“Her name is SALLY ... until an emissary showed up two weeks later to convey them to Paris, where Jefferson almost certainly began having sex with Hemings. So in 1787 John Adams had seen ...

Kern continues: "And so 14-year-old Sally Hemings, who has known Virginia her whole life, is asked to be the company for young Maria Jefferson on this weeks at sea and then arrival in France." ...

The Y chromosome keeps its family secrets and now, nearly two centuries later, DNA evidence has unequivocally linked a male descendant of Sally Hemings to the house of Thomas Jefferson.

Her case seemed to be substantiated some time later when DNA testing revealed a match between descendants of a male Jefferson relative and a male descendent of Eston Hemings, one of Sally Hemings ...