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James Knox Polk (1795–1849) Samuel Polk. Jane Knox Yes: Yes: Robert Bruce Polk (great-grandfather) Lifford, Ireland → Province of Maryland (c. 1680) [10] [17] 12 Zachary Taylor (1784–1850) Richard Taylor. Sarah Dabney Strother Yes: James Taylor (2nd great-grandfather) England → Colony of Virginia [18] 13 Millard Fillmore (1800–1874 ...
The claim that Tyler had fathered multiple children with slaves was largely ignored by 19th-century historians. In addition to the Dunjees, the Brown family of Charles City County claims descent from Tyler by an enslaved concubine. Biographer Edward P. Crapol states that Tyler's white descendants are skeptical of claims by the Browns. However ...
James Madison Jr. was born on March 16, 1751 (March 5, 1750, Old Style), at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway in the Colony of Virginia, to James Madison Sr. and Eleanor Madison. His family had lived in Virginia since the mid-17th century. [9] Madison's maternal grandfather, Francis Conway, was a prominent planter and tobacco merchant. [10]
The Hemings family lived in Virginia in the 1700s and 1800s. The family consisted of Elizabeth "Betty" Hemings and her children and other descendants. They were slaves with at least one ancestor who had lived in Africa and been brought over the Atlantic Ocean in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Some of them became free later in their lives.
The Grant family was the last slave-holding family to live in the White House. Grant owned a slave during the Civil War but freed the slave soon after. 19 Family of Rutherford B. Hayes: March 4, 1877 — March 4, 1881 Rutherford and Lucy Hayes Birchard, Webb, Rutherford, Fanny, and Scott: 20 Family of James Garfield: March 4, 1881 — September ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. Slave of Thomas Jefferson (c. 1773–1835) Sally Hemings Born Sarah Hemings c. 1773 Charles City County, Virginia, British America Died 1835 (aged 61–62) Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. Known for Slave owned by Thomas Jefferson, alleged mother to his shadow family Children 6, including ...
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Other members of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello family have (as of 2018) [19] accepted the fact that Thomas Jefferson is the father of Sally Hemings' six children. Eston Hemmings changed his name to Jefferson in his lifetime. In 1873, Madison Hemings and Israel Gillette separately recorded reminiscences of life at Monticello. Both identified ...