Third President of the USA:

Thomas Jefferson

Main Life Accomplishments:

He was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).

As a political philosopher, Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment and knew many intellectual leaders in Britain and France. He idealized the independent yeoman farmer as exemplar of republican virtues, distrusted cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a strictly limited federal government. Jefferson supported the separation of church and state and was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786). He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the co-founder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated American politics for a quarter-century. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793) and second Vice President (1797–1801).

A polymath, Jefferson achieved distinction as, among other things, a horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor and founder of the University of Virginia. When President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962 he said, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

 

Basics:

Born: April 13 1743, Shadwell, Virginia

Died: July 4, 1826 (aged 83), Charlottesville, Virginia

Nationality:  American

Religion: Unitarian

Fields:  Politics, Military

Main Accomplishments: 

 

Chronology of Life Events:

April 13, 1743 

Born at Shadwell, Albermarle County, Virginia, eldest son to Peter and Jane Randolph Jefferson

 

1745

Jefferson family moves fifty miles from Shadwell to take up residence at Tuckahoe

 

1752 

Jefferson family returns to Shadwell; Jefferson takes up classical languages under care of Scottish Reverend William Douglas

1754 

Peter Jefferson accedes to the Virginia House of Burgesses as a representative of Albermarle County

 

August 17, 1757 

Peter Jefferson dies at age forty-nine, leaving young Jefferson as family patriarch

 

March 1760 

Enters College of William and Mary at Williamsburg, Virginia; befriends Patrick Henry

 

March 1762 

Graduates from the College of William and Mary

 

April 25, 1762 

Begins study of law in Williamsburg under George Wythe

 

1763 

Begins dining in the company of Williamsburg's leading intellectuals

 

1764

Begins to keep a regular reading journal

 

October 1, 1765

Eldest sister Jane dies at age twenty-five

 

May 1766 

Travels to New York, stopping at Annapolis and Philadelphia en route

February 12, 1767 

Receives first legal fee after handling case in General Court of Virginia

 

May 18, 1768 

Begins to clear land for construction of Monticello

 

April 3, 1769 

Accedes to House of Burgesses as representative of Albermarle County, like his father before him

 

May 17, 1769 

The Baron de Botetourt dissolves the House of Burgesses after growing dissent against royal policies

 

Summer 1769 

Begins to focus reading more exclusively on theories of government

 

February 1, 1770 

Shadwell estate burns, destroying most of Jefferson's documents and possessions

 

November 26, 1771 

Moves into temporary quarters at Monticello while new estate is completed

January 1, 1772 

Marries Martha Wayles Skelton

 

September 27, 1772 

Eldest daughter Martha Washington Jefferson born at Monticello

 

March 12, 1773 

Earl of Dunmore dissolves the House of Burgesses after Jefferson calls for more autonomous rule

 

May 16, 1773 

Dabney Carr dies, leaving six children to the Jefferson family

May 30, 1773 

John Wayles dies, leaving Jefferson considerable debts, lands, and slaves

 

October 1773 

Jefferson appointed surveyor of Albermarle County

 

April 3, 1774 

Second daughter Jane Randolph Jefferson born at Monticello

 

May 26, 1774 

Earl of Dunmore dissolves House of Burgesses again after further rumblings of protest against colonial rule

 

June 1, 1774 

Day of fasting proclaimed throughout Virginia in protest over the terms of the Boston Port Act

 

July 26, 1774 

Jefferson drafts Albermarle Resolutions, specifying format for First Virginia Convention

 

August 1774 

Jefferson publishes A Summary View of the Rights of British America

 

March 23, 1775 

Patrick Henry delivers "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death" speech at Second Virginia Convention

 

March 29 1775 

Named alternate to Second Continental Congress

 

April 19, 1775 

Revolutionary War begins with Battles of Lexington and Concord

 

June 8, 1775 

Earl of Dunmore flees Virginia, throwing British rule there into question

 

June 11, 1775 

Jefferson leaves Willamsburg for Philadelphia to attend Second Continental Congress

 

June 21, 1775 

Attends first session of Second Continental Congress

 

