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	First Ladies' Biographical Information
		Martha Jefferson's half-sister Elizabeth Wayles (daughter of John Wayles and his second wife Elizabeth Lomax) married Francis Eppes (the nephew of Martha Eppes Wayles, the first wife of John Wayles and mother of Martha Jefferson); thus Martha Jefferson's half-brother-in-law was also her first cousin.
		For the first three years of her marriage, while Jefferson was still a member of the House of Burgesses, Martha Jefferson would likely have accompanied him to the colonial capital of Williamsburg when the burgesses was in session, and taken part in the social life there, that she had known from her own early years.
		Martha Jefferson was separated from her husband during his tenure as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia (1776), at which time he authored the Declaration of Independence.
	www.firstladies.org /biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=3 (2119 words)

	Thomas Jefferson - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Jefferson was born on April 2, 1743 according to the Julian calendar ("old style") used at the time, but under the Gregorian calendar ("new style") adopted during his lifetime, he was born on April 13.
		Jefferson's commitment to equality was expressed in his successful efforts to abolish primogeniture in Virginia, the rule by which the first born son inherited all the land.
		Jefferson, together with George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, was chosen by President Calvin Coolidge to be depicted in stone at the Mount Rushmore Memorial.
	arikah.com /encyclopedia/Thomas_Jefferson (7942 words)

	Commentary
		Jefferson as a good mother or as genteel and charming; from time to time it is said that her marriage to Jefferson was loving and solid, and that she was a widow when Jefferson met her.
		Martha Wayles Skelton was a widow with an infant child at the tender age of nineteen.
		Jefferson would not have been lost on the fact that other men were vying for Martha’s attention, as she was one of the most eligible women in the colony.
	www.jeffersonlegacy.org /commentary.html (9052 words)

	Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A polymath, Jefferson was an agriculturalist, horticulturist, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor, and the founder of the University of Virginia.
		Jefferson's Presidency, from 1801 to 1809, was the first to start and end in the White House (though at the time it was known as the Presidential Mansion).
		Jefferson later expressed general agreement with his friend Joseph Priestley's Unitarianism, that is the rejection of the doctrine of Trinity.
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	Thomas Jefferson - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jefferson was born on April 2, 1743 according to the Julian calendar ("old style") used at the time, but under the Gregorian calendar ("new style") adopted during his lifetime, he was born on April 13.
		Jefferson's idea for the United States was that of an agricultural nation of yeoman farmers, in contrast to the vision of Alexander Hamilton, who envisioned a nation of commerce and manufacturing.
		Jefferson said that "a democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." As a result of his concern of pure democracy endangering individual rights, he advocated a republic where individual liberty is protected from democratic rule by a Constitution.
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	Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (October 19, 1748 (O.S. September 6, 1782) was the wife of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson.
		Martha (Patty) was born to John Wayles (1715 - 1773) and his first wife Martha Eppes (1712 - 1748), wealthy plantation owners in Charles City County, Virginia.
		Jefferson was, according to her daughter and to eyewitness accounts (the French delegation), musical and highly educated, a constant reader, with the greatest fund of good nature, a vivacious temper which might sometimes border on tartness but which was completely subdued with her husband by her affection for him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martha_Wayles_Skelton_Jefferson (838 words)

	Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson Information
		Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (October 19, 1748 (O.S. September 6, 1782) was the wife of the third President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson.
		Martha (Patty) was born to John Wayles (1715 - 1773) and his first wife Martha Eppes (1712 - 1748), wealthy plantation owners in Charles City County, Virginia.
		Jefferson was, according to her daughter and to eyewitness accounts (the French delegation), musical and highly educated, a constant reader, with the greatest fund of good nature, a vivacious temper which might sometimes border on tartness but which was compeltely subdued with her husband by her affection for him.
	www.bookrags.com /Martha_Wayles_Skelton_Jefferson (797 words)

	Commentary
		Jefferson as a good mother or as genteel and charming; from time to time it is said that her marriage to Jefferson was loving and solid, and that she was a widow when Jefferson met her.
		Martha Wayles Skelton was a widow with an infant child at the tender age of nineteen.
		Jefferson would not have been lost on the fact that other men were vying for Martha’s attention, as she was one of the most eligible women in the colony.
	jeffersonlegacy.org /commentary.html (9052 words)

