>So in each case, he *could* have been the father.

Agree.

>"Could have been" is not the same thing as *was* the father. 

Agree.


>But just as critically, if TJ was NOT at Monticello during the range of time in which Sally Hemings most likely >conceived a child, that would be reasonably good evidence that TJ was not the father.  

Agree.

>And for better or worse, we can not rule him out on this basis.

Agree.

So the fact on which I hope we can agree does not *prove* anything.  It is merely suggestive--it establishes, to my mind, a probability.  But it does not prove anything.

Concur and agree.


R Burnett Jenkins


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