Kevin,
A question: Do we know as a certitude that Sally Hemings had children by
more than one man?
Anne
Anne Pemberton
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Subject: What we know about Sally Hemings
> 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
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