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2 days ago · Who was Thomas Jefferson’s, First Lady? His wife had died twenty years prior to him becoming president. In fact, his eldest daughter, Martha, filled in the F...
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Jun 25, 2024 · The best guess is his younger brother Randolph, who was documented in “Memoirs of a Monticello Slave” to have spent his nights at Monticello playing his fiddle and “dancing half the night” with his brother’s slaves and is alleged to have fathered children by other slaves.
6 days ago · Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772-1836) Tenure: 1801-1809. The daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Randolph managed the household and enslaved workers, both at the Monticello plantation and at her...
3 days ago · The ghost seen by a former Tuckahoe employee, as related by Roan, is one of Jefferson’s orphaned second cousins, Mary Randolph, grandmother of John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the United...
4 days ago · According to three witnesses, his doctor Robley Dunglison, his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph, and the husband of one of his granddaughters, Nicholas Trist, Jefferson was concerned about the date.
5 days ago · Thomas and Martha Jefferson had six children together, but only two survived into adulthood: Martha, their firstborn, and Mary, their fourth, who went by the name “Maria.”
1 day ago · On April 14, 1865, just five days after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, he was attending a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Mary, when he was fatally shot by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.
