and half-sister of Martha Jefferson. Wayles was born in the city of Lancaster on January 31, 1715. The young Wayles likely became aware of the burgeoning...
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John Wayles Eppes (April 1772 – September 13, 1823) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives...
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Martha Jefferson (redirect from Martha Wayles Skelton)
Martha Wayles was born on October 30, 1748 (O.S. October 19, 1748), the only surviving child born to Martha Eppes Wayles (1721–1748) and John Wayles (1715–1773)...
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John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil...
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Betty Hemings (section John Wayles)
at Monticello. Betty's owner, John Wayles, was widowed three times. In 1761, after the death of his third wife, Wayles and Betty began a relationship...
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marriage to Wayles. Wayles was born to Edward and Ellen (née Ashburner) Wayles, in Lancaster, England. Following Martha's death, Wayles remarried and...
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Betty Hemings and John Wayles (Jefferson's father-in-law), she and her siblings were half-siblings to Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles and were three-quarters...
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Jefferson. Martha, Sally, and James shared John Wayles as a father. It was said[citation needed] that Wayles had taken James's mother Betty Hemings, who...
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John Jefferson may refer to: Joseph John Jefferson (1795–1882), English Congregationalist minister and Christian pacifist John Wayles Jefferson (1835–1892)...
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Father and statesman John Wayles Jefferson (1835–1892), American businessman John Sackville Labatt (1880–1952), Canadian businessman John McAfee, (1945–2021)...
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Harvard University Press Jefferson, Thomas (December 25, 1809). "Letter to John Wayles Eppes". Founders Online. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. PBS's...
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Francis W. Eppes (redirect from Francis Wayles Eppes)
trustees for eight years. Francis Wayles Eppes was born in 1801, the second child of Maria (née Jefferson) and John Wayles Eppes, who would serve in the Virginia...
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by John Wayles. After the death of Wayles in 1773, Elizabeth, Mary, and her family were inherited by Thomas Jefferson, the husband of Martha Wayles Skelton...
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daughters stayed at Eppington with their aunt and uncle, Elizabeth Wayles Eppes and Francis Wayles Eppes, who was her mother's cousin. Between December 1782 and...
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she worked for the Wayles. Elizabeth Hemings lived as a house servant. Historians think that Elizabeth Hemings' job with the Wayles family was to help...
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Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson had inherited Sally Hemings, her mother Betty Hemings and ten siblings from the estate of her father John Wayles, along...
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civic leader Henry Eppes (1830/31–1903), African American politician John Wayles Eppes (1772–1823), American lawyer and politician Mary Jefferson Eppes...
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Charles and Landon Carter, as well as his mother. In 1735, she remarried to John Lewis of Warner Hall in Gloucester County. Although his uncles had been sent...
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inherited by Martha Wayles Skelton, the wife of Thomas Jefferson. Sally and Martha were half-sisters, both fathered by the planter John Wayles. Sally worked...
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interracial families and financial burden. As a widower, his father-in-law John Wayles had taken his mixed-race slave Betty Hemings as a concubine and had six...
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Randolph. Her maternal grandparents were John Wayles (1715–1773) and his first wife, Martha Eppes (1712–1748). Wayles was an attorney, slave trader, business...
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Jefferson gave Isaac and his family to his daughter Maria and her husband John Wayles Eppes in 1797 as a wedding gift, Isaac Jefferson/Granger appeared to...
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child of a shadow family. Historians believe her father to have been John Wayles, Jefferson's father-in-law, who as a widower had a 12-year liaison with...
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(1768–1828) (see above) Mary Jefferson (1778–1804), ∞ 1797 : John Wayles Eppes (1773–1823) Francis Wayles Eppes VII (1801–1881), ∞ 1822 : Mary Elizabeth Cleland...
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Wayles did not live on the property due to his career as an attorney and businessman in Charles City County, Virginia. Wayles' daughter Martha Wayles...
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Jefferson's household slaves were possibly children of his father-in-law John Wayles and the enslaved woman Betty Hemings, who Jefferson's wife inherited...
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entrepreneurs and philanthropists as Andrew Carnegie, William Howard Taft, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, Julius Rosenwald...
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by historians to be a half sister of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson by their common father John Wayles. Hemings is known for having four surviving children...
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Betty's children and half-brother to her six children by her enslaver John Wayles, including Sally Hemings, as well as to the oldest four by an unknown...
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Travis farm where Turner was enslaved. However, in February 1831, Reese's son John used Turner's son as collateral for a family debt. One historian notes that...
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