June 26, 1775 

Contributes to adopted resolution "An Address on the Causes of Taking Up Arms"

 

August 1775 

Congress adjourns; Jefferson returns to Virginia to attend convention there

 

August 23, 1775 

King George III declares colonies to be in open rebellion against Great Britain

 

September 1775 

Second daughter Jane Randolph Jefferson dies at age three

 

September 26, 1775 

Appointed commander of Albermarle militia

 

September 30, 1775 

Returns to Philadelphia for re-adjournment of Second Continental Congress

 

Autumn 1775 

Loyalist raids on Virginia organized by Earl of Dunmore begin

 

January 20, 1776 

Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense

 

March 31, 1776

Mother Jane Randolph Jefferson dies at age fifty-seven

 

May 14, 1776
Returns to Philadelphia after five-month absence

 

May 15, 1776 
Congress resolves to form its own government

 

May 27, 1776 

Jefferson begins drafting a constitution for the state of Virginia

 

June 7, 1776 

Richard Henry Lee introduces resolution to declare independence and form a confederation with foreign alliances

 

June 11, 1776 

Jefferson appointed to committee to prepare Declaration of Independence

 

June 20, 1776 

Jefferson appointed to another year's term in Congress

 

June 28, 1776

Declaration of Independence presented to Congress

 

June 29, 1776 

Virginia Convention accepts constitution and forms first state government

July 2, 1776 

Congress approves resolution to declare independence

 

July 4, 1776
Congress accepts Declaration of Independence

 

September 2, 1776

Jefferson resigns from Congress due to wife's illness

 

September 30, 1776

Appointed to negotiate diplomatic treaties with France but declines due to wife's illness

 

November 5, 1776

Appointed to revise Virginia's existing laws in committee

 

May 20, 1776 
Leaves Virginia Assembly due to wife's illness

 

May 28, 1776

Eldest son born unnamed and dies two weeks later

 

October 30, 1776

Returns to Virginia Assembly

 

August 1, 1778

Third daughter Maria Jefferson born

 

February 1779

Together with James Madison, Edmund Pendleton and George Wythe, Jefferson finishes revisions of Virginia laws

 

June 1, 1779 

Jefferson elected governor of Virginia

 

June 1780

Befriends young James Monroe

 

November 3, 1780 

Fourth daughter Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson born

 

December 1780

Virginia Assembly votes to cede northwestern holdings to United States

 

January 5, 1781

Capture of Benedict Arnold at Richmond

 

April 15, 1781

Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson dies in infancy

 

June 2, 1781 

Second term as governor ends, Jefferson steps down from office

 

June 4, 1781

Narrowly escapes capture when British cavalry arrives at Monticello moments after his departure

 

June 1781

Lord Cornwallis occupies and lays waste to one of Jefferson's plantations

 

June 30, 1781 

Jefferson falls from a horse and is incapacitated for six weeks

 

October 19, 1781

Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown brings end to fighting in Revolutionary War

 

December 19, 1781 

Investigative committee in Virginia Assembly brings charges against Jefferson's record as governor; all accusations defeated and Jefferson cleared; Jefferson announces intention to retire from public life

 

May 8, 1782 

Fifth daughter, also named Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson, born

 

September 6, 1782

Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson dies at age thirty-three

 

November 12, 1782

Appointed peace commissioner to help negotiate Treaty of Paris

 

December 19, 1782 

Leaves Monticello for Philadelphia in preparation to travel for England; trip later aborted after delayed and then deemed unnecessary

 

June 6, 1783

Jefferson elected to Congress

 

September 3, 1783

Treaty of Paris signed between America and England, officially ending Revolutionary War

 

March 12, 1784

Elected chairman of Congress and effective head of United States Government

 

April 1784

Writes Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit and Coinage for the United States

 

May 7, 1784 

Appointed to serve as foreign minister based in Paris

 

May-June 1784
Tours New England with daughter Martha

 

June-August 1784

Sails for Paris with daughter Martha

 

August 6, 1784

Arrives in Paris

 

November 17, 1784

Youngest daughter, the second Lucy Elizabeth, dies

 

March 10, 1785

Jefferson appointed chief minister to France

 

