MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Jeffersons had six children, but only Martha (called Patsy) and Maria (baptized Mary but called Polly) survived past early childhood. Two daughters and a son died in infancy, and Lucy, their last child, died of whooping cough at age 2.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sally Hemings had at least six children fathered by Thomas Jefferson. Four survived to adulthood.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -While Monticello was undergoing construction and Thomas was away, Martha often stayed at the Elk Hill plantation. They had six children, but only two daughters reached adulthood. An unnamed son, Jane Randolph, and Lucy Elizabeth, who died of whooping cough, died as infants.