Receipts and legal documents bearing signature of Peter Jefferson [manuscript], 1734-1756.

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Receipts and legal documents bearing signature of Peter Jefferson [manuscript], 1734-1756.

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Collection contains receipts and legal documents bearing signature of Peter Jefferson from orginals in the papers of the Goochland County Court. A few miscellaneous items do not pertain to Jefferson including the appointment of justices of oyer and terminer for the trail of "Cuffey" a slave of John Payne signed by William Gooch. Also of interest is the summoning of Betty Scott, a mulatto, to "shew cause...why her children should not be bound out by the Church."

circa 20 items.

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7936405

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...

Scott, Betty J. (Betty Joan), 1937-

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