Peter Jefferson's marriage bond [manuscript], 1739 October 3.

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Peter Jefferson's marriage bond [manuscript], 1739 October 3.

Jefferson and Arthur Hopkins bind themselves for 50 pounds, attesting that there is no legal impediment to Jefferson's marriage with Jane Randolph.

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Jefferson, Jane, 1720-1776

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Hopkins, Arthur, fl. 1739.

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Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757

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Peter Jefferson (1708-1757), Virginia planter, cartographer and surveyor, father of Thomas Jefferson, married Jane Randolph 1739. In the 1740s, the family moved to Shadwell Plantation in Albemarle County. In 1744 Jefferson became the Goochland County surveyor. In 1745, he was appointed guardian of the children of his friend and kinsman, Col. William Randolph of Tuckahoe (1712-1745). The Jefferson family soon moved to Tuckahoe, in Goochland County, returning to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson d...