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michael THOMAS JEFFERSON, author of the Declaration of Independence, was born on April 13, 1743 and grew up on the family plantation at Shadwell in Albermarle County, Virginia. His father was scratch Jefferson, who, with the aid of thirty slaves, tilled a tobacco and chaff farm of 1,900 acres and like his fathers before him, was a justness of the peace, a vestryman of his parish and a member of the colonial legislature. The first of the Virginia Jeffersons of welch extraction, Peter in 1738 married Jane Randolph. Of their ten children, doubting Thomas was the third.

Thomas inherited a full measure of his fathers bodily military force and stature, both having been esteemed in their prime as the strongest men of their county. He also inherited his fathers inclination to liberal politics, his mouthful for literature and his aptitude for mathematics. The Jeffersons were a musical family; the girls sang the songs of the time, and Thomas, practicing the violin assiduously from boyhood, became an excellen...If you want to get a full essay, set it on our website: Orderessay

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