January 16, 1786 

Virginia Assembly adopts Jefferson's Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom

 

March 1, 1786 

Jefferson and John Adams make unsuccessful attempt to negotiate trade treaties with England

 

February-June 1787 

Makes tour of southern France and northern Italy

 

July 29, 1787

Other remaining daughter, Maria, joins Jefferson and daughter Martha in Paris

 

October 12, 1787 

Re-elected minister to France for a three-year term

 

July 2, 1788

The Constitution of the United States is declared ratified

 

April 30, 1789

George Washington and John Adams inaugurated President and Vice President, respectively, in New York

 

July 14, 1789

Bastille Day; French Revolution begins

 

September 26, 1789

Appointed Secretary of State

 

October 22, 1789 
Jefferson departs from Paris for a leave of absence in the United States

 

November 23, 1789 

Docks at Norfolk, Virginia and learns of his appointment as Secretary of State

 

February 23, 1790

Daughter Martha married to Thomas Mann Randolph in ceremony at Monticello

 

March 22, 1790 

Sworn in as Secretary of State in New York

 

July 16, 1790

With Jefferson's encouragement per the Assumption Plan, President Washington arranges for shift of national capital from New York via Philadelphia to present-day Washington, D.C.

 

February 1791

Debates constitutionality of National Bank with Alexander Hamilton

 

May 1791

Makes tour of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont to drum up political support

 

December 15, 1791

Bill of Rights adopted

August 26, 1792

Washington writes Jefferson and Hamilton in an attempt to reconcile their differences

 

September 9, 1792 

Jefferson announces plan to retire at the end of Washington's first term

 

October 1, 1792

Jefferson visits Washington at Mount Vernon

 

October 20, 1792

Washington places control of U.S. mint under Jefferson

 

January 21, 1793

King Louis XVI executed by guillotine

 

March 4, 1793

Washington and Adams re-inaugurated

 

April 19, 1793

Jefferson urges that United States maintain alliance with France in the course of various European wars

 

December 31, 1793 

Jefferson formally resigns his position as Secretary of State

 

January 5, 1794
Returns from Philadelphia to Monticello

 

January 31, 1795

Hamilton resigns as Secretary of Treasury

 

February 1796 

Jefferson's campaign for President launched by Democratic-Republican supporters including James Madison

 

September 19, 1796

Washington's Farewell Address reprinted

 

February 9, 1797 

Loses presidential election narrowly to Adams; named Vice President

 

March 4, 1797

Adams and Jefferson inaugurated at Philadelphia

 

March 10, 1797
Named president of American Philosophical Society

 

October 13, 1797 

Youngest daughter Maria married to John Wayles Eppes in ceremony at Monticello

 

December 12, 1797

Returns to Philadelphia after five month absence to preside over Senate

 

January 8, 1798

Eleventh Amendment ratified

 

April 1798 

XYZ Affair erupts

 

April 1798

Jefferson correctly suspects Federalists of tampering with his mail

 

June 25, 1798

Congress passes Alien Act, giving President Adams power to deport any threatening alien

 

June-December 1798

Jefferson returns to Monticello for summer and autumn

 

July 7, 1798

Congress repeals 1778 alliance with France

 

July 14, 1798

Congress passes Sedition Act, calling for imprisonment of all dissidents

 

August 1798

Protests held across country against Alien and Sedition Acts

 

September 1798

Jefferson secretly drafts Kentucky Resolutions in protest of Alien and Sedition Acts

 

November 16, 1798

Kentucky legislature passes Jefferson's resolutions

 

December 21, 1798

Madison's more moderate Virginia Resolutions, also in protest of the Alien and Sedition Acts, passed by Virginia Assembly

 

March-December 1799

Jefferson spends nine months at Monticello though continuing in role as Vice President

 

December 14, 1799
Washington dies at Mount Vernon

 

May 11, 1800 

Democratic-Republican caucus establishes first national platform and nominates Jefferson and Aaron Burr for President and Vice President, respectively

 

May-November 1800

Returns to Monticello

 

June 30, 1800

Rumors of Jefferson's death spread after false report by Baltimore newspaper

 

