William Beverly Hemings

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William Beverly Hemings (April 1, 1798 – 1873), also referred to by family members as Beverley, was the son of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman at Monticello, and widely believed to be the eldest son of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States. He was one of four Hemings children to survive to adulthood and was part of the large enslaved Hemings family closely associated with Jefferson. Additional samples of Thomas Jefferson's hair were identified in the 21st century and were used to create a Jefferson DNA profile, against which those of known descendants of Hemings’ younger brothers, Madison Hemings and Eston Hemings, were compared. The later DNA testing conclusively proved that Jefferson fathered both Madison and Eston Hemings. Descendants of Hemings and his sister, Harriet Hemings, who both reportedly married white spouses and lived as white, have not thus far been identified.

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