The Jefferson scandals [manuscript] 1960.

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The Jefferson scandals [manuscript] 1960.

A refutation of the scandals perpetrated chiefly by James Thomson Callender, through the Richmond, Va., press about Thomas Jefferson supposed liaison with Sally Hemings a mulatto slave inherited by Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson from the estate of her father John Wayles. Peter Carr also is mentioned.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...

Wayles, John, 1715-1773.

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Hemings, Sally ca. 18. Jh.

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Callender, James Thomson, 1758-1803

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James Thomson Callender (1758 – July 17, 1803) was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and later, also in the United States. His revelations concerning George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and later Thomas Jefferson, led to his marginalization politically. He wrote against the continuing influence of the British Crown, and he warned that Adams, Washington, and Hamilton planned to impose a titled aristocracy and hereditary positions in t...

Jefferson, Martha, 1748-1782

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Carr, Peter, 1770-1815,

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Adair, Douglass.

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Jefferson family.

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Hemings family.

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