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Despite those public comments, strong evidence has led historians to conclude that Jefferson had a longstanding relationship with an enslaved woman named Sally Hemings, and the two had as many...
Thomas and Martha Jefferson's Children. Thomas and Martha had five daughters and a son. Of the six, only two would live to be adults: Martha, the first-born, and Mary, who went by Polly when she was young. The youngest child, Lucy, succumbed to whooping cough at the age of two. The other children did not survive past infancy.
They had six children. Skelton died after 10 years of marriage, and Jefferson never remarried. (See a letter that Jefferson wrote to his daughter Martha [called Patsy] in 1783.) However, Jefferson maintained a long-term relationship with Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman owned by Jefferson.
Today TJF and most historians believe that, years after his wife’s death, Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.
Thomas was their third child and eldest son; he had six sisters and one surviving brother. Did you know? In 1815, Jefferson sold his 6,700-volume personal library to Congress for $23,950 to...
Jefferson freed all four surviving Hemings children (in accordance with the terms of his negotiation with Sally Hemings, as reported by her son Madison). He did not grant freedom to any other enslaved nuclear family.
Find out more on Thomas Jefferson's ancestors, siblings, and descendants, including the twelve children he fathered with Martha W. S. Jefferson and Sally Hemings.
Sally Hemings was an enslaved African American woman who’s believed to have had several children with one-time U.S. president Thomas Jefferson.
Ten years later [referring to its 2000 report], [the Thomas Jefferson Foundation] and most historians now believe that, years after his wife's death, Thomas Jefferson was the father of the six children of Sally Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston Hemings.
The birth dates of six children of Sally Hemings were recorded by Thomas Jefferson in his letters and records. Descendants of Madison Hemings and Eston Hemings are known. The evidence is mixed for a son who may have been born to Hemings when she returned from Paris.