Maybe someone told the census taker he was the son of "Mr.  
Jefferson in Virginia" and the census taker, having heard of no other  
Jefferson males, put down Thomas Jefferson. If the family and person  
involved never saw the census entry, they would have never known the  
error. Or even if they had said the Jefferson who was the father, the  
census taker "heard" or wrote down Thomas, if that's the TJ he knew  
of. To support an entire idea based on a census entry is pretty  
shaky, as it was not unknown for a census entry to be wrong.

Nancy

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On May 4, 2008, at 2:29 PM, Anne Pemberton wrote:

> Henry,
>
> I don't think that the fact that someone "despised" someone, or  
> "loved" someone is necessarily correlary to whether or not the  
> speak the truth, I am inclined to think that the journalist had  
> more evidence then than we do now.
>
> Since you are where the documents are, perhaps you could explain  
> the illustration of a census listing Madison Hemings on which the  
> person who wrote the list also wrote by Madison Hemings' name that  
> he was the son of Thomas Jefferson.. The census was done in  
> Chillicothe, Ohio in 1870. Was this written because of oral  
> history, or was there some sort of verification that took place?
>
> Anne
>
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