So, I wasn't a subscriber last time. I am enjoying this discussion re
Hemmings.
It seems like a number are. There hasn't been much on this list lately.
I had never thought of the type of household Jefferson was keeping. It adds
another plank to the matter.
There have been subjects that held no interest for me. I just delete them
rapidly.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles L. Dibble (BLS 1338.733)" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: "high crimes and misdemeanors"
> Here we go again ...
> As I wrote earlier today:
> I would suggest that Item 2 [Sally Hemmings] be omitted since the
question
> posed makes an assumption that is the subject of sharp disagreement ...
and
> which has been discussed rather thoroughly on this list and
elsewhere
> already. I foresee
> that pursuing this question would turn a discussion of the "actual
> relationship" and not on "misleading the public".
> I find no satisfaction in being proven right.
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Harold S. Forsythe
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 12:42
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: "high crimes and misdemeanors"
>
> Mr. Dixon,
>
> This may be going over old ground, but it bears remembering that
> Thomas Jefferson owned Sally Hemmings' body. By law, he also
> owned all issue from her body.
> What "direct evidence" would survive such a real, but now quite
> anachronistic property relationship? Marriage certificate? Civil suit
> for child support? Rape charges? Challenge to the filing of
> Thomas Jefferson's will, in the interest of his offspring?
> The recent DNA analysis proports to demonstrate that at least
> one of Sally Hemmings' sons carried a chromosome carried by
> males of the Jefferson lineage. Much has been made of the
> number of such males living at the time of Hemmings pregnancies,
> but no one has ever answered a question I posed on this list some
> time ago: did Jefferson run such a household at Monticello, that
> his male relatives could drop by at will and impregnate the woman
> who seems to have been his closest servant/associate, who was
> also half-sister to his late wife?
>
> Harold S. Forsythe
>
> Date sent: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:26:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Richard E. Dixon" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: "high crimes and misdemeanors"
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Send reply to: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia
> history
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> > In a message dated 3/28/02 11:20:05 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > << Jefferson never
> > really went public in his denials, so is that any more misleading than
> > any other presidential philanderer >>
> >
> > My goodness, Jefferson did not publish a full page denial of the third
> > party hearsay that plagued him about Sally Hemings. Would that have made
a
> > difference in the predisposition of many academics unaffected by the
> > absence of any direct evidence?
> > _____________________________________________________________________
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