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Madison Hemings (January 19, 1805 – November 28, 1877) was the son of Sally Hemings and, most likely, Thomas Jefferson. He was the third of Sally Hemings’ four children to survive to adulthood. Born into slavery, according to partus sequitur ventrem, Hemings grew up on Jefferson's Monticello plantation, where his mother was also ...
Madison Hemings was the second surviving son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. He was born in 1805, became free in 1827, and moved to Ohio with his family in the 1830s.
Detail from Madison Hemings's published recollections. I never knew of but one white man who bore the name of Hemings; he was an Englishman and my greatgrandfather. He was captain of an English trading vessel which sailed between England and Williamsburg, Va., then quite a port.
Madison Hemings was the son of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. He recounted his family history, his time in France, and his freedom in his memoir published in 1873.
4. Juli 2018 · Madison Hemings, the third of the Jefferson-Hemings children who survived into adulthood, offered his account of second-family life at Monticello in a poignant, strikingly detailed memoir...
Madison Hemings. One of the most revealing sources about the Hemings family and life at Monticello is a newspaper publication of the recollections of Madison Hemings in 1873. In it he referred many times to his father, Thomas Jefferson, and he passed this family history on to his children.
Madison Hemings was described by a U.S. census taker as the son of Thomas Jefferson in 1870. Israel Gillette Jefferson, formerly enslaved at Monticello, corroborated Madison Hemings’s claim in the same newspaper, referring to Sally Hemings as Thomas Jefferson’s “concubine.”
