I thought, this was a settled question!
Sally Hemings lived to be 61-62 years old, not bad for a slave!
"A descendant of Thomas Jefferson has petitioned a Nashville court to exhume the grave of Thomas’ nephew, John Randolph Jefferson, hoping to test DNA to prove Jefferson’s brother, Randolph, not the president, fathered the children of Jefferson’s slave, Sally Hemings."
"... The Thomas Jefferson Foundation says it is a "settled historical matter" that the third president fathered several children with Sally Hemings, one of the women he enslaved on his Virginia plantation, Monticello. ...
The evidence that Jefferson had a child with Hemings comes from a widely publicized Y-chromosome DNA study published in 1998 in the journal Nature, which proclaimed "Jefferson Fathered Slave’s Last Child." The study, however, was only able to show that a Jefferson family member, not Jefferson specifically, fathered Eston Hemings, and its title was later revised.
Works points to an alternative father: Jefferson's brother Randolph Jefferson, a planter who lived 20 miles south of Monticello. DNA testing, he thinks, may prove that. ..."
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