USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Of the Jeffersons’ six children-five daughters and one son-two died in infancy and only two daughters, Martha and Mary (called Patsy and Polly by the family), survived to adulthood. Their last child, Lucy Elizabeth, died of whooping cough in October 1784.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jefferson fathered two daughters-Martha and Maria Jefferson-with Martha Wayles Jefferson. He had another daughter, Harriet Hemings-conceived with Monticello slave Sally Hemings after his wife’s death-whom he never publicly acknowledged as his child.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -He had three brothers all younger than himself, Peter and Randolph and an unnamed baby boy who passed before their first birthday. Thomas Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton; she was widowed before marrying Thomas Jefferson and had one son who sadly passed away at the age of three.