Randolph Jefferson

Upon a through review of the archival record, oral history, and genetic science, Thomas Jefferson, though, was found by The Monticello Jefferson-Hemings Report (2000) to be the likely father of Sally Hemings' children.

[8] He left Shadwell for Williamsburg when he was 16[1] to reside and study at the College of William & Mary from October 1771 until September 1772.

"[13] His "rustic sense of humor" may have caused people to underestimate his intelligence, yet he lacked his brother's intellectual curiosity.

He served with William Fossett and Joseph Nielson who had worked at Monticello and had live-in relationships with members of the Hemings family.

In the fight against Tarleton, in the summer of 1781, he provided provisions for the Virginia troops, volunteered a slave from Snowden to help move items from military stores at Scotts Ferry in Albemarle County to Bedford County, and allowed the 3rd Regiment of Light Dragoons to camp at Snowden for over a month and a half.

[16][b] with 2,291⅔ acres called "Fluvanna lands" located near the Hardware River and Scottsville,[1][c] from his father, Peter Jefferson's estate.

[31][d] Ultimately, none of Randolph Jefferson's sons could afford to purchase Snowden from their father's estate and it was sold to Capt.

They had six children: Thomas,[g] Robert Lewis, Peter Field, Isham Randolph, James Lilburne and Anna Scott.

[1] Anna Scott Jefferson married Zachariah Nevil (d.1830), who represented Nelson County in the Virginia state legislature.

[1] Randolph suffered an illness in the Spring of 1815, but told his brother in June of that year that he was feeling fine and was involved in the wheat harvest.

[1] Randolph's will called for his property to be sold and the funds divided up among his sons and his slaves were to stay with the family.

[16][d] The Jefferson–Hemings controversy concerns the question of whether U.S. President Thomas Jefferson was the father of the children of Sally Hemings, a mixed-race slave.

Alternate theories suggest that Randolph Jefferson, or his nephew, Peter Carr, fathered the Hemings children.

Carr, though, was ruled out in genetic testing[30][40] — but there was a match to the Jefferson male line to descendants of Sally Hemings' son Eston.