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        1. Did martha jefferson know about sally hemings
        2. How old was sally hemings when she died
        3. What happened to sally hemings' children
        4. Sally hemings descendants
        5. Sally hemings cause of death

          6. What happened to sally hemings' children.

          Early Years

          Hemings was born enslaved in 1773 and belonged to John Wayles, a lawyer and planter originally from England. She was the daughter of the enslaved woman Elizabeth Hemings (known as Betty) and, according to Hemings family tradition, of Wayles himself.

          Sally Hemings’s son Madison Hemings said that after the death of his third wife, in 1761, Wayles took Betty “as his concubine.” In addition to her four to five children from previous relationships, Betty Hemings gave birth to six more by Wayles: Robert, born in 1762; James, born in 1765; Thenia, born in 1767; Critta, born in 1769; Peter, born in 1770; and Sally, whose given name, some historians contend, was Sarah.

          It is unclear whether Hemings was born before Wayles’s death on May 28, 1773.

          Wayles’s will was proved on July 7, 1773, but the various issues involving his estate’s property, which included the Hemings family, were not sorted out until January 1774.

          In the meantime, Betty Hem