MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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9
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Detailed explanation-1: -Of their six children, only two-Martha and Mary (later Maria)-survived to adulthood. The elder Martha Jefferson died a few months after giving birth in 1782, and Jefferson’s daughters, and later his grandchildren, became the focus of his domestic life.
Detailed explanation-2: -Years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson fathered at least six of Sally Hemings’s children. Four survived to adulthood and are mentioned in Jefferson’s plantation records: Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was the third of ten children, which means he had nine siblings. Two of his siblings passed away when they were babies, which was unfortunately common in those days. Thomas Jefferson had two older sisters, Jane and Mary. Four younger sisters, Elizabeth who passed at a young age, Martha, Lucy and Anna.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.