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1. www.monticello.org › shadwellShadwell | Monticello

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   Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia. Shadwell was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, and the main plantation of his father, Peter Jefferson. Located in Albemarle County, Virginia, it was named after the parish in London where Jane Randolph Jefferson was born.

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   Before early colonists moved into the Shadwell area, Monacan people had trails that traversed what became Shadwell. Peter Jefferson, the father of President Thomas Jefferson established and named the Shadwell plantation in the mid-18th century. Four generations of the Jefferson family lived at Shadwell.

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4. www.hmdb.org › mShadwell, Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson Historical Marker

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   Mar 8, 2009 · Shadwell was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson, and the main plantation of his father, Peter Jefferson. (Submitted on September 14, 2013, by PaulwC3 of Northern, Virginia.) Photographed By PaulwC3, September 12, 2013

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   1743 to 1774. Timeline. April 13, 1743. (April 2, Old Style)* Thomas Jefferson is born at Shadwell plantation in Goochland (later Albemarle) County, Virginia, to Peter Jefferson, a planter and surveyor, and Jane Randolph, daughter of a prominent Virginia family. *April 2 by the Old (Julian) Calendar, April 13 by the New (Gregorian) Calendar.

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   Apr 1, 2019 · On April 13, 1743 the third United States President Thomas Jefferson was born in the Shadwell Plantation; that his father Peter Jefferson built in Albemarle County, Virginia.

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   Oct 6, 2021 · Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale. The elder of two sons in a family of 10, Jefferson was born in 1743 at Shadwell, a frontier plantation in Goochland (present Albemarle) County, Va.

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   Who founded the Shadwell plantation?

   • Peter Jefferson, the father of President Thomas Jefferson established and named the Shadwell plantation in the mid-18th century. Four generations of the Jefferson family lived at Shadwell. Initially, it was a plantation worked by enslaved and free people and grew tobacco, grain, and clover.

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   Did Thomas Jefferson inherit the Shadwell plantation?

   • At time of Peter Jefferson's death in 1757, Shadwell was the largest estate in Albemarle County with 60 enslaved people included in its valuation. Thomas Jefferson inherited the Shadwell plantation from his father. In February 1770, the one-and-a-half story frame house burned.

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   Where is Shadwell Virginia?

   • Shadwell is a census-designated place (CDP) in Albemarle County, Virginia. It is located by the Rivanna River near Charlottesville. The site today is marked by a Virginia Historical Marker to mark the birthplace of President Thomas Jefferson. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with Clifton.

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   Who built Shadwell house?

   • The current main house, located about two miles from the original house, was built about 1849 by Caryanne Randolph Ruffin and Colonel Frank Ruffin, Jefferson's granddaughter and Thomas Jefferson Randolph's daughter and her husband. They called it Shadwell and raised a large family there.

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9. www.cvillepedia.org › Shadwell_plantationShadwell plantation - Cvillepedia

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   Oct 29, 2022 · Shadwell was the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826), and the main plantation of his father, Peter Jefferson (February 29, 1708 – August 17, 1757). Located in Albemarle County, Virginia, it was named after the parish in London where TJ's mother was born.