The Farm Book, plus the elaborate chronologies made by Jefferson scholars which document almost every day of his life, demonstrate that contrary to what Martha [Jefferson] Randolph told her sons, Jefferson was not only not distant
from Sally Hemings but in the same house nine months before the births of each of her seven children, and that she conceived no children when he was not there.
Governor
Soldier, politician, New York governor, vice president under Jefferson and Madison; 1739—1812.
Boston merchant, signer of the Declaration of Independence, Massachusetts governor; 1737—93.
Lawyer, diplomat, Continental congressman, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; 1745—1829.
Lawyer, architect, drafter of the Declaration of Independence, Virginia governor, diplomat, third President, founder of the University of Virginia; 1743—1826.
Soldier, lawyer, Virginia governor, diplomat, Secretary of State, Secretary of War, fifth President; 1758—1831.
Soldier, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, congressman, South Carolina governor, senator; 1757—1824.
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974)