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John Wayles
John Wayles had three wives and a slave concubine, having at least 13 children:


 * John Wayles (31 January 1715 – 28 May 1773)
 * first wife: Martha Eppes (10 April 1721 – 5 November 1748)
 * daughter (23 December 1746 – 23 December 1746)
 * son (23 December 1746 – 23 December 1746)
 * Martha (31 October 1748 – 6 September 1782), married Bathurst Skelton, Thomas Jefferson
 * second wife: Tabitha Cocke (d. between 1756-1759)
 * Sarah (d. in childhood)
 * Elizabeth (b. 4 February 1752), married Eppes
 * Tabitha (b. 16 November 1753)
 * Ann/Anne (b. 26 August 1756)
 * third wife: Elizabeth Lomax Skelton (d. 10 February 1761), widow of Reuben Skelton (older brother of Bathurst Skelton, husband of Wayles's daughter Martha)
 * slave concubine: Elizabeth Hemings (c. 1735 – 1807)
 * Robert
 * James
 * Critta
 * Thenia
 * Peter
 * Sally

Elizabeth Hemings
Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings was 1/2 white slave and concubine to John Wayles. She was the daughter of Susannah Epps (full-blood African slave belonging to Francis Eppes IV) and John Hemings (white sea captain). She was given to Wayles when he married Martha Eppes (Francis' daughter). She had 12 children, all born slaves. After Wayles' death, she and her children became property of Martha (Wayles' daughter) and Thomas Jefferson. All the children were trained as skilled artisans and domestic servants, none worked in the fields.


 * Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings (c. 1735 – 1807)
 * children with fellow slave? – children were at least 1/4 white
 * Mary Hemings (1753 – after 1834) → seamstress, bought & informally freed by Thomas Bell (white man) in 1792
 * Daniel Farley (1772-after 1827)
 * Molly Hemings (1777-after 1790)
 * Joseph Fossett (1780-1858), fathered by William Fossett (white workman), freed in Jefferson's will in 1826
 * Betsy Hemmings (1783–1857), concubine of John Wayles Eppes (husband to Jefferson's daughter, Mary Jefferson Eppes)
 * Robert Washington Bell, fathered by Thomas Bell who bought & informally freed her in 1792
 * Sally Jefferson Bell, fathered by Thomas Bell who bought & informally freed him in 1792
 * Martin Hemings → butler
 * Bett/Betsey/Betty Brown (1759 – after 1831) → personal servant to Martha Wayles (her half-siblings' half-sister), her children included:
 * Wormley Hughes (1781–1858) → gardener, informally freed by Martha Jefferson Randolph (Jefferson's daughter) after Jefferson's death per his recommendation, but his wife & children remained in slavery, had at least eight children including
 * Fountain Hughes (10 May 1848 – 1957), grandson of Wormley Hughes, born a slave, freed in 1865 (after Civil War)
 * Burwell Colbert (1783 – c. 1862) → butler and personal valet to Thomas Jefferson, freed in Jefferson's will in 1826
 * Nance Hemings (1761 – after 1827) → weaver
 * children with her slave master, John Wayles – children were 3/4 white & half-siblings to Martha Jefferson
 * Robert Hemings (1762–1819), purchased his own freedom from Jefferson in 1794
 * James Hemings (1765–1801) → chef, freed by Jefferson in 1796
 * Critta Hemings (1767–1795), bought & freed by Francis W. Eppes (Jefferson's grandson through daughter Mary Jefferson Eppes), married Zachariah Bowles (black free man)
 * Thenia Hemings (1769–1850)
 * Peter Hemings (1770 – after 1834) → chef
 * Sally Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835), had six children with Jefferson
 * child with Joseph Neilson (Irish workman) – child was 3/4 white
 * John Hemings (1776–1833) → ironworker, freed in Jefferson's will in 1826
 * child with fellow slave? – child was at least 1/4 white
 * Lucy Hemings (1777–1786)

Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson

- close to Hemings family, particularily Sally Hemings
 * freed three slaves during his lifetime
 * Robert Hemings (3/4 white) in 1794, after he paid for his freedom (using money lent by his future employer, George Frederick Stras)
 * James Hemings (3/4 white) in 1796, likely after James forced him (Jefferson took James to France & north states, where there was no slavery, so James may have used that to refuse to return to VA unless freed)
 * Harriet Hemings (Sally's daughter, likely with Jefferson, 7/8 white) in 1822, after she ran away (other sources say he never officially freed her but helped her escape)
 * also allowed Beverly Hemings (Sally's son, likely with Jefferson, 7/8 white) to escape earlier in 1822
 * freed five slaves in his will of 1826
 * Madison Hemings (Sally's son, likely with Jefferson, 7/8 white)
 * Eston Hemings (Sally's son, likely with Jefferson, 7/8 white)
 * John Hemings (Sally's half-brother, 3/4 white)
 * Burwell Colbert (son of Sally's half-sister Bett, at least 1/8 white)
 * Joseph Fossett (son of Sally's half-sister Mary, 5/8 white)
 * Jefferson's daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, informally freed a couple slaves, "giving their time"
 * Sally Hemings (3/4 white)
 * Wormley Hughes (son of Sally's half-sister Bett, Burwell Colbert's half-brother, at least 1/8 white)

Eppes

 * Francis Eppes IV – married Sarah Royall Kennon
 * Martha Eppes – daughter of Francis & Sarah, first wife of John Wayles
 * Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson – daughter of Martha & Wayles, married Thomas Jefferson
 * Mary Jefferson Eppes – son of Martha & Jefferson, married John Wayles Eppes
 * Francis W. Eppes – son of Mary & John
 * Richard Isham Eppes – son of Francis & Sarah, married Martha Cocke Bolling
 * Francis Eppes VI – son of Richard & Martha, husband of Elizabeth Wayles (daughter of John Wayles & Tabitha Cocke), first cousin of Martha Jefferson
 * John Wayles Eppes – son of Francis & Elizabeth, married paternal-second-cousin maternal-half-first-cousin Mary Jefferson Eppes, also had concubine Betsy Hemmings (daughter of Mary Hemings)
 * Francis W. Eppes – son of Mary & John, freed Critta Hemings (Mary Hemings & Martha Jefferson's half-sister, Francis's half-great-aunt)