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Madison Hemings
Madison Hemings, born James Madison Hemings (18 January 1805 – 28 November 1877), was the son of the mixed-race slave Sally Hemings. He was the third of her four children—fathered by the man who enslaved her, President Thomas Jefferson—to survive to adulthood. Madison Hemings grew up on Jefferson's Monticello estate. Born into slavery by his mother's status, he was freed by the will of Jefferson in 1826. Based on historical and DNA evidence, historians widely agree that Jefferson
, where they married and had families. Madison said Harriet later lived in Maryland.
While Harriet and Beverly disappeared into history, more is known about the lives of their brothers Madison and Eston Hemings, who married in Charlottesville and began their families there. They both moved to Chillicothe in the free state of Ohio after their mother died in 1835. (See Madison Hemings and Eston Hemings.)
Question of relationship.
The Jefferson-Hemings controversy concerns the question of whether, after Jefferson became a widower, he