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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.
Sally Hemings (her given name was probably Sarah) was born in 1773; she was the daughter of Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings, and her father was allegedly John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson’s father-in-law.
children: Martha Jefferson (1826–1915) Thomas Jefferson (1828–1890) Hore Browse (1832–1896)
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...
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.
President Thomas Jefferson had six children with his wife, Martha. The eldest, Martha, and the fourth born, Mary, were the only two Jefferson children that survived to adulthood. Thomas Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton on January 1, 1772.
Education and early family life. Jefferson began his education together with the Randolph children at Tuckahoe under tutors. [15] . Thomas' father Peter, who was self-taught and regretted not having a formal education, entered Thomas into an English school at age five.