Autobiography Of Thomas Jefferson
by Thomas Jefferson
1743 - 1790
With the Declaration of Independence
January 6, 1821
At the age of 77, I begin to make some memoranda and state some
recollections of dates & facts concerning myself, for my own more ready
reference & for the information of my family.
The tradition in my father's family was that their ancestor came to this
country from Wales, and from near the mountain of Snowdon, the highest in
Gr. Br. I noted once a case from Wales in the law reports where a person of
our name was either pl. or def. and one of the same name was Secretary to
the Virginia company. These are the only instances in which I have met with
the name in that country. I have found it in our early ...
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age of 19. daur of Isham
Randolph one of the seven sons of that name & family settled at Dungeoness
in Goochld. They trace their pedigree far back in England & Scotland, to
which let every one ascribe the faith & merit he chooses.
My father's education had been quite neglected; but being of a strong mind,
sound judgment and eager after information, he read much and improved
himself insomuch that he was chosen with Joshua Fry professor of Mathem. in
W. & M. college to continue the boundary line between Virginia & N.
Caroline which had been begun by Colo Byrd, and was afterwards employed
with the same Mr. Fry to make the 1st map of Virginia which had ever been
made, that of Capt Smith being merely a conjectural sketch. They possessed
excellent materials for so much of the country as is below the blue ridge;
little being then known beyond that ridge. He was the 3d or 4th settler of
the part of the country in which I live, which was about 1737. He died Aug.
17. 1757, leaving my mother a ...
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chair became vacant soon after my arrival at
college, and he was appointed to fill it per interim: and he was the first
who ever gave in that college regular lectures in Ethics, Rhetoric & Belles
lettres. He returned to Europe in 1762, having previously filled up the
measure of his goodness to me, by procuring for me, from his most intimate
friend G. Wythe, a reception as a student of law, under his direction, and
introduced me to the acquaintance and familiar table of Governor Fauquier,
the ablest man who had ever filled that office. With him, and at his table,
Dr. Small & Mr. Wythe, his amici omnium horarum, & myself, formed a partie
quarree, & to the habitual conversations on ...
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