• and half-sister of Martha Jefferson. Wayles was born in the city of Lancaster on January 31, 1715. The young Wayles likely became aware of the burgeoning...
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    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...
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  • Martha Wayles was born on October 30, 1748 (O.S. October 19, 1748), the only surviving child born to Martha Eppes Wayles (1721–1748) and John Wayles (1715–1773)...
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    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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  • at Monticello. Betty's owner, John Wayles, was widowed three times. In 1761, after the death of his third wife, Wayles and Betty began a relationship...
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  • marriage to Wayles. John Wayles was the son of Edward and Ellen (née Ashburner) Wayles, both from Lancaster, England. Following Martha's death, Wayles remarried...
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  • Betty Hemings and John Wayles (Jefferson's father-in-law), she and her siblings were half-siblings to Jefferson's wife Martha Wayles and were three-quarters...
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  • daughters stayed at Eppington with their aunt and uncle, Elizabeth Wayles Eppes and Francis Wayles Eppes, who was her mother's cousin. Between December 1782 and...
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    Washington John Weddell (1583–1642), English sea captain of the East India Company John Wayles (1715–1773), American colonial planter and slave trader John O....
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  • Martha Jefferson. Martha, Sally, and James shared John Wayles as a father. It was said that Wayles had taken James's mother Betty Hemings, who was his...
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