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...acquired his own practice, between Williamsburg and his family's estate at Shadwell, 90 miles to the northwest. At 21 he came into his inheritance, and in 1769 he began work on his own estate, four miles from Shadwell, which is still uncompleted and which he calls Monticello, the Italian for "little mountain." (Its elevation is only 500 feet, but it provides a view of 20 miles to the Blue Ridge Mountains...
...methodical, almost obsessively orderly man, Jefferson has long kept a garden book in which he jots down when the flowers bloom at Monticello and when they die, as well as various account books in which even the smallest expenditure and receipt are entered. More recently, he has begun a farm book to record his plantings and crops, and in another ledger he has started recording each day's temperature. Last week, on the day his Declaration was accepted, he observed not only that the temperature was 68° at 6 o'clock in the morning but that it was 72?...
...Jefferson married relatively late, at 28. his wife, lovely, musical Martha Wayles Skelton, was the widow of his college friend Bathurst Skelton. According to the family story ?he himself is reticent about his private life?Jefferson apparently misjudged the traveling time and arrived with his new bride at Monticello in the snow late one night. Only a one-room building for his use was completed at the tune, and the servants had all gone to bed, leaving no fires burning. Despite that inauspicious beginning, the Jeffersons appear unusually contented. They have one daughter, Martha, 4 (a second daughter died...
Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday was hailed across the land last Tuesday. At Monticello, University of Virginia students gave him a cheer and a toast at dawn, and on the floor of the House of Representatives three scholars tried to pour a little of his wisdom into the heads of legislators, who were impatiently edging toward the Easter exit. Jerry Ford limousined over to the Jefferson Memorial to lay a wreath and claim some political kinship with the Virginian. And even one cab driver's tribute was recorded augustly by the Washington Post: "Yeah, I guess...
Serpent's Glance. The most solid evidence, according to Dabney, is that there were mulattoes at Monticello and some were related to Jefferson-but were fathered by Jefferson's father-in-law John Wayles and two nephews. The liaisons of the nephews with two of the Jefferson servants, Sally and Betsey Hemings, thus resulted in children who bore a likeness to Jefferson. While most of the evidence refuting the Jefferson paternity is noted by Brodie the historians complain that she dismissed it in her "obsession" with the mulatto question...