	Jefferson Library: Thomas and Martha (Wayles Skelton) Jefferson Links
		A subsection of the Thomas Jefferson Papers at the Library of Congress which provides a Jefferson chronology with text and images.
		In Part 2, there is a discussion of Jeffersonian Legacies, a single section devoted to Jefferson followed by five sections that present nineteenth-century reactions to the landmarks he describes in Notes on the State of Virginia (1785).
		The Music Section of Jefferson's Catalogue of 1783 and An Inventory of the Collections of Jefferson Family Music, Appendices I and II of Thomas Jefferson and Music by Helen Cripe (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1974), pp.
	www.monticello.org /library/links/jefferson.html (1152 words)

	Life and Labor at Monticello - Thomas Jefferson (Library of Congress Exhibition) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thomas Jefferson was devastated by the death of his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson who died after giving birth to their sixth child, Lucy Elizabeth (1782-1784).
		Jefferson wrote little about his wife's death, making this entry into his account book on September 6, 1782: "My dear wife died this day at 11H -45' A.M." More than two months later he haltingly wrote to a French officer and friend, Marquis de Chastellux (1734-1788), that he was...
		Martha's thread case and her household accounts for Monticello, both in the collections of the Library of Congress, document the economic and social role of the southern plantation mistress.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/jefferson/jefflife.html (1903 words)

	Randolph, Martha Jefferson (27 Sept
		Randolph, Martha Jefferson (27 Sept. 1772-10 Oct. 1836), lifelong confidante to her father, was born at "Monticello" in Albemarle County, Virginia, the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Martha Wayles (Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson).
		After the death of her mother in 1782, Martha Jefferson, known to her father in childhood as "Patsy," became his most trusted and beloved female companion.
		Martha Jefferson Randolph, who was once described by John Randolph (1773-1833) of Roanoke, a political enemy of her husband's, as "the noblest woman in Virginia," died at Edgehill and was buried next to her father at Monticello.
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpX/MarthaJeffersonRandolph.htm (815 words)

	Biography of Thomas Jefferson
		In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello.
		Jefferson succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France in 1785.
		During Jefferson's second term, he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/tj3.html (562 words)

	The Third First Lady - Martha Jefferson - History
		Martha Jefferson was born to John and Martha Wayles October 19, 1748, on a plantation called “The Forest” in Charles City County, Virginia.
		After Martha Wayles Skeleton married Thomas Jefferson, who was a lawyer and member of the House of Burgesses from Albermarle County, the couple honeymooned on the property that would later become the widely known Monticello.
		Martha Jefferson died at age 33 at Monticello on September 6, 1782, nineteen years before her husband would be elected the third president of the young country.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art16077.asp (656 words)

	Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson - Thomas Jefferson Wiki
		When Jefferson began courting the young widow in December 1770 she was living again at The Forest with her young son, John.
		The exact cause of Martha's death is not known, however a letter from Jefferson to the Marquis de Chastellux would indicate that she never recovered from this last birth.
		Jefferson: The Road to Glory, 1743 to 1776 New York: Coward-McCann, 1943, pp.
	wiki.monticello.org /mediawiki/index.php/Martha_Wayles_Skelton_Jefferson (479 words)

	Biography of Martha Jefferson
		When Thomas Jefferson came courting, Martha Wayles Skelton at 22 was already a widow, an heiress, and a mother whose firstborn son would die in early childhood.
		Jefferson wrote on May 20 that her condition was dangerous.
		It was Martha Randolph with her family who shared Jefferson's retirement at Monticello until he died there in 1826.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/firstladies/mj3.html (405 words)

	Mary Hemings
		Martha Jefferson died in 1782 and it was shortly after her death that Jefferson gladly left his mountaintop plantation to serve as ambassador to France.
		Jefferson, as previously mentioned, was away from the hill as Secretary of State during this time, therefore the mountaintop home was run by overseers and slaves.
		While Jefferson and Edy were at the capital, a worried Joe ran away from Monticello to Washington city to be near Edith and their infant who was ill with the whooping cough.
	www.angelfire.com /oh/chillicothe/MaryHemings.html (3212 words)

	Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
		Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson - Martha Wayles Skelton was the daughter of John Wayles, and had initially married Bathurst Skelton.
		After being widowed, she was introduced to Jefferson, whom she married after a brief courtship on New Year's Day, 1772.
		She herself died in 1782, leaving Jefferson a lifelong widower in the company of their two daughters, Patsy and Polly.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/jefferson/terms/char_44.html (82 words)

