Re. #7:  I assume this is a reference to a DNA test, and while I am not
disagreeing with you,  I would like to see the DNA results and the total
number of matches.   Does anyone have a link to the site with theactual  DNA
test results and not just someone's interpretation of those results?
--Tom Gilmore



On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Let us see if we can agree on some basic facts--what can we say about Sally
> Hemings that no one is likely to dispute.
>
> 1.  She was a slave.
> 2.  She belonged to Thomas Jefferson
> 3.  She had several children
> 4.  She was the half sister of Jefferson's wife
> 5.  She accompanied Jefferson to France
> 6.  She had children by more than one man
> 7.  The father of one of her children was descended from Thomas Jefferson's
> paternal grandfather--that is to say, we can narrow the list of possible
> fathers for this child to Thomas Jefferson, his paternal uncles, and his
> paternal cousins
> 8.  Most (all?) of Heming's pregnancies correspond with times when
> Jefferson was at Monticello
> 9.  During the years when Hemings was having children, Jefferson was rarely
> at Monticello
>
> Can we agree that we know these things with reasonable certitude?
>
> All best,
> Kevin
> Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
> Department of History
> James Madison University
>
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