MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Question
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how many brothers and sisters did Thomas Jefferson have?
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9
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5
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3
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1
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson was raised at Shadwell, his father’s Albemarle County plantation, with nine siblings.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sally Hemings had at least six children fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Four survived to adulthood. Decades after their negotiation, Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings’s children – Beverly and Harriet left Monticello in the early 1820s; Madison and Eston were freed in his will and left Monticello in 1826.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles Skelton were married in 1772. They were the parents of two daughters, Martha and Mary (Maria) Jefferson; other children were born, but they did not live to be adults.
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