Her father was their master John Wayles (1715–1773). Sally Hemings was born about 1773 to Betty Hemings (1735–1807), a biracial slave. Hemings was "given her time", and lived her last nine years freely with her two younger sons in Charlottesville, and saw a grandchild born in the house her sons owned. Descendants of those three identified as white. They were seven-eighths European in ancestry, and three of the four entered white society as adults. Jefferson freed all of Hemings's children: Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston, as they came of age (they were the only slave family freed by Jefferson).
Hemings's children lived in Jefferson's house as slaves and were trained as artisans. A small number of historians, however, still disagree. Following renewed historic analysis in the late 20th century and a 1998 DNA study that found a match between the Jefferson male line and a descendant of Hemings's last son, Eston Hemings, there is a near-consensus among historians that the widower Jefferson fathered her son Eston Hemings and probably all her children. The historical question of whether Jefferson was the father of Hemings's children is known as the Jefferson–Hemings controversy. Hemings was a slave in Jefferson's house until his death. Hemings had six children of record born into slavery four survived to adulthood. It is believed by most historians that Jefferson began a sexual relationship with Hemings either in France or soon after their return to Monticello. In 1787, Hemings, at the age of 14, accompanied Jefferson's youngest daughter Mary (Polly) to London and then to Paris, where the widowed Jefferson, 44 years old at the time, was serving as the United States Minister to France. Hemings was the youngest of six siblings by the widowed planter John Wayles and his mixed-race slave Betty Hemings Sally and her siblings were three-quarters European and half-siblings of Jefferson's wife, Martha Wayles Skelton. 1773 – 1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson and who is believed to have had a long-term relationship and six children with him, of whom four survived and all were given freedom by Jefferson. James Hemings, John Hemings, Mary Hemings, John Wayles Jefferson, Frederick Madison Roberts Harriet Hemings, Beverly Hemings, Harriet Hemings (II), Madison Hemings, Eston Hemings 7 Grandchildren and other detail of descendants.
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