Biography of sally hemings
Biography of sally hemings
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As a child, she was probably a nursemaid to Jefferson's daughter Maria (enslaved girls from the age of six or eight were childminders and assistants to head nurses on southern plantations).
Sally Hemings and Maria Jefferson were living at Eppington — residence of Maria's aunt and uncle — in 1787, when Jefferson's long-expressed desire to have his daughter join him in France was carried out.
Fourteen-year-old Sally and eight-year-old Maria crossed the Atlantic Ocean to London that summer. They were received by John and Abigail Adams, who wrote that Sally "seems fond of the child and appears good naturd."[1] Jefferson's French butler, Adrien Petit, escorted the two girls from London to Paris.
It is not known whether Sally Hemings lived at Jefferson's residence, the Hôtel de Langeac, or at the Abbaye Royale de Panthemont, where Martha (Patsy) and Maria (Polly)&