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      Shadwell, Virginia - Wikipedia
      • Peter Jefferson, the father of President Thomas Jefferson established and named the Shadwell plantation in the mid-18th century.
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      Shadwell, Virginia - Wikipedia

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  3. www.monticello.org › shadwellShadwell | Monticello

    Shadwell was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, and the main plantation of his father, Peter Jefferson. Located in Albemarle County, Virginia, it was named after the parish in London where Jane Randolph Jefferson was born.

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  4. www.monticello.org › thomas-jefferson › briefThomas Jefferson - Biography, Legacies, & Facts | Monticello

    Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, on his father’s plantation of Shadwell located along the Rivanna River in the Piedmont region of central Virginia at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. 1 His father Peter Jefferson was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother Jane Randolph a member of one of Virginia’s most distinguished ...

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  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Shadwell,_VirginiaShadwell, Virginia - Wikipedia

    Peter Jefferson, the father of President Thomas Jefferson established and named the Shadwell plantation in the mid-18th century. Four generations of the Jefferson family lived at Shadwell. Initially, it was a plantation worked by enslaved and free people and grew tobacco, grain, and clover.

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  7. www.hmdb.org › mShadwell, Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson Historical Marker

    Mar 8, 2009 · His father, Peter Jefferson (1708–1757), a surveyor, planter, and officeholder, began acquiring land in this frontier region in the mid-1730s and had purchased the Shadwell tract by 1741. Peter Jefferson built a house soon after, and the Shadwell plantation became a thriving agricultural estate.

  8. www.loc.gov › collections › thomas-jefferson-papers1743 to 1774 | The Thomas Jefferson Papers Timeline: 1743 to ...

    Thomas Jefferson is born at Shadwell plantation in Goochland (later Albemarle) County, Virginia, to Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor, and Jane Randolph, daughter of a prominent Virginia family. *April 2 by the Old (Julian) Calendar, April 13 by the New (Gregorian) Calendar.

  9. hamiltonhistoricalrecords.wordpress.com › 2019 › 04The Shadwell Plantation – The Birthplace Of Thomas Jefferson ...

    Apr 1, 2019 · On April 13, 1743 the third United States President Thomas Jefferson was born in the Shadwell Plantation; that his father Peter Jefferson built in Albemarle County, Virginia. In 1770, five years before the start of the American Revolution, Jefferson moved into Monticello after the Shadwell Plantation burnt down.

  10. www.history.com › topics › landmarksMonticello - HISTORY

    Aug 13, 2010 · Born on April 13, 1743, Thomas Jefferson grew up at Shadwell, one of the largest tobacco plantations in Virginia. At the age of 21, he inherited several thousand acres of land that...