	American Memory from the Library of Congress - Browse by
		The household and kitchen accounts maintained by Jefferson's granddaughter, Anne Cary Randolph (1791-1826), at Monticello from August 1805 to October 1808 illustrate the vitality of the undirected activities and the entrepreneurial spirit of the slaves on Jefferson's plantations in Albemarle County, Virginia.
		Jefferson's health declined rapidly after Lucy's birth, and she did not resume her household accounts before her death on September 6, 1782.
		The overseers and most of the artisans and foremen were white, while the laborers, apprentices, and artisan's assistants were generally slaves either owned or rented by Jefferson and his wife Martha, his daughters Martha and Mary and their husbands Thomas Mann Randolph and John Wayles Eppes, or his grandchildren and their spouses.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/ser7vol1.html (1699 words)

	The Jefferson Legacy Foundation - a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
		Jefferson's legacy includes models for civic responsibility; active participation in society; revitalization of democracy; lifelong learning; service to others; and the pursuit of happiness.
		The Jefferson Legacy Foundation has published a set of three Broadsides, representing Thomas Jefferson's "triple faith" in self-government, religious freedom, and education: The Declaration of American Independence, The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Goals for Public Education.
		The Jefferson Legacy Foundation's exhibit, 1791: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in Vermont and Jefferson's Role in Vermont Statehood, provides visitors with a fascinating glimpse of late 18th century Vermont and America.
	jeffersonlegacy.org (247 words)

	Thomas Jefferson - dKosopedia
		Jefferson was 33 when he drafted the Declaration of Independence.
		Jefferson was a reluctant candidate for President in 1796, and came within 3 electoral votes of the office that year.
		Jefferson retired to his estate at Monticello, where he died on July 4, 1826.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Thomas_Jefferson (527 words)

	Martha Jefferson Randolph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martha Washington Jefferson Randolph (September 27, 1772 – October 10, 1836), was the daughter of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, and his wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson.
		She was born in Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia and was named in honor of Martha Washington, wife of George Washington.
		In 1790, Martha married Thomas Mann Randolph Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martha_Jefferson_Randolph (215 words)

	Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Martha Wayles was born in 1748 and by age 22 was widowed, an heiress with a plantation, "The Forest," near Williamsburg, Virginia, and a mother who had lost her first son in early childhood.
		Their daughter, Martha Washington Jefferson, was born in September, (1772-1836), and over the next ten years Mrs.
		Jefferson wrote on May 20 that her condition was not good.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/ladies/bio/03mjs.html (282 words)

	Hempcar.org-Thomas Jefferson
		This powerful advocate of liberty was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father (a planter and surveyor) some 5,000 acres of land.
		As the "silent member" of the Congress, Jefferson, at age 33, drafted the Declaration of Independence.
		A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe." 1
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	jefferson.htm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By K.T. Thomas Jefferson was born in April at Shadwell farm.
		On February 17, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected President of the United States.
		Jefferson is remembered because he played a huge role in America's history.
	www.greenhedges.org /classroom/grade3/revolutionweb/jefferson.htm (127 words)

	Martha Wayles Skeleton Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Martha and Thomas were married on New Year's Day in 1772.
		Martha was 24 years old when she married Thomas.
		When a British invasion came Martha was forced to go back to the capital in Richmond with her new baby girl who died in April.
	www2.lhric.org /poCantico/womenenc/jefferson.html (118 words)

	Thomas Jefferson's Birthday<br>April 13
		Thomas Jefferson left his mark on America in a big way.
		Jefferson studied law at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
		Jefferson believed in religious freedom even though some people disagreed with him.
	www.classbrain.com /artholiday/publish/article_107.shtml (568 words)

	Martha Jefferson, First Lady
		Martha was born on October 30, 1748 in Charles City County, Virginia.
		When she was 18 she married Bathurst Skelton.
		Dolley Madison, the wife of Jefferson's Secretary of State, often was the hostess of White House dinners.
	www.classroomhelp.com /lessons/FirstLadies/MJefferson.html (73 words)

	Martha Jefferson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Martha was the third cousin of her second husband, President Thomas Jefferson.
		She died before her husband became president and her daughter took over the role of White House Hostess.
		There are no known portraits of Martha Jefferson in existance.
	library.thinkquest.org /TQ0312172/fljefferson.html (40 words)

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