David,

I also do not agree with Anne that I am a liar.........where is her proof?
Sandy is just one possibility and was also proposed by a reader and poster
to Nature Journal issue of Jan 7, 1999 (most people are not familiar with
this FOLLOW-UP to the original FALSE report. My personal belief is that
POSSIBLY there was a Sandy who had a son who MAY have impregnated Sally for
SOME of her children and who knows, possibly Madison (his descendants REFUSE
a DNA test). However, my close and detailed research for her son, Eston,
DEFINITELY points to Randolph Jefferson (a Jefferson uncle) as believed by
Eston's descendants and shown by the DNA test to be an accurate belief. 

Herb Barger

I'm not going to dispute the science, but Ms. Pemberton is correct  -- even
if we decline to follow her in labelling Mr. Barger as a "liar."   But Mr.
Barger _has_ leaped from the "possibility" of a slave bearing another
(earlier?) Jefferson DNA to an assertion that we can pinpoint this
individual as Sandy ( "This slave's  name was "SANDY", a name that denotes
reddish hair...").  That is a mere assumption.   At the same time, Mr.
Barger's assumption _is_ plausible -- so we should consider it .  But it
only adds to the list of possible fathers among whom Thomas Jefferson must
remain firmly in place.  

David Kiracofe
>
>Herbert is correct in his remarks about the possibility. And Sandy is  
>certainly a red-head nickname. And his final point about the DNA  
>testing is the one that all should take away from this discussion.  
>Without additional testing, all the analysis of existing and known  
>documents will not settle the issue.
>
>Science rules, OK.
>
>Lyle Browning, RPA
>
>


David Kiracofe
History
Tidewater Community College
Chesapeake Campus
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Chesapeake, Virginia 23322
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