perhaps Bermuda Hundred, Chesterfield County, Virginia
Died
1807 (aged 71–72)
Monticello, Albemarle County, Virginia
Nationality
American
Occupation
Enslaved worker
Children
12, including Mary and James, Sally, John
Relatives
See Hemings family
Elizabeth Hemings (c. 1735 – 1807) was an enslaved mixed-race woman 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 enslaved from birth; they were half-siblings to Wayles's daughter, Martha Jefferson. After Wayles died, the Hemings family and some 120 other enslaved people were inherited, along with 11,000 acres and £4,000 debt, as part of his estate by his daughter Martha and her husband Thomas Jefferson.
More than 75 of Betty's mixed-race children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were enslaved from birth. They were forced to work on Jefferson's plantation of Monticello.[1] Many had higher status positions as chefs, butlers, seamstresses, weavers, carpenters, blacksmiths, gardeners, and musicians in the household.[2] Jefferson gave some of Betty's enslaved descendants to his sister and daughters as wedding presents, and they lived on other Virginia plantations.
Betty's oldest daughter Mary Hemings became the common-law wife of wealthy merchant Thomas Bell, who purchased her and their two children from Jefferson in 1792 and granted them greater freedoms than other enslaved people were typically permitted.[3] Mary was the first of several Hemingses to gain freedom before the American Civil War. Betty's daughter Sally Hemings had six children, all of whom were fathered by Thomas Jefferson, between 1795 and 1808. Jefferson freed all four of her surviving children when they came of age, two of them by his will. His daughter Martha Randolph gave Sally "her time," an informal freedom allowing her to live with her sons during her last decade of life.
^John Wayles Paternity
^Betty Hemings - Monticello Explorer
^"Mary Hemings Bell | Thomas Jefferson's Monticello". www.monticello.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-16. Retrieved 2018-03-16.
In his memoir, Madison Hemings said the captain's surname was Hemings; the family tradition was that he had tried to buy Betty when he discovered his...
that Wayles had taken James's mother BettyHemings, who was his helper, as his mistress. As a young man, Hemings was selected by Jefferson to accompany...
Wayles. Hemings's mother was BettyHemings, the daughter of a female slave and an English captain, John Hemings. Sally's father, the owner of Betty, John...
Eston Hemings Jefferson (May 21, 1808 – January 3, 1856) was born into slavery at Monticello, the youngest son of Sally Hemings, a mixed-race enslaved...
adulthood. Through his female slave BettyHemings, Wayles fathered six additional children, including Sally Hemings, who was the mother of six children...
journey. Her brother Madison Hemings later said she had gone to Washington, DC, to join their older brother Beverley Hemings, who had similarly left Monticello...
Madison Hemings (January 19, 1805 – November 28, 1877) was the son of the mixed-race enslaved woman Sally Hemings and, according to most Jefferson scholars...
than 100 slaves were BettyHemings, of mixed-race ancestry, and her 10 mixed-race children. The youngest, an infant, was Sally Hemings. The six youngest...
The Hemings family lived in Virginia in the 1700s and 1800s. The family consisted of Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings and her children and other descendants....
Mary Hemings Bell (1753-after 1834) was born into slavery, most likely in Charles City County, Virginia, as the oldest child of Elizabeth Hemings, a mixed-race...
alternate candidate for Hemings children's paternity. Thomas Jefferson, though, was found by The Monticello Jefferson-Hemings Report (2000) to be the...
Hemings is a surname, and may refer to: American slavery Hemings family Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings (1735–1807), enslaved American Sally Hemings (1773–1835)...
a wedding gift, including Molly Hemings, the eldest daughter of Mary Hemings. Critta Hemings, sister of Sally Hemings, helped Randolph care for the children...
grandmother is Sarah (Sally) Hemings, Thomas Jefferson's mixed-race slave and half-sister to his late wife. John's father, Eston Hemings, was born a slave at...
children by his slave Sally Hemings; according to scholarly consensus, Jefferson probably fathered six children with Hemings. Jefferson's writings and advocacy...
Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings and was a bestseller. Together with articles about the issue and Jefferson-Hemings descendants in American Heritage...
Poplar Forest. Hemmings also served as the master joiner to apprentices Beverley, Madison, and Eston Hemings, Jefferson's sons by Sally Hemings. After decades...
Hughes (1781-1858) and Ursula Granger, and great-great-grandson of BettyHemings, the slave matriarch at Monticello. Wormley Hughes and his family were...
sailed for Paris on the ship Ceres on July 5, 1784, accompanied by James Hemings. Elizabeth Epps provided Polly's early education, including reading, writing...
slaves was Betsy Hemmings, the mixed-race daughter of Mary Hemings and granddaughter of BettyHemings. According to her descendants, Hemmings became a concubine...
Hemings mentioned in Jefferson's records, including Beverly, Harriet, Madison and Eston Hemings. Helen F.M. Leary (September 2001). "Sally Hemings's Children:...
Winner Was 84". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 7, 2019. Francis, Betty (May 16, 2010). "One Night of Diahann". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California...
Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings. The historical record does not name his father, but it was not John Wayles. Martin Hemings was the half-brother of Sally Hemings and...
the daughter of Betty and John Wayles Sally Hemings, the half-sister to Thomas Jefferson's wife. The Hemings children grew up to be closely involved in...
Hemings Bell, who lived in Charlottesville. She provided nicer clothes than other slaves received at Monticello. He was the great-grandson of Betty Hemings...
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in ancestry. The youngest, an infant, was Sally Hemings. As they grew and were trained, all the Hemings family members were assigned to privileged positions...
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