Thomas Jefferson was Born on April 13, 1743,on a farm called Shadwell, what is now called Monticello, in the county of Albermarle, Virginia. Jefferson was the third child in the family and grew up with six sisters and one brother. At the age of five, Jefferson was placed by his father, Peter Jefferson, at an "English school, for four years, where he developed an interest in botany, geology, cartography, and North American exploration". After English school, was transferred to a Latin school, where he remained five years under the watchful eye of Mr. Douglass, a clergyman from Scotland. This is were he found and developed a love for Greek and Latin, which helped him acquired at the same time a knowledge of the French. At this period, his father died, leaving him an orphan only fourteen years old and without a relative or friend to guide him. (Daugherty 59).
In 1760, at the age of 16, Jefferson entered the College of William and Mary where he studied under William Small and......
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