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Beverly Hemings (1798-after 1822) was the oldest surviving son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson listed Beverly Hemings among Monticello's tradesmen [1] and Jefferson's correspondence with his overseer Edmund Bacon indicates he worked as a carpenter and assistant to Monticello's coopers making barrels. [2]
15 kwi 2024 · Beverly William Hemmings. Born 1 Apr 1798 in Monticello Plantation, Albermarle, Virginia. Ancestors. Son of Thomas Jefferson [uncertain] and Sarah Hemings. Brother of Martha (Jefferson) Randolph [half], Jane Randolph Jefferson [half], Unnamed Infant Jefferson [half], Mary (Jefferson) Eppes [half], Lucy Elizabeth Jefferson [half], Lucy Elizabeth ...
Harriet is believed to be the daughter of Sally Hemings and the widower Thomas Jefferson. It is widely believed that Jefferson and Hemings had a 38-year secret relationship beginning in Paris several years after the early death of his wife. Hemings was said to have a child born in 1790 after she returned from Paris, but it died as an infant.
When Beverly Hemings was born on 1 April 1798, in Monticello, Albemarle, Virginia, United States, his father, President Thomas Jefferson, was 54 and his mother, Sally Hemings, was 24. He married Martha McCoy on 21 November 1831, in Charlottesville, Albemarle, Virginia, United States.
31 sty 2022 · Jesse and Sally Jefferson Bell, grandchild of Elizabeth Hemings, had three sons, all of whom were taught to play various instruments by their parents, including violin and flute. Philena Carkin, a white teacher from Boston who taught free Blacks in Charlottesville, vividly describes their oldest son, Robert Scott, Sr., in her memoirs:
In the Tribune today is a notice of the death of Beverly Jefferson of Madison. His death deserves more than a passing notice, as he was a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, father of the doctrines...
3 kwi 2023 · In the memoirs of Madison Hemings, one of Sally’s children fathered by Jefferson, he writes that Jefferson was forced to beg Sally to return to Monticello with him when he was recalled to America in 1789.
