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Thomas Jefferson
Famous DNA - Thomas Jefferson
Friday, June 19, 2009 | 09:41 am PDTThomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 to July 4, 1826) was the third president of the United States(1801-1809). Thomas Jefferson was once of the most influential founders of the United States andwrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, a document in which the individual Colonies in North America declared independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. This declaration wasratified and adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776. This important date is celebrated today asIndependence Day in the United States.Discover your relation to Thomas Jefferson »Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd of 10 children, was born to a prosperous family in Virginia who owned a plantation in Albemarle County called Shadwell. His father, Peter Jefferson, was a planter andsurveyor and his mother, Jane Randolp, was the cousin of Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress.Jefferson was a agriculturalist, horticulturist, architect (he was the principal designer of his famedhome "Monticello"), etymologist, archaeologist, mathematician, cryptographer, surveyor, paleontologist, author, lawyer (admitted to the Virginia bar in 177), inventor, and violinist. Heserved as the governor of Virginia from 1779-1781 and oversaw the transfer of the state capitolfrom Williamsbur to Richmond in 1780. From 1785-1789, Jefferson served as minister to Franceand served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington from 1789-1793 and was electedVice Presendent from 1797-1801. Jefferson was President from 1806 to 1809, the first to start andend in the White House, and the first Domecratic-Republican Presidency. He was also the founder of the University of Virginia. Jefferson was considered by many as being among the most brilliantmen who ever occupied the Presidency.Discover your relation to Thomas Jefferson »Recently, there has been much interest in the controversy of whether Jefferson was the father of anyof the children of his slave, Sally Hemmings. The descendents of Field Jefferson were tested as
 
carriers of the direct male line markers of Thomas Jefferson and the Jefferson line markers obtainedwere compared against the markers of Eston Hemings, the direct male line descendent of SallyHeming's son. Y-DNA marker testing concluded a valid link, indicating that Eston Heming's paternal line was Jefferson!Find out if you are in the direct male line of Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. Themarkers listed below are those originally used to prove or disprove the theory that Jeffersonfathered the children of one of his slaves, Sally Hemmings.Discover your relation to Thomas Jefferson »Y-DNA Haplogroup of Thomas Jefferson:K Y-DNA Haplotype of Thomas Jefferson:DYS393 DYS390 DYS19 DYS391 DYS426 DYS388 DYS389i DYS389ii DYS392 DYS156y13 24 15 10 12 12 12 27 15 7ReferencesEUGENE A. FOSTER*, M. A. JOBLING, P. G. TAYLOR, P. DONNELLY, P. DE KNIJFF, RENEMIEREMET, T. ZERJAL & C. TYLER-SMITH"Jefferson Fathered Slave's Last Child," Nature, November 5, 1998Abstract: There is a long-standing historical controversy over the question of US President ThomasJefferson's paternity of the children of Sally Hemings, one of his slaves,. To throw some scientificlight on the dispute, we have compared Y-chromosomal DNA haplotypes from male-linedescendants of Field Jefferson, a paternal uncle of Thomas Jefferson, with those of male-linedescendants of Thomas Woodson, Sally Hemings' putative first son, and of Eston HemingsJefferson, her last son. The molecular findings fail to support the belief that Thomas Jefferson wasThomas Woodson's father, but provide evidence that he was the biological father of Eston HemingsJefferson.Lander ES, Ellis JJ."Founding Father," Nature. 1998 Nov 5;396(6706):13-4.Jurimetrics. 2002 Winter;42(2):199-207.Genetic research and communal narratives.Davis DS.Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, USA.The use of DNA evidence to prove Thomas Jefferson's paternity of Sally Hemmings' children is a powerful example of how genetic research can have an impact upon the communal narratives of families and nations.Thomas Jefferson's Y chromosome: the power and limitations of DNA analysis.J Miss State Med Assoc. 1999 Jan;40(1):18-23. No abstract available.Jefferson's descendants continue to deny slave link. Nature. 2002 May 16;417(6886):213. No abstract available. Erratum in: Nature 2002 Jul11;418(6894):125.Corneliussen ST.
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