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Elizabeth Hemings lived at the Eppes family's house, which was called Bermuda Hundred, until 1746. That year, Martha Eppes married John Wayles. Elizabeth and other enslaved people went with Martha to Wayles's house as part of her marriage settlement. Technically, the Eppes family owned Elizabeth Hemings even when she worked for the Wayles. [2]
In 1784, Thomas Jefferson took James Hemings with him when he went to Paris as Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Versailles, [4] as he wanted the young man, then 19, trained as a chef. While they were in France, Jefferson paid Hemings a wage of four dollars per month, and though it was a steady wage, it was less than Jefferson had paid ...
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Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Jefferson Medallion Portrait, 1805, the year that Madison Hemings was born. Madison Hemings was born into slavery at Monticello, [4] where his mother Sally Hemings was a mixed-race enslaved woman inherited by Martha Wayles Skelton, the wife of Thomas Jefferson.
The surname Henning was originally found in East Prussia.It is derived from "Henneke", which is a diminutive of Johannes.The Low German suffix -ing means "son of". [1] The name is indigenous to the North German areas Mecklenburg, Hannover, Hamburg, Holstein and Pommern; especially the towns Stralsund and Greifswald, in Mecklenburg, near the Baltic Sea is well known as places where the name ...
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William Waller Hening (1768–1828) was a 19th-century attorney, legal scholar, publisher and politician during the formative years of the United States. [1] He was a contemporary of many founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson , John Marshall and James Monroe .
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