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Study for The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton.
Because his subject was deceased, Trumbull used for his model Mercer's son Hugh Jr.; he twice sketched the young man in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in April 1791.
General Hugh Mercer, Jr., 1791
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.
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1974)