RR9924/C JEFFERSON: REUNION 

Racist!

But then. Why would any proud Black American want to be any part of this sort of a heritage by hook or crook ?

@@davidsondaini3999 maybe it is more about history and truth, than emotions and lies to the blacks, but while the whites who don't wanna accept them are still prefering emotions and lies, same like you seem to do.

Ain't no colored folk in my family !

@@kennyholeater2494 😱I feel so, so sorry for you! You poor unfortunate soul! 😅😜

Well should they dig up Jefferson and Eston is what you want? even if they did and proved, you nay sayers will say it was only Eston. We do not know where Madison is buried anymore, as his grave had no marker. Harriet and Beverly became "white," they (which under Virginia law legally they were white) married white people. They must have changed their names as genealogists have no idea where they went. they can't be traced by census records so they must have changed their names.

Eston was shown to be in the Jefferson male line by Y DNA. You are thinking of Thomas Woodson who had 5 lines of descendants who had the same story that he was Jefferson's son according to the Monticello association. Interestingly on myheritage website there is a family tree of descendants of Thomas Woodson all white BTW. They claim he was born in 1784 to Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles Jefferson. That is not possible because she died in 1782 besides the fact he did not use the Jefferson last name. In doing more research I discovered there was a Mary Hemmings, Sally's half sister through their mother born around 1753ish, so about twenty years older than Sally. Mary's father was not Wayles, Elizabeth only became his concubine after he was a widower from his first wife. Elizabeth Hemmings had children with a slave man before she was Wayle's concubine and another child with a white man (Monticello overseer) after Wayle's death. Six of her 12 children were Wayles's. Mary Hemmings had a daughter in 1783 that she claimed was Thomas Jefferson's. In 1782 she had a son by another white man employed by Monticello and she gave him his last name. Some believe he was Jefferson's son too because Jefferson freed him in his will, but for him to carry this man's last name means this man openly recognized him as his. Otherwise he would have been called Hemmings. I think Thomas Woodson was Mary's son. Perhaps there was a possibly he was Jefferson's but since Mary had had a child carrying another man's last name it could be questionable. Sally appeared monogamous in her child bearing years. she never had a child when Jefferson had not been around 9 months before. The only report of her being with another man was given by the overseer hired when her youngest child, Eston was 6 or 8 years old. She would have been her early 40's and Jefferson in his early 70's. No Viagra back then you know, so I could see her possibly taking another partner if he was no longer interested and she was still in her prime. However, if she did, we know there were no more children.

if the secret passage directly connected his room to a female servant yes you have to wonder. Of course we know secret passages were in many homes for many reasons. ) illicit affairs 2) underground railroad for helping slaves to escape 3) during the Tudor times in England they were used to hide catholic priests and 4) used by smugglers to hide transport of goods to evade being taxed. but if the passages only connect their 2 bedrooms it would be to hide their affair, otherwise it woudl have connected his room to his valet's room, not Sally.

No one is arguing with you on that. We all know it is only the Y DNA line proved. It just does not make sense the Carr brothers were blamed by the Randolph grandchildren instead of their Uncle Jefferson. That is the issue for over 150 years historians believed his grandchildren were telling the truth and they weren't. If they had named his brother instead few would be even wondering today.

That theory has been debunked by serious historians. Even Monticello acknowledges they had six children together.

So dumb, their appearance would prove that!!

Not true. Jefferson was away much of the time. When he was not there, no children were conceived by Sally. When Jefferson was around, Sally conceived.

Carli, 3 of the 4 of Sally's children who lived to adulthood passed as white. that means their fathers were white men not field hands at least for those 3. Light skinned slaves were never used in the field. They were trained as house servants, or blacksmiths, weavers,etc. Madison Hemmings too must have been light skinned as there are photos of his descendants who identified as black circa 1900 and most look white, some do look "light" or "Hispanic" but none of them were even medium brown toned.

Good points