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17 hours ago · In 1998, a panel of researchers conducted a Y-DNA study of living descendants of Jefferson's uncle, Field, and of a descendant of Hemings's son, Eston Hemings. The results showed a match with the male Jefferson line.
5 days ago · 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 ...
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Sep 10, 2024 · Sally Hemings (Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia, circa 1773 – Charlottesville, Virginia, 1835) was an American slave owned by Thomas Jefferson. She is said to have been the half-sister of Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.
- Guinea Plantation, Virginia
- February 09, 1773
Sep 19, 2024 · Born in 1773, Sally Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson. She is best known for her long-term relationship with Jefferson, which began when she was a teenager. Hemings bore at least six of Jefferson's children, four of whom survived to adulthood.
Sep 9, 2024 · Especially disturbing to many were the DNA results of the 1998 study revealing that Jefferson had almost certainly fathered a child with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman thirty years his junior and owned by him. (For more on this story, see “Tom and Sally”: The Jefferson - Hemings paternity debate.)
Sep 15, 2024 · Eston Hemings was an African-American slave, born to one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, Sally Hemings, and believed to be fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Explore Eston Hemings biography to know about Net Worth, Height, Weight, Rumour, Age, Relationship and More...
1 day ago · Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War.