September 30, 1800
Convention of 1800 signed in Paris diffuses military tension with France

 

November 27, 1800

Arrives in new capital at Washington, D.C. for first time

 

December 28, 1800 

Electoral returns reveal a tie between Burr and Jefferson

 

January 31, 1801

John Marshall named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

 

February 11, 1801

House of Representatives convenes to break tie between Burr and Jefferson

 

February 17, 1801 

Jefferson named President on thirty-sixth ballot

 

March 4, 1801 

Jefferson and Burr inaugurated at Washington

 

May 14, 1801

Tripoli declares war on the United States

 

December 8, 1801

Submits first annual message to Congress

 

February 6, 1802
Congress declares war on Tripoli

 

April 6, 1802

All internal taxes abolished

 

May 2, 1802

U.S. Patent Office organized

 

July 4, 1802

U.S. Military Academy opens in West Point, New York

 

August 1802

Morocco declares war on the United States

 

November 3, 1802

Jefferson meets with Chief Handsome Lake to discuss native policy

 

February 24, 1803

Supreme Court establishes judicial review in Marbury v Madison

 

April 30, 1803 

Robert Livingston and James Monroe secure the purchase of the Louisiana Territory for the United States from France

 

December 12, 1803

Twelfth Amendment proposed to the several states

 

December 20, 1803

The United States takes formal possession of the Louisiana Territory

 

February 25, 1804

Jefferson re-nominated for President

 

April 17, 1804
Maria Jefferson dies at Monticello

 

May 14, 1804
Lewis and Clark begin their exploration of the Louisiana Territory

 

July 11, 1804

Vice President Burr fatally wounds Alexander Hamilton in a duel

 

November 1804

Jefferson re-elected by the several states with George Clinton as new vice presidential candidate

 

March 4, 1805

Re-inaugurated at Washington with Clinton

 

June 4, 1805

Peace treaty with Tripoli signed; treaty with Morocco shortly thereafter ends Barbary Wars

January 17, 1806 

Jefferson's grandson, James Madison Randolph, born at the White House

March 29, 1806 

Congress authorizes construction of Cumberland Road to Ohio

 

April 15, 1806 

Non-Importation Act prohibits traffic with British manufactures effective 

 

September 23, 1806

Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after reaching the Pacific coast

 

November 25, 1806

In response to a coup plot by Burr, Jefferson declares martial law in New Orleans

 

December 6, 1806

Non-Importation Act against Britain delayed; enacted six months later

 

February 1807

Burr captured while traveling in disguise in Alabama

July 2, 1807 

Jefferson bans British ships from American waters after a series of impressments and seizures

 

October 20, 1807

Burr flees to Europe after being acquitted of treason and misdemeanor charges by Chief Justice John Marshall

 

December 22, 1807 

Jefferson signs Embargo Act, declaring American neutrality and non- engagement in foreign trade

 

January 1, 1808 

The importation of slaves to the United States prohibited by law

 

January 23, 1808 

Madison nominated to run for President; Clinton re-nominated for Vice President

 

March 3, 1809

In last executive action, Jefferson repeals Embargo and Non-Importation Acts

 

March 4, 1809

Embargo Act repealed; Madison and Clinton inaugurated at Washington

 

March 11, 1809 

Jefferson leaves Washington for the final time

 

June 18, 1812

Congress declares war on Great Britain

 

August 1812

Jefferson declines suggestions that he run for President again or become Madison's Secretary of State

 

November 1812

Madison re-elected President with Elbridge Gerry as Vice President

 

August 25, 1814

States views on slavery in letter to Edward Coles

 

September 21, 1814

Jefferson sells thousands of volumes from his personal library to the Library of Congress

 

December 24, 1814

Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812

 

November 1816

James Monroe elected President with Daniel Tompkins as Vice President

 

January 1819

Virginia Assembly passes bill providing for establishment of University of Virginia

 

March 29, 1819 

Jefferson appointed rector, chief executive of the University of Virginia

 

November 1820

Monroe and Tompkins re-elected

 

October 24, 1823 

Jefferson writes to Monroe with ideas that are eventually incorporated in the Monroe Doctrine

