Onuf), both of them assuming that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his wife, Martha, and a slave on his estate. Reviews and blurbs of the two new books ...
Madison Hemings, her son, reported she lived in nearby ... Jefferson and the direct descendants of Thomas and his wife Martha ...
James Hemings, in particular ... Before John Wayles passed, his daughter Martha married future President Thomas Jefferson, who subsequently inherited the enslaved population of the plantation ...