Thomas Jefferson
The author of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson. He was born April,13 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia he died July 4, 1826 in his lovely Monticello home.
He was born into a wealthy family. Peter Jefferson his father was a successful planter and
well known surveyor. Thomas Jefferson mother belonged to one of the most distinguished families in Virginia. His father left him the inheritance of land. where he began to build Monticello when he was just 26 years old. Three years later he married Martha Wayles . His wife had six children, 4 of them died, so only 2 survived his wife soon died later of unknown causes. Thomas never found it in his heart to remarry. So in the meantime he kept his house in Monticello. He never felt entirely comfortable with his house so he always changed it around.
Well soon after Jefferson inherited slaves from his father and father in law. In a regular year he had 200 slaves most who were under the age of sixteen.......
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