Anne,

The truth IS out! Read the Scholars Commission Report...NO proof of TJ's
fathering of Sally's kids, www.tjheritage.org.

After three years of deep and tedious research the Monticello Assn. (TJ
descendants), concluded that NOTHING proves their ancestral grandfather
fathered any slave child and returned applications to Hemings family
members for applications for membership. Judge Robert Cooley (Woodson
descendant) was adamant in the Ken Burns TV series that he was a TJ
descendant....rubbish! There was NO Jefferson-Woodson match. His
daughter, an employee of Johns Hopkins, had a 13 page story in their
magazine extolling the family's background and the old long false ORAL
family claim. When he died she tried to persuade the Monticello Assn. to
permit him to be buried in their sacred ancestral grandfather's burial
ground. Wouldn't that have been quiet an embarrassment to all who look
upon this hallowed site as a "family site".......NOT a burying ground
for ORAL historians.        

No, I for one, do not worry about him being "trashed" by "truth".....
and an HONEST analysis of facts, just politically correct authors who
see a need to "jump on the bandwagon" and degrade a great founding
father after he is dead and cannot defend himself.   

Herb Barger
Jefferson Family Historian
 
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Anne Pemberton
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Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Jefferson's Overseer

Nancy,

I fail to see how noting that he was a sexual person is "trashing him".

As a widower, we would expect a healthy male to make some provisions for

sexual outlets. There were all sorts of taboos back then for "taking
matters 
in hand". NOT providing such an outlet could have made TJ a rather dour
man 
who was not capable of the leadership that he exhibited.

And, I would like to take a poll of those who are so worried that
Jefferson 
will be "trashed" by the truth when it outs, are the same folks who 
"trashed" Bill Clinton and his presidency for HIS indiscretion.

Anne


Anne Pemberton
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