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Elizabeth Hemings ( c. 1735 – 1807) was a female slave of mixed-ethnicity in colonial Virginia. With her owner, planter John Wayles, she had six children, including Sally Hemings. These children were three-quarters white, and, following the condition of their mother, they were considered slaves from birth; they were half-siblings to Wayles's ...
The Hemings family lived in Virginia in the 1700s and 1800s. The family consisted of Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings and her children and other descendants. They were slaves with at least one ancestor who had lived in Africa and been brought over the Atlantic Ocean in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Some of them became free later in their lives.
Sally Hemings was born about 1773 to Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings (1735–1807), a woman also born into slavery. Sally's father was their slave owner John Wayles (1715–1773). Betty's parents were another female slave, a "full-blooded African", and a white English sea captain, whose surname was Hemings. [ 11 ]
James Hemings was born in 1765 in Virginia to an enslaved mixed-race woman named Elizabeth (Betty) Hemings, and his father, John Wayles, was their owner. James was one of 12 children, however, his ...
Betty Hemings (1761–1773) Children. 13, including Martha Wayles, James Hemings, and Sally Hemings. John Wayles (January 31, 1715 – May 28, 1773) was a colonial American planter, slave trader and lawyer in colonial Virginia. He is historically best known as the father-in-law of Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States.
[1] [a] Betty was the biracial daughter of an enslaved African woman and, an English sea captain whose surname was Hemings. [1] Mary was the first of Elizabeth's twelve children. [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Hemings lived at John Wayles' plantation until his son-in-law, Thomas Jefferson, received her as part of a division of Wayles' estate on January 14, 1774.
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Harriet Hemings (May 1801 – after 1822) was born into slavery at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, in the first year of his presidency. Most historians believe her father was Jefferson, who is now believed to have fathered, with his slave Sally Hemings, four children who survived to adulthood.