Sally Hemings
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Sally Hemings, whose given name may have been Sarah, was an enslaved woman, inherited among many others by the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, from his father-in-law, John Wayl
Thomas Jefferson in 1791
Colonel John Wayles Jefferson, a grandson of Hemings, through her son Eston
Eston Hemings
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Eston Hemings Jefferson was born into slavery at Monticello, the youngest son of Sally Hemings, a mixed-race enslaved woman. Most historians who have considered the question believe that his father wa
Sally Hemings
…panel worked with a 1998–1999 genealogical DNA test and found a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of Hemings's youngest son, Eston Hemings. Given this match, along with historical reports and information, the Foundation panel concluded that Jefferson fathered Eston and likely Hemings's…
1845 article in The Liberator about the Hemings family in Ohio
The gravesite of Eston Hemings Jefferson in Madison, Wisconsin.