Mary Jefferson 
Mary was born in 1778 in Monticello, Albemarle, Virginia, USA.1 Mary's father was Thomas President Jefferson and her mother was Martha Wayles. Her paternal grandparents were Peter Jefferson and Jane Isham Randolph; her maternal grandparents were John Wayles and Martha Eppes. She had a brother and four sisters, named Son, Martha, Jane Randolph, Lucy Elizabeth and Lucy Elizabeth. She was the third youngest of the six children. She had a half-brother named John. She died at the age of 26 in 1804 in VA.1 General Notes
The Favorite of Everyone"
Martha's sister Maria, called Polly as a child, was sent to stay with her aunt, Elizabeth Wayles Eppes, following her mother's death. Polly became very attached to the family at Eppington, and when Jefferson arranged for the eight-year-old to join him and Martha in Paris, she wrote, "I don't want to go to France, I had rather stay with Aunt Eppes." Upon her arrival in England, Polly lived briefly with Abigail and John Adams, who were so charmed by the little girl that Mrs. Adams wrote to Jefferson that "she was the favorite of everyone in the house."
In 1797, Maria married her cousin, John Wayles Eppes, and returned to live at Eppington. Like her mother, Maria suffered from poor health; she died at the age of twenty-five. After her death, which followed the death in infancy of three sisters and a brother?, the grieving Jefferson wrote his friend John Page that "I...have lost even the half of what I had. My evening prospects now hang on the slender thread of a single life. Perhaps I may be destined to see even this last chord of parental affection broken!"
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
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- b.BET 1679 AND 1680 d.~ 1731
- b.29 FEB 1707/08 in Osborne, Chesterfield Co, VA d.17 Aug 1757 in Goochland, VA
- b.1647 d.1707
- b.1680 in VA d.1715
- b.1610 in England d.1668
- b.1646 in Littleton, England d.24 Jul 1707 in New Kent Co., VA
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- b.13 Apr 1743 in Shadwell,Albermarle Co., VA d.04 Jul 1826 in "Monticello", Albemarle County, VA
- b.21 FEB 1620/21 in Morton Hall, Warwickshire, Eng d.1671 in Dublin, Ireland
- b.1650 in Warwickshire, England d.21 Apr 1711 in Turkey Island, Henrico Co., VA
- b.1625 in Morton Morell, Warwickshire, England d.1670 in Dublin, Ireland
- b.JAN 1684/85 in Turkey Island, Henrico Co., VA d.02 Nov 1742 in Dungeness, Goochland Co., VA
- b.1626 in of Northamptonshire, England, d.1676 in VA
- b.1660 in Bermuda Hundred, Henrico, VA, USA d.29 Dec 1735 in Turkey Island, on James River, Henrico, VA
- b.1627 in Canterbury, Kent, England d.01 Dec 1686 in Henrico, VA, USA
- b.1720 in London, England d.31 Mar 1776 in Shadwell, Goochland, VA, USA
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- b.1695 in of Shadgate Street, London, Eng. d.<21 Jul 1761 in VA
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- b.1778 in Monticello, Albemarle, Virginia, USA d.1804 in VA
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- b.30 Oct 1748 in Charles City, VA, USA d.06 Sep 1782 in "Monticello", Albemarle County, Va
- d.1655 in VA
- b.1628 in Virginia, USA d.1678 in Henrico, Virginia, USA
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- d.1631
- b.1626 in of Northamptonshire, England, d.1676 in VA
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- b.1627 in Canterbury, Kent, England d.01 Dec 1686 in Henrico, VA, USA
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Details of Mary's family with John Wayles Eppes
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