 

November 1824

John Quincy Adams elected President with John C. Calhoun as Vice President

 

April 1, 1825

University of Virginia officially opens

 

January 20, 1826

Jefferson requests special dispensation from Virginia Assembly to sell his property by lottery in order to pay off significant debts

 

March 16, 1826

Jefferson writes his will, providing for manumission of five slaves, including Eston and Madison Hemings

 

July 4, 1826

Dies at Monticello at the age of eighty-three, on the same day as John Adams

 

January 27, 1827 

Jefferson's belongings sold by auction at Monticello 

 

Early Life:

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743[1] into a family closely related to some of the most prominent individuals in Virginia, the third of eight children. His mother was Jane Randolph, daughter of Isham Randolph, a ship's captain and sometime planter, and first cousin to Peyton Randolph. Jefferson's father was Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor in Albemarle County (Shadwell, then Edge Hill, Virginia.) He was of Welsh descent. When Colonel William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, Peter assumed executorship and personal charge of William Randolph's estate in Tuckahoe as well as his infant son, Thomas Mann Randolph. That same year the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe where they would remain for the next seven years before returning to their home in Albemarle whereupon Peter Jefferson was appointed to the Colonelcy of the county, a very important position at the time.

 

In 1752, Jefferson began attending a local school run by William Douglas, a Scottish minister. At the age of nine, Jefferson began studying Latin, Greek, and French. In 1757, when he was 14 years old, his father died. Jefferson inherited about 5,000 acres (20 km˛) of land and dozens of slaves. He built his home there, which eventually became known as Monticello.

After his father's death, he was taught at the school of the learned minister James Maury from 1758 to 1760. The school was in Fredericksville Parish near Gordonsville, Virginia, twelve miles (19 km) from Shadwell, and Jefferson boarded with Maury's family. There he received a classical education and studied history and science.

In 1760 Jefferson entered The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg at the age of 16; he studied there for two years, graduating with highest honors in 1762. At William & Mary, he enrolled in the philosophy school and studied mathematics, metaphysics, and philosophy under Professor William Small, who introduced the enthusiastic Jefferson to the writings of the British Empiricists, including John Locke, Francis Bacon, and Isaac Newton (Jefferson called them the "three greatest men the world had ever produced"). He also perfected his French, carried his Greek grammar book wherever he went, practiced the violin, and read Tacitus and Homer. A keen and diligent student, Jefferson displayed an avid curiosity in all fields and, according to the family tradition, frequently studied fifteen hours a day. His closest college friend, John Page of Rosewell, reported that Jefferson "could tear himself away from his dearest friends to fly to his studies."

While in college, Jefferson was a member of a secret organization called the Flat Hat Club, now the namesake of the William & Mary student newspaper. He lodged and boarded at the College in the building known today as the Sir Christopher Wren Building, attending communal meals in the Great Hall, and morning and evening prayers in the Wren Chapel. Jefferson often attended the lavish parties of royal governor Francis Fauquier, where he played his violin and developed an early love for wines. After graduating in 1762 with highest honors, he studied law with George Wythe and was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1767.

 

Wife Background:

Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, born Martha Wayles (October 30 [O.S. October 19] 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson, who was the third President of the United States. She never became First Lady of the United States because she died long before her husband was elected to the presidency.

 

Martha (Patty) was born to John Wayles (1715 - 1773) and his first wife Martha Eppes (1712 - 1748), wealthy plantation owners in Charles City County, Virginia 

Her father was born in Lancaster, England and emigrated alone to Virginia in 1734, at the age of nineteen, leaving family in England. He was a lawyer. Martha's mother was a daughter of Francis Eppes of Bermuda Hundred and was a widow when Wayles married her. As part of her dowry, Patty's mother brought with her a personal slave, Susanna, who had an eleven year old daughter by the name of Elizabeth Hemings (Betty). Their marriage contract stipulated that mother and child were to remain the property of Patsy Eppes and her heirs forever or be returned to the Eppes family should there be no heirs. This is how the Hemingses came into the custody of Martha Wayles. Patsy Eppes Wayles died when Patty was three weeks old. Patty's father remarried Mary Cocke of Malvern Hill and had her half-sister Elizabeth, who married Patty's cousin and became the mother of John Wayles Eppes. After the death of his third wife, John Wayles took up with the slave Betty and had several children, the famed Sally Hemings as well.

