If Sally did not tell her children that, where else would they have gotten 
the information, that in the case of Eston has been more or less proved? 
From other slaves who saw what was going on?

Anne

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From: "Henry Wiencek" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:09 AM
Subject: Hemings -- Point of information


> Anne Pemberton wrote: "Sally told her children who their father was. .
> . . She told Eston a different story from Madison. . . . Madison said
> his mother said that Thomas Jefferson was his father . . . "
>
> There are no primary sources regarding what Sally Hemings told her
> children about anything. In his 1873 newspaper account Madison Hemings
> refers to Thomas Jefferson as his father but never says "my mother
> told me" in that context or any context.  He never quotes his mother
> nor does he describe her conveying information to him. There are no
> sources regarding Sally Hemings telling her son Eston anything. One
> may assume or infer that Sally Hemings spoke to her children about the
> identity of their father, but it should be made clear that we have no
> direct testimony from any Hemingses on this point and anything we say
> is based on assumptions or inferences.
>
> Henry Wiencek
>
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