![]() ![]() ![]() James Hemings was literate but left behind no memoir. Jefferson inherited The Forest from his father-in-law, John Wayles, who was also the father of James Hemings.ġ774 The Hemings and Jefferson families formed complex connections between one another and the connection between Thomas Jefferson and James Hemings was no exception. This map shows Thomas Jefferson's landholdings and plantations during his lifetime. When Wayles died in 1773, Jefferson inherited James Hemings, his mother, several of his siblings, and many other enslaved people who were uprooted from The Forest to become part of the enslaved community at Monticello. ![]() Wayles did not acknowledge paternity of the five children he fathered with a woman he enslaved, Elizabeth Hemings, including James Hemings. 1765 James Hemings was born at The Forest, the Virginia plantation of his father, John Wayles, a slave trader and lawyer whose daughter Martha married Thomas Jefferson. ![]()
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