Captain John Hemings

1873 The Memoirs of Madison Hemings, Published in Ohio's Pike County Repubican. I never knew of but one white man who bore the name of Hemings; he was an Englishman and my great grandfather. He was captain of an English trading vessel which sailed between England and Williamsburg, Va., then quite a port. My great-grandmother was a full blooded African, and possibly a native of that country.