- A team performing restoration of the wine-cellar at Liberty Hall Museum recently uncovered wine dating back to 1796. During a six-month renovation, three crates and 42 large casks — demijohns — were discovered, including bottles labeled
Robert Lenox of Philadelphia 1796.
See ABC News (11-Jul-2017).
Revolution-Era Wine Discovered
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)