As a Jefferson Family Historian who has researched ALL
Jeaffresons/Jeffersons from Pettistree, Suffolk Co., England since the
late 1500s, I can say that I have found no recording of any black blood
in Thomas Jefferson's family history.

Herb Barger
Jefferson Family Historian 

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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
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Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:44 AM
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Subject: [VA-HIST] Presidents wth black blood

I have just read an article in the Arcade@Home that claims that Thomas 
Jefferson was our first president with black blood.  Do any of the 
historians on this list have any information on this allegation?  The
artcle 
also states that Andrew Jackson was the son of an Irish  wonan who
married a 
black man, that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African
man 
and allegedly an Ethiopian woman, that Warren Hardng had black ancestors
on 
both sets of parents, and that Calvin Coolidge claimed his mother was
dark 
because of mixed Indian ancestry.  I have never heard of any of these 
before.  Is there any truth here?

Laura Catherine 

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