Showing posts with label Jefferson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jefferson. Show all posts

Tuesday, 26 June 2018

192) Martha Jefferson Randolph

Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772 - 1836). Daughter of American president Thomas Jefferson and his wife Martha Wayles Skelton.
"Martha was tall and slim with angular features and red hair, and was said to have closely resembled her father."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Jefferson_Randolph




Wednesday, 20 June 2018

140) Martha Jefferson

Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson (1748 - 1782). Wife of American president Thomas Jefferson. Mother of Martha Jefferson Randolph.
"She was pretty, her figure 'slight', but shapely, and her eyes were hazel and and her hair auburn"
https://books.google.it/books

139) Eston Hemings Jefferson

Eston Hemings Jefferson (1808 – 1856). Born a slave, the illegitimate son of American president Thomas Jefferson.
"Eston, who became a skilled carpenter, had Jefferson-like red hair and freckles."
https://people.uwec.edu/ivogeler/w188/jeff.htm

138) Thomas Jefferson


Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826). American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he had served as the second vice president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level.

Husband of Martha Wayles Skelton  and father of Martha Jefferson Randolph and of Eston Hemings Jefferson. 

- "Although his natural hair color was consistently described as red or sandy red, it was often dressed and powdered."
http://www.isthisjefferson.com/DLP_E01.html 

- "Hair Color: reddish"
https://foundingbrothersproject.weebly.com/thomas-jefferson.html

- "It is still well covered with hair, which having been once red, and now turning gray, is of an indistinct sandy color." https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/physical-descriptions-jefferson