. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . snL S_j1 iL_ ^ TH D M Ai^ JEP PE R^ 0 .\. |. HOMAb JEFFERSON was)orn April 2, 1743, -at Shad-uell, Albermarle county, paitnts were Peter andline (Randolph) Jefferson, tliLtormera native of Wales,and tilt latter born in Lon-don I o 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.
. Portrait and biographical album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara counties, Wisconsin .. . snL S_j1 iL_ ^ TH D M Ai^ JEP PE R^ 0 .\. |. HOMAb JEFFERSON was)orn April 2, 1743, -at Shad-uell, Albermarle county, paitnts were Peter andline (Randolph) Jefferson, tliLtormera native of Wales,and tilt latter born in Lon-don I o 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 obode of fashionand 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 liorses,society, and even his favorite violin, to which he hadprev
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