American planter, cartographer and politician (1708–1757)
For the BBC continuity announcer, see Peter Jefferson (radio personality).
Peter Jefferson
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Albemarle County
In office 1754–1755
Serving with Allen Howard
Preceded by
Joshua Fry
Succeeded by
William Cabell
Personal details
Born
(1708-02-29)February 29, 1708 Chesterfield County, Virginia, British America
Died
August 17, 1757(1757-08-17) (aged 49) Albemarle County, Virginia, British America
Resting place
Shadwell, Albemarle County, Virginia
Spouse
Jane Randolph (m. 1739)
Children
10, including Thomas, Lucy, and Randolph
Parents
Thomas Jefferson ll (father)
Virginia Field Jefferson (mother)
Occupation
Tobacco plantation owner, surveyor, cartographer
Peter Field Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was a planter, cartographer and politician in colonial Virginia best known for being the father of the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. The "Fry-Jefferson Map", created by Peter in collaboration with Joshua Fry in 1757, accurately charted the Allegheny Mountains for the first time and showed the route of "The Great Road from the Yadkin River through Virginia to Philadelphia distant 455 Miles"—what would later come to be known as the Great Wagon Road.
Peter Field Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757) was a planter, cartographer and politician in colonial Virginia best known for being the father...
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Martha Skelton Jefferson (née Wayles; October 30, 1748 – September 6, 1782) was the wife of Thomas Jefferson from 1772 until her death. She served as...
Jane Randolph Jefferson (February 10, 1720 – March 31, 1776) was the wife of PeterJefferson and the mother of US president Thomas Jefferson. Born in the...
needed] Born at Shadwell, the Jefferson family plantation in Albemarle County, Virginia, his parents were PeterJefferson, who died when Randolph was two...
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the Jeffersons relocated to Tuckahoe, where they lived for the next seven years before returning to their home in Albemarle in 1752. PeterJefferson was...
and cartographer who collaborated with PeterJefferson, the father of future U.S. president Thomas Jefferson. After Fry’s death on a military expedition...
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The Jeffersons is an American sitcom television series that was broadcast on CBS from January 18, 1975, to July 2, 1985, lasting 11 seasons and a total...
government official in York, Upper Canada. PeterJefferson (1708–1757), father of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. In his last will and testament he set free...
Jeffersonian democracy, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from...
Mary Jefferson Eppes (August 1, 1778 – April 17, 1804), known as Polly in childhood and Maria as an adult, was the younger of Thomas Jefferson's two daughters...
Peter Farley Fossett (June 5, 1815 – January 3, 1901) was an enslaved laborer at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's plantation, who after he attained his...
John Wayles Jefferson (born John Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an American businessman and Union Army officer in the American Civil...
the eighth of PeterJefferson and Jane Randolph Jefferson's 10 children. She was nine years younger than her brother Thomas Jefferson. She was born into...
Jefferson Airplane, a leading psychedelic rock band of the counterculture era. He continued these roles as a member of Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane's...
passed down from PeterJefferson to his son Thomas Jefferson, whose grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph inherited the property. Thomas Jefferson experimented...
family did. In the 1850s, Jefferson's eldest grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, said that Peter Carr, a nephew of Jefferson, had fathered Hemings's children...