Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (115 page)

T
HOMAS
M
ANN
R
AND
OLPH
, J
R
.,
THE
MAN
WHO
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JeffersON,” 66.

“H
IS
MIND
WAS
ALWAYS
CLEAR
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 543.

J
EFFERSON
T
OLD
HIS
GRANDSON
IbID., 544.

L
E
E
WAS
ON
A
MISSION
VTM,
108.

P
ATSY
STOPPED
L
EE
IbiD., 108–9.

HE
W
AS
“
NEVER
MORE
TO
BEH
OLD
”
IbID., 109.

J
EFFERSON
,
LYING
IN
HIS
BED
IBID.

“M
Y
EMOT
IONS
AT
APPROACHING
”
IBID.

J
EFFERSON
COULD
NOT
HELP
L
EE
IbiD., 108–9.

AN
INTRIGU
ING
DETAIL
Ibid., 109–10.

“M
RS
. R
ANDO
LPH
AFTERWARDS
TOLD
ME
”
IbId., 110.

H
E
SAID
GOOD
-
BYE
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 543–44.

“G
EORGE
DOES
NOT
”
IbiD., 544.

“L
ORD
,
NOW
LETTEST
THOU
THY
SERVANT
”
IbID., 547.

T
H
OMAS
J
EFFERSON
R
ANDOLP
H
SUGGESTED
IbiD., 543.

“D
O
NOT
IMAGINE
FOR
A
MOMENT
”
IBID.

“
THAT
ETERNAL
SLEE
P
”
TJ to William Short, May 5, 1816. Extract published at Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series Digital Archive, www.monticello.org/familyletters (accessEd 2012).

H
E
AWOKE
TO
A
NOI
SE
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 543.

H
E
HAD
COMPOSE
D
A
POEM
TDLTJ,
429. Also see Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JeffeRSON,” 73.

MUSED
ABO
UT
THE
R
EVOLUTION
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 543.

H
IS
BED
CURTAINS
,
HE
NOTE
D
IbID.

“A
FEW
HOURS
MORE
”
IBid.

A
T
FIVE
FORTY
-
FIVE
P
.
M
.
ON
THE
SECOND
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JefferSoN,” 73.

H
E
SLEPT
FITFULLY
IBId.

T
HE
N
,
ON
THE
EVENING
OF
THE
THIRD
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 548.

J
EFFERS
ON
TOOK
WHAT
WOULD
B
E
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JeffersOn,” 73.

“O
H
G
OD
”
Nicholas P. Trist to Joseph Coolidge, “His Bedside, July 4th, 1826,” University of Virginia, Correspondence of Ellen Wayles Randolph COoliDGE.

“N
O
, D
OCTOR
,
N
OTHING
MORE
”
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JefferSOn,” 74.

T
HE
REM
AINING
THREE
HOURS
IbID., 75.

“T
HIS
IS
THE
F
OURTH
?
IBID.

T
RIST
COULD
NOT
BRING
HIMSELF
IBID.

MURMURING
ABOUT
THE
R
EVOLUTIONA
RY
C
OMMITTEE
OF
S
AFETY
Ibid., 74–75.

“W
ARN
THE
C
OMMITTEE
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 546.

A
T
FOUR
O
'
CLOCK
I
N
THE
MORNING
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JefferSoN,” 75.

A
T
TE
N
HE
STIRRED
IbiD.

I
T
WAS
B
URWELL
C
OLBERT
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 544. Also see Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of Monticello,
650–51.

A
T
TEN
MINUTES
BEFORE
ONE
O
'
CLOC
K
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 542.

H
E
DIED
WITH
HI
S
EYES
OPEN
IbID., 544.

T
HOMAS
J
EFFERSON
R
ANDOLPH
TOU
CHED
IBId.

N
ICHOLAS
T
RIST
QUIETLY
CLIPPED
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JefferSOn,” 76.

T
HE
WOODEN
COFFIN
BUILT
BY
J
OHN
H
EMINGS
Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of MonticELLo,
651.

TH
E
COFFIN
WAS
TAKEN
T
O
THE
PARLOR
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JeffersOn,” 77.

“T
O
ME
HE
HAS
BEEN
MORE
”
Randall,
Jefferson,
III, 551.

“H
E
LIVES
AND
WILL
LIV
E
”
IbiD., 550.

“H
E
OUGHT
TO
BE
RE
VERED
”
VTM,
102–3.

W
ORMLEY
H
UGHE
S
,
THE
GARDENER
,
DUG
Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of MonticeLLo,
652.

T
HE
WEATHER
HAD
BE
EN
WET
Bear, “Last Few Days in the Life of Thomas JeffeRSOn,” 77.

GOT
A
LATE
S
TART
IbID., 78.

A
SMALL
GROUP
IbiD., 77–78.

READ
THE
BURIAL
OFFI
CE
Ibid., 78.

“
‘I
AM
THE
RESURR
ECTION
AND
THE
LIFE
'
”
IbID.

I
N
HIS
LIFE
AND
IN
HIS
W
ILL
J
EFFERSON
Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of MonticellO,
649–51.

THE
FOUR
CHILDREN
OF
J
EFF
ERSON
AND
S
ALLY
'
S
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/sally-hemings (accessed 2012). This article is based on the research of Lucia STANTOn.

“H
A
RRIET
MARRIED
A
WHIT
E
MAN
”
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/harriet-hemings (accessED 2012).

M
ADISON
WAS
F
REED
IN
J
EFFERSON
'
S
W
ILL
TJF, http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/sally-hemings (accesSED 2012).

MOVED
TO
O
HIO
IBiD.

S
ETTLED
IN
W
ISCONSIN
IBiD.

CHANGED
HIS
NAME
IBId.

DECLARED
HIMSELF
TO
BE
WHITE
IBID.

B
OTH
W
ERE
CARPENTERS
AND
F
ARMERS
IbID.

I
N
HIS
WILL
J
EFFERSON
ALSO
FREED
Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of MonticELlO,
647.

NO
OTHER
SLAVES
IBID., 657.

SOON
MOVED
TO
C
HARLOTTE
SVILLE
IbID., 659.

J
EFFERSON
DI
D
NOT
NAME
HER
IN
HI
S
WILL
IbID., 657.

T
HERE
IS
EVI
DENCE
Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of Monticello,
657. “Sally Hemings's situation was convoluted and mysterious, as it had been since her return to America, but one can piece together what happened,” wrote Gordon-Reed. “Many years later, in 1873, Israel Gillette stated that Jefferson had freed seven slaves, including Sally Hemings and all her children. Of course, he only freed five people in his will. Beverly and Harriet Hemings simply left Monticello as white people with no formal emancipation. Who were the other two? Jefferson evidently made oral bequests of freedom as well. Members of his family told Henry Randall that Jefferson had directed his daughter to free forty-five-year-old Wormley Hughes, if he wanted to be free. For very obvious reasons, no one in the family would report to a historian an oral instruction from Jefferson to free Sally Hemings if she wanted it. Eight years after her father's death, Martha Randolph directed that two of her father's slaves, Sally Hemings and Wormley Hughes, and one of her own Randolph slaves, Betsy, the wife of Peter Hemings, be given ‘their time,' even though all had been living as free people since Jefferson's death.” (IbID.)

GAVE
S
ALLY
H
E
MINGS
“
HER
TIME
”
Ibid. “ ‘Giving time' was a customary way of emancipation that avoided having to make a request to the legislature or county court to allow the enslaved person to remain in the state,” wrote Gordon-ReeD. (IbID.)