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John Hemmings (also spelled Hemings) (1776 – 1833) was an American woodworker.Born into slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello as a member of the large mixed-race Hemings family, he trained in the Monticello Joinery and became a highly skilled carpenter and woodworker, making furniture and crafting the fine woodwork of the interiors at Monticello and Poplar Forest.
Captain Hemings later tried to break into the Eppes' house and take his daughter away "by force or stealth," but someone told the owner about his plan. Captain Hemings left Virginia and disappeared from Hemings family lore. The man with whom Captain Hemings negotiated for his daughter was a male member of the Eppes family, but historians do not ...
Sarah " Sally " Hemings ( c. 1773 – 1835) was a female enslaved person with one-quarter African ancestry who was enslaved by president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, one of many he inherited from his father-in-law, John Wayles. Hemings' mother was Betty Hemings, [ 1] the daughter of an enslaved woman and an English captain, John Hemings.
Hemings did strike a deal with Jefferson to become a free man in 1796. He would return to the Monticello kitchen in 1801, when Jefferson became president, before apparently committing suicide in ...
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 ...
James Hemings was born into slavery to Betty Hemings, who was the mixed-race daughter of an enslaved African mother and an English sea captain father whose surname was Hemings. James was the second of her six children by her enslaver John Wayles , who took Betty as a forced concubine after he was widowed for the third time.
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.
Jefferson–Hemings controversy. The Jefferson–Hemings controversy is a historical debate over whether there was a sexual relationship between the widowed U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and his slave and sister-in-law, Sally Hemings, and whether he fathered some or all of her six recorded children. For more than 150 years, most historians ...