Re: ESTON HEMINGS-may 21, 1808-Jan 3,1856
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In reply to:
ESTON HEMINGS-may 21, 1808-Jan 3,1856
7/27/00
The weight of all known evidence - from the 1998 DNA study, original documents, written and oral historical accounts, and statistical data - indicated a high probability that Thomas Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, and that he was perhaps the father of all six of Sally Hemings' children listed in Monticello records - Harriet (born 1795; died in infancy); Beverly (born 1798); an unnamed daughter (born 1799; died in infancy); Harriet (born 1801); Madison (born 1805); and Eston (born 1808).
Further DNA testing of Jefferson's nephews Peter and Samuel Carr's descendants eleminated them as rumored parentage. of Sally's children.