- John
Wayles (January 31, 1715 – May 28, 1773) was a
colonial American planter,
slave trader and
lawyer in
colonial Virginia. He is
historically best known...
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Martha Skelton Jefferson (née
Wayles;
October 30, 1748 –
September 6, 1782) was the wife of
Thomas Jefferson from 1772
until her death. She
served as First...
- John
Wayles Jefferson (born John
Wayles Hemings; May 8, 1835 – June 12, 1892), was an
American businessman and
Union Army
officer in the
American Civil...
- John
Wayles Eppes (April 1772 –
September 13, 1823) was an
American lawyer and politician. He
represented Virginia in the U.S.
House of Representatives...
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Eleonora Wayles "Ellen"
Randolph Coolidge (October 1796 –
April 21, 1876) was the
granddaughter of
Thomas Jefferson and
daughter of
Martha Jefferson Randolph...
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slave of mixed-ethnicity in
colonial Virginia. With her owner,
planter John
Wayles, she had six children,
including Sally Hemings.
These children were three-quarters...
-
Thomas Jefferson,
inherited among many
others from his father-in-law, John
Wayles. Hemings'
mother was
Betty Hemings, the
daughter of an
enslaved woman and...
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Eppes Wayles Browne III (born July 19, 1941, Washington, DC) is a linguist, Slavist,
translator and
editor of
Slavic journals in
several countries. Browne...
- Jefferson, the
third president of the
United States, and his wife,
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. She was born at Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia...
- "A
wayle whyt ase
whalles bon" ('A
beauty white as whale's bone'), also
titled after the
opening of its
refrain "Ich
wolde ich were a threstelcok" ('I...