Patty first married Bathurst Skelton (1744-1768) and had one son, John Wayles Skelton (1767-1771). Bathurst Skelton died in September of 1768 in Williamsburg, Virginia after an accident. Her son, John, died suddenly of a fever on June 10, 1771, when Patty was already engaged to Jefferson.

She married her distant cousin Thomas Jefferson on January 1, 1772 at her father's house, the Forest. They had six children: Martha (Martha Jefferson Randolph, Patsy) (1772-1836), Jane Randolph (1774-1775), an unnamed son (b./d. 1777), Mary (Maria Jefferson Eppes, Polly) (1778-1804), Lucy Elizabeth (1780-1781), and Lucy Elizabeth (1782-1785).

Patty was in frail health for much of her marriage. She is believed to have suffered from diabetes, the cause of her childbearing problems. In the famous summer of 1776 she had suffered a miscarriage and was very ill, thus Jefferson's desperation to get out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as soon as possible.

Patty Jefferson was, according to her daughter and to eyewitness accounts (the French delegation), musical and highly educated, a constant reader, with the greatest fund of good nature, a vivacious temper which might sometimes border on tartness but which was completely subdued with her husband by her affection for him. She was a little over five feet tall, with a lithe figure, luxuriant auburn hair and hazel eyes. She played the keyboard and the guitar, and was an accomplished needlewoman. Her music book and several examples of her embroidery survive. It was she who instituted the brewing of beer at Monticello, which continued until her husband's death. She was much beloved by her neighbours, and a great patriot, raising funds for the cause before and after her tenure as First Lady of Virginia.

 

When she died, after the birth of her sixth child with Thomas, Jefferson was distraught and for years suffered from deep depression. No miniature of her survives, although there is a silhouette and sketches of her daughter Maria Eppes, who resembled her mother. Other portraits, reputed to be of her, are of her daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph

 

Father Background:

Peter Jefferson was the son of Thomas Jefferson I (1679-1731) and Mary Field (1680-1715). Jefferson was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the third son and fourth child of six children. He did not receive any formal education while young, but according to his famous son, he nevertheless "read much and improved himself." In 1734, Jefferson claimed the land in present-day Albemarle County which he eventually named Shadwell. He married Jane Randolph in 1739 (daughter of Isham Randolph and granddaughter of William Randolph). For a year or two following his marriage, his residence was in present-day Powhatan County Virginia near Fine Creek. Jefferson built a house on the Shadwell tract in 1741 or 1742, and moved there sometime before Thomas Jefferson was born.

He was made one of the first officers of Albemarle County in 1745. Later in that same year, he was made guardian over the children of William Randolph, his wife's cousin who had recently died. He and his family moved to Tuckahoe in Goochland County, where Thomas Jefferson first attended school. In 1749, Peter Jefferson, along with Joshua Fry, Thomas Walker, Edmund Pendleton and others, established the Loyal Land Company, and were granted 800,000 acres (3,200 km˛) in present-day Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky.
Peter Jefferson was a cartographer and surveyor who, along with Fry, completed the survey of the Virginia-North Carolina border, begun by William Byrd II some time earlier. The detailed Fry-Jefferson Map, cited by his son Thomas in Notes on the State of Virginia, was produced by him and Fry.

The Jefferson family moved back to Shadwell in 1752.

Peter Jefferson died at his house on the Shadwell tract in Albemarle County. It burned down in 1770. The area around his house is being studied, but his burial location is unknown.

 

Mother Background:

Jane Randolph Jefferson (1720-1776) was the wife of Peter Jefferson, cousin of Peyton Randolph, daughter of Isham Randolph, and the mother of Thomas Jefferson.

Randolph was born in the Tower Hamlets of Shadwell, a maritime neighborhood of London. Her family moved to Virginia when she was young, though it is unclear from available sources whether she immediately accompanied them or joined them later.

 
 
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