidence that Hemings had a child that year—notably, Jefferson never noted the birth—and later DNA tests revealed that he was not the father.
3 de abr. de 2023 · The older two Hemings children, Beverly and Harriet, both left Monticello in 1822 when Beverly was twenty-four and Harriet was twenty-one. Beverly “ran away” from the estate but was not pursued, and Harriet left in a stagecoach headed North after longtime overseer of the Monticello estate gave her $50, presumably under instruction by Jefferson.
John's father, Eston Hemings, was born a slave at Monticello in 1808, the youngest of Sally Hemings' six mixed-race children. They are widely understood to have been the children of President Thomas Jefferson, Hemings' master. As they were seven-eighths European in ancestry, under Virginian law at the time they were legally white.
Sally Hemings lived with sons Madison and Eston in Charlottesville, Virginia. The three "are listed as free white people in the 1830 census. Three years later, ...
