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Father of President Thomas Jefferson. Peter Jefferson (February 29, 1708 - August 17, 1757) was the father of President Thomas Jefferson. Biography Peter Jefferson was the son of Thomas (1679-1731) and Mary Field (1680-1715). Jefferson was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia, one of six children. He did not receive any formal education while young, but according to his famous son, he nevertheless "read much and improved himself." In 1734, Jefferson claimed the land in present-day Albemarle County which he eventually named Shadwell. He married Jane Randolph in 1739 (daughter of Isham Randolph and granddaughter of William Randolph). For a year or two following his marriage, his residence was in present-day Powhatan County Virginia near Fine Creek. Jefferson built a house on the Shadwell tract in 1741 or 1742, and moved there sometime before Thomas Jefferson was born. Children Peter Jefferson's children were as follows: Jane Jefferson (1740-1765) - died unmarried at age 25 Mary Jefferson Bolling (1741-1811) - married John Bolling, who served in the Virginia House of Burgesses Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) Elizabeth Jefferson (1744-1774) - mentally handicapped Martha Jefferson Carr (1746-1811) - married Dabney Carr, founder of the underground Committee of Correspondence in Virginia on the eve of the American Revolution Peter Field Jefferson (1748-1748) - died as an infant Unnamed son (1750) - died as an infant Lucy Jefferson Lewis (1752-1810) Anna Scott Jefferson Marks (1755-1828) - twin of Randolph Randolph Jefferson (1755-1815) - twin of Anna Scott He was made one of the first officers of Albemarle County in 1745. Later in that same year, he was made guardian over the children of William Randolph, his wife's cousin who had recently died. He and his family moved to Tuckahoe in Goochland County, where Thomas Jefferson first attended school. In 1749, Peter Jefferson, along with Joshua Fry, Thomas Walker, Edmund Pendleton and others, established the Loyal Land Company, and were granted 800,000 acres (3,200 km²) in present-day Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. Peter Jefferson was a cartographer and surveyor who, along with Fry, completed the survey of the Virginia-North Carolina border, begun by William Byrd II some time earlier. The detailed Fry-Jefferson Map, cited by his son Thomas in Notes on the State of Virginia, was produced by him and Fry. The Jefferson family moved back to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson died at his house on the Shadwell tract in Albemarle County. It burned down in 1770. The area around his house is being studied, but his burial location is unknown. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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