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Thomas Jefferson’s Family: A Genealogical Chart

First Generation Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) married Second Generation—Thomas Jefferson’s Married Children Martha Jefferson (1772–1836) married Maria Jefferson (1778–1804) married Madison Hemings (1805–1877) married Eston [Hemings] Jefferson (1808–1856) married Third Generation—Thomas Jefferson...

Hore Browse Trist to Nicholas P. Trist, 22 Oct. 1819

Time at present does not give me the means to make a long epistle, & Indeed if it was not on Fs account you should not hear from me for a week or so. I imagined that I told you all I knew respecting the university but as you say not, I must tell you the same tale over again. there is no...

Thomas Mann Randolph to Nicholas P. Trist, 5 June 1820

Your very acceptable favor of the 2d ult. has lain long unanswered from many causes, which I omitt to enumerate from my confidence in the stability of your friendly sentiments, and the consciousness of a permanent reciprocation of them in myself. General Lallemands proposals to publish his...

Martha Jefferson Randolph to Ann C. Morris, 27 May 1822

I received Your last some weeks before I left Monticello, but I believe you are so much accustomed to my bad ways that you do not require a fresh apology for every letter—I have in vain tried to be punctual, but bad habits are not so easily conquered, particularly when the causes which first gave...

Francis W. Gilmer to William Wirt, 30 Apr. 1824

When I returned from albemarle the day before yesterday, I found your letter waiting me. I thank you for it, and as I shall have but a few hours to delay on the journey I shall go from Norfolk to Baltimore directly. and I hope find you there on tuesday morning, for I leave this on sunday for...

Francis W. Gilmer to Dabney Carr, 3 May [1824]

I was so busy on Saturday I could not go to seek you— I did not know you had come, & here I am on my way far from you without shaking your hand—Keep my council, and tell no one where I am gone, for what, or any thing about the matter—Say I am gone north, which is true,

Francis W. Gilmer to John Randolph, 22 June 1824

I went yesterday to the house of Commons, returned late, hungry & fatigued, and never heard of your note without date, ’till this morning, on the instant of my departure. I had locked up the paper in my trunk, & English coaches no more than tides, wait for any one. I will keep it with the...

Extract from Alexander Garrett to John H. Cocke, 8 Apr. 1825

Doctor Dunglison had enquired of me if I knew where he could purchase a dining room servant, this enquiry induced me to wait on him yesterday and offer to hire him the boy you propose hiring, at first he seemed to prefer hiring a purchase, but at last concluded he would hire your boy. for the...

Jane H. Nicholas Randolph to Cary Ann Nicholas Smith, 27 June 1826

I received your affectionate letter last saturday & cant’ express to you how much gratified I am by it; nothing is so gratifying to me as to hear from my friends expressions of interest in me, which I never think of but with the greatest pleasure, & return with the truest attachment;...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, [2 July 1826]

After passing a very good night; this morning my dear grandfather began to give unequivocal indication of approaching dissolution. he sank rapidly for some time and is has since remaining remained stationary bearly sensible, occasionally, we look from hour to hour to a close to the scene.My...

Henry H. Worthington to Reuben B. Hicks, 5 July 1826

Your favour of the 31st of May last should have been acknowledged before this but for the presure of my studies. I have had more to do here of late than during any other part of the session. Most of the proffessors intending to go to the springs this summer & wishing to make up the time...

Andrew K. Smith's Account of the Funeral of Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1826

Jefferson. Mr. Andrew K. Smith, of the General Land Office, having noticed the death of Col. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Virginia, sends the Washington Republican the following interesting personal remembrances of the deceased and of Jefferson. They constitute a valuable contribution to the...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph to James Madison, 8 July 1826

Dr Dunglison is the bearer of a cane a legacy left you by my dear grandfather, as a token of that intimate friendship which had so long existed between you. The Dr can give you more fully than I could do in a letter any details interesting to a friend, which you might desire to hear. May I ask...

Thomas Jefferson Randolph to Dabney S. Carr, 11 July 1826

Will you desire Lewis to send me a coat, thin black waistcoat (I have a thick one) a pair of thin and another thick pantaloons, all black. likewise a suit of mourning for Trist by measure enclosed. The most awkward part of the commission to yourself will be standing security untill pay day. tell...

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 14 July 1826

I received by the last mail yours of the 8th inst: The Article bequeathed to me by your Grandfather, had been delivered by Dr Dunglison, and received with all the feelings due to such a token of the place I held in the friendship of one, whom I so much revered & loved, when living, and whose...

Resolutions of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences on the Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, 15 July 1826, enclosed in Asbury Dickins to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27

“In testimony of the profound respect entertained by the Institute for the illustrious memory of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two of the founders of the Republic, who descended to the tomb on the fiftieth anniversary of its independence; who, during a long life successfully devoted to their...

Dabney S. Carr to Jane H. Nicholas Randolph, 26 July 1826

I have been wanting to write to you for the last week, but have really been so much engaged that I had no time to do it. You must not despond too much about the situation in which Mr Jefferson’s death has left his family, and indeed your own. I yet hope myself that they will be relieved. The idea...

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