Fragment of a page from an account book containing name of Peter Jefferson [manuscript], n.d.

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Fragment of a page from an account book containing name of Peter Jefferson [manuscript], n.d.

The bottom half of an account book page, possibly listing taxes, notes that sums for Alexander Mackie, Edward Carter and Samuel Spencer, were paid by Peter Jefferson.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7933666

University of Virginia. Library

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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...