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Weren't there 7 adult males living in Monticello who were Jefferson's relatives during the same time period, who would show up on DNA testing as being equivalen
by patrickg_zill 9y ago
Weren't there 7 adult males living in Monticello who were Jefferson's relatives during the same time period, who would show up on DNA testing as being equivalent to him? I thought that the proof of it being TJ was later admitted to be not accurate enough to exactly pinpoint him?
- rmason 9y agoIt has always annoyed me mightily that people accept this as a foregone conclusion that Thomas Jefferson is the father. Historians condemned the original report by a lone graduate student which seems to be accepted as an absolute fact. Jefferson had a brother, Randolph, who was always at the plantation when Thomas was there who is documented to have had children with dozens of other slaves. Why wasn't that even considered? DNA tests only proved that a Jefferson male was the father, not Thomas Jefferson. There were 25 Jefferson males alive at the time who could have been the father. Only Randolph and Thomas were at the plantation every single time that Sally Hemmings got pregnant. http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-case-of-jefferson-and-hemings/ http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-case-of-jefferson...