Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . HOMAS JEFFERSON wasborn April 2, 1743, at Shad-jpweU, Albermarle county, parents were Peter andJane ( Randolph) Jefferson,the former a native of Wales,and the latter born in Lon-don. To them were born sixdaughters and two sons, ofwhom Thomas was the 14 years of age hisfather died. He received amost liberal education, hav-ing been kept diligently at schoolfrom the time he was five years ofage. In 1760 he entered Williamend Mary College. Williamsburg was then the seatof the Colonial Court, and it was th
Portrait and biographical album of Pike and Calhoun counties, Illinois .. . HOMAS JEFFERSON wasborn April 2, 1743, at Shad-jpweU, Albermarle county, parents were Peter andJane ( Randolph) Jefferson,the former a native of Wales,and the latter born in Lon-don. To them were born sixdaughters and two sons, ofwhom Thomas was the 14 years of age hisfather died. He received amost liberal education, hav-ing been kept diligently at schoolfrom the time he was five years ofage. In 1760 he entered Williamend Mary College. Williamsburg was then the seatof the Colonial Court, and it was the obodeof splendor. Young Jefferson, who was then 17years old, lived somewhat expensively, keeping finehorses, and much caressed by gay society, yet hewas earnestly devoted to his studies, and irreproacha-able in his morals. It is strange, however, undersuch influences,that he was not ruined. In the sec-ond year of his college course, moved by some un-explained inward impulse, he discarded his horses,society, and even his favorite violin, to which he hadprevi
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