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. Wayles married three times, with these marriages producing eleven children; only five of them lived to adulthood.
Through his female slave Betty Hemings, Wayles fathered six additional children, including Sally Hemings, who was the mother of six children by Thomas Jefferson and half-sister of Martha Jefferson.
and half-sister of Martha Jefferson. Wayles was born in the city of Lancaster on January 31, 1715. The young Wayles likely became aware of the burgeoning...
Martha Wayles was born on October 30, 1748 (O.S. October 19, 1748), the only surviving child born to Martha Eppes Wayles (1721–1748) and JohnWayles (1715–1773)...
JohnWayles Jefferson (born JohnWayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil...
JohnWayles Eppes (April 1772 – September 13, 1823) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives...
at Monticello. Betty's owner, JohnWayles, was widowed three times. In 1761, after the death of his third wife, Wayles and Betty began a relationship...
marriage to Wayles. JohnWayles was the son of Edward and Ellen (née Ashburner) Wayles, both from Lancaster, England. Following Martha's death, Wayles remarried...
Betty Hemings and JohnWayles (Jefferson's father-in-law), she and her siblings were half-siblings to Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles and were three-quarters...
daughters stayed at Eppington with their aunt and uncle, Elizabeth Wayles Eppes and Francis Wayles Eppes, who was her mother's cousin. Between December 1782 and...
Martha Jefferson. Martha, Sally, and James shared JohnWayles as a father. It was said that Wayles had taken James's mother Betty Hemings, who was his...
by JohnWayles. After the death of Wayles in 1773, Elizabeth, Mary, and her family were inherited by Thomas Jefferson, the husband of Martha Wayles Skelton...
she worked for the Wayles. Elizabeth Hemings lived as a house servant. Historians think that Elizabeth Hemings' job with the Wayles family was to help...
inherited by Martha Wayles Skelton, the wife of Thomas Jefferson. Sally and Martha were half-sisters, both fathered by the planter JohnWayles. Sally worked...
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson had inherited Sally Hemings, her mother Betty Hemings and ten siblings from the estate of her father JohnWayles, along...
interracial families and financial burden. As a widower, his father-in-law JohnWayles had taken his mixed-race slave Betty Hemings as a concubine and had six...
Randolph. Her maternal grandparents were JohnWayles (1715–1773) and his first wife, Martha Eppes (1712–1748). Wayles was an attorney, slave trader, business...
(1768–1828) (see above) Mary Jefferson (1778–1804), ∞ 1797 : JohnWayles Eppes (1773–1823) Francis Wayles Eppes VII (1801–1881), ∞ 1822 : Mary Elizabeth Cleland...
Jefferson gave Isaac and his family to his daughter Maria and her husband JohnWayles Eppes in 1797 as a wedding gift, Isaac Jefferson/Granger appeared to...
Travis farm where Turner was enslaved. However, in February 1831, Reese's son John used Turner's son as collateral for a family debt. On historian notes that...
Jefferson's household slaves were possibly children of his father-in-law JohnWayles and the enslaved woman Betty Hemings, who Jefferson's wife inherited...
Betty's children and half-brother to her six children by her enslaver JohnWayles, including Sally Hemings, as well as to the oldest four by an unknown...
Hemings moved to Wisconsin and changed his name to Jefferson; Eston's son JohnWayles Jefferson (pictured) was a U.S. Army officer during the Civil War Paul...
Wayles did not live on the property due to his career as an attorney and businessman in Charles City County, Virginia. Wayles' daughter Martha Wayles...
(1743–1826) third president of the United States of America, married Martha Wayles Skelton. Elizabeth Jefferson (1744–1774) - mentally handicapped, died unmarried...
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