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
Anne Pemberton
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